Green Mayor candidate Siân Berry has responded to the comments of BNP candidate for the London Assembly, Nick Eriksen.
Second on the BNP’s list, Eriksen wrote that the seriousness of rape is a "myth," that women who work are "unnatural and vile," and that "some women are like gongs – they need to be struck regularly."
Siân said:
"Eriksen’s comments are a timely reminder of the true values of the BNP – destructive, hateful, and violent. The disgust that he feels towards women is unmistakeable, and characteristic of his organisation’s attitude to so many other people in London.
"The BNP makes no apology for demonising Londoners from other countries or of other skin colours than their own. Nor does it hide its contempt for women, gay people, socialists, capitalists, the poor or the rich. There appears to be scarcely anyone in London that they do not loathe, but somehow they expect those Londoners to vote for them.
"All politicians are not the same. Voters must turn out to stop the BNP. Voting for me in the first round gives you the best chance of denying them the fourth party status they covet. More Green Assembly members means a more strongly anti-racist Assembly, but any vote for anyone that is not the BNP will help keep them out of City Hall.
"Whatever you think of the Ken and Boris show, use your vote to make a difference: stop the BNP."