Buy British. Not if you are the BNP

| Monday, 23 February 2004 Source: Searchlight

The British National Party was left looking rather silly after it was revealed that its party badges were made in China. The BNP prides itself on its "Buy British" policy. After all, that - so it claims - is what it is all about.

But last month it was discovered that the party's "Buy British" policy did not extend to its own merchandise.

This fact came to light when a BNP member mocked a rival fascist group on the internet about the origins of their badges only to discover that theirs too were made abroad.

This is not the first time the BNP has been in hot water over foreign-made goods. In 2000, Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, set up a used car business only for it to collapse after the Japanese origins of many of his vehicles was exposed.

The BNP has tried to court British workers on the basis of its "Buy British" and anti-globalisation programme in recent years and even produced a newspaper in the North East entitled The British Worker. But once again, they have been proved to be hypocrites who offer nothing but false promises to ordinary people.