For you, Matazone -
for you - I am going to read this filthy party's birdcage liner, and look for content which might be a breach of the incitement to racial hatred laws. The relevant text of the Act, as far as I can see, is:
QUOTE
5A.-(1) A person commits an offence if-
( a ) he publishes or distributes written matter which is threatening, abusive or insulting;
or
( b ) he uses in any public place or at any public
meeting words which are threatening, abusive or insulting,
Right, so threatening, abusive or insulting language directed at racial or ethnic groups, defined as:
QUOTE
a group of persons defined by reference to colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins, and in this definition 'nationality' includes citizenship;
Okay, that's fairly clear. I'll edit this post as I read. So far:
Page 3 (all links to pages of the newspaper are PDF files): headline reading
Don't mention the gypsies could be considered abusive.
Page 4: in an article about a group of schoolchildren re-enacting the evacuations of World War Two:
QUOTE
The Hereford Times reported:
"In the bleak days of the early 1940s, frightened children from Birmingham would arrive with gas masks and meagre possessions at Hereford Station.
"A lifetime later, that procession was re-enacted as youngsters from a Birmingham school followed in the footsteps of their grandparents . . ."
But hold on a moment, if you look closely at the photograph of those Birmingham children (above) you will see that they couldn't have been following in the footsteps of THEIR grandparents because their grandparents wouldn't have even been in Britain, let alone Hereford, but thousands of miles away living their lives in Pakistan.
The tone of this could be considered abusive, though there's nothing concrete in the words used (apart from the assumption that all the children in the photo are of Pakistani descent, which is rather strange).
More to come.
edit1:
Page 7: the headline
RESISTING THE CHINESE INVASION is
extremely suspect. The article later expands:
QUOTE
If we were Chinese, we would fully support the Chinese Government's wise and far-sighted nationalist policies, but we are not, we are British and we need to defend our home markets from foreign predators.
Which probably evades the Act.
edit2:
Page 10 features some disturbing talk about the "interbreeding" of the "races of man", but as it's kept vague and doesn't mention any specific races it'd get by the Act.
At this point I should say that I honestly don't expect to find anything. The BNP's public face is very carefully polished, and they usually do their best to avoid anything overt about their racist beliefs and intentions.
edit3:
Page 11 has an article describing a proposal for Government funding in a predominantly Muslim area as
Just like rewarding the suicide bombers, which quite seriously slanders the Muslim community in a way that could well breach the Act.
Tangent: Said page also features the interesting piece of information that the word
nang (a common slang word in parts of London, particularly where I live) is derived from Bangladeshi. I didn't know that.
Page 12 (which features the Letters section, no doubt the home of much erudition and insight) won't load properly for me, as my browser can't extract some font or other they've used. Tsk.
Page 13 prints in full a racist poem by Kipling,
The Stranger, alongside pictures of Asians and mosques. The lines
Let the corn be all one sheaf - And the grapes be all one vine, Ere our children's teeth are set on edge By bitter bread and wine could be considered threatening to Asians, and the entire poem and its presentation is quite insulting.