Cuckoos do not have a right to nest

1st December 2007
By Keith Norman

There was a real sense of shock when the Anti-Nazi League rang us to say that a train driver, Jay Lee, was standing in local elections as a British National Party candidate. We checked our membership list with fingers crossed hoping, for once, that this driver would be one of the tiny minority who are not ASLEF members. No luck. He was — and somehow we all felt a sense of shame, as if the union had been tainted. It seemed incomprehensible to us that anyone could espouse the values bo…