Terrific writing by Charlie Brooker. Thanks vipes for the link.

I take time to read the BNP stuff. I want to get a handle on them so that I know basically what I'm talking about when I talk about them.

I was in a mini-cab coming back from Homebase, Penge West a few weekends ago. I'd bought too many plants and flowers to be able to get them back by train. In fact, the trolley was creaking under the weight. My mini-cab driver within 100 metres of leaving Homebase started the conversation openers with, "Do you know what's wrong with this country?"

Of course, she had the answer ready to fly.

By the time we got to Cobbs Corner she was punching the air with her finger shouting, "The only solution is to vote for BNP."

My flowers were wilting alongside myself.

My concern is that she, like me, can be a little extreme in some cases. I mentioned that I was attacked and hospitalised by a BNP member. I've got five titanium plates on my face for this BNP member's fine efforts. These facts, these personal facts, seemed to make her reflective. I wondered why I told her this?

One idiot in BNP who thumps (actually kicked me in the face) shouldn't blot the whole BNP copybook. But there is an energy to them as a group that makes me feel uncomfortable without having to think about it too hard.