Babyshambles frontman Peter Doherty says he was “gutted” to have missed last Sunday’s 100,000+ Love Music Hate Racism Carnival in east London’s Victoria Park. He wasted no time upon his early release from jail this morning to condemn the election of the fascist BNP’s Richard Barnbrook to the London Assembly.

The singer said, “There will be no passage of evil through these isles without a proper, good struggle. This island has always been a melting pot and personally I am 100% mongrel in the great dog stew of history. Bona fide scouse, London Irish, jew Geordie BiloRussian. Closed borders are like closed minds. What of humanity’s horizons? How infinite are they or how barricaded are they? Racism is upon us and let us not forget it is still within living memory that six million people died in gas chambers because of a hateful ideology.”