The Guardian followed up on the Tory Troll’s scoop earlier: Give second vote to Johnson, BNP tells supporters.

It seems Team Boris did manage a rebuttal in the end, but Brian Paddick’s opening sentence was the best:

Clearly the BNP have recognised Boris’s talent for causing offence and creating division.

The Guardian article then strays on to the astonishingly offensive remarks of the BNP candidate for the London Assembly who was sacked this week when someone unearthed an old piece of writing he’d done on a blog, stating that rape was no worse a crime than “force-feeding a woman chocolate cake”, among other things.

The interesting thing about this is the BNP’s comments about this sacking, which sound remarkably similar to the defences Boris wheels out when someone raises his own offensive writings, be they on homosexuality, race or whatever. The BNP said:

It was felt that no matter how much Nick Eriksen’s blog comments, written back in 2005, had been distorted and taken out of the context of a blog which reflected our tough stance on all sorts of crime, they could still be perceived as trivialising the issue in a manner that many women in particular could have found extremely offensive.

Written some time ago, taken out of context, could have been found offensive… all the words of an insincere apology, and all just the kind of words to be found in most of Boris’s apologies (and there have been many). No wonder the BNP have warmed to him.

This entry was posted on Wednesday 2 April 2008 at 23.35 by Mr. Stop Boris and is filed under Diversity, Ethnic minorities, Guardian, Other candidates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS2 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.