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Magick wrote:

Tomo wrote:However, many of the comments have mysteriously disappeared.

As if by magic?

I think it would have been much better viewing for the British public if Nick Griffin had made an appearance on BBC's Who do you think you are instead of Question Time.

Or Gladiators...That's be ace. I'd watch that...

Lady of Mystery wrote:It was them using pictures of Churchill on their ads which really made me laugh at how stupid and ignorant the people really are. Churchill fought against what they believe.

It is this kind of 'advertising' that concerns me about the BNP as it appeals directly to the generation that are easily taken in by this material, namely the elderly.

My Nan told me she voted BNP a couple of years ago in the local elections and I was horrified. I had to sit down and discuss what she thought the BNP are and represent and what they actually held as policies. She had no idea about their policies on the whole saying that they were all about making "Britain British", she saw them as defending the country from what she lived through a war for.

She was quite upset when she realised this was not exactly the case but it did make me wonder how many other people voted in the same way for the same reasons.

As far as I can see the BNP have no real policies, what they do have is the support of the disgruntled, disenfranchised masses who are stuggling. There are parellels to extremist parties and economic uncertainty/recessions as it is human nature to look for someone to blame whether it be the bankers, the policiticians or foreign workers (although Nick Griffin had no problem with foreign workers when he was overseeing them working in the fields in Norfolk whilst simultaneously working his way through the female student workers...oh, allegedly!).

There are a couple of reasons why it is unlikely the BNP will ever gain main governmental power, the main two being;

1> Historically, as the economy recovers extreme parties lose support.
2> We do not have proportional representation in the UK.

I did not bother watching Nick Griffin on Question Time, mainly because I did not feel I would achieve anything by doing so. I may be mistaken as I still have not seen it but I assume he sat there receiving abuse while the people around him piously declared how wrong his views were.

As was stated earlier, if he was actually allowed to voice his views then that would do a much better job of removing any credibility he may have with people than a group of people that carry little respect shouting him down in order to improve their own image.

My Election Prediction;

Labour will be ousted because they are currently out of favour. Lib Dems will say all the right things knowing full well they will never be elected, leaving the Tories to take power and ride the economic wave that will probably result over the next ten years before handing things back to Labour as everyone is disgruntled with the recession. The BNP? Like always they will fade in to the background with the hardcore racists and the people too naive to know better as the economy improves then will rear their ugly heads again when the economy is in decline.

How do you know a country is out of recession? The right wing extremists stop gaining seats in the local elections!