Stopping The BNP

After the Time Out hustings I spoke to a Boris supporter who'd earlier angrily challenged Ken Livingstone over the Al-Qaradawi affair, although at the time I hadn't realised it was him (that penny dropped a little later, on the 253 heading home). The reason I'd approached him was that he'd tried to make another point, this one about the need to stop the BNP winning an Assembly seat. He'd wanted to alert EU and Commonwealth citizens living in London that they are entitled to vote in the elections, and to do so need to register by 16th April. His name is Jonathan Hoffman and he wrote a powerful guest post on this theme at Harry's Place in January. "I'm Jewish," he told me. "I hate the BNP." He's not too happy with Ken either, of course, but at least they can agree about Barnbrook's sorry shower - Livingstone's been in Holloway this morning, spotlighting the BNP threat. More thoughts on all this later.

Comments

[The Tory Troll]

Jonathan Hoffman's points are completely on the money. All candidates should be working together to keep the BNP out. However, I don't think he does the cross-party cause any favours by comparing Ken Livingstone to Robert Mugabe?

http://torytroll.blogspot.com/2008/04/team-boris-goodbye-mugabe-next-is-ken.html

It would be good for the race if all the parties stop these kinds of slurs and move on to the issues. If there is no more mention of the BNP, Qaradawi, Stalin or Mugabe then it would be all for the better.