This BNP list is worrying

[Doggy Styles]

I'm not a BNP member or BNP voter, but the backlash against them is self-defeating.

Who are we to tell people what they can and cannot think? That will only add resentment and 'light the fires', as they say.

What about finding out why increasing numbers of people think like that?

[minestrone]

There was a letter in the times today saying that if you cannot ban the BNP then you cannot stop people joining with the threat of losing their jobs.

[tay]

I'm not a BNP member or BNP voter, but the backlash against them is self-defeating.

Who are we to tell people what they can and cannot think? That will only add resentment and 'light the fires', as they say.

What about finding out why increasing numbers of people think like that?

No we should string up everyone that doesnt think exactly like I do.

Xenophon

[Xenophon]

No we should string up everyone that doesnt think exactly like I do.

Xenophon

[oracleslave]

What about finding out why increasing numbers of people think like that?

i fink tis a reslt of a por edjukasin innit?

[Liability]

I'm not a BNP member or BNP voter, but the backlash against them is self-defeating.

Who are we to tell people what they can and cannot think? That will only add resentment and 'light the fires', as they say.

What about finding out why increasing numbers of people think like that?

We are the better people to tell them that there racist views are not welcome. Dont be shy in being better than these scum.

[tay]

We are the better people to tell them that there racist views are not welcome. Dont be shy in being better than these scum.

[Board Game Geek]

i fink tis a reslt of a por edjukasin innit?

I think you'll find that the list represents all sections of the uk social demographic.

If everything in the UK was hunky-dory, there'd be no voice for the BNP and no one would join 'em. I would much prefer it that way myself.

BBC Website Article on 1 in 4 people consider voting BNP

In the 2005 national elections, the BNP's share of the total vote was 0.74%.

Not a lot on its own, but that represents 192,850 votes.

To put that in to context, in the 2001 elections, they only garnered 47,129 votes.

So :

2001 : 47,129
2005 : 192,850
2009 : 350,000 ?

Something is attracting these members, and you cannot put it down to lack of intelligence in all cases.

What about finding out why increasing numbers of people think like that?

Good point. Sometimes the truth is not very palatable...

[deano]

I'm not sure that sacking someone because they are a member of a political party is legal. It may be a breach of the Human Rights Act. It needs a test case to clarify.

I'm not a BNP member, nor do I vote for them, but given their rise in popularity in certain parts of the country, I think the question is why is the BNP so popular in these areas?

What has happened in these areas, that a lot of the people who live there feel the need to support the BNP?

The BNP's supporters are not simply going to go away because they are being vilified - if anything that will simply make them even more entrenched in their views. So why do they hold the views they do?

Answering that question will then allow us to find a way of fixing things so they no longer feel they need to hold the views they do. Then there will be no need for a party like the BNP.

[Doggy Styles]

Good, we've got past the knee-jerk reactions to my question quicker than I thought.