Change has come to the British National Party
In what will probably qualify as the year’s least exciting civil rights victory, the far-right British National Party has agreed to admit nonwhite members nearly three decades after its founding: A government-backed rights body took it to court, claiming the party’s constitution is discriminatory. At a court hearing, a lawyer for the party said leader ...
In what will probably qualify as the year's least exciting civil rights victory, the far-right British National Party has agreed to admit nonwhite members nearly three decades after its founding:
In what will probably qualify as the year’s least exciting civil rights victory, the far-right British National Party has agreed to admit nonwhite members nearly three decades after its founding:
A government-backed rights body took it to court, claiming the party’s constitution is discriminatory.
At a court hearing, a lawyer for the party said leader Nick Griffin would ask members next month to change the constitution so it did not discriminate on the grounds of race or religion.
In an order issued at the Central London County Court, the BNP agreed to use “all reasonable endeavors” to revise its constitution to comply with the Equality Bill, which bans discrimination on the grounds of race, gender or religious belief.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission, which brought the case, said it would be watching to see whether the BNP complied.
Somehow I don’t think minorities are going to be beating down the door to join.
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Joshua Keating is a former associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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