David Mellor, in his column for the Sunday People, excuses people who voted BNP at the Council elections in Blackburn and suggests that voting for fascists is the best way to sort out the asylum "problem". He implies that asylum seekers are not only mostly "bogus", but are usually gangsters and/or terrorists.

This sort of stuff has to be countered.

For real info on statistics and on the myths and reality of seeking asylum, see:

 http://www.asylumsupport.info/
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/
 http://www.defend-asylum.org/
 http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/


From the Sunday People "newspaper":

DAVID MELLOR'S MAN OF THE PEOPLE COLUMN: FED-UP VOTERS WILL PUNISH LAZY PARTIES
 http://www.people.co.uk/homepage/features/page.cfm?objectid=12399956&method=thepeople_full&siteid=79490


THE British National Party has won a council seat in Blackburn, overturning a previously safe Labour majority.

Ritual condemnation all round from the British political establishment. But not from me.

I don't like the BNP. In fact, I despise them. But all the main parties are ignoring serious public concern on gut issues like law and order, immigration and bogus asylum-seekers. And nature abhors a vacuum. Which is why decent folk in despair voted BNP on Thursday, and why more will do so until our politicians wise up.

Despair is the inevitable response to the way things are today in all these vital issues.

Two weeks ago, one man was shot dead and 25 injured in a full-scale gun battle between Turkish gangsters trying to control the drugs trade in a major city. Where? Istanbul? Don't be daft.

No Turkish criminal worth his salt will bother with Istanbul when there are richer pickings to be had in London. One of the Met's most senior officers said last week London was "on the cusp" of unprecedented gangland violence in which innocent people would be killed and maimed. He said drugs, gambling, prostitution and refugee trafficking were now in the hands of warring groups of Albanians, Asians and Jamaicans.

How could we have got ourselves into this mess? Easy. By being a soft touch. Even the UN sneered at us last week, saying we're the world's No 1 magnet for refugees (for which read riff-raff) because we make things so easy for them.

Why? Because the Tories did nothing and Labour face both ways, talking tough and acting weak. Rhetoric: We'll send them home. Reality: Only one in 16 bogus asylum seekers ever goes.

And that's not counting those who come here and just disappear into the underworld.

Rumours are rife about an Al-Qaida terror attack - poison gas on the Tube or dirty nuclear bomb in Parliament Square.

Neither would be difficult. In our capital city live many of the world's most extreme fanatics, attracted here by our willingness to give terrorists and criminals political refugee status.

Tony Blair knows why he can't deliver on his promises on immigration and asylum.

Because he's had an each-way bet by pandering to politically-correct cronies, notably his wife, with the Human Rights Act which allows the judges to stop almost everything David Blunkett is trying to do.

It happened again last week when a judge drove a coach and horses through Blunkett's "fast track" deportation system by refusing to allow an Iraqi to be booted out until a long appeal process had taken place.

DID it matter that our elected parliament had recently endorsed Blunkett's proposals? Of course not. Thanks to Blair, the judges increasingly run this country, not parliament.

I don't believe some Muslim fanatic or Romanian gypsy who's been here for five minutes should have the same rights as people born here. But that's what Blair's law says, and it gives the judges carte blanche to take that line.

So I say to Tony: "Wake up!" - to Iain Duncan Smith: "Try to find a voice and a bit of backbone!" - and to Charles Kennedy: "Try to remember life is more than a chat show."

Because out there in the real world millions of people are peed-off with the lot of you.

And if it takes a lot more of them to vote BNP to get you to see the country is crying out for solutions, that's what they'll do.