The Royal British Legion has decided to accept a donation from the BNP after initially refusing to take the chain off the door and let them in.

Earlier this year the Legion paid for a full page advert to distance themselves from the BNP after Nick Griffin was accused of politicising the poppy. In the advert they formally requested that he stop wearing it, saying "Until you have been shot by Germans in a muddy field in Belgium we'd rather you didn't wear it thank you very much," adding "Incidentally, we might have some old, old friends in Berlin who could help with this if you're interested."

We spoke to Commander in Chief of the British Legion, Ben Arna, who is a veteran of WWII. He told us "It's all been very embarrassing. Personally I was trained to kill Nazis, so it's very difficult to look at Mr Griffin without feeling a powerful urge to bayonet him, although I'm told this is common.

"The problem lies with the fact that we are quite partial to money, or 'beer tokens' as we call it in the Legion. A fiver is 15 pints in here after all. It would have been much easier if Rachel Firth - who donated this money - had sent a cheque, or at least put it in a brown envelope and pushed it through the letterbox.

"But no, she insisted on coming in, perhaps thinking we'd treat her as a hero. Things went ok at first, and I was beginning to think we'd get away with it, but then old George, who's a bit fuddled in the head these days, caught wind of the fact that she was a Nazi and tried to charge at her using a flag pole from the wall as a spear. It went a bit frosty then. He's quite slow, and he kept dropping the spear and forgetting why he was charging, so she had chance to finish her drink, but I had to get her to go out through he back door. I didn't want anyone seeing her leave here.

Simon Darby, the BNP spokesman, denies exploiting the story. He told Stinky Ponky "It's funny how when we're involved, campaigning on an issue turns to cynically exploiting. But that's the spin we have to endure.

Having said that, I don't really give a fuck, as long as we get some coverage. Can you take my photo shaking the hand of that bloke who got one leg blown off in the Falklands? Make it quick because he makes me feel queasy."

BNP Fuhrer Nick Griffin is clearly upset by the reaction of the British Legion. "It was a foolproof plan, and if it hadn't been for the pesky British Legion we would've gotten away with it," he told us. "The old buggers should hate foreigners after we trained them to kill them, but no - even Andy Mc fucking Nab told us to piss off.

"I'm seriously starting to think that no one likes us."