Ghetto, Not Fabulous

In another forum that I frequent, the BNP is claiming to have won 1.2 million votes at last year's European Elections, more than twice its showing this year, but for some reason something about which it nevertheless wishes to boast even after last week. But it did not. It managed 943,598. That was up on the previous 808,200. But it was not 1.2 million. The BNP could not get beyond the million mark even in the midst of the expenses scandal, the Labour Leadership crisis, and a public debate in which immigration featured heavily.

Well, of course not. The BNP's appeal is confined to fewer (as of last week, far fewer) than a million people who form a very distinct subculture which has been around for a long time, and which I suppose will never entirely go away, but which is no more part of mainstream society than, for example, militant Islam is, or the many shades of British Marxism are. They are, by definition, ghetto-dwellers, whom no one outside the ghetto will ever be able to reach. So who cares what they think? They are about to become invisible for another 30 or 40 years, anyway. That is how it works.