“We are merely frightened to ‘admit’ this in polls etc. as we

Comment on Are the BNP Racists? by David.

“We are merely frightened to ‘admit’ this in polls etc. as we fear being branded racists”

You really think pollsters care if you vote BNP or not beyond the poll they are paid to canvas for? So if a pollster stops you in the street and asks who you’ll vote for, you’ll say something other than BNP even though that person will probably never meet you again!

Yet, plenty of BNP supporters are quite happy to comment on my site and similar online sites where if I (or the owner of those domains) wanted to could easily track some of you down through the IP addresses you post comments via. NTL/Virgin customers for example can be pinpointed to the street and house number if you know what you are doing (it’s not hard). I’ll add I have no interest in knowing where a BNP supporter lives, only thing I care about is they are individuals and not posting under multiple user names.

Anyway, lets assume fear to tell pollsters you vote BNP is true for a minute, this would suggest the true BNP support is much higher than shown by various polls right?

I assume if someone is afraid to say they vote BNP in a poll they will actually vote BNP in an election where it’s anonymous, reasonable assumption right?

Why has the BNP support been falling since the 2009 EU elections?

They’ve lost every by-election and have lost council seats as well. As I understand it they’ve lost all their deposits in recent by-elections: you pay £500 to stand in a general election type election (including by-elections) and if a candidate doesn’t get 500 votes, they don’t get their £500 deposit back.

This points to support for the BNP not growing, but falling since Nick Griffin went on Question Time (I think that did a lot of damage to the BNP cause). I guess we’ll know for sure in May after the general election what the real BNP support is, though I suspect when the BNP loose badly, (I don’t think they’ll get one MP) there will be various BNP conspiracy theories about postal vote rigging etc…

David