The BNP mem­ber list leak is, not sur­pris­ingly, fairly con­tro­ver­sial. Not least for the guy on the data­base who placed a “request for abso­lute con­fid­en­ti­al­ity”. But strip away the the basic per­sonal data and the polit­ical rev­el­a­tions, and con­cen­trate instead only on the “Inter­est­ing Notes” column, and what you get is a per­fect snap­shot of mod­ern Bri­tain, pos­sibly the only place odd enough to have Buddhist BNP members.

• Has two suits of medi­eval 14th & 15th cen­tury armour and can joust for rallies
• Dent­ist. Shop owner. Linguist.
• Hob­bies: eco­nom­ics: let­ter writ­ing to local/national papers.
• Semi-professional multi musi­cian (traditional/British folk). Pagan. Clas­sic motor­cycle enthu­si­ast. Huntsman
• Hob­bies: line-dancing, motor­cycle racing
• Hob­bies: walk­ing, Tai Chi Chuan. Buddhist, inter­ested in Daoism
• Mobile DJ with singing part­ner, snakes & spiders
• Model and pro­mo­tions girl
• Qual­i­fied fire­fighter, far­rier, equine dentist.
• Certs in skin/nail care. Hob­bies: sew­ing crafts, knit­ting, animal wel­fare, mil­it­ary history
• Hob­bies: crim­inal justice sys­tem, bowls
• Hob­bies: elec­tric gui­tar, tar­get shot­ting, recycling
• Hob­bies: astro­nomy, wild­life, ancient his­tory, handwriting
• Lapsed MENSA member
• Win­dow cleaner. Former pig farmer. Pagan prison chap­lain. Hob­bies: grow­ing mistle­toe, rune mak­ing (wood)
• Hob­bies: has own small wild life sanctuary

Look­ing fur­ther, at the “reas­ons for not renew­ing mem­ber­ship” notes, you get the fol­low­ing gems. I’m not sure what the spe­cific reports or rev­el­a­tions were, but I hope the people con­cerned weren’t too upset when they dis­covered that the party were, you know, a bit racist:

• took offence to news­pa­per reports about the Party
• objects to being told he shouldn’t wear a bomber jacket
• embar­rassed by rev­el­a­tions in Private Eye re. councillors
• took excep­tion to being asked to con­tact another sim­il­arly aged lady member!
• “Jehova God only real hope for mankind”