“Perhaps not the pollsters but as recent debate has shown there are

Comment on Are the BNP Racists? by David.

“Perhaps not the pollsters but as recent debate has shown there are people who hold the opinion that members of the BNP should not be teachers/police etc.”

I’m aware of the issues with being a member of the BNP and a member of the police force etc…, but that wasn’t what you said. You said BNP voters don’t say they will vote BNP in polls (nothing to do with an employment issue) which if you are right suggests polls do not show the true support for the BNP, yet recent elections have shown the polls are about right.

Like you I’m not a member of a political party, and have no plans to join one. I’ve never donated money or time to one either, though only put significant time into researching politics since creating this website less than a year ago (who knows what I’ll do in the future).

I don’t assume you are racist because you vote BNP, I own https://www.free-funny-jokes.com/ which has racist jokes and has been over run by racist commenter’s (real racism, majority from the US, they seem to think anything on the Internet is about them apparently!). Many would assume I’m a racist for owning that site and allowing the racist comments. Truth is my business is making money online and there’s a LOT of people searching for racist jokes (the controversy makes me money: about £300 a month) and secondly (and I’ll admit not the primary reason for allowing the racist comments) I believe strongly in free speech and as long a joke is meant as a joke what’s the problem? The comments on that site have got out of hand.

If you think about it redneck jokes are basically white racist jokes, dumb blonde jokes are white racist jokes, Irish jokes, though not a race the Irish do tend to be white so again… A heck of a lot of funny jokes are discriminating against one group or another, but it’s only the race jokes that seem to cause offence. It’s a shame there aren’t many funny white jokes (white jokes are rubbish), I find redneck jokes really funny though.

I’m not exactly politically correct :-)

So don’t assume a person like me will assume you are a racist for voting BNP, I wouldn’t assume you are racist if you made a racist joke, some of the stereotypical racist jokes are quite funny, not my taste generally, but takes all sorts.

I fully appreciate a lot of British people are drawn to the BNP due to a perceived lack of a political party that’s different to the main three parties, especially on immigration where historically the main three parties have been weak or if you want to be kind, very slow to act.

My problem isn’t with the million people who voted BNP at the EU election, (most won’t be racist, prejudiced against immigrants, yes), my issue is with the BNP candidates and leaders like Nick Griffin, Mark Collett and many others within the BNP who if they gain power will have a say over parliament and even more of a concern say over local council issues: I’m far more concerned at local council results than the election when thinking about the BNP, if Nick Griffin became an MP, big deal, no one would listen to him (like they don’t listen to him in Europe as an MEP), but on councils the BNP can have a really negative effect on race relations at local level!

The people behind the BNP have shady racist pasts and I suspect are still deeply racist: they hide it quite well and tend to go on religious discrimination now against Muslims/Islam which is apparently more acceptable, religious intolerance is better than racism!!

I just can not understand how a non racist person would risk voting for a party that has it’s roots in racism (that’s a fact that can not be ignored) as a protest type vote, I don’t get it.

Not enough people vote as it is without making protest votes. A lot of seats have independents these days, maybe looking into one in your area to see what they stand for might be a better way to make protest vote: I think half a dozen independents like Joanna Lumley (I wouldn’t vote for her, but still) would be a wake up call for the main political parties, but I don’t see it happening on a large scale because of our first past the post political system.

I’m drawn to voting Lib Dems this time, I think a hung parliament with the Lib Dems forcing electoral reform for their support could be good for the country. Where I live voting Lib Dems hands the seat to the Conservatives since the Lib Dems have little support in my area, so I have to vote Labour as a negative vote to keep the Conservatives out.

If we had proportional representation I’d vote Lib Dem’s, if we had the alternative vote I’d vote Lib Dems 1, Labour 2.

David