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Deputies launch anti-BNP campaign

March 19, 2009 12:51
Serious challenge: Henry Grunwald with some of the anti-BNP kits produced by the Board

ByLeon Symons, Leon Symons

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The Board of Deputies has launched a nationwide campaign to stop the British National Party from winning seats in June’s European elections.

The growing threat posed by the far-right party was highlighted by the Board’s anti-racism co-ordinator Ruth Smeeth, who told a plenary meeting in Oxford on Sunday: “BNP leader Nick Griffin could be representing the Manchester Jewish community in Europe.”

Board president Henry Grunwald left deputies in no doubt about his feelings, saying: “If you don’t do something about this, then you might as well not bother to come back as deputies.”

Over the next month, under the slogan Your Voice or Theirs, the Board will distribute 1,000 special kits containing posters, leaflets and balloons, to help get people out to vote for a mainstream party.