LONDON, March 12 (UPI) -- The British National Party is still likely to discriminate on racial grounds, a judge ruled Friday, barring the group from accepting new members.
BNP leader Nick Griffin attended the hearing in Central London County Court, undergoing a verbal barrage from a handful of protesters who chanted "Nazi scum," The Times of London reported.
"I hold that the BNP are likely to commit unlawful acts of discrimination within section 1b Race Relations Act 1976 in the terms on which they are prepared to admit persons to membership under the 12th addition of their constitution," Judge Paul Collins said. "The membership list will have to be closed."
The party, under threat of a legal action by an anti-discrimination agency, voted Feb. 14 at an extraordinary general meeting to allow non-whites to join. Griffin says a few non-whites are on the large waiting list.
"It's opened a very dangerous door and it is a huge change to the unwritten constitution of Britain," Griffin said. "They are claiming that they have been granted the right to interfere in what a party believes but the only people who have the right to judge are the electorate."
