Tuesday
25Apr2006
More local-election musings
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 9:27AM
With the approaching local elections, the issue of mainstream electoral apathy will no doubt raise its head. It also shouldn’t come as a surprise, that Labour is inflating the threat of the British National Party. Whenever Labour is on its knees, as it undoubtedly is at present, they predictably mobilise their grass-roots support with dire warnings of a neo-fascist landslide. This Far-Right victory never materialises, but the otherwise indifferent Labour supporter will don his or her poppy, and trot down to the polling booth to blindly pledge allegiance to their standard.
As I have already outlined in previous posts, it wouldn’t surprise me if swathes of the working classes, do align themselves with the BNP. Since the last elections we have seen the July 7th London Bombings, various terror attacks across the Middle East, the Lozzles Road riots, a deterioration of the situation in Iraq, and the Mohammed Cartoon fiasco.
Inter-racial relations are tense, and white Britons feel angry and disillusioned at perceived racial inequalities within our institutions. Dog-whistle journalism by the right-wing press has succeeded in convincing sections of the public that asylum-seekers and immigrants are roaming our streets; raping, pillaging, and dealing drugs, they are protected by a politically correct society. Faced with a body politic that is unable or unwilling to address the failure of political multiculturalism, they turn to the only party engaged in the debate -the BNP.
It is therefore difficult to know, what to think about the threat of the BNP this May. We will have to wait for the results, to see if this far-right threat is a Labour construction, or a genuine shift in sentiment.
As I have already outlined in previous posts, it wouldn’t surprise me if swathes of the working classes, do align themselves with the BNP. Since the last elections we have seen the July 7th London Bombings, various terror attacks across the Middle East, the Lozzles Road riots, a deterioration of the situation in Iraq, and the Mohammed Cartoon fiasco.
Inter-racial relations are tense, and white Britons feel angry and disillusioned at perceived racial inequalities within our institutions. Dog-whistle journalism by the right-wing press has succeeded in convincing sections of the public that asylum-seekers and immigrants are roaming our streets; raping, pillaging, and dealing drugs, they are protected by a politically correct society. Faced with a body politic that is unable or unwilling to address the failure of political multiculturalism, they turn to the only party engaged in the debate -the BNP.
It is therefore difficult to know, what to think about the threat of the BNP this May. We will have to wait for the results, to see if this far-right threat is a Labour construction, or a genuine shift in sentiment.
Reader Comments (1)
[...] What has really got to me has been the protestations from the political establishment that the behaviour in the BB house is an aberration and doesn’t reflect British opinions at large. Brown, coincidentally in India, declared, “We [Britain and India] are for countries that practise what we preach, which is a message of fairness and tolerance to all human beings,” which completely ignores the increasing racial tensions in Britain’s urban areas. The more our political leaders turn a blind-eye to the reality of life in Britain, the deeper into this mire we will slip. [...]