Well, being non-white, i obviously do not favour the BNP. The thing with the BNP is that while they are not uber-nazi-in-your-face, they are still racist. Yes, they do not claim to be racist, but everyone knows they are. Nick Griffin himself starts every interview with "I am not a racist but..insert bullshit about immigrants destroying the economy even though without them our country would be fucked.."

I think it was a wise decision for him not to go to the Queen's garden party, because that would have just caused an uproar and given the party more press.

I do fear that they will get big over the coming years. They will gain a few seats in the european election, and gain further seats in the general election. However, they will never become a big enough threat ever.

Another thing that worries me, are their supporters. Most of their supporters do not even know what the party are about. The supporters are mostly white middle class pub folk. They do not know what the party will do and what most of their policies are on other matters. Their supporters simply view them as the ONLY party that can bring Britain to its "God like standards prior to the 1950's".

I also worry that with this every growing recession and our ever failing labour party, that the BNP will get big enough to actually have influence..

I do not like the BNP one bit for various policies and ideas of theirs:
-Barring Muslims from flying in or out of Britain.
-Disapproval of mixed marriages.
-'Dont ask, don't tell' approach to homosexuality.
-An aim for a population made up no more than 2-3% non-whites.

The way the BNP is jumping on these last few weeks of British political disaster to present themselves as a 'good' party is unsettling.

xRC wrote:

Practically all the parties are guilty of this though.

Well the problem is that so far it seems only the three main parties are.

I think that any party that encourages racial hatred is a bad thing. I think the worst thing about the expenses row is that parties like the BNP are gaining popularity now.

They want black people out of Britain when Britain colonized 75% of Africa.

I hate people who bring up what ancestors have done. I agree their polices are stupid but they (themselves) had nothing to do with the colonialism of Africa. I also have a feeling you made that statistic up because Britain had very little influence in Africa; it was more Dutch and French controlled.

Lol I do think that is a made up fact.

I disagree with you Tinhead for the ancestor card, the BNP are a nationalist party, so want to restore britain to what it was in the time if their father etc. They are also using Churchhill on their posters to stupidly say that he would be supporting us if he were alive.

I saw the Churchill thing too!

But what I meant about the race card was: I hate it when people blame others because of what their ancestors did.

Rachael, if you have some sympathy with the BNP cause but are not completely convinced, maybe your views are more in-line with the UK Independence Party than the BNP?

UKIP are a decent party, but recently i believe they have shown allegiance with the BNP. The main policy about them is that they want to take britain out of the EU.

Thing is, these kind of parties will never gain enoug following to actually do anything.

UKIP are just a bunch of OAP's who don't want the euro. Their policies revolve around progressing backwards so the UK is more like the country that it's voters grew up in. It's only a party because Britain's older population is increasing. I personally am totally against UK independence. Like anything Europe is better united. Even when things the EU do are bad for Britain they are good for the EU, it's selfish to prevent things that make life harder or us happening when it can help Europe as a whole.

People seem a bit scared about the BNP gaining power. I don't think it's much of an issue. Even with proportional representation they would only have a tiny share of power and no major parties would form a coalition with them. As we use FPTP in Westminster they aren't going to get any power there. I agree with everyone saying the BNP's voters don't even know what they are voting for. They are usually just annoyed because they live in a constituency with a lot of muslims. This is backed up with evidence as the places with the most BNP voters are also the places with the most muslims. Statistics also show that less intelligent people vote BNP. In places with the least degrees per person the BNP does best. It shows that most of their voters are just annoyed with immigration and not too bright.

joe m wrote:

People seem a bit scared about the BNP gaining power. I don't think it's much of an issue.

I agree, we take them far more seriously than they deserve really. They got 0.7% of the vote in the 2005 general election, and I don't think they actually had any MPs elected.

aleaiactaest wrote:

I agree, we take them far more seriously than they deserve really. They got 0.7% of the vote in the 2005 general election, and I don't think they actually had any MPs elected.

EDIT: They have 15 seats at the moment

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4915096.stm