Who Are The BNP?

Unless you believe that there are more than ten thousand Nazis in Britain today, never mind all the votes that they receive, then why are people attracted to a party whose own constitution requires its members to be "Nordic" (although that does not preclude a Jewish Councillor)?

Well, as much as anything else, it is different and distinctive. It still canvasses, and conducts local campaigns. It is not part of any metropolitan elite. And it is at least answering, albeit very wrongly, legitimate concerns, concerns in fact widely shared within the visible ethnic minority communities.

Of course, the people running the BNP really are vile. But if you don't want ever-more of them in town halls and civic centres, if you don't want them at Strasbourg, and if you don't want them at Westminster in less than a decade, then you need to give up on the Bloc Parties, whose fault that serious possibility (and, in the municipal case, reality) is.

The BNP's answers are wrong.

But their voters', potential voters', and indeed voters' non-white neighbours' questions are not.