It has emerged today that BNP leader Nick Griffin is to attend a Buckingham Palace Garden Party by virtue of being the guest of the party's London Assembly member.
Apparently all Assembly Members have been invited, with the opportunity to take a guest of their choice.
The Queen should put her foot down and block him from going. There are thousands of people from charities and voluntary organisations up and down the country who ought to get invitations to these kinds of events as an acknowledgement of their contribution to society and the country. Neither Nick Griffin nor his friend on the London Assembly fit that description and the Queen should not have to welcome them into the Palace garden.
As the Nothing British about the BNP campaign said this afternoon: