Seig Heil!
Here we have the BNP's election manifesto for the upcoming election. Let's have a look through it, shall we?
- A call to abolish multi-culturalism.
Good luck with that then! Britain's a mongrel nation, it's been a mongrel nation since the Roman's arrived, and all signs show it staying that way for the forseeable future. And anyway, the whole idea of 'abolish[ing] multi-culturalism' implies that, in the end, we'd be left with with only one culture. So, which one would that be, then?
- EU withdrawal
Eww! Euro-cooties! Let's stuff our hopes at successful trade and industry and send ourselves spiralling into a recession the likes of which haven't been seen since Thatcher was in power, because we don't want to get to close to those damn foreigners!
- the restoration of capital punishment
Ah, catering to the Daily Mail readers there. Hang 'em all; that'll teach 'em! Never mind that when we had capital punishment, and looking at all the other countries who have capital punishment, it didn't actually do anything to the crime rates. It just gives people a nice excuse to bay for the blood of others, under the disguise of 'justice'. (Yes, I am against the death penalty. How can you tell?)
- an end to immigration.
Ah, their key argument (other then "Oy! Paki! You want a knuckle sandwich?"). What can be said, other than it shows their xenophobia in its full light, except it's been somehow squeezed into a cheap suit that's a size too small for it in an attempt to make it look respectable. It probably has a nickname like "Rocky" and works at the door of a seedy nightclub. Hell, make up your own response.
- He said British troops should be pulled out of Iraq and used to patrol Dover and the Channel Tunnel to keep out illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.
Damn, I thought I was actually going to agree with something the BNP were saying here... till I read the second part of the sentence. So much for that then. And won't Dover look good with all those extra troops hanging around? Why don't we just re-name it the Gaza Strip and be done with it?
- introduce "firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home".
Don't you just love the bit about "and their descendants"? Hell, that includes me, since my mother was technically an immigrant who moved here when she married my father. Does that mean I'd be kicked over the sea to Ireland, or would it be kind of like a timeshare deal - six months here, because my father was British, and six months in Ireland because of my paddy roots? And why do I get the idea that the "firm but voluntary incentives" would probably involve such things as large men turning up on your doorstep to tell you to "go back to [insert country of choice here] or we'll petrol bomb you."?
- ...the main issue at this election was for the British to regain control of their own country.
Wait, so who's in charge now? And here I thought the idiot Blair was British...
- the reintroduction of national service
What for? All the extra troops that'll be needed to patrol Dover? Of course, I can see an ulterior motive here - get all the school leavers into national service, and most of them will probably never go on to university afterwards. And of course, people with a lick of sense generally don't bother listening to the BNP... Then again, it wouldn't bother me; not only would I get excused on grounds of disability, but I'd be a Conscientious Objector anyway. And if anyone gave me white feathers, I'd make art out of them.
- everyone who had undergone [national service] should be required to keep a modern assault rifle at home.
This comes coplete with a quote from Mr. Griffin himself:"It's there to shoot burglars with if they want, it's there to shoot people who invade this country if they want, and if in the end a tyrannical government wants to usurp the rights and freedoms of the people it is there to use against the government as well,"
OK, scared now. Mr. Griffin has obviously been looking at Switzerland here, and thought that their 'an assault rifle in every home!' scheme is a good one. Thing is, it works in Switzerland because the're a small, politically neutral little country who's major contributions to the world have been swiss chocolate, the cuckoo clock and Heidi. Nothing ever happens in Switzerland. Give an assault rifle to most of the people in this country, on the other hand, and we'd all be dead in ten minutes flat. Just because we were 'bored'. (Heh. Like the fact that's they're encouraging people to form a coup against them, though.)
Of course, there's also their opinion on homosexuality, which isn't mentioned in the article but which I'm posting anyway (is that bad parsing? My mind goes blank when I try to figure out any other way to say it):"Prior to 1967, homosexuality was a crime and led to prison. It is unnatural and an undesirable lifestyle which can only be remotely tolerated if the current law is obeyed i.e. consenting adults IN PRIVATE. The constant promotion of this queer lifestyle on TV, soaps, radio, newspapers, etc as something which it is not - equivalent to heterosexism (sic) - drains my tolerance and I find the entire topic revolting, disgusting and scary. Queers should remain celibate and don't talk about it. You should all be ashamed of yourselves."
Oh, those crazy fascists! Thing is, there's usually a BNP canditate for this area whenever there's an election; I wonder if he'll do some door-to-door polling? At the very least, I could ask him whether I'd be liable to be kicked out for being half-paddy...
