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Michael Causer

How well balanced. On this basis it is quite alright to refer to G Brown as a one eyed fat arsed serial liar, all of which he clearly is, but which the media are reluctant to pick up on.

Nigel Ford

You may not like it but maybe Griffin and Brons have moderated their views since the 70s and 80s, a bit like the Sinn Fein leaders and recent Labour Cabinet ministers who were a lot less moderate in their younger days

Pepita

It's badly articulated, vile and inaccurate drivel like this which makes me think of joining the BNP. Would you dig the past of the Mandelsons, Darlings and other leading lights of the Labour party of today? What is it that fuels the thinking of those who are supposedly against racism? You keep on blabbing like this, and the BNP will get in.

emmiem

Peter Mandleson quote 'We are now in the post democratic era' unquote.

Shouldn't you be writing about something more important? Like our vanishing democracy? Or the ex communist dungheap that sits in the HoC? Failing that check out the deviant sexual preferences (and convictions) of the lib/lab/con party scumbags - you won't be able to pick yourself up off the floor.

On second thoughts, don't bother. You've just recruited another BNP supporter. Keep up the fine work.

john weaver

*can*

100 wat tyler

I had no idea Nick Griffin MEP has a big bottom.

I really wish a responsible member of the journalistic profession had had the wit to inform me of this BEFORE the election.

What good is this information now?

I shall certainly take steps to personally measure the bottoms of prospective MEPs before voting in future elections.

Once bitten twice shy, after all.

Thanks nonetheless for exposing (albeit somewhat belatedly) Nick Griffin MEP's bottom.

P.S. Might I suggest you concoct an additional article, along similarly fictional lines, exposing the precise dimensions of Andrew Brons MEP's bottom?

P.P.S. Ennys Hughes, the top BNP Euro candidate for Wales apparently has, at least relatively speaking, an insubstantial bottom.

Would having voted for it, I mean her, only have been a venial sin?

If so, I will certainly consider relocating in time for the next Euro Election.

Nobody wants to go straight to hell if they can possibly avoid it, after all.

Rowan W.

Hugo Rifkind

Nigel Ford - it seems pretty clear that Griffin et al have only moderate their language, not their views. Indeed, he says so himself here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSp0ghzzrQ

Pepita - I've never seen a photo of Mandelson wearing a "White Power" t-shirt (like Griffin did), or heard about Darling owning two pigs calle "Anne" and "Frank" (like Griffin also did). If you know differenty, drop me a line and I'm pretty sure we could get it in the paper. Front page, even.

100 wat tyler - I'm afraid I've never seen Brons's bottom, but he does have the look of a man with piles. Still, the point of this article was that we should shriek less about bottoms, not more. Maybe read it again.

100 wat tyler

You need an article remonstrating with folk to shriek less about bottoms when precisely nobody other than a certain Hugo was shrieking about them in the first place?

Hugo Rifkind

The issue is the shrieking, not the bottom. My point was that he is so thoroughly unpleasant, in so many ways, that his critics have a tendency to shriek, which is unhelpful and makes them look bad, not him.

I was thus shrieking myself, for comic effect. Seriously, read it again. Just the once more should do it.

Pepita

Hugo Rifkind: Bottom sizes, T-shirts, and the rest may swing the fluffily sensitive intellectual, but it’s hardly the stuff that has the capacity to move the electorate at large, given what we now know about our mendacious and lucripetous representative bunch. As for myself, I dislike being force-fed what to think. (I prefer making my own mistakes). As I hit ‘the thinner of the two toadish, loathsome MEPs’ I’ve had enough. Sadly, it got worse. What irked me most was the glaringly atavistic presumption that you could floor the BNP by being inventively nasty about the body parts of their two MEPs. Please, believe me, it won’t do, I’ve checked. Pick on what they said to the people who voted for them. Demolish it. Hard, but the only way the BNP bandwagon can be stopped, or at least de-railed.

Trish Monteath

Hugo Rifkind calling Margaret Hodge "shrill" is so the pot calling the kettle black. It is a while since I have read such a shrill and personally abusive article as this one and like many of the other people posting comments here, it has made me an instant supporter of the BNP. What particularly stinks is the fact that poor old "fat-arsed" Nick Griffin is such an easy soft target for sneering, supercilious intellectual bullies like Hugo Rifkind. I mean wow how brave do you have to be, come on! Sad to think I actually liked this guy's articles in the past but I definitely won't be reading any in the future.

HH Ogden

Nice to see you striving for the highest standards of objectivity, literacy and rational critique in your ruthless BNP expose. In truth I have rarely seen an article which so much more demeans the writer rather than the subject of his abuse. I thought you had more about you.