Greens warn as BNP win MEP seat: Britons must work together to get rid of these neo-fascists
As the leader of the far-right BNP won election to the European Parliament this evening, Green candidate Peter Cranie warned of the threat to modern Britain from "a neo-fascist party that has no place in twenty-first-century Britain."
Peter Cranie, who himself narrowly missed election, said tonight: "It's not good news for the Greens that we didn't win a North West seat, but it's a disaster for Britain that the BNP did.
"The BNP offers Britain nothing but hatred and disrespect.
"It wasn't immigrants who caused the recession, the credit crunch or the climate crisis, and the BNP have no solutions to any of these problems.
"We now have a big job to do, making sure the racists don't spread their poison into more locals councils, let alone the UK parliament.
"We need to expose this neo-fascist party for what it is. Yesterday thousands of people were on the beaches of Normandy celebrating the defeat of Nazism and honouring the millions who gave their lives in that struggle. They didn't die just so our own home-grown neo-fascists could take parliamentary seats."
He added: "Labour has a major responsibility for the BNP's success. Labour distributed leaflets claiming that only Labour could defeat the BNP. If only three thousand of those people had voted Green instead, the BNP leader would have been kept out."
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