IN answer to my critics -- and in particular Stewart Clough whose letter (October 8) was headed "What has Germany got to do with it?" -- let me enlighten them about some of the leading lights of the BNP.

One was formerly a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. He served three terms in prison for racist crimes, and was famously photographed in full Nazi uniform giving a Nazi salute in front of a picture of Adolf Hitler.

Another was quoted in the Daily Mail as seeing himself as the Goebbels of Britain's Nazis.

And finally, the BNP member who denies that the Holocaust happened and says the concentration camps were built by British troops after the war. He often travels to Germany to meet leaders of the Nazi NPD.

My point is that the BNP and the NPD are two sides of the same coin.

As to the question of the cost to our economy of asylum-seekers, raised by the anonymous Bury BNP member, recent figures from the Home Office show that in fact our economy has benefited by £2.5 billion from the activities of immigrants, whereas the war in Iraq is costing in the region of £5 billion.

An asylum-seeker, who is not allowed to work, is paid the massive sum of £38.96 per week, that is 70 per cent of Income Support, and Income Support is what the Government reckons is necessary for us to live on.

P. KAISERMAN