It’s a tad unfair to say “If the video was a ‘publicity

Comment on Reasons to Vote British National Party by David.

It’s a tad unfair to say “If the video was a ‘publicity stunt’ as you imply”, when my point was others could see it as a publicity stunt, I wasn’t implying it was (I have no idea either way because the evidence wasn’t clear cut).

I try to be a fair person and though I disagree with the BNP ideologies I’m not closed minded to think everything they say is total BS. But, with any political group (I include all political parties here) with an agenda there will be a tendency to portray the truth in a way that forwards that agenda.

The BNP aren’t going to put up videos of white skinheads chasing Muslims down the street shouting “sand niggers get out” because it doesn’t help their agenda, but that sort of thing has happened.

Likewise the UAF aren’t going to put up videos of their activists committing criminal acts in the name of anti-fascism, or Muslims burning the Union Jack! because again it doesn’t help their agenda, but those sorts of things has also happened.

The BNP does it, the UAF does it, everyone does it including me and you and so we’d be very naive to take anything any political group said on face value without looking at how they benefit from the message and look for supporting evidence.

Which is why the BNP would have done better had they got better evidence, which from the sound of things wouldn’t have been too hard if this happened. The mother could have created a video (with the help ofthe BNP) of a refusal to serve her for example, right now it’s a BNP promotional video with no supporting evidence.

I know the BNP think the BBC are run by the government (or something like that), but I’m more inclined to believe a source like BBC News, SKY News etc.. (who obviously also have an agenda** as well, but with constraints) than a video from the BNP, UAF, Labour Party, Conservative Party etc… The BBC etc… have to maintain their credibility far more than the political parties which are expected to bend the truth to their needs.

** I would say the main agenda of the news reporters is finding bad/negative news to report.

David