“What community wouldn’t be proud to have a Donna Bailey in its midst?” asked the otherwise wretched Daily Mail.

Committed to civic improvement, she’s just as determined to mend broken swings in the park as she is to stop teenagers hanging around the local corner shop in the evenings,” continued that newspaper, before revealing that, shock, horror, Donna is BNP and standing for election in the beautiful West Sussex village of Upper Beeding, in the southeast.

“The mums here call Donna - a warm, blue-eyed beautician, who offers facials at very reasonable rates - one of their own, which in itself is something of an accolade,” grumbles the Daily Mail.

“She’s a marvellous person. She’s just thrown herself-into helping the community, and there aren’t a lot of people like that around these days,” explains Lorraine Blain, 38, who runs the local pub.

“She raised money for the school, helping them buy laptops, and she’s forever talking about how we’ve got to do something for the youngsters, to stop them loitering at the local convenience store every night.”

“No surprises then that her fellow mums supported Donna when she told them she was thinking of standing for the parish council. Indeed, her being appointed seemed assured, given that at most meetings she was the only one of the public who deigned to turn up to watch the proceedings.”

“That was, however, until a startling discovery was made by existing members of the parish council. A little bit of internet research - carried out, it seems, more through curiosity than anything else - revealed that nice blonde, friendly, efficient Donna was, in fact, a member of the British National Party, and a very active member at that.”

“This was too much for the existing councillors, who voted to reject her application. Then something rather unexpected - some say, worrying - happened. Donna’s friends got to hear of the matter, and were outraged.”

“She asked some of them to come with her to the next parish council meeting, and voice their objections. So they did. One night just before Christmas, some 23 of them marched into the meeting, where Donna demanded another vote. They got their wish, but her application was rejected once more.”

“By this time, Donna and her supporters were furious. Upper Beeding had never seen anything quite like it. Donna is still demanding her place on the parish council, and has forced a by-election for the seat. Now, two opponents have emerged - desperate to keep her, and all she represents, out.”

“On Thursday next week, villagers go to the polls for a parish election - something that has not happened since 1974.”

“Can’t they see what is going on here,” says the parish council’s deputy chairman Simon Birnstingl, admitting that he is “afraid” of how the vote will go. “You give the BNP a toehold in a place like this today - and what happens tomorrow?”

The Daily Mail bubbles furiously on: “Somehow it is shocking that Donna Bailey has peach walls in her living room. “What did you expect? Swastikas and skinheads?” she jokes, as she makes coffee.

“I think you’ll find I’m quite normal really.” And she is. She is pretty and funny and helpful and bright. She describes how she got involved with the BNP in the same breezy manner that she tells me about the rest of her life.”

“She was born in East London, she says. Working-class parents. Dad was a bus driver, Mum a cleaner in an old people’s home. She isn’t sure, but they were “probably” Labour supporters.”

“She left home to go to university, studying German and business, then worked in retail, at one time as a buyer for Debenhams in the Midlands.

“‘I’ve always been interested in politics. I like to watch the news and keep on top of things. I like to get involved in local things, too.’ Her first port of call was the Tory Party. Upper Beeding is a true-blue sort of place, and Donna certainly felt at home there. “But I had a look on the website and, you know, it just didn’t talk to me. ‘”

“‘I wasn’t particularly impressed by Cameron, and I really objected to the Tories’ policy on Europe. So then I looked at the BNP website. All the other parties want us to be part of Europe, and I think it is only a matter of time before Europe is a superstate, and I object to that. ‘”

“‘Oh, of course I had the same preconceptions. I thought probably exactly the same of the BNP as you do. I thought, if this is all racist, offensive stuff then I am switching right off.’”

“‘But it wasn’t. It was all perfectly sensible. I found myself agreeing with everything - especially the immigration stuff.’”

“‘. . . (I)f you go a bit further into West Sussex you start to see problems. I was in Tesco the other day and I heard lots of different languages. Not just one or two.’”

“This is a problem?” asks the Daily Mail. “‘Yes,” replies Donna. “‘I think people should come here and speak English. That isn’t racist. It’s common sense. I think the same about Brits who go over to Spain to live. They shouldn’t be allowed to open fish and chip shops there. It is offensive.’”

“She says that “of course” she wouldn’t want to send any of the local Asian families back to their country of origin, but that repatriation is a jolly good idea. ‘On a voluntary basis, of course. We aren’t going to force anyone out.’”

“So, her story goes, she found herself popping along for BNP meetings, discovering that the others there were “quite normal too.’”

“‘Obviously mistakes have been made in the past, but the party has apologised for these, and moved on. That is in the past as far as I am concerned, and a part of taking the party on is about the new membership. It’s like New Labour and Old Labour. Completely different.’”

The Daily Mail, by this time clearly desparate for a smear of some sort, asks Donna if “…that new membership would mean you, and people like you?”

“‘Oh yes. You’d be amazed if you went to one of our meetings. It’s all people like me.’”

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