Surprised to see today's publicity concerning a suggestion that UKIP and the BNP should consider an electoral pact by which the two parties stand aside for each other in the next General Election. I hope its not true. UKIP are denying it. I hope its not a case of there being no smoke without fire. This story is very damaging to UKIP, and there is clearly a problem. Two members of UKIP's ...

There was only one story following the recent elections to the European Parliament – the success of the parties of the far right (UKIP and the BNP). Unlike most contributors and commenters on LC, I have consistently argued that the votes for these parties should be seen as a bloc. Campaigning against the BNP –

UKIP have rejected an offer of an anti-EU electoral pact for next year’s EU elections from the BNP. Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, was quite firm in saying they have nothing in common with the BNP. Well said UKIP, the BNP’s offer was an attempt to undermine civic nationalism, in the same way they have in

I have read claims by (presumably) Labour supporters on Facebook and elsewhere that the success of the BNP in the Euro elections is not true.However, in today's Telegraph no less a Labour personage than the Chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted that it is a correct assessment. Harriet Harman has also said much the same, as the article mentions.(Note, by the way, that the article was written by

Today's YouGov poll has these Euro election voting intentions: Con 26% Lab 21% UKIP 16% LD 14% BNP 7% The actual result in the previous 2004 Euros was almost identical: Con 27% Lab 23% UKIP 16% LD 15% BNP 5% So four years of regeneration under Cameron seem to have delivered a 1% fall in the Tory vote...

Former British tennis star Buster Mottram, claiming that he represented the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, offered a deal: the BNP would fight seats in the north of the country and UKIP would have free rein in the south at the Euro-elections in June 2009. Having made this rejected offer Mottram refused to leave the Whitehall meeting and had to be escorted out by uniformed police officers. "There are no...

The European Parliament was at its most self-congratulatory today, revelling in the "extraordinary success" of the euro. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was there, as was the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquín Almunía and the president of the "euro group", Jean-Claude Juncker. "A bunch of unelected old men," said Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, afterwards -&n...

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage has been credited with ridding the party of rascists and extremists by The Independent newspaper, the same paper that once branded UKIP, the "BNP in blazers". Now clearly having reconsidered its opinion, in light of surging support acrosss the country for UKIP in the lead-up to Thursday's Euro elections, reporter Andy McSmith writes: Dressed in a dark pinstripe suit o...

There has been quite a lot of hand wringing from the mainstream political parties over the past couple of days about the 'success' of the BNP in the Euro elections. I put the word 'success' in quotes because the one thing that has been lost is some perspective. The BNP now have two MEPs from 72 British MEPs (2.7%) in a Parliament of just over 730 MEPs (0.2%). They join the other 70 or so loons, 9/...

At the European Elections before last, poor old Auntie had relentlessly plugged them and was left utterly baffled by their failure to win even one seat. Whereas last time, she was still classifying UKIP as "Others" even when it had beaten the Lib Dems. Here's hoping that the BNP will be this time's Pro-Euro Conservatives. And here's hoping that, even without the newspaper support that UKIP enjoyed...