Politics: Barking Mad

Yesterday was a day for local elections up and down Britain. The BNP (British National Party), an extreme right-wing party often compared to the Nazis because of their anti multi-culturalism (racist) viewpoint, took 11 Council seats in Barking and Dagenham. The BNP targets mainly working class areas where people are dissatisfied and angry with the mainstream parties.



This move to the extreme right, amongst this particular group of voters, is not completely unexpected. Although the BNP holds no seats in Parliament, they have gained support over the years in many local areas. They have re-packaged the blatant and open racism of their earlier days, and turned themselves into a more politically and socially acceptable brand of extremism. But their core ideology has changed little over the years.



The Labour Party, while still holding a majority of the council seats in those constituencies, managed to lose almost 200 seats to the Conservative party all across Britain. There is really very little to chose from between the two main parties: The Conservatives have abandoned, at least publicly, their own extreme right-wing, who echo the BNP on issues like immigration, and have adapted a "greener" and "more caring" image to sell to the public. Labour, on the other hand, is riddled with the complacency, incompetency, and corruption that holding power for too long inevtibly brings.

The next general election will not take place for a few years, so each of the main parties will have some time formulate their plans and make whatever changes they need to make in order to sway the public to their side.

The BNP?...................Remeber that Hitler started with a little known and laughable bunch of nationalistic racists and look what happened.

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