[lbo-talk] Green Party admits leading activists on BNP list

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Green Party admits leading activists on BNP list http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5197862.ece Nico Hines The Green Party was forced to admit today that two of its former leading lights were on a list of British National Party members leaked on the internet this week.

The party conceded this morning that Keith Bessant, a two-time parliamentary candidate, and Rev John Stanton, a former local party chairman, had defected to the far-right nationalist organisation.

A spokesman for the Green Party claimed today that Mr Bessant was in the BNP not because he was a racist but because he felt they had better environmental policies.

"He formed the opinion that the BNP climate change policy was more radical than ours,"

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