Harman Unable to Distinguish Between the Tories and the BNP

A friend of mine who gave his email address to the Labour Students group at his university in September, but saw the light before actually joining the party, has just dropped me a facebook message saying he got an email from Harriet Harman today pleading him to re-join (even though he was never a member) the Labour Party.

All well and good, but one of the lines used to try and gain my friend's membership fee was this ...

"You can’t ride the fence when the Tories and BNP are gaining power."

This reminds me of the words of a candidate of the Green Party for the European elections, who said in a student hustings, "If the BNP won a seat in the European Parliament and the Conservatives won the General Election, I can't think of a worse thing for women in this country."

Both these quotes give the impression that the Conservatives are on a par with the BNP. This sort of scaremongering is totally unacceptable. The candidate for the Green Party was just being politically naive, but this sort of thing should never come out of the Labour offices, especially when the words are from the Deputy Leader!

Would anyone with a continence re-join the Labour Party because of this email?

JR

Update 22:10 - Iain Dale has also had someone send him the email and he's published it in full. As I published my post beforehand though, I'm claiming the exclusive on this one!