BNP race row with Dr John Sentamu over 'spear-thrower' comments

May 3 2009 by Adam Aspinall, Sunday Mercury

Yesterday anti-fascist campaigners Searchlight condemned Mr Darby’s comments.

“Simon Darby’s threats and thinly veiled racism expose the true face of the BNP,” they said. “Dr Sentamu is internationally respected, but even he is not immune from the smears and hate being peddled by Darby and his colleagues.

“It’s a measure of Darby’s desperation that he is resorting to these vicious attacks on a man of Faith.”

But last night, Darby was unmoved.

“As soon as anyone speaks out defending the English they are branded racist,” he said. “It’s ridiculous. This is all part of a smear campaign by Labour in the run-up to the European elections.

“I have no criminal convictions so so they are trying to insinuate I’m racist.”

The attack on Dr Sentamu follows the revelation that the BNP has been producing posters claiming Jesus Christ would support the BNP and their policies.