Police let mob run wild: BNP leader

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Mr Griffin, who along with Andrew Brons was elected as an MEP, said: "There wasn't a huge police presence. The police let the mob run wild.

"I think it's very sad that a hostile mob which is partly paid for by taxpayers and backed by Labour and the Conservatives is allowed to get away with mob violence on the streets of Britain in 2009."

He added: I've got to go and visit constituents in places like Preston and Andrew Brons has to go to places like Bradford. The police need to get a grip on these people and stop them throwing eggs and bricks.

"Like us or not, we are a democratic party elected by people who have specific concerns they think we will address properly."

Mr Griffin was pelted with eggs on College Green in Westminster on Tuesday after being targeted by supporters of the Unite Against Fascism pressure group.

On Wednesday he posed for photographers in the bar of Manchester's Ace of Diamonds pub with a box of eggs and sat on a bar stool reading the Daily Star, whose front page declared: "The yolk's on you."

He said: "I want to get away from the publicity. It's been fun while it's lasted."

Mr Griffin, whose party prohibits non-whites from joining, repeatedly denied being a racist or a fascist. He told reporters: "The way that this country is run is racist. We're about levelling the playing field.

"The state has forced us to be classed as white British, which means you alone are not covered by the Race Relations Act. There's a huge amount of institutional racism in this country towards white British people."