Hain misses the fundamental issue
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So there we have it; the BNP Party Leader Nick Griffin completed a shakey hour on the panel of Question Time. Wracked with nerves, constantly digging himself into holes he couldn't get out of, the man seemed incapable of forming a cogent answer to anything put to him. This hasn't stopped some polls today suggesting that the number of people who would vote BNP in an election tomorrow has risen from 2% to 3%.
Hain, in typical fashion, has come out saying that this has proven his fears. I told you, he says triumphantly, that allowing the BNP platform would lead to nothing but trouble. He is geniunely sure that what he says is in accordance with democratic ideals and that he is fighting the corner of liberty.
He is wrong.
The point that Hain has so ignorantly glossed over is that this was never about whether the BNP would lose out or gain something from appearing on the BBC. This is an irrelevance; a non-issue. I say this because the inclusion of the BNP - like that of any other party - was the correct thing to do in light of their recent electoral success. The fact is, the party now has over a million voters and holds two seats in the EU Parliament. Who is the BBC to decide what is suitably edifying for the public? The BBC was correct to invite Griffin in the first place and the corporation should be commended for this.
It is beyond me how Hain can possibly justify his stance; is he really suggesting that not agreeing with a party's ideology is reason enough to ban them from the air? There's a name for that, and it is one that is ironically usually attributed to the very party they seek to suppress: fascist. It's about time Labour (and other) MPs brushed up on the definition of democracy and all its related components. The BNP is a legitimate, democratic body with about 6% of public support. It got there by virtue of its exclusion and its subsequent ability to indoctrinate the working class voters into believing it to be a virtuous body.
More of the same will not rectify the problem, nor will resorting to fascism in order to fight fascism.
Hain, in typical fashion, has come out saying that this has proven his fears. I told you, he says triumphantly, that allowing the BNP platform would lead to nothing but trouble. He is geniunely sure that what he says is in accordance with democratic ideals and that he is fighting the corner of liberty.
He is wrong.
The point that Hain has so ignorantly glossed over is that this was never about whether the BNP would lose out or gain something from appearing on the BBC. This is an irrelevance; a non-issue. I say this because the inclusion of the BNP - like that of any other party - was the correct thing to do in light of their recent electoral success. The fact is, the party now has over a million voters and holds two seats in the EU Parliament. Who is the BBC to decide what is suitably edifying for the public? The BBC was correct to invite Griffin in the first place and the corporation should be commended for this.
It is beyond me how Hain can possibly justify his stance; is he really suggesting that not agreeing with a party's ideology is reason enough to ban them from the air? There's a name for that, and it is one that is ironically usually attributed to the very party they seek to suppress: fascist. It's about time Labour (and other) MPs brushed up on the definition of democracy and all its related components. The BNP is a legitimate, democratic body with about 6% of public support. It got there by virtue of its exclusion and its subsequent ability to indoctrinate the working class voters into believing it to be a virtuous body.
More of the same will not rectify the problem, nor will resorting to fascism in order to fight fascism.
1 comments:
We DO have some sections of the community systematically moving whole regions of other countries here using marriage visas
We DO have hundreds of thousands of Indian nationals here on inter company transfer visas under cutting the European workforce and forcing Brits out of work
The public sector has moved many of its jobs to India by subcontracting the jobs to Serco and then onto Patni, and other similar Indian outsourcers
The nationalised banks have got rid of European staff and replaced them with Indian nationals working for the Indian outsourcers such as Cognizant, Wipro, Tech Mahindra
BT has stopped hiring British Graduates and instead hires Indian graduates in India into Tech Mahindra and brings them into this country on inter company transfer visas, and there are countless similar other examples of this in British Industry
The country has handed much of its leading intellectual property to the third world in the name of cost cutting and systematically thrown away the only ways a high cost high tax first world country can compete
We do have lots of folk here on student visas long after their course ended
Some of the treatment of women and other minorities by some of the more extreme Muslims IS worthy of comment and should be sorted out in this country
The schools, GP practises and so on in the worst estates populated by the white underclass are absolutely terrible, there is no excuse for this
There are remarkably few folk with working class/underclass accents in positions of power and this is getting much worse in recent years, which when coupled with positive discrimination for women and ethnic minorities doesnt look good
There is much that needs doing to understand why the BNP get votes, dismissing them fails to appreciate how the world looks if you’re born into a poor family on a bad estate or inner city
We do not have a multicultural nirvana there is indeed injustice for many
And therefore simplistic reactions to the BNP are way off the mark
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