Councillor in Nazi Salute Outrage

I came across this story on the BBC News website about a City Councillor in Stoke who was pictured next to two men giving a Nazi Salute.

Steve Batkin who serves on Stoke City Council for the BNP was pictured in 2002 with three men standing on a war memorial giving the Nazi Salute.

Unfortunately I am not surprised by this picture after all I have long thought that the best way to tackle the BNP is to let them talk and give their views. This more than anything shows them for the dim witted individuals which so often fill their ranks.

Looking at this picture and as if the fact that two guys are giving a Nazi salute is not enough to shatter the thin Vail of respectability, the fact that the guy on the far right can not stop drinking long enough for the shot to be taken together with the fact that they chose a Memorial to the 326,000 men and women who gave their lives to keep the Nazi salute out of the UK must be enough to show them up.

Everyone involved in Politics would have seen an increasing trend by the BNP to present themselves as a mainstream party, several years ago I was telling at a polling station when a young member of the BNP told me that they were going to start being a more respectable party I really had no worries that it would be true, especially as there were 3 of them and two Bull Terriers completely ruining their own argument by looking like walking (Grunting) stereotypes.