Revolutionary Rants

I am just watching Look North (the Yorkshire local BBC News), on which today’s lunchtime headline is about Keighley’s Mayor Rose Thompson being removed from office as she has made the move from being an independant candidate to joining the BNP.

Now, I know I argue in favour of freedom of speech for the likes of the BNP, but this rather takes the biscuit! They are making a big play for ‘power’ in Kirklees (where we live), and the ‘crossing of the floor’ in nearby Keighley seems to stink of a publicity stunt as local elections loom in May.

Thankfully, Thomson has had her Mayorship taken from her as many people would find what she was representing as a BNP ‘offensive’ and because it has been offered that she should stand for re-election as a BNP candidate (see if she wins then…). Even so, the whole thing seems to suggest that the BNP - which has recently seen its already small support dwindle - is trying to take ‘power’ (and publicity) by the back door. Especially when in a case like this they can sit back a whinge about how their democratic rights have been infringed.

Hideous.

Lets hope they will not get any seats in Kirklees.