The face of racism in the UKFollow

Last week the membership list of the British Nationalist Party was publicised on the internet. Why does this matter? It matters because the party is extreme far right. The intention policies of the BNP would make aparthied South Africa seem like a light touch. They can never be allowed any power.

The story of the member list is here

This leak passed me by initially. Who cares what a pool of crack pots think? I looked on with a mix of mild amusement and irritation. Amused that the BNP members were exposed but irritated that again privacy has been compromised with electronic data (its been a theme here for a while). What has changed is that I found out as a result of this lists publication that I knew a BNP member for a long time. My shock and horror at that fact have been with me for a while. How could I know someone who was a racist? Who truly believed in what the BNP stand for? I guess I feel betrayed but I also feel dirty for having had any association with them and that makes me angry.

The only amusing aspect being how they are fighting the lists publication using laws that they would like repealed



I'm just all and upset

I dunno about the UK, but in the US, party affiliation isn't enough to get you fired. Infact, it'd be against the law. (Well, maybe if you worked for the Democratic Party and it was discovered you were a secretly registered GOP member? I dunno.) I don't believe the fact that you are a racist is enough either. Unless it is directly interfering with your line of work. It's not illegal to hate.

I wouldn't be that messed up if it turned out a friend of mine was a racist. I know a South African guy whose family basically bailed out just before apartheid went down. They're not overtly supremacist, but there's plenty of pseudo-racism there, and he's a product of his surroundings. But apart from the scattered awkward moment it hasn't stopped me being friends with him. ****, it hasn't stopped a couple of black guys being friends with him.

I mean, you can be as racist as you want as long as you don't go around beating up black people. Which is probably what the BNP does in their spare time. Still, my gripe would be that they beat people up, not that they beat them up for reasons of race.

I don't really understand how you can know someone for a long time and not realize that they are racist. I find out some people are racist after only knowing them for a day.

It's a mistake to think the BNP is JUST about racism.

So where do we ship out a fUcktard like you?

Racist cUnt.

that was hot

Racist how? By asking that only people with skills be allowed to move in. Doctors, Craftsmen, Nurses, things that our country is seriously @#%^ing lacking? People who will actualy contribute to our economy and work force and not just every single assylum seeker? Please.

That being said i'm all for the new intitiative that's been proposed, where people who've been on the dole for more than 6month have to serve manditory community service.

I didn't say it was all the foreigners fault at any point in my previous post. Our benefits system is way over used as it is. Adding more people to that system isn't going to help things now is it? You can't ignore these things just because bringing them up isn't @#%^ing politically correct.


The UK is going down the tubes i was briefly on jobseeker's after being made redundant from my previous job. The staff there see every week people who they know really don't try to find work, they just know they'll get more on JSA than on the Dole.

Right now we have record numbers of unemployment, illeteracy and homelessness in the UK. Instead of trying to fix the rest of the world's problems it's time to turn to internal policy. Homelessness, illiteracy and unemployment shouldn't be commonplace in an industrialised nation. We invented industry damn it, you'd think we'd be able to keep the populace in work!



Edited, Nov 29th 2008 4:47pm by Nilatai

We only need skilled labour, really?

We need the labour as often the local populace will not work. There was a recent news report where they interviewed a young man and he said to the camera he would rather be on the dole than work on a farm



This could be a tragic gimmic.



There is a difference from a small sect of immigrants abusing the system, to large scale deportation and restrictions as proposed by the BNP. Maybe you should chose more carefully who you align your belief system with?

Actually, they are leaning a little to the right. Stopping immigrants with disabled children.


Hardly ideal.


Uh huh


On that we can agree as the incumbants are rather like Bush, well past the use by date. The problem I have is that I do not wish to vote for any of the rest Does Obama have family in the UK?

The Labour party are nothing like as bad for the Uk as the Pubbies have been for the US over the last 8 years.

Thats a extremly bad comparison and doesn't hold up to any sort of close inspection.

And a British Obama is not the answer to the UK's problems either, any more than David Cameron is.

It's not Britain that needs a shake up it's Whitehall.

MPs are all overpaid wasted carbon.

Go to your local MP with a problem, see what he does about it.

A few months ago i aproached my local MP with queries about development of the scientific community. He more or less laughed it off.