What can be done about the BNP?

Posted 17 Feb 2010 by Walaa Idris

For once let’s call a spade a spade and stop tip toeing around the issue. The BNP was not born out of void. It is the direct result of some disenfranchised indigenous inhabitants and early settlers of this great land. We also know the party is a one issue party and like many similar organizations they should have been left alone to implode – which would have happened sooner or later.

But no, in our politically correct multiculturalism obsessed world this can never be allowed to happen. Just think about it, if MPs were not caught fiddling their expenses, we would not have two BNP MEPs and the BBC would not have invited Nick Griffin to Question Time, and allowed the main party panellist to openly show their disdain to his beliefs therefore gaining him and his party unwarranted sympathies.

The truth of the matter is the BNP has been around since the 80s – their views are still and will continue to be the same. Forcing them to become who they are not will only gain them more pity and lots of media time. There are many wrongs with our society that needs mending but the diversification of the BNP is definitely not one of them.

This organization will only continue to exist if we help it by giving it the time and energy it needs to flourish. But if we quietly and decidedly – unlike the Question Time fiasco – fight its ideology, refute its claims, expose their flaws and educate the public (no sitting MP should ever have to check what they stand for) in time they will simply disappear.

One last thing – they are not a far right party; they are no where close to the right, if anything they are a socialist ideology – do as you are told because we know what’s good for you– and that puts them very much on the left of the political spectrum.

1 comment(s)

Steve Foley

Steve Foley
19 Feb, 22:02

We must meet them head on and with logic and facts refute their arguments. Abuse will do no good, they lap that up as did Hitler’s Nazis. Ignoring them does not work either.

Are they Extreme Left or Extreme Right? If one only judges a political party on its Economics then it could be said they are Left, then again on that aspect so also could I be described as I lean more to the moderately Keynsian economic policies of Macmillan, Home and Heath (post Selsdon) than the Ricardian, Freidman or Hayek model so beloved of some modern Conservatives- economically I am a “Wet”.

However the Social Policies etc of the BNP would to my mind be Hard Right and Fascist and downright Racist.

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