Nasty Party Politics

Advocacy should be far removed from politics, but we live in strange times...

Someone has just forwarded me an email from the local peace group. A group of young people has spent the morning campaigning against the BNP, but the Wakefield Express won't publish a story because of a 'no-platform' policy about reporting BNP issues.

Checking out the Council website I find there are BNP candidates in 12 of the 21 wards in the District, plus a few UK Independence party candidates. There's even a BNP candidate standing in the ward where I live. This is very worrying...