Well, duh!

[rozk]

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has written here to the British National Party about ways in which it may be in breach of various legislation.

You will care to note this paragraph:
The Commission is also concerned that the BNP’s elected representatives may not intend to offer or provide services on an equal basis to all their constituents and members of the public irrespective of race or colour. The Commission thinks that this contravenes the Race Relations Act and the Local Authority Model Code of Conduct and that the BNP may have acted illegally and may act illegally in the future.

Well, gosh, who would ever have thought such a thing?

And they got Capone on his income tax...

Comments

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

A written undertaking to stop breaking the law that they're currently breaking. This isn't about the BNP pledging to not break the law in some future time, but about how they're breaking the law right now, and how EHRC wants them to stop breaking the law right now. The action taken is not oppressive to BNP. It's not harming them, in the strictest sense, and they've already stated they're not going to comply.

Per that article, they have a deadline after which EHRC will decide what further action to take, which will probably include direct legal action. BNP can and will play the victim in this no matter what. This isn't because they're being oppressed. Their position is that they're oppressed already - that they're second-class citizens. BNP's entire political mission is based around painting white English people as victims. That's one way racist organizations function.

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

"A written undertaking to stop breaking the law that they're currently breaking".

I'm afraid I still want a court a decide if a law is being broken, not a government appointed body. And that applies to people whose views I share and those I view as dangerous, racist, morons.

Even the Race Relations boards statement says that the THINK the consitiution of the BNP is illegal. That they MAY discriminate on the grounds of race and that they MAY have been acting illegaly.

I quite understand that the BNP's mission is to appear oppressed. Why make it easier by treating them differently to anyone else?

Just take them court...

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Even the Race Relations boards statement says that the THINK the consitiution of the BNP is illegal. That they MAY discriminate on the grounds of race and that they MAY have been acting illegaly.

If they don't change their policies by July 20th, EHRC will probably take them to court, and then a court of law can make that decision.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

The EHRC have the power to conduct an investigation or official enquiry if they believe an equalities or human rights law is being broken. Part of this investigation process can be to serve notice to an individual or organisation requiring them to demonstrate that they are not breaking the law, and if they are not able to do so, to take them to court. That is the process that has been initiated here - it's nothing out of the ordinary, as a quick nosy around their site makes clear.

This is actually treating the BNP rather more nicely than making an outright accusation and taking them directly to court, not more harshly as you seem to believe, as it gives them the opportunity to put their house in order.