Twenty-Two Per Cent?

Calm down. They are not going to get between a fifth and a quarter of the vote when the Election comes. Come on. I know it’s late, and TFI Friday and all that. But even so.

There is no reaching the BNP constituency. It is a ghetto of people obsessed with race, which most of us simply are not and never will be. They used to vote NF if they could get it, Tory if they couldn’t. But now, because so many other people no longer vote, they are sufficiently numerous among those who still do to be able to maintain the BNP. But it’s vote didn’t go up this year. Other people’s went down, by means of abstention. The key is to get those people back out to vote.

That certainly does involve addressing national sovereignty (including, but very far from restricted to, the EU) and immigration, among many, many, many other things. It involves making a stand against polygamy, face-covering (not head-covering, but face-covering), Muslim schools, animal sacrifice, genital mutilation of both sexes, and domes and minarets on British skylines. (Halal meat is a serviceable weapon in the armoury against the hunting ban.) And that’s just Islam. There are other things, too. Mass immigration is at least as much an economic project of the neoliberal Right as a cultural project of the liberal Left. Indeed, rather more so.

Getting people back out to vote also involves tackling white working-class concerns about jobs, working conditions, housing, and public services. New Labour is of course the perfectly logical union of the economically neoliberal Right and the culturally liberal Left, now accepted by all three parties. So let’s give ourselves proper alternatives. To bring people out against the BNP. But mostly just because it’s the right thing to do. What are you doing?

However, none of this is about reaching BNP voters. They are a lost cause. It is about bringing out those whose abstentions aid the BNP by default. But more than that, it just happens to be right anyway. I’m doing my bit. How about you?

And have the Labour toffs betrayed the workers? Basically, yes. Whereas Labour and many Tory toffs used to be the good friends of the workers. In those days, mind you, toffs were toffs. Cameron and Osborne don’t think like proper toffs. They think that they are where they are on “merit” rather than by sheer good fortune, by which Divine Providence confers responsibilities on the more fortunate towards the less fortunate. Their capitalism is as anti-agrarian as it is hostile to anything or anyone else. They support making the world anew at the barrel of a gun. They hold Israel First, America Second foreign policy views as far as can be from the traditional upper-class norm.

Like the Labour toffs who have betrayed the workers, in fact. But that isn’t making the workers vote BNP. It is making them not vote at all, which is what aids the BNP. So let’s give them something and someone to vote for. A few proper toffs would be good in the mix. They certainly were in the past.