Ministers are considering whether race hate laws should be revised after BNP leader Nick Griffin was cleared of charges relating to speeches he made.

A jury decided speeches by Mr Griffin and party activist Mark Collett in 2004 had not incited racial hatred.
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That's all fine and good but I feel a bit uneasy about this. This seems to me to be [i] Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted [ii] Ineffectual laws passed that don't stand up in a court of law [iii] We're going to move the goal posts anytime we want to get the buggers.

I dislike the BNP and all it stands for. However these guys were tried in a court of law and found to be not guilty. This government should have realised that the law was flawed before this and set it right. Blair has already done away with double jeopardy....the question is will he seek to change the law everytime they don't get the right result?