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...

Thousands of people reacted with anger and dismay when the news broke early Monday morning that the fascist British National Party (BNP) had made a major breakthrough into mainstream politics – picking up two seats in the European parliament

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/...

The UK Independence Party said yesterday that it had proved it was "no flash in the pan" after beating Labour to come second in the election to the European Parliament.

On his blog, Jon Worth notes that the European Parliament is financing the development of a role-playing and networking website modelled on the European Parliament, named ‘Citzalia’. The project appears to be financed from €4 million allocated to European Service Network (ESN), a Brussels-based communications agency, from the European Parliament.

In an earlier piece here today, Perry de Havilland referred to the great fuss that Britain's broadcasters are now making about the rather small successes of the BNP in the Euro elections, and their relative silence concerning the much bigger success achieved by UKIP. True. UKIP is indeed being ignored, and the BNP is indeed being talked up. But I don't think it's right to dismiss th...

The British National party (BNP) have won their first MEPs in the European elections, with party leader Nick Griffin winning a seat in the European parliament.

The BNP’s first ever MEPs – party leader Nick Griffin and his colleague Andrew Brons – yesterday took their seats in the European Parliament, a month after the European elections delivered a drubbing to socialists across Europe.

The far-Left BNP may have won two seats on the Elections to the European Parliament, but, while this success undoubtedly constitutes something of a political and propaganda coup, Cranmer is not so sure that Nick Griffin will consider it much of a blessing when the lawsuits start being delivered. The BNP’s policies and pronouncements are subject to the Race Relations Act 1976: ‘inciteme...

For the euro-elections UKIP have risen 12 points this week to 19%. A YouGov poll have the Tories on only 28%, Labour on 22%, LibDems on 19% and the BNP are on 4%. .