Not going to waste my time on childish arguments that achieve nothing,

Comment on BNP on Question Time by David.

Not going to waste my time on childish arguments that achieve nothing, so lets try to get the discussion back on track.

“I think David Cameron Law’s point is that how can members of the public get a true view of the BNP if the only things they can find out about them are on the BNP website or ultra left sites, both which may well make them sympathise with the BNP and therefore vote for them.”

That’s basically my point, though I’m more concerned at what the BNP supporters will be saying when they go door to door next year since I doubt the average British voter who might be swayed to vote BNP will ever look at the BNP website or any other political site for that matter to decide if they should vote BNP. BNP supporters won’t knock on a door and explain how the Jews are the root of all evil and should be exterminated, no they will use phrases like “British job for British workers” and if the BNP gain power we’ll stop immigration and that will mean there will be more council houses for British people who have paid into the system and because all those immigrant scroungers are gone more money available for pensioners, lie after lie in other words.

I came from a deprived background, lived on council estates (even spent 2 months in a detention center at 15 years of age) and was brought up thinking it’s normal to refer to Pakistanis as Pakis (we called the corner shop the Paki shop even when in it!)! Wasn’t until I hit my late teens I saw how wrong it was and my wife and I have raised our children (home educated BTW) to respect those who earn their respect. The local kids our children know also use the word Paki to describe Pakistani’s and the local kids don’t think it’s wrong, they aren’t racist, they don’t know any better. When they hit 18 they will be ripe for turning to watered down BNP ideas, especially if they can’t find work and fall for the easy solutions offered by the BNP.

I see ignoring the BNP and hoping they don’t do better in the next general election as a dangerous stance. We should learn from history, in times of trouble people do stupid things like vote in Hitler! Most of the German people who voted for the Nazi party are not inherently evil, just like most of the people who voted BNP this year aren’t. When people feel wronged (and the British people feel wronged right now!!) some make really bad choices. Unemployment is almost certainly going to get worse before it gets better, so not unreasonable to expect a big problem with the BNP gaining more votes next year.

The current policy of no platform has not worked, and I do understand the concept behind it: do not legitimise their racist ideas since it makes them part of the mainstream political establishment which means it’s OK to vote for them.

So back to my original question since no one has really answered it, if not in the mainstream media how should mainstream political parties (anyone) tackle the BNP problem in a way that will result in less people voting BNP next year?

We should be aiming for ZERO BNP MP’s, MEP’s, councilors….

David