Let’s talk about the future, now we’ve put the past away
British politics, prolapsing ever rightwards towards a less brighter tomorrow:
One of David Cameron’s most trusted and senior political allies has plunged the party into a race row by claiming that people who vote for the far-right British National Party (BNP) have “some very legitimate views” on immigration and crime.
And this straight after Gordon Brown’s ‘British jobs for British workers‘ appeasement. Surely once him and Cameron have finished scrapping over who owns Thatcher’s wardrobe they should cut to the chase and duke it out over which one’s the heir to Oswald Mosley.
I’m also looking forward to the court case where the party leaders try to prove which one of them owns tomorrow. ‘I think you’ll find it belongs to me,’ Gordon and David will say simultaneously.
Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 10:18 am
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I just don’t think that xenophobia and racism is a right-wing phenomenon. The holocaust was orchestrated by National Socialists, and if you read the BNP manifesto it’s actually pretty left-wing. Racism and xenophobia is an appeal to nationalism and to whatever the opposite of liberalism and libertarianism is.
“if you read the BNP manifesto it’s actually pretty left-wing”
So was this, the fundamental programme of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, adopted in 1920 and never subsequently amended:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/nsdappro.htm
Among the left-wing commitments of special interest in the programme:
12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
The BNP are, indeed, a collectivist party in favour of nationalisation, etc. and are thus a traditional left-wing party.
Interestingly, I note that Ms (she is no peer of my realm) Warsi’s remarks have not overtly attracted the “racist” tag yet.
Is it because she am brown?
DK
Well, I’m less interested in which political wing fathered the black sheep of the family (other than to note it seems to be a parlour game the libertarian right like to play to make contemporary socialists - whoever the hell they are - look bad) than what to actually do with them.
In this context ‘considering’ or ‘engaging with’ the views of BNP voters means ‘pandering to’ and ‘appeasing’. I’d be tempted to use the Situationists’ motto and say ‘No Dialogue With Cunts’ but rather we need a proper dialogue with (or at least around) these cunts.
If politicians of the centre right and left, along with the media, were capable of having a serious and honest conversation about the prejudices, misinformation and sheer amount of lies surrounding this debate, the BNP electorate would be even more of a rump.
The PM can think whatever he wants about people’s fears of immigration, the fact remains that the large majority of new immigrants (from the past 10 years or so), and the ones that are claimed to be putting such a strain on policing and social services in areas such as Lincolnshire and other less urban districts, are European immigrants and therefore cannot be regulated, unless Britain would like to terminate it’s agreement with the EU and leave the 700 000 British living in the EU without legal status.