“‘Open-door’ Labour has betrayed us all” – Trevor Kavanagh, The Sun
Reacting to the news that Downing Street (read Andrew Neather’s Evening Standard column) has lied about the scale of migrants entering the UK, Trevor Kavanagh writes this damning conclusion:
“It is now likely the BNP will win a seat at Westminster at the next General Election. In the BBC view, that akes them ’respectable’.
It is impossible to predict how Labour’s irresponsible experiment will pan out.
We might end up like New York – a dynamic, energetic and creative economic powerhouse.
We might become a troubled, divided and quarrelsome country with too few immigrants who really want to work and too many who wish to bring this country crashing to its knees through violence.
But whatever the outcome, thanks to Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Home Secretaries like Jack Straw, none of us had a damn thing to say about it.”
Our smug leaders have done nothing to see off the BNP – Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
On Saturday, Charles Moore, Chairman of Policy Exchange and author of the foreword to Stolen Valour, points out that society has a slipshod definition of the term “extremist” and says:
“The BNP certainly is extreme, because hate is intrinsic to its message. But our Government has active links with people who are more extreme. There are Islamist groups which support Hamas suicide bombings, the killing of homosexuals (Mr Griffin merely finds it “creepy” when they kiss in public) and the killing of British troops in Afghanistan. These groups engage with the state, and even get taxpayers’ money. The Government justifies this with the weird theory that it is only the hard men who can hold back the even harder men from violence. So the hard men get the leverage.
In Northern Ireland, Labour has set up a system which permits and pays Martin McGuinness to be Deputy First Minister. Mr McGuinness was for many years Chief of Staff of the IRA, planning its terrorist operations. He has dropped this occupation, but never renounced it. He has proved the favourite terrorist argument – well-calculated murder wins you power. When Martin goes on Question Time these days, there is no Griffin-style bashing, just the solemn nodding of panel heads when he explains how to bring peace to our troubled world.
On Thursday night, Jack Straw fiercely engaged Nick Griffin on the subject of Holocaust denial. But when he was Foreign Secretary, Mr Straw led the attempt to appease President Ahmadinejad of Iran, who denies the Holocaust on the global stage and is trying to build a nuclear bomb to wipe out Israel.
When establishment figures say that the attitudes of the BNP help prepare the ground for violence, they are right. But they do not apply this logic to their engagement with Islamism – the only form of extremism which nowadays kills large numbers of our fellow citizens.”
Charles then writes: “The second error shown by the Question Time panellists – and by virtually all political leaders in this country – is to ignore the problems that are winning the BNP votes. Exposing Holocaust denial is worth doing, but easy. The hard bit is the real resentment on which the BNP can capitalise.”
