Despite the BNP’s proud boost to have produced “one of the most comprehensive and detailed manifestos in its history” there’s very little new in the document they’ve just released.
Some central trends that jump out at first glance:
- They remain the same race based party they always have been. The BNP is keep to emphasis that they would expel illegal immigrant, but reading between the lines there is obviously a much more sinister end goal. There is an ominous mention of a “long-term resettlement programme” for third world nationals (pg 20), the clause-28 proscription against ”the promotion of racial integration in schools and the media” (pg 22) remains party policy, and there is an even a suggestion that the BNP regards all immigration since 1997 as invalid, needing to be ‘reviewed’ (pg 16).
- No compromise with the electorate*. We expected the BNP to significantly row back their more extreme, absurd and authoritarian policies in this manifesto in order to try and appear more moderate to the general public. Instead, the vast majority of their policies remain the same. The BNP still want to legalise guns (pg 41). They still want to censor popular television shows (pg 45). The media is still to be put under greater “democratic … control” (pg 43) and the death penalty still brought back (pg 48). There’s even a new one – the BNP wants to create a new penal colony for the worst criminals on the island of South Gerorgia (pg 48).
- The BNP is trying to excite mass anti Muslim bigotry. During this election campaign one of the BNP’s central strategies has been an attempt to cynically take advantage of the fear of extremist Islamic terrorism. In this manifesto, the BNP seem to cross the line into a grotesque, racist and sectarian full out war on Islam, completely at odds with any sense of traditional British tolerance and liberalism. Not only with the burka and further mosques be banned but as “Islam is by its very nature incompatible with… western democracy… Islamic immigration [must] be halted and reversed” (pg 30).
- The manifesto contradicts itself extensively. Is the money for foreign aid to be used for paying for the BNP’s resettlement programme (pg 21) or paying off the national debt? (pg 68) Or is it for ending poverty in Britain? (pg 64) Or perhaps paying for the NHS? (pg 52) If science is so important to the nation (pg 56), then how come the BNP wants to cut off the industries of the future such as biotech or green energy? GM crops are banned on pg 59 and wind farms stopped on pg 62
- None of the numbers add up. The BNP seem to believe that regularly sprinkling in the magic words “revenue neutral” is enough to make their sums work. But with expensive new plans for schools, hospitals and the military, and commitments to cut income tax, council tax, VAT, student loans, car and fuel tax (oh, and the deficit), its not quite clear how this is supposed to work. Despite what the BNP might have you believe, cutting foreign aid will not plug all budget holes – we’ll be looking in more details at their specific numbers later.
In short, the BNP’s platform remains roughly where it was yesterday, with no change from the authoritarian and racialist ideology that puts ordinary families last.
* Or the mainstream. Or sanity.
“The BNP is keep to emphasis that they would expel illegal immigrant”
I think you mean “keen to emphasise” – excellent , great policy.
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“the BNP wants to create a new penal colony for the worst criminals
on the island of South Gerorgia”
Not very original – but still , I like it !
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“The BNP still want to legalise guns”
Hmmm…not so sure about that idea.
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“They still want to censor popular television shows”
Good idea – all forms of media , in their quest to attract audiences/readers ,
have stooped very low – time for that to stop.
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“Islam is by its very nature incompatible with… western democracy”
That is one hundred per cent CORRECT.
Islam is NOT democratic – the keenest followers of that religion freely admit that.
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“Is the money for foreign aid to be used for paying….?”
I do not know the answers .
But , who cares ? The main point is that it WILL NOT be spent on ungrateful,
undeserving countries which offer no reciprocal/compensatory benefits for Britain.
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“wind farms stopped on pg 62″
Now THAT might be just SPITE – because , as all you good Tory people know ,
David Cameron’s father-in-law is Sir Reginald Sheffield.
Yes , the same Reginald Sheffield who will get over THREE MILLION in taxpayer
subsidies for developing – drum roll , please ! – a WIND FARM.
Or maybe the BNP’s motivation is stop ordinary taxpaters getting fleeced?
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I think you lot are just jealous that they managed to produce a document that is better that the Tory manifesto…
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Once again the racist LibLabCon party manifesto intends to continue the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Afghan people for the TAPI project. By the way that’s the gas pipe line that they intend to put through Afganistan to supply India and Pakistan (Google it).
Do you think that Tony Blair aired his respects for the Arabic people when discussing the deaths of the 100,000 Afghan men, women and children, behind closed doors with people who look likw himself?
Or do you think he threw in the odd ‘arab joke’ whilst refering to ‘collateral damage’?
Which do you believe? Come on sheeple wake up. The LibLabCon is the racist party.
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Er, the right to bear arms is enshrined in our Bill of Rights, but has been rendered null and void by various regimes over the years. Given the example of Iraq and Afghanistan and the way in which the people in both countries are able to resist, the old American rightist claim that weapons are needed for defence does not seem so absurd anymore.
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It all looks like a common sence policy to me,
it would be nice if news articals where not so bios and used for ones own political
properganda.
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Nick said on Newsnight that resettlement will be funded by 18 billion. Presumably
that’s the 18 billion we’re not going to be stupid enough to give away every year
to pay our fictitious ‘climate debt’.
When we consider that Third World immigrants become First World carbon-emitters as
soon as they settle in our country, this expense is doubly useful.
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