Consistency lacking

Why is it that we give full parliamentary privileges, i.e security clearance into Parliament, to former IRA militants who refuse to take up their seats in parliament after being elected as Sinn Fein MPs in Northern Ireland, and give them £500,000 a year collectively, but the government is making moves to make the BNP illegal?

Why it is that BNP MEPs alone are being considered to be denied the right of access, when those with IRA contacts are free to enter parliament. The answer could well be that we would like both groups to be banned from Westminster, but we don't want to offend the IRA.

I hate and detest the BNP and their thugs, but they are a legal party, and even had TV air time because they met the standards. They have broken no known laws, planted no bombs, kneecapped nobody as far as we know, so why invent new laws to try to make them illegal?

When and if they do break some meaningful law, that will be the time to take legal action against any offenders. As it is it looks like the Left attacking the ultra Left, (Make no mistake, the BNP have much more in common with the Left thasn with any party on the right!), because they do not like its thoughts.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.