'Sick' BNP produce bus blast leaflet

Last updated at 10:28 12 July 2005


The far-right British National Party has been condemned for using a photograph of the bombed number 30 bus on a leaflet for an upcoming by-election.

The picture of the bus, targeted in the July 7 attacks, is on the cover of a leaflet printed for Thursday's council by-election in Barking, east London, alongside the slogan: "Maybe now it's time to start listening to the BNP".

The leader of Conservatives in London, Bob Neill, told the BBC it was "disgraceful and sick... as contemptible an election tactic as I have ever seen in my life".

But BNP leader Nick Griffin defended the document, telling the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "It is obviously a very graphic, horrific image which really sums up the cost of voting Labour.

"Obviously Islamic terrorists carried out the attacks, but it is the Labour Party's fault they did it.

"By voting Labour, people gave us a Government which took us into an illegal war in Iraq that turned us all into targets.

"It is the Labour Party that has lost control of our borders, so there is a huge sea of potential terrorists out there and the police can't see who is doing it."

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