As mentioned on ConservativeHome today, all credit must go to Welsh Tory leader Nick Bourne for sticking to his guns after complaints were made about a blog post in which he unashamedly attacks the BNP:

"One worrying feature about the Assembly election campaign was the increase in votes for the BNP.

"Whilst the turn out in the Assembly elections went up slightly on 2003, it was still woefully low, particularly if one compares it to the sort of turnout achieved in the French Presidential elections of 85%, the 44% that was achieved in Wales seems derisory in comparison.

"The growth in votes for the BNP is, however, worrying. The message of racial division, which they put forward anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and anti those Britain’s who are of immigrant descent, is rightly something which the four main parties abhor and condemned on Equality Day during the election campaign. "

However, I can't help but remember this piece also on ConservativeHome a few months ago, showing that 12% of Tory voters ranked the BNP as their second choice party. Are they sure that "99% of those 180 complaints were from BNP activists?"

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