Common sense prevails.  However I am surprised to see New Labour accept the report.  Most unusual for this somewhat fascist party.

I find it most odd that I have worked with teachers who thought MAO had some good points, that collectivism and forced and confiscatory taxation is peachy keen, and have spoken openly of their wish that the Queen be thrown out into the street, promote Global Warming as a reality, mock Christianity among other things and they never felt the need to hide their views.

They teach children and they are unapologetic. However, I see no distinction between these extremists to the BNP.. None whatsoever.

I don't condone banning BNP members from teaching, nor do I anyone else who holds a particular view so long as that view is not used to brainwash.

However, the Anti-christian views of some are every bit as racist as what the BNP trades in. The espousal and open appreciation of a system or tyrants that have caused immeasuble misery and death is also repugnant..

I know that it is ever so trendy, as you demonstrate, to parse, spin, and explain away certain uncomfortable truths and excesses of "approved" or sanctioned Left Wing dogma, of which the BNP is not among them, but I say whether it's a Jack Russell or a Doberman they're both dogs.

I find left wing extremists, whether from the BNP, the National Socialists, or the Workers Party of the World to be vile, hate filled, and intellectually addled and unworthy to be teachers because none of these people see teaching as enlightenment or enriching of minds they see it as a tool to promote whatever stupid revolution they are behind.. I think it's a "I hate my daddy and my mother didn't worship me" syndrome myself.

 AS for accusing me of dishonesty go and play that somewhere else, pal.

I don't see the distinction because I don't think there is one. While I loathe both racism and political radicalism I believe that people have the right to be racist and to be politically stupid so long as those views are not put forth in a classroom or in a manner that undermines an enterprise.

Again, I cite to you the anti-religious, anti-christian --expecially Catholic-- hatred of many on the radical left who are in teaching and espouse their hatreds right here in these boards. How you can somehow see a difference between that hatred and intolerance and what the M O R O N S in the BNP espouse baffles me.. I guess we have different levels of what is acceptable, but whereas you question my honesty I reply by questioning your questionable and relativistic moral compass.

Well said Sir Henry. Thanks to Chris Keates and her merry men, the BNP have received lots of the oxygen of publicity. According to the report there are  FOUR teachers on the list of BNP members in the entire universe ! Do we know how many potential nutters we have teaching our children nationwide, because there are some out there i'm sure.

Instead of focussing on the real problems in our classrooms, the NASUWT  put the BNP non issue, at the top of their publicity agenda for the last year. What a waste of resources. Mr Griffin must be laughing into his glass of lunchtime champagne.