I think the continued coverage of the BNP in most newspapers over the last four weeks has given them more support than less. I know that the BNP was the only party whose specific parties I knew without research because it was all over the media.
I think the threat of the BNP will decrease - people are often polarised in times of economic crises but I fear that the mainstream parties - who have seen the rise of fascism in the last ten years (and have been largely responsible for it) - have failed to "wake up" despite being given numerous "wake up calls". That worries me.
The fact is though that a large proportion of the BNP vote was a protest vote and the hope is that the mainstream parties do act. As you say, we could head back to the 30s and 70s and fight fascism. At the moment, fascism is far from being suppressed - it's getting a lot of mainstream publicity. As the adage says - there is no such thing as bad publicity.
The elections prove nothing largely because of the events surrounding them. Had the MPs expenses happened after this election, Labour's slump wouldn't have been as dramatic and the BNP vote would have dropped. I think circumstance has orchestrated this for the BNP and the media have been responsible for that, which is something I find interesting.
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Date: 2009-06-09 11:08 pm (UTC)I think the threat of the BNP will decrease - people are often polarised in times of economic crises but I fear that the mainstream parties - who have seen the rise of fascism in the last ten years (and have been largely responsible for it) - have failed to "wake up" despite being given numerous "wake up calls". That worries me.
The fact is though that a large proportion of the BNP vote was a protest vote and the hope is that the mainstream parties do act. As you say, we could head back to the 30s and 70s and fight fascism. At the moment, fascism is far from being suppressed - it's getting a lot of mainstream publicity. As the adage says - there is no such thing as bad publicity.
The elections prove nothing largely because of the events surrounding them. Had the MPs expenses happened after this election, Labour's slump wouldn't have been as dramatic and the BNP vote would have dropped. I think circumstance has orchestrated this for the BNP and the media have been responsible for that, which is something I find interesting.