BNP electoral gains coincided with a fatal anti-Afghan stabbing

Evidence

Winning eleven of the thirteen seats it contested, the BNP became the first far-right party in British history to be the official party of opposition in a British council chamber. At the first meeting of Barking and Dagenham Council in May 2006 after its electoral gains, the BnP attempted to try and force through an amendment to change the nature and emphasis of the council’s commitment to anti-racism. Later that same evening outside the tube station in Barking, a man of Afghan origin was repeatedly stabbed by four men who left a flag with the St George’s Cross emblazoned on it draped across his body before running off and leaving the man to die. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 469