LONDON (AFP) - The leader of the far-right British National Party, recently elected to the European Parliament, said Wednesday that the EU should sink boats carrying African immigrants trying to reach the continent. Nick Griffin, one of two BNP members elected to the Brussels parliament in May, told the BBC that those on board would be thrown a life raft, but insisted only drastic action could stop Europe being swamped by the Third World. The only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration and stop large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans dying on the way to get over here is to get very tough with those coming over, he told the British broadcaster. Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats. Anyone coming up with measures like that (in the EU) well support, but anything which is there as a 'oh, we need to do something about it but in the end doing something about it means bringing them into Europe, we will oppose. He denied advocating that anyone should be murdered at sea, saying: They can throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya. But Europe has sooner or later to close its borders or its simply going to be swamped by the Third World.