Weird though it may seem, the Manic Street Preachers' If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next has been playing over clips on the website of the far-right British National Party (BNP).

The song by the Welsh band was inspired by the International Brigades - volunteers who went to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. It includes a few lines that should tip-off any aspiring brownshirt that the lyrics aren't exactly on-side with far-right politics... lines such as "So I can shoot rabbits/Then I can shoot fascists".

But that it seems was the point. The song was played over clips that according to a BNP source reveals the "violence, hatred, fragmentation and despair" brought about by the "great multicultural experiment".

The song had also been used as the soundtrack on a YouTube video under an account titled 'the Cesspit Called London'.

According to Simon Darby, spokesperson for the BNP, the Manic's song had somehow been streamed to the BNP site by mistake - noting that users often posted material not necessarily approved of by the party.

However the song got on there, the Manic's record company was less than thrilled. When SonyBMG called in the lawyers and issued a cease-and-desist order, the clips disappeared from YouTube and the song was pulled from the BNP site.