Newsnight - BNP??wtf

[pk]

Whatever happened to the heroes?

They're still stuck in the fucking 1980's, thats what.

 

[treelover]

The BNP can hurt Labour in its heartlands

You don't have to agree with the British National party to see the legitimacy of its claim to represent those written off by Labour
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* Jeremy Seabrook
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o Jeremy Seabrook
o guardian.co.uk, Saturday 9 May 2009 10.00 BST
o Article history

Melodramatic warnings by "senior" Labour party figures that any desertion of Labour will offer free passage to the BNP in the European and local elections does not simply reflect a despairing anticipation of a Labour wipeout; it also betrays an old arrogance, a belief that only "the left" (even the etiolated version of it represented by New Labour) stands heroically in the way of the triumphal advance of the far right. Yet New Labour could not wait to repudiate everything the Labour party had ever stood for; and this left its former heartland a political desert, ripe for colonisation by the BNP.

The white working class was seen as an insignificant remnant of the population, since a majority of the British people appeared to have been levitated into a middle class that Labour courted with such assiduity in the 1990s. The rest could be left to their fate in forlorn estates of liquor shops covered with chicken wire, leaky drainpipes, semi-wild dogs and tattered flags of St George – everything that symbolised the last gasp of a disappearing working class.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/09/bnp-european-elections-labour?commentpage=7

There is an article on CIF by the excellent writer, Jremy Seabrook, J/S is a fully paid up member of the notion of the global citizen, and i think no borders, yet he has written that the BNP have some legimate claim to support from the working class, the comments that follow have some of the best i have ever read on Guardian CIF, at last the debate the left needs is begining to happen:, many ask 'why is there not a decent left challange to NL, why does internationalism and identity politics feature so much, why are some campigns priveledged over others, why cant there more left unity, etc?


Having said that, the BNP are not going to be part of the solution, one only has to read about their pan european meetings with nasties like the Czech nationalists to begin to see what they have planned for all their enemies.

 

[brasicritique]

It was a good article however he did not say anything many posters on urban have been saying for a long time. He also lacked any real suggestions as to what to do. The way things stand and the way things are going sadly i think we're all in the middle of a post-modern free for all with globalisation acting as the driving force. I think it is more liekly that at some stage there will be a real concerted effort to outlaw the bnp rather than deal with the issues fuelling its growth.