The million or so Labour voters that have voted BNP at least once don't seem to agree with you George. The idea that winning a few rhetorical questions is going to make any difference at all suggests a level of self delusion of world beating proportions.

"[W]hy the need to try and prove the BNP to be right-wing?"

Because (call me old fashioned) I still regard the term "left-wing" as one of honour, dating as it does from the French Revolution, and don't want it to be used in reference to a fascist party.

"Academic selection is considered left-wing in many countries".

Agreed but as I hoped was clear, I was using the conservative right's definition of comprehensive education as "left-wing" to prove that they can't then describe a party that opposes such policies as "left-wing".

"EU withdrawal is about sovereignty, not left/right."

That's why I pointed out that some left-wing parties support withdrawal. But again I borrowed the right's definition for the reasons above.

"Some of your stuff can be pretty good."

Nice of you to say so.

terence patrick hewett: Voters swing from left to right (and back again) all the time. No debate on that point is needed.

The BNP and the left are similar, they both believe that govt has a right to socially engineer its people through migration , demographics and a huge state bureacratic control. The difference between the two is the left hates indiginous British culture and identity which it continually attempts to undermine, whereas the BNP puts it on a pedestal above everthing else. The left are also supremacists of a different kind. They promote the supremacy of minorities over white British culture. For example if white British rural communities had practiced forced marriage, it would be outlawed. As it is mainly practiced by some minority communities it is swept under the carpet. likewise if foxhunting had been a tradition of a minority culture it would never have been banned as part of Labours manifesto pledge. It would have more likely been state funded and encouraged. The left used animal rights as an excuse to attack the indiginous rural communities who they hate. The left are cleverer than the BNP though, using empire guilt, accusations of racism and political correctness to strip this country of its culture and history is ingenious. A few Diversity commissars in influential positions can destroy a whole culture. Good thinking Harriet.

So let me get this straight - you’re suggesting Gavin Estler is a leftie? You have got to be kidding. He is heavily pro-US, pro-Republican and right wing to the core. The man never said a single word even in acknowledgement of the left for all the time he was their Latin American correspondent. The BBC churns out establishment propaganda continuously, largely unquestioned. The Radio 4 news every single evening devotes 10-15 minutes to weeping over British military deaths without a single mention of any other casualties, wheeling on old farts from Whitehall to puff up support without a single voice of dissent, without a single Afghan widow or orphan ever being heard. Opposition to state intent does not exist. It is invisible. That is not news, it is propaganda. The BBC is weak and it’s pro-state and it’s enmeshed in the system. The only thing is its favour is the spectre of FOX UK is even worse.

So, in your own analysis the B.N.P. is neither left nor right wing.
So, firstly I have to ask, What is the point of this article? Silly me, the point is to slander the B.N.P.
The B.N.P. hold the middle ground. (Not that we should be obsessed with labeling a party with silly ingrained epithets). They are individual, something that's been forgotten in our politically correct regime.