BNP leaflet breaks rules - Plaid.

Byline: TOM BODDEN

PLAID Cymru called yesterday for the Royal Mail to halt the distribution of an election leaflet by the British National Party.

The party's elections director Adam Price said that BNP "supporters" quoted in the material were stock photos from a photographic agency.

The leaflet is being delivered to homes in the UK, in the run up to the European elections on June 4. But the doctor who is quoted in the leaflet as saying he will be "voting BNP" is a model whose picture was taken by US based photographer, Plaid says.

The elderly couple who are quoted as saying they want to see pensioners put before asylum seekers are the parents of another photographer, Luca di Fillippo, and the "British" workers actually posed for a photographer based in the USA.

Plaid claim the leaflet is in breach of Royal Mail's rules.

Mr Price said: "These leaflets hideously misrepresent the views of the people photographed."

A BNP spokesman said the images were meant to be representative. He denied that the party had broken the law.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: Royal Mail has legal obligations, under the Representation of People Act, to deliver election material, so long as the material is legal.

"Royal Mail vets all candidates' artwork to check that it complies with legislation and that it does not contain any obscene, offensive or indecent material."

CAPTION(S):

Photos used on a BNP flyer were posed by foreign models