Changing Attitudes
There is a change in attitude which has left some people uneasy. When I was growing up in the 1950s being gay was illegal, barring women or black people from pubs was commonplace and there was an implied "racialism" as it was called then in popular culture.

When they made homosexual acts between male adults legal it was the end of the world! When they outlawed racialism with the race relations act it was "the end of free speech!"

There is a test question: "Do you think black people in this country get a raw deal." Every time they pose this question in Social Trends the number of people answering "Yes" increases and the number of young people answering "Yes" increases.

The BNP do not represent "the white race" and many of the people they will have to kill to get to power are white. "Either we will tranple the corpses of our enemies or they will trample our corpses" as their mentor uncle Adolf used to say.

The media has singled out a minority of the minority in attacking asylum seekers. In the 1930s of course that would have been the Jews. Some people would have cheerfully sent them back to Hitler's Germany. In many case sending back asylum seekers would mean the same.

Figures are exaggerated, the cost to the country is non-existent - people born outside the UK contribute more in taxes than they take out in benefits. It is only ignorance and prejudice which makes it a problem.

There are plenty of websites like http://www.asylumaid.org.uk where pupils can get information on both sides of the argument and it is a worthwhile exercise to make sure they are not manipulated by those whose only raison d'etre is hatred.