sootyj
Saturday 8th May 2010 7:01am
51,287 posts
Quote: Aaron @ May 8 2010, 1:27 AM BST
In small doses, yes, of course. But if you ignore them - or, more to the point, ignore the legitimate concerns of the electorate that the BNP then pick up on - then you give them more ground, and a better chance for seats and power.
Ooh the argument of the sophisticated racist. I may not support the BNP but if you don't pay attention to my nuanced dislike of foreigns they'll get in or have a revolt or something.
And of course the electorate's concerns. It turns out about 1% of the UK electorate are stupid enough to think immigration is the primary issue. The other 99% kinda got it's the economy stupid.
Immigration wasn't an issue when we were all rich and hiring Polish builders.
Quote: Aaron @ May 8 2010, 1:54 AM BST
I forget the specifics now, but those councillors and guys who got elected in east London a few years back didn't get in on a pure promise of shipping black people home. They ran their campaigns on every day stuff like graffiti and littering; issues that really affected the voters, but that for some reason the other parties weren't bothering with.
Well the main thing was key holding and inheriting council flats within families. That and crime.
And of course legimitimising racism.
The problem for them is 2 fold.
1 People quickly realise inheriting council flats is pretty pointless if you have more than 1 kid and the BNP have no realistic plan to build anymore.
2 People in the UK are by and large not that stupid. Especially on empty gesture politics around crime.
The sad thing was the BNP did well when they went after the BNP as the new party of the working class. A kind of rough socialism akin to Labor in the 70s. They started to win popularity and then blew it.