It's not often I praise the Daily Mirror but it seems they've put a lot of effort (and dosh) in warning against voting BNP. I've had a free info-paper through my door with several articles denouncing the BNP and a piece by Eddie Izzard plus a couple of days ago there were people in town distributing leaflets produced by the Mirror along similar lines. The Manchester Evening News has been running a concerted anti-BNP campaign in the run up to the voting too.

The cynical among us may wish to see this as a mere promotional exercise but even if that's so, I can live with that under the circumstances.