The BNP are in Hyde and in Heywood (Greater Manchester) today, handing out leaflets in a vain attempt to jump on the bandwagon after a bunch of kids broke the window of an Asian take-away in Heywood. The pretext for the attack was that the take-away was previously owned by a suspect in a child abuse scandal, the tragedy of the attack was that the shop is now under new management, so, in that sense, the attack was a classic vigilante action, targeting the wrong person for a crime they did not commit. As you can see from the You Tube clips, the original protest was tiny, hardly the white revolution Nazis have been crowing about on Stormfront, while the photos show today's BNP add-on was even more pathetic, with the presence in Hyde of BNP activist and Japanese war-crimes apologist Adam Walker (pictured next to Nick Griffin, wearing the green coat) making the BNP's fake "patriotism" even more of a sick joke

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGHxaJhMlrA
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEAwza_8RxY
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/11/bnp-far-right-conference-japan

Given BNP chairman Nick Griffin and BNP founder John Tyndall both being friends with convicted paedophile Kevin Alfred Strom, and given EDL leader Richard Price and British Peoples Party activist Martyn Gilleard being convicted for downloading child porn, the far-right havn't got a leg to stand on anyway, but a couple of points to note are that the new "Hope" graphics displayed by the BNP are an obvious rip-off of the Hope Not Hate group's campaign materials, and the announcement that the BNP have just lifted what was always a totally fake ban on BNP members being involved with the EDL (the EDL is led by BNP member Stephen Lennon, Stephen Lennon was photographed at a BNP meeting, the EDL included BNP "Gold" activist Chris Renton in its leaders group, and no BNP member was ever thrown out for supporting the EDL).

 http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/176587/Paedo-rap-for-EDL-leader
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QCvjCwhjgM
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCke3h3PPO0

As for the EDL themselves in Hyde today, it remains to be seen whether the Nazis will get a chance to kick off later on, but the Casuals United blog reports just 400 EDL in town, the BBC report a slightly less unimpressive 600, and the photo of the EDL Newcastle group boarding their (small) coach suggests the far-right aren't exactly swamped with enthusiastic support. BBC News says the EDL are responding to "an alleged attack by Asian youths on two white teenagers in the town earlier this month", despite the fact that "the family of one of the victims has asked the EDL not to hold the protest and said they did not support the activities of the group".