Which brings me back to my original point. That's the manifesto of the Nazis, you know, them lot who were in power in 1930s Germany. Not of the BNP. They may be similar, but they are not the same. The only people who have an interest in saying they are are those who are not quite as far right as the BNP or the likes of Searchlight, who jump to the Nazi term rather too quickly.

And anyway, if you read the history of the Weimar republic, you'll know that a lot of water had passed under the ideological bridge between 1920 and 1933.

Equating the BNP with socialism on the grounds that they're a bit like the Nazis, and the Nazis had the word 'Socialist' in their name and began with a few Socialist policies remains absurd. In recent times it has been attempted in the British press by such moderate figures as Richard Littlejohn, Melanie Phillips, Tom Utley and Peter Hitchens.