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The British National Party (BNP) candidate for Gosport has been criticised after a comment supporting Hitler appeared on his online blog.

The comment ‘whatever’s good enough for Hitler’s good enough for me’ was posted on Barry Bennett’s blog and his Facebook account for an election campaign. The remark was posted several years ago when he was an MEP candidate for the south west.

An investigation by a national newspaper found it was done under a pseudonym in a white supremacist forum.

The bizarre statement read that ‘David Beckham is not white, he’s a black man.’

The statement continued: ‘Beckham is an insult to Britishness, and I’m glad he’s not here. I know perfectly respectable half-Jews in the BNP… even Hitler had honorary Aryans who were of Jewish descent… so whatever’s good enough for Hitler’s good enough for me. God rest his soul.’

Repeated attempts were made to contact Mr Bennett but he did not reply.

But Andrew McBride, south east regional organiser for the BNP, said: ‘Barry had a Facebook account that was opened for speaking with supporters and alike in his last campaigns.

‘Indeed a remark was made by a blogger, that stated “anything Hitler did was alright by me”.

‘He did not write this himself. And when this appeared in the press, I personally went down to see him and look at his computer, in place of the regional organiser for the southwest, as I am considerably nearer.

‘I’m more than satisfied that he did not make those remarks personally.

‘This is why he has been allowed to stand in elections for this party, and only after a full investigation.’

But some are sceptical about the BNP’s story.

Simon Magorian is from the Unite Against Fascism group who are campaigning against the BNP, asking people not vote for them in the general election on May 6.

He said: ‘I do take the view that you should be responsible for what’s on your website. This seems like wriggling to me. The whole thing just doesn’t stack up for me. It seems like someone is backtracking from what was once said.’

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Source: Portsmouth.co.uk