Sunday Jukebox – A dedication for the BNP

The BNP have been in the press lots this week, they even made it onto Question Time.  Anyway I think they deserve a little recognition for their efforts, this pretty much sums up my opinion of them:

[explicit lyrics]

Gotta love Lily :)

Lyrics:

Look inside, look inside your tiny mind
and look a bit harder
cause we’re so uninspired
so sick and tired
of all the hatred you harbor

so you say it’s not okay to be gay
well I think you’re just evil
you’re just some racist who can’t tie my laces
you’re point of view is medieval

Fuck you, fuck you very very much
cause we hate what you do
and we hate your whole crew
so please don’t stay in touch

fuck you, fuck you very very much
cause your words don’t translate
and it’s getting quite late
so please don’t stay in touch

do you get, do you get a little kick out of being small-minded?
you want to be like your father
it’s approval you’re after
well that’s not how you’ll find it

do you, do you really enjoy living a life that’s so hateful
cause there’s a hole where your soul should be
you’re losing control of it
and it’s really distasteful

Fuck you, fuck you very very much
cause we hate what you do
and we hate your whole crew
so please don’t stay in touch

fuck you, fuck you very very much
cause your words don’t translate
and it’s getting quite late
so please don’t stay in touch

Look inside, look inside your tiny mind
and look a bit harder
cause we’re so uninspired
so sick and tired
of all the hatred you harbor

Fuck you, fuck you very very much
cause we hate what you do
and we hate your whole crew
so please don’t stay in touch

fuck you, fuck you very very much
cause your words don’t translate
and it’s getting quite late
so please don’t stay in touch

The BNP and why wishes must be made with care

The BNP has long maintained that it has been side-lined in the press and politics generally, that there is an intrinsic bias against them and that they are due coverage which is commensurate with their political standing.  Of course, until recently they didn’t have any political standing of any note until they managed to get a seat in the London Assembly and later in Europe.  Of course their member for the London Assembly was suspended and they were shunned by even the most right wing groups in the EU.

During the last GE in 2005 they took 192,746 votes and won NO seats.  Less than the Green party and less than UKIP neither of whom won any seats either.

Indeed, they have had a fair amount of press coverage as a result of their gains, yet as the spotlight turns on them they have been truly shown up for what they really are in full technicolour-warts-n-all vision.

The build up to the current climax really began back in August when The Equality and Human Rights Commission decided to take them to court over their membership rules which limit it’s members to being “indigenous caucasian”, or more specifically (from the BNP constitution):

The indigenous British ethnic groups deriving from the class of ‘Indigenous Caucasian’ consists of members of: i) the Anglo-Saxon folk community; ii) the Celtic Scottish folk community; iii) the Scots-Northern Irish folk community; iv) the Celtic Welsh folk community; v) the Celtic Irish folk community; vi) the Celtic Cornish folk community; vii) the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic folk community; viii) the Celtic-Norse folk community; ix) the Anglo-Saxon-Norse folk community; x) the Anglo-Saxon Indigenous European folk community; xi) members of these ethnic groups which reside either within or outside Europe but ethnically derive from them.

Sounds like the categories in some sort of analy retentive folk music festival, although I think it’s fairly clear that the aim is to exclude ethnic minorities from attempting to become members, although I can’t imagine why any ethnic minority (or anyone else for that matter) would want to join such a provocative and backward organisation.

It was a case that they recently lost and has forced them to turn to their membership to have the rules changed, although Nick Griffin asserted that it wouldn’t change the underlying principles of the party.  Effectively admitting that the party is founded on hate and no matter the outcome of any court case that that will remain true and pure … how, er, stoic of them.

If nothing else it shows them up for what they are, and in case you missed that you will be able to see them on Question Time tomorrow (Thursday, 22nd October).  This is something else that’s been rumbling on for some time as the BNP attempt to achieve something of a coup by appearing with other politicians on the popular debate programme.  There had been threats of legal action following the ruling discussed above as it may have rendered the political party ‘illegal’ due to the nature of it’s constitution, although to be honest I think that that claim was only ever tenuous at best.

