BNP would offer £50,000 to leave UK

London: The BNP would offer non-white British people £50,000 (Dh279,130) to leave "overcrowded" Britain and return to the land of their ancestors, the party's leader Nick Griffin said yesterday.

Griffin said the voluntary programme would be open to around 180,000 people a year who "could go back and help develop their own countries".

He said the scheme would be funded from the foreign aid budget and money the government is "wasting at the moment on ridiculous climate change adaptation policies".

"We're saying that we'd give resettlement grants ... this is voluntary ... we're looking probably at £50,000 per person," he told media. Griffin said that the doors would be closed to everyone because Britain was "the most overcrowded country in Europe", but he did give exceptions.

He said that Irish people would be allowed in because "as far as we are concerned the Irish are part of Britain and are fully entitled to come here".

Griffin also gave the example of a Japanese physicist needed to help with a fleet of British-built nuclear power stations to be developed under a BNP government.