Yet more egg on Labour’s face as Gordon Brown steals another BNP policy
Gordon Brown: put mums in care
Britain’s national socialists have claimed that Gordon Brown’s authoritarian “pregnant mums policy” was borrowed from the BNP.
On the BNP’s web site it says that the PM’s announcement was the “most generous possible tribute” to the neo-fascist’s “hegemony in the battle of ideas”.
Not for the first time have Labour been accused of using the BNP’s language in a populist effort to claw back supporters. In 2007, Gordon Brown was caught out for using the slogan “British jobs for British workers” and at this year’s conference Labour have chosen the unfortunate title of ”Operation Fightback”, which was also the name of a BNP campaign to tackle what it terms as “smears” against the party.
The BNP’s and Labourpolicy on telling parents of ferrel children that they risk losing access to benefits unless they agree to accept support to improve their parenting skills, smacks of a Big Brother-esque approach to parenting.
Most people would agree that totalitarian policies such as forcing mothers into care, unless they abide by official parenting guidelines, is deeply un-British. However, unless we address the wider issues on areas such as immigration, education and the economy there is a strong risk that the BNP will play an increasing role in our political system where illiberal policies, such as these, become part and parcel of our society.
Court date fixed for battle with BNP
EHRC will meet the BNP in court on October 15th
Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, has announced in an email to party supporters that his court battle with the Equality and Human Rights Commission is set to resume on October 15th 2009.
The BNP are being taken to court over its restrictions on allowing non-whites to join its party.
But at the beginning of September the case was adjourned after the court had decided to allow the party more time to prepare a defence.
Since then there has been much speculation as to whether the party are capable of fighting the case to the ”bitter end” over fears that the party may financially implode, which we believe to be simply that, speculation.
The day after the case was adjourned, Nick Griffin said that fighting the court case was costing the BNP too much and that attending another hearing would mean “raising and risking at least £80,000″.
And last week the BNP’s chief ideologue Arthur Kemp, the South African white supremacist and foreign affairs spokesman, said that the EHRC’s case would be a “huge own goal” and will help the party to “destroy one of the biggest arguments against it”, namely that it will no longer be labelled as racist.
Only time will tell about what happens in the row between the EHRC and the BNP, but one thing is for certain -you will not defeat Nick Griffin and co by legislating them out of existence. Only by addressing the concerns of the people who vote for them will stop the BNP.
