Aftermath

[peredur_glyn]

As is noted here, if 2500 or so more people would have voted BNP they would have secured an Assembly seat. At least 4% of the Welsh population voted for them. I don't know if it's just me who finds this unutterably apalling.

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[knirirr]

You may be interested to know what the chairman of the National Front had to say about the BNP in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph:

National Front has no wish to be
identified with the BNP. The NF is a Racial Nationalist party, which stands by its original policies o
f "Stop immigration, Start repatriation". The BNP, for imagined short term political gain, has reneged
on its original policies. It now advocates that coloured immigrants be allowed to remain in Britain.
It even allows coloured membership and has coloured candidates. It allows homosexual membership of the
BNP and fawns on the "gay" vote. It has a Sikh columnist in its newspaper and a Sikh appeared on its
television broadcast. These are hardly the policies of a bona fide Nationalist party. No wonder many genuine nationalists are being sacked by the BNP hierarchy and many more leaving for genuine White Nationalist parties. The BNP is no longer a genuine White Racial Nationalist party and the National Front
entirely disassociates itself from it.

Of course, even if the BNP are not proper racists, as the NF claim, it would still be inadvisable to vote for them due to their awful statist policies. But, that's what people want, unfortunately.

[peredur_glyn]

The NF don't like the BNP, the BNP don't like UKIP, and UKIP doesn't seem to like anyone much. It's all one big happy family, isn't it?

Thanks for ref'ing the letter. Seems the NF are even more naiive than the BNP. It also literally astonishes me that there are people living in 2007 who can write about "coloured immigrants" and worship Aryan ideals. The NF, however, is never likely to attract anyone other than a moron, whereas 'ordinary' people who admire the BNP's stance on immigration and the statist policies you rightly revile may side with them. I'm sure, in actuality, there's less of a chasm between the BNP's and the NF's ideals than the above letter writer would like to believe.

[knirirr]

I think that there is indeed very little difference between the BNP and NF. The BNP's propaganda goes on about "miscegnation" and how they intend to put a stop to it, amongst similarly outrageous things. Still, they give statism everyone wants but appeal to those who thing that the state doesn't much like them and favours everyone else, so they will attract votes.
However, there is a gulf between the BNP/NF and UKIP. I have been discussing with dyddgu on why people don't notice or understand this.

[baron_scarpia]

Fawns on the "gay vote"? What have the NF been smoking?

[knirirr]

Quite - I was under the impression that they would like to make homosexuality illegal. Presumably that is moderate compared with the NF position.