Griffin backs whites to launch race war as last resort

In the footage, filmed by journalist Dominic Carman, Mr Griffin says white people "with a legitimate grievance" have the right and even the duty to take up arms.

Mr Griffin is captured saying: "If the state won't, when people have a genuine grievance, if the state not only doesn't care, but actually, in everything it does and says, puts them down, then what choice are people left but to do something which is outside the parliamentary system.

He then says: "They don't have the right to hurt people, to maim and blow things up or whatever," before qualifying this by adding: "People only have that right when they are not allowed any other way of expressing a legitimate grievance."

Elsewhere he said: "Yes, in overall morality, if a tyrannical government, establishment refuses its people any way in which to protest against genuine injustices, in particular at a cultural level, then they have a right to take up arms, arguably in fact a duty to take up arms, despite the cost."

Mr Carman, who has announced he is to stand as a Liberal Democrat on an anti-BNP ticket in Barking and Dagenham where Mr Griffin is also to stand, apparently filmed the comments during lengthy interviews with the BNP leader earlier this year.

The footage has surfaced just days after it was disclosed that BNP communication officer Mark Collett had been expelled from the party and arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill Mr Griffin and another senior BNP member.

In January BNP member Terence Gavan was jailed for terrorist offences after he accumulated a stockpile of bombs and weapons. Next week white supremacist Ian Davison is due to stand trial for allegedly producing the deadly poison ricin.

Hope not Hate campaigner Paul Meszaros told the Star: "They can hide behind the suits and lies as much as they want but this is the real face of the BNP on show.

"Only this week we had reports of one of his senior officials making alleged threats to kill him. This is the real picture of hate and division in this country and this is why we all need to unite together to work against it."

The videos can be seen at http://bit.ly/bnpgriffin