This is not exactly surprising:

On the day before two British National Party (BNP) members take their seats in the European Parliament following last month’s election victory, a London-based think tank has published a report showing the party’s natural affinity with Nazi ideology.

Of course it has. How that can surprise anybody is beyond me. Its leaders have always had ties to neo-Nazis and to Nazi ideology. This sick ideology was and is the ideological force behind the BNP (and behind many other nationalist parties in Europe these days, by the way).

Published Tuesday by the Center for Social Cohesion (CSC), a nonpartisan think tank that studies issues related to community cohesion in the UK, the 63-page report looks into the online activities of the far-Right party. It concludes that the BNP espouses extreme racist views, with material found on BNP-supported YouTube accounts, blogs and Internet forums that contravenes the Racial and Religious Hatred Act of 2006.

Entitled “The BNP and the Online Fascist Network,” the study reveals that BNP members, supporters and online activists hold a significant ideological affinity with key tenets of neo-Nazi ideology and extreme racist views. This includes support for violence, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and an admiration of the Third Reich.

“The report shows that the BNP is a party dedicated to promoting racism, and continues to attract and empower adherents to neo-Nazi ideology, whose supporters include admirers of Hitler,” said report author Edmund Standing.

Muslim immigrants are simply the most recent enemy. When push comes to shove, however, these people will turn against Jews and other historically oppressed minorities in the flash of a second.

The report looks in fine detail at the BNP’s ideology and activities. It shows that the official BNP YouTube account – as well as the accounts of the party’s Thurrock (southeast England) and Burnley (northwest England) branches, among others – show close links with neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic activists and organizations.

It quotes a member of the Covert Tactics blog, strongly linked to the BNP, who refers to Jews as “greedy subhuman scum,” expresses admiration for Hitler and on a number of occasions has denied or trivialized the Holocaust.

The BNP is also guilty of Holocaust denial, according to the study.

Only a complete fool (‘anti-Jihadis’ as they call themselves nowadays) can be surprised. The BNP is and will always be a neo-Nazi party.

Not shocking, of course, but it is always nice to confirm the obvious.