LONDON, July 12 (UPI) -- The extreme right wing British National Party faced criticism Tuesday for using a picture of the London bus bombed last week in an election leaflet.
"Maybe now it's time to start listening to the BNP," says the slogan accompanying a photograph of the wreckage.
At least 13 people died when the bus exploded in Tavistock Square last Thursday.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the BNP "have tried to cynically exploit the current tragic events in London to further their spread of hatred."
BNP Leader Nick Griffin told the BBC: "It is obviously a very graphic, horrific image which really sums up the cost of voting Labor."
Labor had taken the country into an illegal war in Iraq and had "lost control" of Britain's borders so that there was a "huge sea of potential terrorists out there," he said.
"The Labor Party for years has allowed Islamic extremists to preach in mosques in Britain and use them to recruit people to their cause. It is the Labor Party to blame."
The leaflet is for a council by-election in the east London borough of Barking, where 16.9 percent of voters chose the BNP in the recent general election.
