A Taste of Reality

The BNP are really getting up certain people's noses at the moment. You may even say that the 'mainstream' politicians are scared. At least, that's the conclusion I draw from Peter Hain's bizarre intervention:

The BBC has rejected Welsh Secretary Peter Hain's warning that it could face legal action over BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time ... Mr Hain wrote to the BBC's director general arguing the British National Party was "an unlawful body" after a court ruling on its membership policy.

To their credit, the BBC have maintained a position that it is their duty to "scrutinise ... all elected representatives". Peter Hain's mystifying intervention stinks of panic. Much like Symon Hill's recent piece on Comment Is Free:

The main parties' constant pandering to rightwing agendas, their failure to speak up for the benefits of immigration and their devotion to the interests of the wealthy have all contributed to the far right's electoral success.

Pub Philosopher looks at it more deeply, but the crux of Hill's argument is that the white working class support for the BNP has nothing at all do with demography, but is really about the class war. It's a desperate attempt to dismiss reality in favour of his own, flawed political doctrine, which is what 'multiculturalism' is really all about.

What the BNP are bringing to those that have always regarded themselves as 'mainstream' is, quite simply, reality. And they can't deal with it, because it goes against everything they've believed in for so long. But we better hope that they take heed fairly quickly, because the situation about us is moving towards becoming irretrievable.