British National Party maintained that the BNP's hostility toward cultural and ethnic diversity in the country was at odds with mainstream Christianity's emphasis on inclusiveness, tolerance, and interfaith dialogue. Winston Churchill's family has criticised the BNP's use of his image and quotations, labelling it "offensive and disgusting". The singer Vera Lynn condemned the party for selling her CD on its website. In 2009, the Royal British Legion asked Griffin—at first privately and then publicly—to not wear their poppy symbol. The British police, Fire Brigades Union, and Church of England, prohibited its members from joining the BNP. In 2002, Martin Narey, banned BNP membership
Songs for the Season carols, "Songs for the Season" features one original track, "Happy Happy Christmas", which sheds light on the recent deaths of her parents. Allmusic editor Matt Collar remarked that "rather than take the more common contemporary approach to her first album of holiday-themed music on 2018's "Songs for the Season", singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson instead successfully wraps herself in an old-school production that sounds like it was recorded in the 1950s." While he felt that the retro aesthetic of the album marked a breakaway from Michaelson's adult contemporary pop sound, Collar favorably compared the "cozy atmosphere" of the album, and its "big-band