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Originally Posted by Mrs. Butcher
as much as i dislike the BNP, the anti-fashist protestors today appeared to be campaining against democracy, weird huh.
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It's an important point, one I try not to engage with. It's not democracy they object to, and that's precisely the sort of rhetoric that ghettoises the BNP, and thus makes them attractive to a certain portion of the electorate who feel alienated by mainstream politics. The argument from the anti-BNP sorts is that the BNP is not 'democratic' in the slightest. I don't agree with this argument, but a lot of people do. The thing is, I know full well that the BNP do not stand for democracy or the common Brit (me), they stand for thuggery, idiocy, hypocrisy, intimidation and a poor/ narrow view of British history. So long as they stay on the right side of the law, I'm happy to continue not paying any attention to their confused bile.
Anyway. Get off the BNP, it's Cameron who's the real problem at the moment (I wonder if the BNP aren't just a Tory smokescreen sometimes...).