The BNP (My daughter tells me it stands for Bullies, Nazis and Prats) seem to be trading on the argument that Labour has betrayed the white working class. Their appeal is simple or simplistic: jobs and homes for whites at the expense of blacks and asylum-seekers.
Unless (for example) the trade unions break with Labour and start fielding working class candidates prepared to fight for the community, there will be nobody to speak for the working class community and ppl may well turn to the BNP as an act of desperation.
The BNP also notoriously use violence and threats of violence to intimidate members of ethnic minorities from voting.
At the moment, people may feel they have the same choice as the French electorate in the presidential election: "vote for the crook not the nazi."
Posted by derekmcmillan
at 8:22 AM BST
