BNP ads: Newsquest journalist speaks out

This is what a Newsquest journalist told me about what they think of the company taking online ads for the BNP.
"I was first alerted to it by our NUJ FoC, who was very concerned about it. Other NQ colleagues have said they would go on strike if their paper took the advertising. Personally, I would feel deeply uncomfortable if the website took the ad - the Essex ones are bad enough, but the banner ads are sickening.
"It's difficult enough keeping the extremists off your messageboards with our policy to only remove comments when reported - allowing the BNP an even more legitimate platform like this undermines the credibility of the paper.
"There's already calls to boycott Newsquest papers on Twitter - http://twitter.com/don_simon1977/status/1836853907 - and I'm sure that won't be the last."

BNP ads on Newsquest newspaper websites

As well as the Bromsgrove Advertiser (left: see post below) BNP banner ads are also appearing on the internet sites of two other Newsquest titles in the Midlands, the Stourbridge News and the Dudley News.
Smaller "Vote BNP" online ads are being carried on the websites of two Newsquest dailies, the Colchester Gazette and the Echo, which covers Basildon and Southend in Essex.
Newsquest, a subsidiary of the US-owned Gannett newspaper company, took a moral stand last July by banning all adult sex advertisements, having been persuaded of the link between the ads and women being trafficked for sex.