‘All necessary measures’

Sonia Gable | Friday, 13 October 2006 Source: Searchlight

The BNP's two councillors in Bradford followed in the genocidal footsteps of Adolf Hitler when they proposed a council motion calling for "all necessary measures" to be taken "to discourage travellers from entering Bradford district". Paul Cromie and James Lewthwaite also called for Bradford's two legal travellers' sites to be closed down.

Their motion neatly combined an attempt to court popularity with promotion of their racist agenda.

Salman Mather, Bradford council's head of democratic services, warned that the motion was illegal under the Housing Act and race relations legislation. Liberal Democrat councillors said they "abhor any attempt by racists to condemn entire racial groups for what may be the unacceptable behaviour of some members of that group".

On the vote the motion was defeated with only the two BNP councillors supporting it.