Searchlight Magazine  ‘Nationalist’ trade union issues illegal
leaflet  Solidarity, the organisation set up by the British
National Party that purports to be a trade union, always claims
to be an independent nationalist trade union. True its
president, David Kerr, and its general secretary, Patrick
Harrington, are not BNP members, though Harrington works for the
BNP and is a very old colleague of BNP leader Nick Griffin. But
its purpose has always been to aid the BNP.  The latest example
of this is its new leaflet, which attacks the UK Independence
Party, just at the point where it has become clear that the rise
of UKIP, which competes on an anti-immigration and anti-EU
platform, is a major threat to the BNP’s vote.  The leaflet
claims hypocritically that UKIP’s policies would victimise
workers by ending legislation limiting working hours, sick pay
and holidays, and would scrap equality and discrimination
legislation. Hypocritically, because the BNP and its supporters
in Solidarity would do exactly the same.