The BNP would abolish income taxes and replace it with increased consumption taxes. (see Monday). The BNP would break up the supermarkets and big retail parks (see Tuesday). The BNP would encourage local food and healthy eating. (see Wednesday). The BNP would nationalise utility and transport companies (see Thursday).
The BNP are very keen to portray themselves as the one party that stands up for Britain’s poor, rather than London’s elites. And in a way they’re right to point out that too often, cocooned away in Westminster, politicians forget the bona fide grievances of Britain’s ordinary families, struggling to deal with the changes and transitions of globalisation.
However…. The BNP is not a friend of the working class, as their policies show. Not only would they not help, they’d raise their taxes and their bills, and reduce their freedom. Their distorted and extremist nationalist ideology shows their real xenophobic priorities overcoming any real concern for helping those who most need it.
This week we’ve looked just at some of the ways the BNP would hit ordinary British families:
- They’d raise the taxes of the poor. To pay for their tax breaks for the rich, taking away the well off’s income and inheritance taxes, the BNP would sky rocket the tax burden onto the poor.
- They’d increase your food bill by £2,400 a year. The BNP’s extra taxes on the importing, transporting, consuming and unhealthy foods would all add up to a devastating price increase.
- They’d increase the price of clothes, furniture, kitchen appliances, toys, gadgets etc etc etc. The last twenty years have seen the price of normal consumer goods plummet, allowing everyone to enjoy the lifestyle that was once the province of the rich alone.
- No more Tescos, Sainsbury’s, Ikea, Primark or PC World. The BNP would close down the big brands and shops that have made life cheaper and easier, all as part of their nostalgic quest to bring back the age of corner shops.
- They’d make it more expensive to take a shower, keep your house warm or take a train. The BNP plans to renationalise utilities would increase bills and decrease choice and the quality service. We’d return to an era of unresponsive bureaucratic faceless giants, over which the consumer would be powerless.
The BNP want to turn the clock back on UK society and manufacturing to the 1950s. In the process, they’d take our quality of life back to 50s Britain too.
If the BNP really want to help ordinary Britons, then maybe they should find some policies that actually put them first.
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Over the next 2 years or so, it’ll be fascinating to see how many of these policies or effects the Conservative government bring about themselves.
I really don’t think the BNP are going to shut down Tescos, Sainsbury’s, Ikea, Primark or PC World unless they became like dear old Woolworths.
It definitely got more expensive under the Conservatives then Labour to take a shower, keep your house warm or take a train.
I remember it being part of the Conservative policy to push up train fares dramatically to make it more appealing to private buyers.
How about the Conservatives find some policies that actually put the voters first.
That they want.
Then you wouldn’t need to worry about the BNP would you?
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the bnp claim to be fighting for the working classes,very obviously its a LIE.Like all politicians the bnp are fighting for themselves.
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If this article is an example of the intellectual ability of the Cameroon Tory party then Britain is in even more trouble than we thought It reads like a piece of GCSE Civic Studies homework
Come on, NB, I know you’re clutching at every straw to try and demolish nationalist policies but surely you can do better than writing this simplistic drivel!
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A vote for the BNP will result in the sky falling in!
I am waiting for a headline such as this, now NB have taken scaremongering to a new level.
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surely thats a bit of double standards there AA,I mean all you get on here is if you DONT vote bnp,thats the end of the world as we know it?????
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Sam, i advocate voting for the BNP as the other 3 will do nothing to address immigration issues. Also, i am a realist, and i recognise that the BNP will not win government. But electing a few members will give a voice to the many in Britain who are currently ignored by the arrogant mainstream parties.
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“They’d raise the taxes of the poor. To pay for their tax breaks for the rich”
Thats classic Tory party policy not BNP!
You have your wires crossed!
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Politicians ,arent they all the same???
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i heard on the bbc that the 3 liebour politicians caught out in the expenses scandle, are trying to have their cases heard by a parliamentary standards committee, not the courts. This is truly a test now, to see whether political leadership take this seriously.
Or is it one rule for politicians and another for the rest.
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The MP’s facing corruption charges are trying to claim parliamentary privilege but it shouldn’t work as a corrupt MP was prosecuted years ago.
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AA im sure thats always been the rules.British values and all that
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