TOP marks this week go to the Kaiser Chiefs for sticking their heads above the proverbial parapet and telling the BNP where to get off.
Admittedly, recording a song with the lyric 'I predict a riot' always meant you'd run the risk of it being picked up by one of the more unsavoury sections of society out there.
But when the Kaisers heard that the track had been used to accompany a video made by a BNP supporter and placed on the website youtube, they took action - and got the lawyers involved.
The video is no more, well not in public, and the Kaisers say they were disgusted to have been associated with the BNP, even if it wasn't an official video.
They say that had they been asked if the track could be used, they'd have said no. Good on 'em. The problem with the BNP is that too few people are prepared to stand up and say what they think of them or call them for what they really are. Racist. And stupid.
After all, what else other than stupidity possibly be behind a member of the BNP - a party desperate to lose its thug image and promote itself as the rational underdog - putting up a video with a soundtrack which immediately conjures an image of violence?
Kinda tells you what they are all about, deep down, doesn't it? Scratch the surface of the 'we care' image and you see what they really are.
But what was the BNP's response to the BBC on this one? Well, at first they said their member hadn't asked because when they do ask they are told no, and that's victimisation. Doesn't condone theft though, does it?
Then they turned round and said they didn't want to be associated with music like the Kaiser Chiefs - a good, all-English band - saying: '"This isn't the type of music our party would ever want to be associated with, like rap music we think it's wrong to play this stuff, what's wrong with Beethoven?"
Nothings wrong with him from where I'm standing, but I reckon they'd probably have a problem with him being a, whisper it, German!
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