Bloody Nasty People

With the Euro elections right around the corner and the ‘big three’ parties conspiring with each other to make themselves look as unscrupulous as possible it’s no surprise that the minority political entities have went into overdrive on the self promotion front. Leaflet after leaflet has landed on my doormat detailing the various madcap policies of the parties both to the left and the right. This gives me a nice early morning chuckle but one leaflet inparticular had me nailed to the wall and it was from those lovely chaps at the BNP.

Lets get one thing straight, this isn’t going to be an witty rebuttal against the jackboot wearing arseholes, Charlie Brooker did that better than I could only a few weeks ago, but my honest opinion of their policies and how we should deal with them.

Lets make no bones about it, they’re scum in suits. They’ve worked very hard to paint themselves as consummate professionals, kissing babies (as long as they’re white) and voicing their concerns about the plight of the working man. Underneath they’re a bunch of two-bit racists and always will be. I’ve heard one or two of the thicker people I know moan that the recent articles in the likes of the Guardian, the Independent and The Sun, yes The Sun, are nothing more than smear stories put out by the lefty press. Horseshite, I say. The majority of these stories about the BNP being fans of Hitler, eugenics and rape come to light because members are too thick to cover their backsides and keep their various abhorrent views to themselves. If you’re going to post on your blog that martial rape is the same as force feeding a woman chocolate you’re going to get dragged through the dirt and rightly so.

It can’t just be a coincidence that almost every prominent member of the BNP seems to believe in ideas that the average man on the street finds repulsive. And this from the party which claims it represents the silent majority?

Behind the worrying personal views are the policies, which go far to paint the party as a whole as completely comical. I suggest you search out the 2005 General Election manifesto, which is a particular favourite of mine. It details how they’re going to move parliament to the Isle of Man, ‘invite’ Ireland back to the union while sending armed troops to the border, give every citizen a rifle (“Don’t look down the barrel, Nana! You’ll blow your bloody head off!”) and relax laws that apparently stop free speech…while simultaneously pushing through laws to stifle the press. It’s beyond parody.

It’s for that reason that I think the BNP should be allowed equal footing. They should be allowed to stand in the street and canvas like any other political party because they’re so ridiculous, so bloody thick, they’ll eventually be hoisted by their own petard. Letting them talk themselves out of votes will be more effective in the long term than duffing them up and forcing them underground.

We’ve got nothing to fear from the BNP. They will forever be made up of scared, bigoted idiots and nothing more. By and large the general public aren’t stupid (despite what the viewing figures for Britain’s Got Talent tell you) and they aren’t nasty either. We may be in the midst of an awful recession with career politicians from every party using taxpayers money for God knows what but we’ve bugger all to worry about. Sure, they may win one or two seats at the Euro elections but it’ll be through protest voting rather than any groundswell of support. Everything will return to normal in a year or two and Nick Griffin will once again be consigned to talking in pubs to a handful of skinheads.