I rather liked the fact that I was banned from membership of the BNP, and I am very sorry that that ban is no longer in place. One of the strongest arguments against that organisation has been taken away: that it had absolutely no comprehension of the meaning of the "B" word, which has never, ever been ethnic, as the hilarious list of half a dozen acceptable "folk communities" in the BNP's constitution illustrated and conceded.
Not that it matters. When the BNP fails to win a single seat at Westminster this year, then that will be the end of it. The BUF came and went in a few years. So did the NF. And so will the BNP. Thirty or forty years from now, something else will emerge, in the same places and often from within the same families. But it, too, will make a lot of noise for a few years, before going away again. Such has been the pattern of British Fascism for as long as there has been such a thing.
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They are down from more than 4% to no more than 1%. Google Trends shows interest in their website is down to the level before Griffin was on Question Time.
ReplyDeleteHardly reported, because that would involve reporting the real opinion poll figures, not the ones recalculated to remove support for "others" and disenfranchised determination not to vote.
ReplyDeleteAs of today they have lost between 70 and 90% of their support. Look out for vote splitting by even more extreme candidates who will do better than the "sell out" BNP ones.
ReplyDeleteQuite.
ReplyDeleteAs of today, what is the BNP for?
Did the BNP ever really matter?
ReplyDeleteNo. Like the NF before it, and like the BUF before that, it has been talked up by its sectarian Left opponents in order to make themselves seem more important than they really are.
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