The £12 million grant announced today for “white working class areas” was an admission by the Government that the indigenous population of Britain has indeed been discriminated against and that the British National Party has been right all along, said BNP deputy press officer John Walker.

Speaking during a BBC Radio Four The World Tonight interview this evening, Mr Walker said that the “Government has now openly conceded that what the BNP has been saying for years is correct.

“Whilst the extra investment in white working class communities is, of course, welcome, the BNP sees this as a ploy by the Government to try and win back votes from the BNP at the next general election,” Mr Walker said.

“I doubt very much whether these communities will be fooled,” he added. “Furthermore, it is no surprise that there has been pressure on social housing.

“For the last ten years, the Government has granted permission for more ‘asylum seekers’ to stay in Britain than the number of social houses which have been built,” Mr Walker said.

Speaking to BNP News after the interview, Mr Walker said it was significant that the BBC had invited a party spokesman into their studio for the interview.

“This goes to show that the BNP is increasingly being accepted as an important and permanent part of the political landscape,” Mr Walker said.

The interview was requested by Radio Four after Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government John Denham announced the funding. He said it would “stop the white working class” from “being driven into the arms of extremism.”

Mr Walker said that Mr Denham was dreaming if he thought the white working class was “becoming extreme.”

“They have been as they always were: basic solid patriotic people. They have not changed. It is the Labour Party that has become extreme — extreme anti-British.

“The Labour Party has betrayed the working people by helping to fuel the Tory-led policy of destroying this country’s manufacturing base by outsourcing and selling off national assets.

“The Labour Party has betrayed the working people by flooding this country with immigrants who have undercut wages and placed an intolerable tax burden upon this nation,” Mr Walker said.

“Instead of blaming the white working class for voting BNP, Mr Denham and his colleagues might do well to look at their own policies, which are the real reason why people are leaving the Labour Party in droves.”