Guardian Unlimited Politics | BNP tries scare tactics to win target voters

In Yorkshire and London the far right is putting the frighteners on the white working-class The far-right British National party is claiming that Africans are being paid up to £50,000 to move into its number one target seat to protect the majority of a government minister. The party has poured activists from the south of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland into Barking, the east London seat that the children's minister, Margaret Hodge, holds with a 9,500 majority. Voters are being canvassed by 50- to 60-strong teams of BNP activists and targeted with a series of inflammatory leaflets.