The BNP says its message is getting a good reaction

Seventeen MPs signed a motion in the House of Commons on Tuesday against a decision made last week.

It is the latest development in a row that erupted after the BNP's Adrian Marsden was put on the Racial Equality and Community Cohesion Working Party.

The motion was tabled by MP for Calder Valley, Christine McCafferty.

She said the motion was a way of highlighting the potential problem of having Mr Marsden on the council.

Working party member and deputy leader of the Labour group on the council, councillor Mohammed Najib, said: "It is just the biggest joke ever to appoint someone whose policies are racist to a committee aimed at making sure communities are brought together.

"It is absolutely mad and very, very disappointing.

"We have got to see what we can do about it."

BNP spokesman Dr Phill Edwards said: "We just knew the MPs would have to do something like this.

"Mr Marsden was elected in a democratic vote by people in this ward, so are the MPs anti-democracy?

"It is time that we had a white person fighting for white people and that means having a white person on a council in a white land."