Nazi Punks Fuck Off pt2

I can’t help but feel that the build up for Nick Griffins appearance on BBC Question Time has reached fever pitch. The arguments about the BBC inviting him on to the programme have all fell on deaf ears and tonight will see the first appearance of a far right politician on the programme. There has been plenty said about the BBC’s stance on his invitation. They have been elected and the BBC’s argument that they will give them the same opportunity as other political parties with MEP’s counts to some degree. The fact that they are a technically illegal party is pretty significant and the BBC should have waited until they were forced to invite them on the programme. The BBC’s whole stance with regard to the BNP is one I can’t really work out. They will go that far out of their way to remain impartial to the degree that they will give an open platform to fascists, holocaust deniers and climate change deniers, I’m just waiting for a paedophiles alliance to be given a slot. All the interviews with BNP members and activists I have heard from the BBC have been terrible. I just hope someone tonight can give Nick Griffin a good grilling. Unfortunately the ‘not sharing a platform with fascists’ approach has so far only worked in Griffins favour, he hasn’t been challenged enough on a high profile stage. Will tonight be an exception?

Tonight is going to be car crash television and I can’t wait.

Nazi punks fuck off

It was the 65th Anniversary of the D-day landings over the weekend. That moment in History when allied forces landed on the French beaches and proceeded to drive the Nazis out of occupied Europe.

So how did we celebrate in Britain? By voting two of them into the European parliament! I am ashamed to be from the North of England this week as the unbelievable happened.

 

That was how I felt Yesterday morning as I did a quick check on the news before I left. How could this happen? Surely there weren’t enough people who would buy into this tripe and vote for Fascists?

 

 

When you look deeper into the voting however, the BNP didn’t actually have any increase in support, in fact in most areas their share of the vote was down. The problem has been that Labour voters stayed at home and didn’t vote, this meant that under the proportional representation of the European Parliament, the BNP got in (beating the Green Party by 0.3%). It is Labours fault and there is no denying it. They have alienated their supporters on the left with the war and privatisation and now they have alienated their Sun/Star reading supporters by not deporting enough Muslims. There has been a lot of debate about whether or not people should be accusing the BNP voters of being racist and that they are perhaps misguided and this is a protest vote. I would like to draw your attention to this Yougov poll, which is summarised here. Some of the more interesting statistics are that almost half of BNP supporters disagree with the statement “Non-white British citizens who were born in this country are just as ‘British’ as white citizens born in this country”. There is also 72% of BNP voters who think the government should encourage voluntary repatriation. I agree with the statement that 100% of BNP supporters are racist.

 

 

The fact that 87% of supporters believe that local councils let immigrant families jump council house queues needs to be challenged. This is where local councils are to blame for not challenging these claims loudly enough to make a point. It’s time to start debunking the myths, challenging the views and legally challenging the constitution of the BNP. Their membership criteria is discriminatory and should be challenged in court. It's not enough anymore for the main campaign against the BNP to be “don’t vote for them, their bad”, people are voting for them and won’t be dissuaded by telling them it’s wrong to vote for a racist party, they want to vote for a racist party and no amount of trying to convice them is going to solve that.

Nick Griffin MEP for the North West