A North West Euro-MP listed as an enemy on an extreme right-wing website says it shouldn't be shut down.

This despite claims that it is being used to prepare a campaign of violence and intimidation.

Home Secretary David Blunkett has been handed a dossier prepared by the National Union of Journalists which claims that the 'Redwatch' website is being used by neo-Nazis to threaten opponents of the far right.

The NUJ says that the website carries hundreds of pictures of anti-racism campaigners alongside the slogan "Remember places, traitors' faces, they'll all pay for their crimes."

The Redwatch website was launched in 2001 and carries more than 1,000 photographs. To deter opponents it is hosted on three separate sites all based abroad. One is said to be registered in the name of the National Front and the other two in the name of the White Nationalist Party.

North West Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies is described as a 'Red Liberal' on the website. Its authors claim that he "supports decadence, membership of the EU and is very critical of the BNP."

But Mr Davies dismissed suggestions that he would be cowed by threats.

He said, "I am going to counter these right-wing extremists the best way I know how, and that's by ensuring the election of my running mate, Sajad Karim, as the North West's second Liberal Democrat MEP. Our campaign will send out a message that Britain can be brought together across racial divides.

"Closing down the Redwatch website would be a mistake. It is good that we can be reminded that there are some people whose views are so extreme and vile that the political differences between the rest of us look mild by comparison."