"where I know plenty of relaitives of illegal immigrants, seeing as I have spent most of my life in the developing world."
Well, that clearly makes you an expert on all illegal immigrants from all developing nations, then. Tell me, given that universal expertise, are all developing world populations cloned? And I'm half Australian, I've lived in Sydney - does that osmotic educative process make me an expert on aborigines?
The BNP sounds reasonable if you read what they say at face value and don't analyse it, or research into background. For example, Griffin whines that he doesn't hate Muslims, oh no, just theocratists, because, like yeah, right, we live in this society where there's separation of church and state, okay, and that's an intrinsic part of what it means to be English. And those towel-heads foreigners just don't understand our ways.
"But if there was a group which wanted to impose a theocracy and do away with separation of church and state which is part of the foundation of the constitution and the way of doing things which has made this country such a wonderful place, despite its many failings and so on and a place to which, presumably, your parents wanted to come, it's based on that, that separation of church and state.
Gosh. Must have hallucinated the part where our Head of State is simultaneously head of the armed forces, the judiciary... and the Church of England (see that name? There's your clue). And oh yes, what are those people with funny hats who get automatic seats in the House of Lords (part of our legislature)? Why, Bishops. Real threat to public order, those bishops.
He's arguing on the one hand that we have a separation, and then in the same interview that this is a Christian country; internally totally contradictory. It's all bollocks. But then, it's intended to be. Griffin's got a Cambridge degree in history and law; the constitutional setup of this country is a compulsory part of the syllabus. He isn't just lying - he's sufficiently intelligent that he knows he is. He's just assuming that enough listeners will be either too thick to tell, or in broad agreement with the implied racism.
His background.
The problem with the BNP is there are a lot of stupid, or gullible, or ignorant, or just downright fed up people in this country, and they're being played like violins. If the UK really was "overrun by immigrants" then the BNP would be pointless because most of the power wouldn't be in white hands - but take a look at parliament, or the boards of the top 100 companies, and they're almost all run by white men. The majority of the money is held by white men. Race is a scapegoat, no more, no less.
But hey, vote for a bloke who said, "Adolf went a bit far" when talking about Hitler if you like, just don't expect me to let a member of his party educate my child. Because said "Adolf" murdered several of his grandpa's relations.