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11/03/2008: "Unions call for right to expel BNP members"
Trade unions want the right under UK law to expel British National Party activists - and deny them membership - as part of Labour plans to check the electoral advance of the far right.
Labour backbenchers, supported by all the biggest unions, will unveil the plan on Tuesday when they put forward an amendment to the Employment Bill that would allow them to ban racists. The proposal - labelled 'Stalinist' by the BNP - comes amid concern that it could win as many as three seats in next year's European Parliament elections and make strong gains in council elections.
Labour MPs, many of whom feel threatened by the BNP's advances in their constituencies, are concerned that the party is encouraging activists to infiltrate unions in order to spread subversive, racist messages in the workplace.
[ What this is really about is to put people off joining the BNP incase it leaves them in a position of being more easily sacked. Yet the unions pick and choose who they defend anyway, and anyone who appears not to be a pluralist, or just a white male who is not a communist for example, will receive feeble support in time of need, despite having paid his dues. The BNP has its own union "Solidarity" and this union can only become stronger should the traitorous anti-British unions succeed in their attempt to ban BNP members. When you pay your fees to the leftist unions you get nothing in return except to fun their agenda. ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/02/trade-unions-bnp-far-right