There’s no other way to explain it. These people think that the commonBritish people are so brain-dead and incapable of making their owndecisions that they have to be “reminded” not to vote for the BNP.
by Alex Lee
Great Britain, much like many other continental European countries, seems to be afraid of its own democracy. The United States is not too far behind her European cousins, either.
The general indicator of this phenomenon is when a legal political party or politician and its supporters are constantly demonized, insulted, and attacked by the media and the mainstream political parties. In the past few months, there has been speculation that the British National Party will win unprecedented gains in the upcoming elections. The constant flood of immigrants (as one example), both from Eastern Europe and from the third world, has caused a steady rise in support for the BNP over the years. Combine that steady climb with an economic recession and the recentexpenses scandal in Parliament, and you have a situation in which theaforementioned speculation may prove accurate, if not understated.Even more interesting is the reaction from mainstream politicians and media figures. As the MPs hoot and holler in their misguided indignation regarding each other’s expenses, they never fail to plead with their constituents to not vote for the BNP, despite how Labour, the Tories, and UKIP are entangled in the scandal. As if they haven’t already lost all of their credibility as effective and ethical leaders, they also have the gall to continue their demonization of the British National Party. As if they will get a few extra brownie points for haranguing the BNP, calling them racists and fascists and everything in between; as if the leadership by these main parties in the last few decades hasn’t led to an overall decrease in the quality of British life.
The most prominent sentiment I hear regarding the upcoming elections is “don’t let your frustration with the current members of Parliament convince you to vote for the British National Party”. I ask why on earth wouldn’t the expenses scandal be the final reason to abandon these mainstream parties altogether? Mainstream British politicians and media figures think that the British people are stupid. There’s no other way to explain it. These people think that the common British people are so brain-dead and incapable of making their own decisions that they have to be “reminded” not to vote for the BNP. They treat the steady rise of the British National Party’s popularity as a symptom of accidental mental lapse on the part of British voters.
But let us be perfectly honest here. The rise of the BNP’s popularity is no accident, nor is it an indicator of any mental deficiency of the British people. The rise in the BNP’s popularity has two main catalysts: 1) the abject failure of the mainstream political parties to represent the British people and to improve the quality of their lives, and 2) the increasing number of Britons who have finally begun to realize that the BNP just may be right about unchecked immigration and the increasingly fascist nature of the British government.
The British people aren’t stupid, and treating them as such by “reminding” them not to cast their vote for a certain political party is insulting at best and thinly-cloaked contempt at the worst. It’s clear that the majority of those in power in Great Britain’s political system don’t give two hoots about the British people. If they actually represented the British people, then they wouldn’t have to worry about the British National Party “stealing” votes from their own respective parties, because the British people wouldn’t feel compelled to do so.
But native, working Britons have been all but abandoned by the mainstream political parties; even the smaller UKIP has been implicated in some of the worst cases of the expenses scandal. These political parties have no desire to lose power, though. They’ve worked for decades to solidify their death grip on British politics, so a party like the BNP is naturally going to cause them to act and legislate in an increasingly absurd fashion until they all collapse into themselves like dying stars.
For the sake of Great Britain, let’s hope that collapse comes sooner rather than later.