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Last Thursday's local elections saw some success for the far-right British National Party, including the election of their first councillor in Leeds. Overall, the BNP gained over 11% of the vote in the city. [Leeds City Council Election Results]

In Bradford, the BNP lost one seat, but support remained high especially in Keighley.

Meanwhile, we know we shouldn't laugh, but we can't help it. The London leader of the BNP, Richard Barnbrook, is revealed to have once appeared in a 1989 'erotic' film, HMS Discovery: A Love Story. The film, we're told, features 'flagellation, men undressing and frolicking in a river and a naked man apparently performing a sex act on another' (Our italics.... why do they do that? Do they mean 'two men having sex'? No, we never just 'have sex'. We 'perform sex acts on each other'. I digress.)

Barnbrook (according to the Guardian) said: 'It was an art film, end of story. It was not a bloody porn film.'

Glad we've cleared that up. Still, his fellow fascists seem unimpressed - one website has a poll asking of Barnbrook 'Is this a poofter or what?'

I think the right answer is no, please, no, I don't want to find out that the little shit is one of us. [Guardian | 'Gay porn' movie raises ripples on far right]