Radio 4 keep blurting out interviews with various smaller party leaders – UKIP, the Greens, the BNP – I think just to keep people’s interest up in what is other wise a surreal but not particularly interesting special edition of Strictly Come Bullshitting. What struck me was the total difference in the way Caroline Lucas [...]
The whole blog seems to have caught election fever, and what with various other priorities pulling my more creative attention away, I thought I might as well stick my oar in and let people know what my personal priorities are going to be around the election. Obviously, I think these should be your priorities too. Firstly, the challenge [...]
As a lefty and an ethnic minority who has always campaigned for the rights of immigrants and against the division of racial hatred, I think it’s fair to say that I have a little bit of a vested interest in Nick Griffin failing to oust Margaret Hodge in Barking to become the BNP’s first MP. [...]
Today’s Guardian headline reads: ‘BNP conference backs ballot on non-white members’. Naturally, the accompanying picture shows Nick Griffin breaking wind with a very long pole up his backside. I found this very interesting. Not because it points to any grave injustice of media bias. All media is biased in one way or another and, frankly, [...]
Right, so I assume you were all up bright and early to get to your post picket line (unless of course, like me you live nowhere near a big mail centre, and have to wait till tomorrow morning for the delivery offices). But it doesn’t stop there. This is the day when the BNP’s Fuhrer [...]
Tomorrow, for the first time, the leader of a fascist party will appear on the panel of a televised national debate. Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time has caused quite a stir in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere. Some, remaining steadfast to the principle of no platform, have campaigned vigorously against the BBC’s [...]
‘The truth will out’. It’s a simple, very appealing notion – and it’s perhaps one of the most pernicious fallacies in contemporary political discourse. Wherever there are people with wrongheaded ideas, from members of the BNP to climate change deniers, you can bet that sooner or later there’ll be someone (or more likely quite a [...]
Labour are warning that the far right are becoming more dangerous – perhaps it’s time for them to stop being complacent. John Denham announced a new government initiative on the weekend to address the concerns of the white working classes who he said had been “exploited” by the far right. The government, it seems, has [...]
This is a response to Ed Mustill’s guest post written yesterday. In the 2009 elections the BNP gained two MEPs, gaining near a million votes. Whilst they undoubtedly benefited from the the ‘perfect storm’ of the expenses scandal and the recession, this had been coming. The BNP’s strategy of playing down their core ideology, begun when [...]
Guest post by Ed Mustill It’s no surprise that a hot topic on the Left at the moment is anti-fascism. The recent success of the BNP in getting two of their members elected to the European Parliament, and the emergence of groups like the English Defence League require us to consider carefully our tactics for [...]