- A call to abolish multi-culturalism.
Good luck with that then! Britain's a mongrel nation, it's been a mongrel nation since the Roman's arrived, and all signs show it staying that way for the forseeable future. And anyway, the whole idea of 'abolish[ing] multi-culturalism' implies that, in the end, we'd be left with with only one culture. So, which one would that be, then?
- EU withdrawal
Eww! Euro-cooties! Let's stuff our hopes at successful trade and industry and send ourselves spiralling into a recession the likes of which haven't been seen since Thatcher was in power, because we don't want to get to close to those damn foreigners!
- the restoration of capital punishment
Ah, catering to the Daily Mail readers there. Hang 'em all; that'll teach 'em! Never mind that when we had capital punishment, and looking at all the other countries who have capital punishment, it didn't actually do anything to the crime rates. It just gives people a nice excuse to bay for the blood of others, under the disguise of 'justice'. (Yes, I am against the death penalty. How can you tell?)
- an end to immigration.
Ah, their key argument (other then "Oy! Paki! You want a knuckle sandwich?"). What can be said, other than it shows their xenophobia in its full light, except it's been somehow squeezed into a cheap suit that's a size too small for it in an attempt to make it look respectable. It probably has a nickname like "Rocky" and works at the door of a seedy nightclub. Hell, make up your own response.
- He said British troops should be pulled out of Iraq and used to patrol Dover and the Channel Tunnel to keep out illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.
Damn, I thought I was actually going to agree with something the BNP were saying here... till I read the second part of the sentence. So much for that then. And won't Dover look good with all those extra troops hanging around? Why don't we just re-name it the Gaza Strip and be done with it?
- introduce "firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home".
Don't you just love the bit about "and their descendants"? Hell, that includes me, since my mother was technically an immigrant who moved here when she married my father. Does that mean I'd be kicked over the sea to Ireland, or would it be kind of like a timeshare deal - six months here, because my father was British, and six months in Ireland because of my paddy roots? And why do I get the idea that the "firm but voluntary incentives" would probably involve such things as large men turning up on your doorstep to tell you to "go back to [insert country of choice here] or we'll petrol bomb you."?
- ...the main issue at this election was for the British to regain control of their own country.
Wait, so who's in charge now? And here I thought the idiot Blair was British...
- the reintroduction of national service
What for? All the extra troops that'll be needed to patrol Dover? Of course, I can see an ulterior motive here - get all the school leavers into national service, and most of them will probably never go on to university afterwards. And of course, people with a lick of sense generally don't bother listening to the BNP... Then again, it wouldn't bother me; not only would I get excused on grounds of disability, but I'd be a Conscientious Objector anyway. And if anyone gave me white feathers, I'd make art out of them.
- everyone who had undergone [national service] should be required to keep a modern assault rifle at home.
This comes coplete with a quote from Mr. Griffin himself:"It's there to shoot burglars with if they want, it's there to shoot people who invade this country if they want, and if in the end a tyrannical government wants to usurp the rights and freedoms of the people it is there to use against the government as well,"
OK, scared now. Mr. Griffin has obviously been looking at Switzerland here, and thought that their 'an assault rifle in every home!' scheme is a good one. Thing is, it works in Switzerland because the're a small, politically neutral little country who's major contributions to the world have been swiss chocolate, the cuckoo clock and Heidi. Nothing ever happens in Switzerland. Give an assault rifle to most of the people in this country, on the other hand, and we'd all be dead in ten minutes flat. Just because we were 'bored'. (Heh. Like the fact that's they're encouraging people to form a coup against them, though.)
Of course, there's also their opinion on homosexuality, which isn't mentioned in the article but which I'm posting anyway (is that bad parsing? My mind goes blank when I try to figure out any other way to say it):"Prior to 1967, homosexuality was a crime and led to prison. It is unnatural and an undesirable lifestyle which can only be remotely tolerated if the current law is obeyed i.e. consenting adults IN PRIVATE. The constant promotion of this queer lifestyle on TV, soaps, radio, newspapers, etc as something which it is not - equivalent to heterosexism (sic) - drains my tolerance and I find the entire topic revolting, disgusting and scary. Queers should remain celibate and don't talk about it. You should all be ashamed of yourselves."
Oh, those crazy fascists! Thing is, there's usually a BNP canditate for this area whenever there's an election; I wonder if he'll do some door-to-door polling? At the very least, I could ask him whether I'd be liable to be kicked out for being half-paddy...