A step too far?

In August this year, the British National Party (BNP) launched its financial protection arm, Albion Life, offering life insurance and life insurance with critical illness cover to its members. The move certainly raised a few eyebrows in the market, in particular, since the organisation seems to be encouraging its policyholders to name BNP as one of their beneficiaries. Fair or not fair - this begs the question whether political parties should be allowed to offer financial products. Taking the BNP's political stance aside (in itself likely to stop many people from treating Albion Life as ...