Members of the BNP are persona non grata - its official!
by Philip
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Trade Union Movement are free to choose not to admit (or to expel) BNP members as members of their union. Read it here
The case was brought by Aslef against the UK Government and concerned Aslef’s right to expel a Mr Lee from Aslef on the grounds that he had stood as a candidate for the BNP in local elections. The UK Government, as a result of the case, ended up being ordered to pay Aslef 50,000 euros.
Aslef had the right to limit membership to those who held its values. This raises some interesting questions for other associations and for freedom of speech and expression. Much as the views of the BNP are repellent, so are many other views held by other groups. Would Aslef, for example, expel members who expressed misogynist, anti-semitic or homophobic views or members who belonged to religions that held those views?
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