No idea who he is, but Steven Skelton has an excellent article at Make My Vote Count about electoral reform and the rise of the BNP. It’s nothing I haven’t said before, but it’s very well put together and all in one place.
Unity mails me pointing to his latest article here:
The Police raid two houses. In one they discover “a record haul of chemicals used in making home-made bombs”, in the other the find “rocket launchers, chemicals, and a nuclear or biological suit”.It’s a terrorist plot, right? It’ll be all over the national news in a shot?
Wrong on both counts, apparently… because the two men caught with this nifty little haul of equipment aren’t Muslims, they’re BNP supporters, one of whom stood for election in Colne only last May.
Um, rocket launchers and chemical suits? Leon, Jamie, Fridgemagnet and bat020 have more.
A politician says something not at all offensive about running his consituency surgeries, and a policeman gets reassigned, both are screamsheet headlines. BNP members get arrested in an apparent bomb plot conspiracy? Where’s the headlines?
So 25% of voters “might vote” for the BNP. So what?
The media have obviously had a field day with this story over the weekend - any story where the media can draw comparisons with the Nazi’s and foresee the demise of British politics is obviously going to be too big an opportunity to miss. Cue plenty of commentators rallying against the BNP, and pointing out that it probably shouldn’t be blown out of proportion.
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