The BNP in the European Parliament
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hammerntongues
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From personal experience its the older folk who seem particularly vulnerable to being open about it , I have spent a few hours in a working mans club in Basildon recently and believe me there is no shame in talking about it openly. It may be isolated of course but there are clubs like this everywhere I cannot think that they would be different.
The feeling I get is that for an increasing amount of people the idea that you support the Party who you disagree with the least is beginning to get the BNP more support.
OK you might not like their views on race but their other policies are in line with how a lot of people think and since those who are most vocal in demonising BNP tend to be the ones that you disagree with the most I would hazard that the idea of sticking your x on their box on the ballot paper and being happy to admit to it becomes less of an issue.
The BNP are successfully presenting themselves as not just being a party about racial issues and that must be working.
OK you might not like their views on race but their other policies are in line with how a lot of people think and since those who are most vocal in demonising BNP tend to be the ones that you disagree with the most I would hazard that the idea of sticking your x on their box on the ballot paper and being happy to admit to it becomes less of an issue.
The BNP are successfully presenting themselves as not just being a party about racial issues and that must be working.
Vintage Paw
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The No2Eu campaign around here (Stoke-on-Trent) spoke to one person who said they were going to vote BNP. After talking to them for a while they changed their mind and said actually they'd vote No2EU. Now, normally I'm wary of this as people will say anything to get parties off their backs, but they seemed genuinely interested and asked to take a wodge of leaflets to distribute around their working men's club. No idea what impact that would have.
Rod Sleeves
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In most places I work, the BNP is pretty much the only party it's acceptable to admit you might vote for - most of the people saying that actually probably don't vote - but it's certainly completely normalised.
tangentlama
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... and yes, they keep losing the seats they've won. what does that tell us?
I even talked to an anti fascist PUNK last night who once twatted someone for seig heiling at a Conflict gig, and he voted UKIP for fucks sake, then went into a racist speil. Why? because someone he knew couldn't get a council house. I tried explaining that was the Tories fault but .....in the end changing the subject was easier.
The working class are brainwashed by shit like the Sun and toffs in UKIP/BNP / Tories who know they only have to mention immigration and all their other nasty anti-working class policies suddenly don't matter.
Racism is the new cool.
Worrying times.
Rod Sleeves
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Your dreams coming true?
butchersapron
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I knew you were a twat but....
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
More sectarian idiocy from a sectarian idiot.
Well they have won their first "seat" in the local elections.
Keep winning seats kind of over plays their threat.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
No it doesn't. They do keep winning seats. They have 50+ already and have won and lost as many.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I'm just going to quote this shit for the record.
I don't know if this is true. Things are not always as clear cut as the dominant political mood would suggest. When I started work in the very early 1980s industrial militancy and class consciousness were still very much alive but racism was absolutely rife. In one place I worked, some of the main militants were Enoch-was-righters (despite voting Labour). Now militancy is all but dead and class consciousness weakened because of the destruction of workplaces and communities, but overt racism has receded due to a variety of factors, including a generation of non-whites who simply won't take it any more, a mass media offensive against it (despite tabloid scare stories), and the effect of anti-racist legislation. It is still, on the surface at least, 'uncool' to be racist.
The real situation may lie somewhere in the gap between what people feel able to express and what they privately think.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
No they don't.
elbows
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You talking about town councils rather than county councils?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Both
elbows
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Aha, I kinda thought that this was the first time BNP were getting county council seats, I know they have had lots of town/borough councillors in some parts before, theyve got 1 or 2 in my area but dont seem to have managed to get any county councillors here this time, close in a few wards but no cigar.
audiotech
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I have my disagreements, but ffs that's well out of order.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Thank you mc5
Fedayn
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Behave yourself.
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