By Zahid Raja
NUS Wales - Black Students Campaign

IT HAS been revealed that the electoral commission will allow the BNP to appear on the ballot paper as “Support our Troops Bring Them Home” instead of their true identity, “The British National Party”.
The group, described as “Nazi Thugs” by the Conservative leader David Cameron, recently changed their membership rules to allow ‘Black and Minority Ethnic people’ to join after mounting pressure from the European Human Rights Commission.
Swansea West Labour candidate, Geraint Davis, described the BNP to be the “British Fascist Party” and said “...obviously all of us share the view that we would see our troops return sooner than later when Afghanistan is strong enough to secure democracy and stop Al Qaeda from setting up terror camps.”
Rene Kinzett, the local Conservative candidate also responded to this decision in his blog, “If the BNP in Swansea are so ashamed of placing the words “British National Party Candidate” in their official description, they should at least be brave enough to put a more accurate description, something along the lines of ‘BNP coward not worthy of cleaning our troops boots’ perhaps?”
The BNP were unavailable for comment despite The Waterfront contacting numerous offices.
The news that the British National Party will use the line of Supporting troops instead of the official name of the party on the ballot paper comes as Nick Clegg recently launched an attack on the BNP calling them an “evil, vile, fascist organization” – he went on to describe their record in council seats: “If you want help for you, for yourself, for your family, for your parents, for your grandparents, for your street, for your community, the BNP is useless.”
The Welsh National Union of Students Black (& Minority Ethnics) Officer, Ayo Thompson described this move by the BNP as a “disgrace”, she went onto criticize, “How dare they use such a contentious issue that is so close to so many hearts as a cheap political football. This is blatantly a desperate tactic employed to trick innocent voters.”
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