The leader of the British National Party should never have been on television (Mail, October 24).

Mr Griffin wants to get rid of half my friends and family - not for what they do or even what they think. He hates them for what they are.

But you can’t stop being gay or black or Asian.

Like Hitler with the Jews, it starts with blaming a minority for being different. It ends with death camps and cities turned to rubble.

Parties, like the BNP, don’t win through argument. They gain support through lies, blind prejudice and violence.

They belong in the sewers not in our sitting rooms.

Cllr John Tanner, Labour, Board Member for a Cleaner, Greener Oxford