The BNP candidate in Kentish Town, Edith Crowther, is evidently another member of the party’s fruitcake tendency. She has been dubbed the “BNP’s barking candidate” by Camden Councillor Theo Blackwell, who has reproduced a truly loopy letter from Crowther that appeared in the Camden New Journal a couple of years ago.

It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss such people as harmless eccentrics. As with Barnbrook, Crowther’s general barminess doesn’t prevent her holding some extreme and obnoxious opinions.

The contributions made by Edith Crowther to the online discussion of a Mail on Sunday article by Peter Hitchens defending the Oxford Union’s right to invite Nick Griffin and David Irving to speak illustrates the bigoted views she promotes:

“I used to buy ready-prepared salad nearly every day…. But it has been coming out just how much migrant labour is needed to get that to my table…. the time has come to kick the salad habit.”

“This country contains those who love it, and those who do not and never will…. I think probably we all know, or know of, more than one immigrant who has genuinely fallen in love with this country, and behaves accordingly. This only makes the millions who have not, and have hearts of stone, even more glaringly obvious…. They just can’t love this country, how could they?”