Non-news story of the day is concerned with BNP leader Nick Griffin’s decision to not attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace.

For me, the most interesting part of this story is the speech that Mr Griffin delivered outside the Houses of Parliament to explain his decision. One part in particular, which I have transcribed from the TV footage of his speech, must be a strong contender for the least coherent couple of sentences ever uttered by a British politician:

"We thought long and hard about this and particularly with the way in which the intellectual elite in parliament are trying to use their own corruption as an excuse to revoli… revolutionise the place behind us to take out the pomp and the circumstance and the British tradition, we don’t want to give them the opportunity to use us in the British National Party to further their ends particularly by potentially embarrassing the Queen and the institution of the monarchy. Our institutions are in enough trouble as they are at present."

Even if you disregard the dodgy sentence structure and grammar, it seems to me that the entire point of this part of his speech is at best based around a glaring non-sequitur, or is at worst utterly meaningless.

Paradoxically, I would have thought that Mr Griffin would have been amongst the first to insist that British politicians should have a basic grasp of the English language, given his previously offered views on such matters. Still, I can imagine that he will soon be doing his bit to reduce unemployment figures by advertising for the services of a speechwriter.