British National Party activist John Collins demonstrates at London's Speakers' Corner in October 2009. (Gaiutra Bahadur/GlobalPost)

British National Party debates allowing non-whites to join

Britain's anti-immigrant party had won elections by reforming its image.

By Gaiutra Bahadur — Special to GlobalPost
Published: November 14, 2009 09:39 ET
Updated: November 16, 2009 11:07 ET

LONDON, U.K. — Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park is a storied carnival of free speech: Anyone can hold forth as long as they don't use offensive language, and anyone can heckle. So it was no surprised when Union Jack-draped activists for the British National Party (BNP), disbanded by police in Trafalgar Square one mid-October Sunday, regrouped here.

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