Racist British National Party leaders exposed

| Friday, 16 July 2004 Source: New Zealand Herald

Leading figures in the British National Party are shown in a BBC documentary admitting violence and racism towards Asians and delivering speeches inciting racial hatred.

Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, is filmed telling a meeting in Keighley, West Yorkshire, where there had been a series of sex attacks, that the Koran allows Muslims to take non-Muslim women by force. Griffin, who admits during his speech that it is against the law, urges members to "do something for the BNP because otherwise they will do someone in your family".

Party founder John Tyndall accuses Conservative Party leader Michael Howard of being "this interloper, this immigrant or son of immigrants" and saying that all Africa has given to the world is "voodoo, cannibalism and Aids".

The film, The Secret Agent, follows BBC undercover reporter Jason Gwynne, who posed as a BNP sympathiser in West Yorkshire during the run-up to the local-body and European elections in June. He was helped by Andy Sykes, a BNP member who says that he turned against the party after being asked to commit acts of violence.