Barbaric BNP calls for birching

| Thursday, 24 April 2008 Source: Searchlight

The BNP in Scotland has called for the restoration of the birch as punishment for minor vandalism. A story posted today shows a picture of a graffiti-sprayed phone box on which someone has scrawled, with several words double-underlined: "You lowlife scum should be birched".

The writer comments: "Spotted on a phonebox in Fraserburgh, now let me see, which political party has that very policy?" The article goes on to refer to this as a "common sense approach to restoring this nation to its former glory".

The article does not explain whether the birching would be administered in the traditional way in use up to the nineteenth century, which was to the bare buttocks.