BNP members challenged on beliefs
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They're one of the most controversial political parties in Britain and in June the British National Party's leader Nick Griffin was elected to the European Parliament along with another BNP candidate. Young BNP members Joey, 24, and 28-year-old Mark explain what's behind their beliefs and why they think England and Chelsea player Ashley Cole isn't ethnically British, despite being born in the UK.
Do you think it's OK for people who aren't white in this country to call themselves British?
At what point do they become ethnically British? How long do they have to be here?
So when you see someone like Ashley Cole play for England, are you happy to watch him?
But if he wanted to call himself British that would be a problem?
Why is the idea of races mixing such a bad thing?
But we're the same species which makes it a bit different, doesn't it?
Can you understand that some people are happy to mix?
You don't think people are bright enough to decide themselves?
You're talking like people here are on holiday. They've lived here, some of them, for a generation, some of them for longer. Doesn't that count?
My point isn't the difference in times between one group of people and another, it's saying they're not visitors, they are not holidaymakers, they are people living here.
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