BNP Election Success: What Went Wrong?

The Politics Weekly panel discuss what has gone so wrong with social policy that voters in the north of England have elected the fascist BNP in the 2009 European elections.

With Michael White, Madeleine Bunting, Julian Glover, Allegra Stratton and Tom Clark.

Guardian Politics Weekly podcast: 11 June 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk


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[joshuawren]

glad the media dont like it thier the biggest bunch of facists going

[oclandestin]

@joshuawren ... I think you'll find it's the majority of British people who don't like the BNP, which is why the BNP is a fringe party with very little political influence. The media just reflects that.

[andy7666]

I hate the way people so casually call Nick Griffin a "Fascist". The BNP are a democratic party, nothing more - does anybody REALLY believe that a Nazi or Fascist party would be allowed to run nowadays? Honestly, these people.. Its a tactic to reinforce in peoples minds that BNP=Racist when they are not - they do NOT see Whites as superior so then how can they be rascist? :D Self preservation is not supremacism..

[oclandestin]

@andy7666 ... The BNP is undoubtedly racist. It's only this year that the BNP have been forced to admit non-white members, and they still believe in the 'voluntary repatriation' of non-white Britons.

[TheScumwhisperer]

European Dictatorship?

"The National Chairman shall have full EXECUTIVE POWER OVER ALL the AFFAIRS of the party." (Constitution, Section 3:1, page 5)

BNP democracy

[zedcell]

the majority of people i speak to are starting to side with the bnp

[oclandestin]

@andy7666 ... You really are so ignorant. Who exactly are you referring to as "Third Worlders"? China has officially over 50 ethnic groups, so there has never been a single "Chinese culture". As for immigration, without highly qualified health professionals from outside the UK, the NHS would not be able to survive. And without workers in lower skilled jobs from outside the UK, industries like agriculture would not survive either. The problem is small-minded attitudes like yours.

[andy7666]

@oclandestin Replace evey Chinese person in China with Third Worlders over time - this does nothing to damage Chinese culture? It will all be the same? No! This is genocide of the Chinese people! How is this different for Whites? Are somehow a special case and different? Deserving of discrimination and genocide? In which case, prehaps it is you who should step back and have a little think about things, after all wouldn't that view be a TAD racist?

[kingbleah]

the working classes will fight back ,its the poor that has to face the the multicultural mess.

[goonerash]

the uneducated, are educated enough to cast a protest vote...lol

[TimMiddleton]

I would contend that UKIP represents a more significant threat in that it has been more successful than BNP in presenting itself as a credible political movement. Much the same racist rubbish, but more expensively dressed.

[woodpod]

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.