Lydia Rivlin slams both the BNP and Haringey Trades Council 12/01/04

Tottenham Conservatives have this week reiterated their concern about the far-left British National Party organising in Haringey.

Lydia Rivlin, Chairman of Tottenham Conservatives, said: "In a democracy the BNP has the right to organise wherever they like, but our message to this BNP is this: "it is also our right to fight the BNP with any democratic method at our disposal and that is what Tottenham Conservatives will do."

Ms Rivlin went on to criticise the Haringey Trades Council. "The local Trades Council is giving the BNP all the free publicity it could ever want.  This concentration on what is a very small party may have arisen from the most honourable of motives but I wish they would stop boosting this nasty little group into something it is not.  We are all sickened by the racist, homophobic and xenophobic material the BNP puts out.  We don't need the Trades Council telling us not to like it."

Notes to Editors:

1. 50 (50%)  members of Tottenham Conservatives are from an ethnic minority

2. Conservatives regard the BNP as being 'far-left' (it is incorrect to refer to them as 'far-right')