The supporters are most certainly real. But the implication was that the BNP were somehow involved in an official capacity with racist photos and comments on their fb and for failing to remove them, which is clearly not the case, and people were wondering how Daftpunk would defend the parties actions.
As you say there is now no reason for her to be called out as she or the BNP can not be held responsible for the private views of their supporters or have to justify some independently racist scum who may happen to support the party.
FWIW I think the majority of the BNP are racist morons but the fact is that people held this FB page up as evidence of the party itself openly endorsing racism and calling for her to defend the party on such a matter when it had nothing to do with the party.
"Actually MQ I'd still want to know what she thinks, the public persona of the BNP is that they are not racist, and always deny that their followers are.
Clearly when they are not reigned in the ideology of the BNP is pure nasty fucking racist hatred."
But the website has nothing to do with the BNP in any official capacity, it is a group of racists who happen to support the party, some of whom may or may not have official ties to the party but who as far as we can tell are not acting in any capacity on behalf of the party.
Your logic in using this as proof of the BNP's racist ideology when not reigned in is akin to me finding you 1,000 racists world-wide who claim to be Labour/tory/republican/whatever party you support and then asking you to defend your party based on the fact that some of your supporters are open racists.
In fact by your logic one might even argue this as proof that the BNP are not a racist party as it is the official structure of the BNP that is reigning in the racist hate speech and ideology of these moronic racists.
There's plenty of things you can berate the BNP on and use as proof of their racism, but finding a group of racists who support the party and post shit on FB is not a valid one.
That's my only point. As someone said earlier when you look to slam them over something which has nothing to do with them and is not their fault (like the QT debacle or the representative who got in a fight with the 3 lads at the elections) all you do is solidify and validate their seige mentality of "everyone being against us/it's a liberal agenda" that they spew to validate themselves.
They give us enough reasons and ammunition for which to pillor them, which means we don't have to invent reasons to criticise them and when we do it just allows them to call into question the valid criticisms in the eyes of their members or potential supporters.
So if something like this is put at their doorstep or put in the papers. At the next election when they are accussed of being racist/bigotted Nick Griffin will defend this to potential supporters 1 on 1 with rhetoric along the lines of
"We are not a racist party. That is simply how the liberal media wish to paint us with slurs and lies. If you take for example the Facebook debaicle last year when it was reported that the BNP page was awash with racist comments and photos, it of course was not. That website was a fake and could have been set up by anyone anywhere in the world,including a canny journalist looking for a story, and had nothing to do with the party. The official page had no such racist statements and would never tolerate any."