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

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I should think the question of whom they allow in their party is quite different from the question of providing fair constituency service. Even the major parties have quite arbitrary rules about membership qualifications: one thinks of the rules adopted by the Labour Party to prevent Communist infiltration.

As for constituency service, shall we wait and see what they do first, rather than provide pre-emptive warnings based on their election rhetoric? Elected politicians have been known to be richly abusive to their opponents (cf "lower than vermin") without being issued warnings about providing fair service to their constituents of opposing political views.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

'Opposing political views' are not an equality strand under UK law - and that's a good thing, in my view. It's not unfair discrimination to disagree, even in strong terms, with someone's political opinions.

[redbird]

It's not just who they allow in their party--it's who they allow to apply for jobs as file clerks or cooks. And requiring membership in an organisation as a condition of general employment is against UK law.