BNP leader Nick Griffin has spoken out against protesters who pelted him with eggs outside Westminster today, forcing him to cut short what had been looking to journalists like a dull news conference barely worth mentioning.
Standing beside his smiling, happy-go-lucky colleague Andrew Brons, Mr Griffin began his speech by denouncing 'lies' in the daily papers about him and his party - specifically denying alleged links between himself and Sir Oswald Mosley, saying that the former fascist leader "was very hostile to the National Front which I am from", yet somehow forgetting to mention that this was to a large degree because the former Blackshirt was appalled by its anti-European stance.
However, a placard-waving of what Mr Griffin called "mainly left-wing students" - many of them wearing left-wing suits - quickly mobbed the newly-elected MEPs and pelted them with eggs, forcing the BNP leaders and what one BBC reporter described as their 'thick set' supporters to retreat to a waiting car.
"It's a very, very sad day for democracy," he said later with a straight face, adding that the protest group "does not represent ordinary people."
The demonstration was organised by Unite Against Fascism, a group supported by trade unions and all three mainstream political parties - which, on the basis of how people voted in the European elections, speaks only for a tiny 57.1% of the voters compared to the BNP's more representative 6.2%.
One protester shouted to the fleeing Mr Griffin: "Wherever you go in this country, we will make sure you are welcomed by demonstrations."
"Lovely, that'll guarantee us another day of headline coverage," replied Mr Griffin, "See you all in Manchester tomorrow, then."
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