Are Fascists and other haters of freedom really growing in numbers, or is the Internet a particularly rich stomping ground for them? Either way, they revolt me.
It would be great if you were correct. However, with the world in ecconomic recession, now is the very time when they may be able to gather additional support.
And not only in recession. I agree with Melanie Philips that the political impotence and incoherence of Labour is giving the BNP one hell of a chance. Nick Griffin is the smartest party leader in the UK (not that it takes much to be), has spotted a market opportunity, and has been exploiting it with impressive skill. The market gap is for a small-c conservative party with no PC nonsense and which makes the white working class welcome. Time and time again, in blogs such as Melanie's and the like, I find people asking: "if not the BNP, then who shall I vote for?" The huddling of all the main parties in a very small area of the PC centre-left is the same phenomenon that has allowed the hard right to make enormous gains in Belgium and Austria, and but for the electoral system, we would be seeing BNP members in Parliament even now. In the recent London assembly elections, they got one member, which means that they must have got hundreds of thousands of votes. They have some forty councilmen across England and are becoming a genuine national force. And it is all a sham: at heart, they remain the club of thugs and brutes they have always been. Only now they are smelling dinner.
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