10:17am Thursday 11th March 2010
By Alexandra Barham
ANTI-BNP activists will meet in St Albans this evening to mobilise opposition against the controversial far right political party ahead of the impending General Election.
Three Counties Unite Against Fascism will hold the meeting at Fleetville Community Centre in Royal Road from 7.30pm.
Anti-fascist campaigner John Berry said: "It's a planning meeting for people to discuss how we may react in St Albans if there are BNP candidates in the forthcoming election. As yet we have no indication that there will be, but if it is the case then they can expect to have fairly vigorous opposition."
The meeting in St Albans coincides with today's Dacorum Borough Council by election in which the BNP is fielding a candidate.
BNP parish councillor for Markyate Simon Deacon said: "As long as it's within the law who cares what they do. They have as much right to speak as anybody else. If I owned a pub and it had a meeting room I would let them hire it."
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