BNP exploits bug

Daily Mirror | Friday, 8 May 2009 | Click here for original article

The BNP has been accused of using the flu to push its far-right views.

It is calling for half-hour medicals on foreigners arriving in Britain with "coughs or sneezes", schools to shut for two weeks and councils to turn off air-conditioning.

The alarming measures to tackle swine flu were suggested by BNP London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook, 48, who claimed the illness could come from "the countries of Africa", not Mexico.

A spokesman for anti-racist group Searchlight said: "Only the BNP would try to hijack a global pandemic in an effort to promote their agenda of division and hate." THE Mirror's Hope not Hate bus campaign starts its national tour later this month.