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Charles RB
04-28-2006, 12:49 PM
The BBC has a report on Barking (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4921540.stm), where the BNP are fielding a bunch of candidates. Here are quotes from people who are considering voting BNP (and remember Barking has only 14% immigrants):

"People in this area are not being listened to," she says, on her lingerie stall. "Without being racist, there is nothing for that community that used to be here.

"I think people have had enough and will vote BNP. The main reason is they would shut the immigration gates.

"My concern is it's not our town anymore - there are so many foreigners here. It sounds racist I suppose, but they are taking over," he says.

"We are being moved out and they are moving in and they're getting all the benefits and you name it."

"When we get on the bus, we can be the only white people on there," she says.

"I'm voting for the BNP. I want to get England back to England - it's too over-crowded now. It's not a big place to live."

Ye GODS. What a load of shite.

The BBC had another article where an MP said political correctness was causing people to vote for the BNP (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4927304.stm) because they were fed up being told "you can't say that, it's offensive and racist" and the like. Well, tough crap guys, what you're saying is offensive and racist. Lump it. I'm very sorry if you can't say "I'm not racist but they should all go back where they came from" without being told "yes you are racist!".

I mean, what the hell WAS half that crap? Most of the people interviewed were middle-aged or retired, and all seemed to go "it's not our town anymore, it's changed!". Yes, it has. Because it's the year 2006 now. Of course things are going to change. Throwing a wobbly because black people exist isn't going to change them back, and voting in a bunch of racist thugs isn't going to change them back either.

Michael P
04-28-2006, 01:00 PM
They must be "Barking" mad!

A-hahahahahahahahahahahah*is beaten over the head with a tire iron*

Drew Van T.
04-28-2006, 03:22 PM
The BBC had another article where an MP said political correctness was causing people to vote for the BNP (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4927304.stm) because they were fed up being told "you can't say that, it's offensive and racist" and the like.

Like some of the other quotes in the article say, that's just the Tories trying out strategies to win back votes that might be going to the BNP instead of them. The conservative parties that used to have the market cornered on thinly-veiled xenophobia are always running scared when a radical newcomer threatens to siphon off the xenophobia vote by radicalizing the rhetoric.

Usually these kind of efforts are futile, also because something tells me that the BNP's main support is more likely to come from disaffected Labour voters than from Tory voters veering toward a more radical version of what has always been a Tory program (albeit in minor and veiled ways).