1) When people, as did one of the Labour Council Leaders in Yorkshire after the Euro-election result, talk about the need to address the problems and concerns of the 'white working-class', they seem to forget that most of the black population of this country (and most of the population of this country and of every industrialised country) are also working-class and that the same problems are besetting them and have done for decades. These problems are largely the result of unbridled capitalism - the same pathology that has landed the world economy - and specifically the UK economy - in the latrine. Divide and rule is the maxim and the strategy. Let's not be fooled again.

2) I am sickened by the sound of Yorkshire accents spouting racist or ignorant nonsense. I was born in Beverly, East Yorks. (yes, I know, where Philip Larkin of the 'We Want Enoch!' tendency lived) and was brought up for a good period in the north and east of England and in general I associate northern accents with good things. This is irrational, I know, but I have a very visceral reaction when I hear people with these particular accents talking hate-speak about people like me. It's like your best pal is stabbing you in the back. My access to the living memory of Yorkshire goes back to the turn of the nineteenth century. The thought of these racists sitting in Brussels representing Yorkshire makes me want to vomit.

3) Most of the racism I faced was in Scotland, where I grew up later on. So it's gratifying that in Scotland, the BNP are less than nothing.

4) Krishnan Gurumurthy of Channel Four News floundered uncharacteristically in an emotionally rattled state last night when he interviewed the BNP MEP. You have to be cool-headed and impersonal when you're dealing with these people and you have to be cleverer and more polished than them. They are not the old National Front, Nazi-saluting obvious skinheads of old and so the old soft-liberal tactics and arguments will not suffice. He missed a sterling chance for taking the guy down right at the start of the interview. Did anyone notice this? When the BNP man said that there had been some positive aspects to immigration into Britain during the early C20th, he meant, of course, white European immigration in the pre-WWII period. That would have been the target for the epee, had Gurumurthy been thinking as opposed to feeling. The BNP man won that interview.

4) During the tenure of every Labour Government, the Far Right does well. During the tenure of every Democrat Administration in the USA, the Far Right does well. This is not a reason for complacency, merely an observation.

5) The absence of any mass popular front opposing the current failed transnational corporate capitalism which has led to the economic meltdown and massive rise in unemployment, etc., combined with the multifaceted betrayal of ordinary people - black, brown, yellow, red and white - and the deliberate currying of xenophobic sentiments by the New Labour Rampant Capitalists and the intelligence services and their media front-people has led directly to this situation.