'New Labour must bear prime responsibility for the election of two BNP fascists to the European Parliament', the Communist Party of Britain has declared in response to the EU election results.

'Their failure to protect jobs, pensions and homes while promoting policies for privatisation, war and a police state has driven millions of working class electors away from the Labour Party', CPB general secretary Robert Griffiths said in a statement today (June 8).

'The Westminster corruption scandal was the last straw for people on low pay, state pensions or benefits who see Labour MPs grabbing salaries, allowances and property deals worth seven or eight times their own annual income', he claimed.

In particular, Mr Griffiths accused New Labour ministers and the right-wing press of preparing the ground for BNP and UKIP election gains with 'a decade of speeches, stories and parliamentary bills demonising asylum seekers, migrant workers and Muslims'.

The Communist Party leader also accused Britain's big trade union leaders of 'failing to fight the New Labour clique which has hijacked the Labour Party and attacked the jobs and living standards of millions of workers'.

'Instead of demanding that union donations are matched by government support for public services, manufacturing industry, public sector housing and trade union rights, they have funded New Labour's betrayal of the labour movement's values, policies and democracy', Mr Griffiths charged.

'The writing is on the wall for the next General Election', he concluded, 'with Britain on course for a right-wing Tory victory unless the unions help force this government to defend workers and their families instead of bailing out the bankers and speculators'.