It will be interesting to see which topics will be up for debate and whether or not the other guests are up to the task of taking Nick Griffin apart … I suspect they will.

One topic that I think certainly will be discussed will be Britain’s role in Afghanistan, which leads us neatly on to the armed forces and then, oh dear, the BNP’s adoption of WWII iconography in their campaign material.  Obviously there’s nothing to stop them, or any other party doing this, but the tone which they have adopted has been considered highly disrespectful to those who fought in the conflict and they have sought to make some appalling comparisons.

Again, Nick Griffin has been running his mouth off comparing the EU to Hitler’s war in Europe to impose his fascist regime.  Ironically of course it is Nick Griffin’s party that has the white supremist agenda even if they do try and wrap it in cotton wool.  It maybe isn’t surprising that some of Britain’s top military names have come out against what they see as tarnishing the name of the British armed forces:

We call on all those who seek to hijack the good name of Britain’s military for their own advantage to cease and desist.

The values of these extremists – many of whom are essentially racist – are fundamentally at odds with the values of the modern British military, such as tolerance and fairness.

Whilst the BNP was never directly mentioned it is fairly clear who it was aimed at, and Nick Griffin knew it.  Exercising his immense intellect Griffins party retorted in a statement on their site comparing the generals to Nazis war criminals:

Sir Richard and Sir Mike fall squarely into this bracket and they must not think that they will escape culpability for pursuing the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Iraq may have been an illegal war, but to compare it with the action of the Nazi’s during WWII is ludicrous in the extreme.

So, the BNP has finally got it’s wish of greater press coverage, indeed it would be fair to describe it as a barrage which has shown the party to be a disgusting throw back and certainly not fit to represent decent people in a time when the world gets seemingly smaller and pressures greater.  BNP are political agitators of the worse kind and would happily eject people whose families have resided in the UK for generations and who, to all intents are purposes are indigenous regardless of their skin colour.

The BNP, it’s time we heard them speak

The British National Party are a legitimate and legal political party and in common with every other political party they have their views on how the country should be run, they have policies that I’m sure they have thoroughly thought out and fully costed (no, really), and yet despite this they are continuously denied what they term as their ‘freedom of speech’ as they are denied the chance to appear on top-rated political chat shows.

Clearly this is a party that has been done wrong by.  Afterall they have a clear electoral mandate showing real progress at a European level and even within the London Assembly, by-jove their doing great guns.  Personally I think it’s a disgrace that within the European parliament even the most right-wing of party groupings shuns them …

… of course, there may be a very good reason for them being shunned. 

The party is founded on the principal of dividing the populous on the grounds of race and to describe the party, and by association it’s members, as racist and bigotted would be entirely right and correct.  Current party strategy seems to be downplay their more-right wing policies such as the repatriation of all ‘foriegn nationals’ to their country of origin, that many of these people originated in the UK is really rather irrelevant to the BNP, afterall they’re clearly not white.  Still, they have suggested that they would offer to pay for anybody of ‘foreign origin’ to return home. 

How kind of them.

There has been much fuss in the media over Nick Griffin and his distasteful little party this week following the BBC announcement that they would consider allowing them a spot on their top political discussion programme ‘Question Time’, a serious political programme for serious people.  It would seem then that Nick Griffin and co. would be ideally suited to joining the panel, they are afterall very serious … in fact it’s something I’d pay to see – although I grant you I wouldn’t pay much.

Muriel Gray wrote an excellent article in this weeks Sunday Herald, which I’ve reproduced for you here.  Very witty, very funny, and entirely accurate:

It must be exhausting being Nick Griffin.

Maintaining ­irrational hatred has to be the most draining of activities, and since Griffin must ­constantly come into ­contact with human beings that confound his ­politically ­stereotypical views of their ­imagined shortcomings, because of their race, sexual orientation or religion, it must wring him dry with the effort of ­continuing to loathe them.

Where does he find the superhuman energy that would be required, according to his party’s policies, to despise a nice black chap who’d just sorted out some car insurance, a cheerful Jewish woman running an adult literacy programme, a kind Muslim girl giving eye tests or a gay man giving a lecture on diminishing populations of red squirrels? It would take spectacular concentration levels to keep up such absurd distaste – to make anyone want these particular people to be removed from this country, or have their rights eroded – particularly when faced with the indisputable body of evidence that proves accidents of birth such as race and gender are irrelevant to conduct and character.

