If you want to beat the BNP leave the European Union.

IT IS no secret that the BNP's increasing support is part protest vote, but mostly a reaction to the scale of uncontrolled immigration which has hit the UK. The BNP are known well to be hardline on immigration. Sadly they have got quite good at hiding the fact that they believe in such a policy not due to economic or practical reasons, but because of the Party's deeply-held bigoted views.

So as Labour Minister after Labour Minister like Andy Burnham lines up to talk about taking the BNP on, I have only one reply. It is time for those politicians from mainstream politics, if they truly wish to tackle Nick Griffin's lot, to talk about the real elephant in the room. Britain's membership of the European Union opened it up to unlimited and uncontrolled immigration from Eastern Europe and most notably, Poland. The Labour government clearly know that such a scale of immigration has had a damaging effect, no matter what they say. Just look at how they have tightened immigration controls against non-EU citizens. Britain ridiculously now discriminates against non-EU immigrants as they are the only newcomers the government now have the power to restrict coming and settling.

The simple fact is that EU membership prohibits member states controlling their own borders. If Britain doesn't start to control its borders, the BNP will increase their support as more and more people get angry. UKIP did extremely well in the Euro Elections and their non-racist agenda should be applauded. But the BNP will continue to grow until politicians admit how much the EU affects the running of the UK. If our politicians do not bite the bullet and talk about the crux of the issue, the BNP will continue to grow. It will be our politicians fault if more Nazis are elected if they willfully choose to sidestep the meat of the immigration issue.

Peter Mandelson and Labour can have their euro, but they won't have any votes.

SO PETER Mandelson reckons that Britain "obviously" remains commited to joining the euro. He is not alone. I'll never forget the sight of Charles Clarke insisting on the Daily Politics show that he believed the UK should and would one day adopt the euro, alongside polling results that showed that the majority of British people wished to leave the European Union altogether.

Unfortunately for these numptees, they have no mandate. There is no desire whatsoever for British membership of the euro. Switched-on, in-touch Labour figures like Frank Field and the late Gwyneth Dunwoody recognised this. But then they are a part of the old guard who saw the drift towards professional politics as wholy undesireable. Those of the ilk of Dunwoody - independent thinkers who couldn't care less about being in the right social and political circles - remained fervently eurosceptic thanks to their commitment to constituent and country rather than party leader and desire to schmooze with EU diplomats at posh drink receptions. But they are few and far between and the numbers are dwindling.

The fact that Mandelson, a senior Labour figure, believes the UK should still drop the pound sterling and become engufled fully in a federal Europe, should be exposed in the media. It is absurd to the Nth degree. Labour's failure to listen to its increasingly eurosceptic working class voting base will lead to its vote continuing to leak away to not just the Tories but rightfully to UKIP and regrettfully to the BNP. Not just that, as shown by the entire charade process of the Lisbon Treaty/Constitution, the EU is getting increasingly ambitious and aggressive. We need an in or out referendum once and for all to decide whether the British people wish for a political federal Europe or not. The EU teaming up with our political class to force through EU integration, apparently with much still to come, is totally unacceptable.