The legitimising of the BNP
An interesting debate occurred this morning. It was in response to a letter by Norman Tebbit in the Daily Telegraph. Yes, the Chingford Skinhead himself, making one of his rare appearances in modern life, explaining how the BNP are, in fact, a dangerously left wing organisation. He was countered by Billy Bragg (eh? Since when have pop singers been the main voice of opposition to peers? Oh... But I digress...) who eloquently pointed out how most of his stance was just Norm trying to shore up support for the Tory right, which is leaking away to UKIP and the British Nazi Party. But he did miss a key point, which was to emphasise the difference between Socialist economics and Fascist economics. And whilst both may advocate nationisation, the point is that with Fascism, this is to use the resources of the state to shore up Capitalism, whereas with socialism, it is as part of taking control of the economy out of the hands of a small number of people, and placing it in the hands of the majority of society.
Which, of course, is another aspect missed by the BNP - they completely ignore the needs of huge swathes of society, based upon wholly pseudo-scientific beliefs about "race".
And this is to completely ignore the obvious argument that the so-called "British" Nationalist Party has no connexion with Britain - it espouses a philosophy developed in central Europe sixty-odd years ago, and which Britain fought against in the last world war.
A harder line needs to be taken in the media against Nick Griffin and co. They've been getting away with spreading their lies for too long. Unfortunately, the likes of the Daily Mail seem to propogate the same opinions, demonstrating that Fascism is, essentially, a middle-class disease.
But that probably deserves an entry all to itself....
Which, of course, is another aspect missed by the BNP - they completely ignore the needs of huge swathes of society, based upon wholly pseudo-scientific beliefs about "race".
And this is to completely ignore the obvious argument that the so-called "British" Nationalist Party has no connexion with Britain - it espouses a philosophy developed in central Europe sixty-odd years ago, and which Britain fought against in the last world war.
A harder line needs to be taken in the media against Nick Griffin and co. They've been getting away with spreading their lies for too long. Unfortunately, the likes of the Daily Mail seem to propogate the same opinions, demonstrating that Fascism is, essentially, a middle-class disease.
But that probably deserves an entry all to itself....
2 Comments:
Nothing to do with the posting but a correction to the general information on the blog. I see that Pukas is describing himself as a 'small but highly intellectual ginger cat'. I have had the honour of meeting Puskas quite recently and although his intellect is beyond question, to describe himself as small is fanciful at best. Puskas is a cat of quite considerable girth. In fact I believe his cat flap has needed to be widened very recently.
Quite small in comparison to what? A Brontosaurus? The world needs to be informed.
Colonel B - I'm afraid that you must be mistaken. Not merely is Puskas female, thus your references to "his cats flap" and so on are all inappropriate, she is as svelte a cat as may be seen. And is certainly less than the 5kg recommended as the maximum weight for a cat of her size.
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