The odious BNP is only gaining ground because voters feel so utterly betrayed
While the media minutely scrutinise Harriet Harman’s ambition, Jacqui Smith’s expenses and David Cameron’s taste in clothes, a lower form of political pond life altogether is expanding like duck-weed.
Last week, the British National Party won a council seat in Sevenoaks, Kent.
This should make us all sit up and take notice. Kent is not ethnically-riven Tower Hamlets or Bradford.
True, it was a Labour seat on this council that fell to the BNP’s Paul Golding - a charming character whom the party once expelled for allegedly attacking another BNP councillor.