Since we know that mental exercise requires energy, then pre-judging other human beings, and constructing plans to make them disappear because you think them inferior, must also burn a lot of calories – which shows how much Griffin must eat, judging by his less-than-athletic figure. We can therefore make a bit of a guess that senseless bigotry is where most of Mr Griffin’s mental energy must be spent, since his thinking ­prowess on just about anything else is less than impressive. Hence, when the big debate raged last week about whether Griffin should be invited as a panellist on to BBC’s Question Time, the answer should surely have been a resounding “yes”.

The arguments against it are of course perfectly valid and often heard. Why should we give air time to someone with an agenda to spread discord and division? Indeed. Fair point. The counter-argument, however, is that the viewing and listening public are most certainly not stupid, and observing extremists and fanatics in the full glare of sunlight is not only vitally important so we may observe what they’re up to, but can often be extremely entertaining as well as instructive. One occasionally misses, for instance, the ubiquitous televisual presence of that ridiculous bearded chump Anjem Choudary, the head of British al-Muhajiroun, since the BBC seems to have kicked the habit of wheeling him out as the token mad fundamentalist every time they require one.

I always had a hankering to see ­Choudary on Question Time, being compelled to answer questions from a panel in Orkney concerning herring quotas and what he thinks about the digital switchover and diving in football. How priceless would that have been?

That’s only one of the reasons I want to see Griffin on Question Time too. It’s not just because it’s actually right and proper, in a free democracy, that a representative of a legally recognised political party with European parliament and regional council seats should not be banned from sharing a platform with other politicians. It’s also because he will be exposed as being so monumentally, catastrophically stupid that it will serve the public well to witness it.

It’s the more covert, street-corner ­leafleting, door-knocking canvassing that the BNP do, far from the main public glare, that has helped them come as far as they have in political life. However, contrary to the fears of those modern lost souls of the liberal elite, who view the common man and woman in the street as pawns and not players, many voters ticked “BNP” to take a swipe at the recently exposed greed of politicians, and not because they wished to be ruled by fascists.

Some BNP voters, of course, might simply be dumb as dirt, quite unable to see past the distortions and deceptions that canvassers have presented to them. Other BNP voters may genuinely be angry about immigration or ­cultural issues on which they feel Labour has betrayed them, but unconcerned about what else the party stands for as they know too well it is, and will remain, a marginal force. Whatever the reasons for the BNP’s small victories, it is quite wrong, and patronising to us as the public, to imagine that hearing more from them will increase their popularity. It will almost certainly do the reverse.

There’s a popular mythology which states that Griffin is a clever man. Technically, he’s certainly an educated one, having graduated from Cambridge. But if he has displayed any kind of intelligence at all, it has been of the nature of low animal cunning, and not the more highly evolved reason, analysis and empathy. Part of this cunning has been in making sure he rarely says or writes anything of any great substance on which he can be quoted or challenged. He is well aware that his political rise has been closely monitored throughout his entire adult life, by anti-fascist groups and one presumes also by British intelligence, so his reluctance to be drawn out on the more extreme aspects of the BNP’s agenda is testament to wily design.

A great deal of Griffin’s work is done by footsoldiers, a shambolic herd of assorted thugs, numbskulls and borderline psychopaths who serve a double purpose of recruiting from a similar gene pool and helping make their leader look “clever” in comparison.

So let’s bypass this, and put Griffin up there on the panel next to sparkling, mocking, wits; maybe David Mitchell, Iain Hislop, Mark Thomas. Wheel in some big-beast MPs with years of aggressive hustings and front-bench debating experience. No harm, of course, if a couple of them happen to be black, Jewish or Muslim. Then, most importantly of all, turn the lights full on Griffin as he faces that room full of genuinely bright, prepared and articulate people that always do their duty, and battle through rainy nights to make up the show’s audience to ask those annoying, awkward questions.

Actually, I can’t wait.