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Daniel Davies, trolling his own column at Comment is Free:

Working class people, as the trust report shows, have to put up with discrimination on the basis of ” their accent, their style, the food they eat, the clothes they wear, the social spaces they frequent, the postcode of their homes, possibly even their names”. They have to put up with people, including in the comments section of this blog, trying to draw a distinction between a mythical, idealised “decent working class” and actually existing “chavs and scum”, in order to rationalise this bigotry (there simply isn’t such a fine dividing line, just as there isn’t really a fine distinction between the “decent middle class” and a bunch of tax-evading snobs and bigots).

Then watch his commenters prove his points for him.

More on that BNP list

Hands up if you feel your human rights threatened

I can understand why various “respectable” socialists blogs have done no more than gloat about the leaking of the BNP membership list and been careful to caution their readers not to draw conclusions or act against the people on the list, but I’m still glad others have been less careful. The list has now been bitttorrented and can be found at the Piratebay and Mininova, but more impressive is the very web 2.0 BNP proximity search. Enter your postcode and see if there’s a BNP member living near you…

We shouldn’t shed too many crocodile tears about this leakage by the way. These are people who have not just decided to vote for a racist party, which can –barely– be excused as protest voting, but are so hardened in their racism as to join the BNP. These people are not just a theoretical danger: they act on their odious policies and the BNP has always had ties to fascist terrorist groups like Combat 18. If you’re Black or Asian or gay or in some other way a target of the BNP, this list is a godsend, as it can help you avoid these people. Thanks to whoever leaked this lists these fascists can no longer hide themselves. And they’re very upset about it, as this commen thread on Northwest Nationalists shows.

Schadenfreude, part 3: BNP edition

Via Lancaster Unity: entire membership of the BNP online:

Not only does the data, now available online, include the entire membership list with full names (and former names where there have been changes for any reason), addresses, contact numbers, email addresses and in many cases the member’s age, particularly where those members are under eighteen. Yes, that’s right. This list includes members as young as fourteen, male and female. Where a family membership is bought and paid for, the whole family is listed.

As if this isn’t bad enough, the notes that are attached to many of the entries leave a lot of the members open to difficulties in their jobs, some of them being in the armed forces or the police and the BNP too – an illegal combination, and where not illegal, frequently frowned upon. Other members are noted as construction managers, receptionists, district nurses, lay preachers, police officers, company directors and teachers among many others.

Like this wasn’t enough, the BNP has also listed hobbies or interests where for some reason they are deemed relevant. Thus we have short-wave radio hams, amateur historians, pagans, line-dancers and even a witch (male).

Whoops.

As Lancaster Unity says, there are “strict limitations” on what you can say about this in the UK, so they don’t link to the list directly, but for anybody with a modicum of Google skills it can be easily found…

UPDATE. You know the best thing about this? The BNP and/or allied organisations have for years been spying on and outing British leftists on their R*dw*tch site, which in the past has led people to be beaten up because they were featured on it. It must be karma that this is now happening to themselves. Of course, despite the BNP always wanting to play the persecuted victims, the likelyhood of BNP members being beaten up because they appeared on this list is small. But I think a lot of people in sensitive positions will have some explaining to do.