[Ssf] Shock news! Nick Griffin not standing in Burngreave!

[Dan]

*BNP leader to stand in Yorkshire*

The leader of the British National party is to stand in one of the most 
racially sensitive constituencies in the next general election, party 
officials confirmed today.

Nick Griffin, 45, is to stand for Keighley in West Yorkshire, an area 
that featured in an undercover BBC TV documentary that showed party 
activists apparently confessing to race-hate crimes.

He will be set against the Labour MP Ann Cryer, who won the seat from 
the Conservatives in 2001 with a majority of 4,005 votes.

A BNP spokesman said Mr Griffin was looking forward to the contest. He 
said: "There has been a request from local people for the BNP to stand 
in the Keighley ward.

"We already have a number of councillors in the area and we are just 
responding to the public request."

Mrs Cryer said she was disappointed with the news and said she wished 
the BNP would "just disappear from view".

She said: "They're a malign influence on British politics and on racial 
relations in Keighley.

"Keighley needs them like a hole in the head. They're not a force for 
good in the area.

"The good people of Keighley and Ilkley will demonstrate to them that 
their policies are completely unacceptable."

[So no 1930s street-fight re-enactments for us then. Ah well.]

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