Some may have thought that forcing the BNP to open up its membership to ethnic minority members was a clever thing to do. It opens the Party up to infiltration and stops it discriminating against non-whites. Those are the good points.
However, the thing people forget about Nick Griffin is that he has been pouncing around pretending not to be a racist/Nazi for the past decade or so. Though he collapsed when under heavy scrutiny on Question Time, those who shout racist and fascist at him like the Unite Against Fascism socialist/commie mob are doing him a favour. Griffin has spent years articulating his argument on why he and the BNP are not racist. Now, to politically-minded folk who have spent time looking at the origins of the BNP and Griffin's politics, that argument has little credibility.
But to a lonely pensioner trapped in an East London ghetto, scared, afraid of what many parts of inner city Britain have become, both in terms of the lack of law and order and the huge influx of immigration that has transformed the area they grew up in, Griffin is being made out to be simply the outnumbered patriot who is being attacked because he simply is not "politically correct". Griffin is a victim, but a victim simply of a Britain that overwhelmingly rejects racism. The simple fact is though, in places like Barking where Griffin will be hoping to become an MP, thousands of people aren't necessarily voting for a racist (having no idea of the BNP's true core), they are voting for a Party they believe is victimised just as much as they feel they are. They can relate to the BNP's barrage from the mainstream.
The fact that the BNP are now going to have a few token non-white members is going to make the allegations of racism all the more easy for Griffin to run rings around. And the simple truth is, the greater credibility Griffin has to his "we're not racist" argument, the more votes his Party will receive.
UKIP has always been proud to want proper border controls, proud of displaying the British flag at meetings no matter how un-mainstream that has become, proud to speak out against the failed project of multiculturalism but most importantly of all, proud to stand up for and comprise of people of all colours and creeds. The trouble is now that the BNP are going to try and emulate many of the arguments UKIP have been making, that it is about space not race.
I have always said that it can be only UKIP that can ever destroy the BNP, as the other parties offer no solutions to the issues that cause people to vote BNP in the first place. Let us hope that that happens and that the BNP do never get accepted to be a non-racist Party, even with their mistaken new non-white members. The moment that they do is the moment that their electoral potential shoots through the roof. And that's a scary thought.
The Daley (Half) Dozen: Saturday
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1. Devil's Kitchen on the Hockey Stick Illusion.
2. Michael Heaver on the changing rules of the BNP game.
3. Archbishop Cranmer pays tribute to the Archbis...
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