We at Independence Home have very little time for the BNP and their cause. In fact we find their views objectionable, and we certainly don’t wish to give them publicity on this site.

However, this is just so outrageous, so unbelievably terrifying, and so offensive, that it warrants a very serious post.

The government is to single out Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons, the British National party’s two newly elected representatives in the European parliament, for special treatment, denying them some of the access and information afforded to all the other 70 UK MEPs.

Under new guidelines drafted in Whitehall and in the Foreign Office following the June elections to the European parliament, the two BNPleaders will be kept at arm’s length from the kind of routine contacts and socialising that take place between British civil servants and MEPs in Brussels and Strasbourg.

When the new parliament convenes next week in Strasbourg, Glenys Kinnock, the new Europe minister, is to host a reception for all British MEPs. Only Griffin and Brons have not been invited.

To clarify: The UK civil service, the supposedly apolitical and impartial machinery of government, along with the governing executive, has conspired to treat an elected representative from a legal political party differently, and unfairly, for no other reason than the political views of that party.

Not only is this a gargantuan error of political judgement, as it will strengthen the support for the BNP by making living martyrs out of them, but its ramifications are truly terrifying.

“Officials will not engage in any other contact with elected representatives of any nationality who represent extremist or racist views, unless specific permission has been granted to do so on a particular occasion from the FCO permanent under-secretary and the minister for Europe,” a government spokesperson said.

The official said that the BNP duo would be subject to the “same general principles governing official impartiality” and they would receive “standard written briefings as appropriate from time to time”.

But British diplomats made plain that they would not be “proactive” in dealing with the BNP MEPs and that any requests for policy briefings from Griffin or Brons would be treated differently and on a discretionary basis.

A line has been crossed. A fundamental line of ideological principle which underpins democracy and liberty. Recently we witnessed the spectacle of the police raiding the offices of Damian Green, a Conservative MP, raising questions of executive power over elected politicians. Now we again see a similar move.

What is so frightening is that the sentiment which has driven these moves finds it acceptable, if not desirable, and the people making these decisions are senior figures who have demonstrated they have scant regard for democracy and the basic principles of freedom.

Those who have studied European History will be well aware that Hitler was not elected on a mandate of building gas chambers, and assuming arbitrary rule. He achieved it incrementally, and eventually persuaded the Parliament to approve his arbitrary rule! To the schoolboy who asks why the Jews did not flee before it was too late, the answer is always that until it was too late they did not realise. Throw a frog into boiling water and it will jump straight out; place it in cold water and heat it slowly and the frog will boil to death. Well, I say this: we are those frogs, and the water is getting pretty damn hot, pretty damn quickly.

Chris Davies, the Liberal Democrat MEP, said that the BNP represented a special case and that the government was entitled to differentiate in its dealings with elected representatives.

“A line has been crossed [with the BNP]. It’s a difference of degree. It’s not surprising that the government has to draw up guidelines to deal with a different situation.”

Shameful!!! There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for discriminating, nay conspiring, against an elected politician because of their political views. The attitude among the political class that the ends justify the means; that ‘yeah they’re horrible, so it’s ok’ reasoning; is now evidently endemic.

It may be an extreme exaggeration, but it illustrates a point – what would the reaction be if David Cameron had just been beaten up and arrested by the police, on the instruction of Gordon Brown and “new guidelines drafted in Whitehall”? No doubt popular outrage. That would be Zimbabwean, an effective despotic regime with Parliament reduced to a fig-leaf covering the truth.

Well, I ask what is so very different to the case we have here with Griffin and Brons? The executive, in the form of Glenys Kinnock and Whitehall [Gordon Brown] has instructed officials [the police] to take measures to hinder/distance [beat up] an opposition politician [David Cameron] because of their political views. Apart from the more extreme nature of the example above, there is no difference in principle. It is simply the thin end of the wedge, and even then it is not so thin, more like the mid section of the wedge.

Following the European elections, the civil service and government officials considered a range of options for dealing with the BNP, from an inclusive non-discriminatory approach to total quarantine, effectively ostracising them. David Miliband, the foreign secretary, is said to have signed off a decision that would bar the BNP people from government and embassy events in Brussels, while providing the extremists with some policy information.

I’m sorry? The option discussed ranged from “inclusive, non-discriminatory” to “total quarantine, effective ostracising them”? It is explicit in its intention. There is no pretence. This is politically motivated discrimination and proof, if more were needed, that not just this government but the political establishment is rotten to the core. It has not rotted from financial corruption (MP expenses scandal is not endemic corruption throughout government), but mental, philosophical, and moral corruption.

The only sane voice seems to have come from Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP, who said…

“I don’t think the policy of isolating them, of a cordon sanitaire, will work at all,” Farage said. “It’s a mistake. They’re elected representatives, whether we like it or not.”

Will we see David Cameron, the Lib-Dems and others speak out in condemnation? Will this lurch down the path of despotism be given the weight and seriousness of coverage in the mainstream media it rightly deserves? Not a chance, I suspect. Come on BBC, prove me wrong.

Honestly, and with all deepest sincerity, I have never, ever, felt more ashamed of my Government than I do at this moment. I have despaired at every erosion of liberty – the civil contingencies act, the terrorism act, 28 and then 42 days detention, banning of protest near Parliament, and all the other too numerous to list, but I never thought it possible that we would reach such a state of affairs whereby the executive deliberately and unashamedly conspires against opposition politicians because of their political views. Here, in Britain, one of the oldest Democracies in the world, and from the Mother of Parliaments.

It is a disgrace.

My name is Harry Aldridge. I am John Galt. Now get out of my way!