NEO-NAZI'S

TARGET MEP

NEO-NAZI'S have named a Leigh Euro MP as an enemy on their extreme right-wing website.

Labour MEP Chris Davies is described as a "red liberal" on a site which tell visitor: "Remember places, traitors' faces, they'll all pay for their crimes."

Yet Mr Davies says the Redwatch website -- red being the colour associated with communism -- should NOT be shut down.

His stance comes in spite of the fact the website 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.

The site's authors claim Mr Davies "supports decadence, membership of the EU and is very critical of the BNP."

But Mr Davies, who will be spearheading the Liberal Democrat's efforts next year to elect Lancashire solicitor Sajjad Karim as the party's first non-white parliamentarian, dismissed suggestions that he would be cowed by threats.

Rightwing extremists

He said: "I am going to counter these rightwing extremists the best way I know how, and that's by ensuring the election of my running mate, Saj 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."

He said closing down the Redwatch website would be "a mistake." He said: "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."

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.