BNP leaflet through my door

I had to pick up a Portuguese colleague this morning to get her to work, and she started bemoaning the election of the BNP members. I said, well, at least it seemed as if there had been little support for the party in Scotland. She replied, well, but Scotland voted SNP.

I dragged my jaw off the floor, refrained from pointing out to her the SNP sticker quite prominently displayed on the windscreen of my car all of 3 feet from where she was sitting, and merely remarked that it wasn't quite the same thing.

She's lived here for several years. Does she go round in a bubble or something? Is this a common misconception among Europeans, presumably due to the similar party names?

Rolfe.
 
The Don said:
Listening to the radio this morning it's clear that the only part of the BNP agenda anyone has heard is "if we send immigrants home, you'll have a job".
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I have a job somehow, despite all the billions of immigrants. How have I managed this incredible feat?

I'm personally more concerned about 'offshoring' (or 'rightshoring' as it is now referred to in our company :rolleyes:).
How does the BNP plan to deal with that threat to British jobs? Ban travel? Cut the internet connections? Or just completely ignore it as in reality they have no answers to anything at all.

Are they a one policy party that has no friggin clue about anything? Could it be that this single pathetic 'policy' appeals to utter morons who think banning immigrants (like we aren't all 'immigrants' anyway) will somehow mean they will be magically given high paying, low effot jobs.

I just can't believe it. I am embarassed of our country.
 
'Offshoring' can only be eliminated if anyone has a proposal by which global wages are set at a par, and therefore it isn't considered more cost effective to replace workers here with lower paid people in India or China.
 
Is this a common misconception among Europeans, presumably due to the similar party names?
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Yes,
Scotish or british nationalist party, they sound similiar until you look at their programme.
 
Ashles said:
I'm personally more concerned about 'offshoring' (or 'rightshoring' as it is now referred to in our company :rolleyes:).
How does the BNP plan to deal with that threat to British jobs? Ban travel? Cut the internet connections? Or just completely ignore it as in reality they have no answers to anything at all.
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The kind of jobs the average BNP supporter is likely thinking about are hard to offshore. Construction, retail and general labouring.
 
"Who Voted BNP and Why"

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/who+voted+bnp+and+why/3200557

"It is not money that marks BNP voters apart as much as their insecurity. Just 19 per cent of BNP voters are "confident that my family will have the opportunities to prosper in the years ahead". This compares with 59 per cent of Labour voters, 47 per cent of Lib Dem and Green voters, and 42 per cent of Conservative voters.

Among Ukip voters the figure is also fairly low, at 28 per cent, which suggests that Ukip also picked up the votes of many who feel the traditional parties let them down – and not just on Europe.

Not surprisingly, BNP voters regard immigration as the top issue facing Britain. Fully 87 per cent of them told us it was one of their top three or four concerns. (This compares with a still-high 49 per cent among the public as a whole.)

But when people are shown the same list and asked which three or four issues "are the most important facing you and your family", the figure falls to 58 per cent. True, this is three times the national average of 20 per cent, yet it means that for almost half of BNP voters, immigration is NOT among the worries of day-to-day life.

We also find that most BNP voters do NOT subscribe to what might be described as "normal racist views". Just 44 per cent agree with the party leadership in rejecting the view that non-white citizens are just as British as white citizens. And only 31 per cent think the average black Briton is less intelligent than the average white Briton."


I don't know whether all that cheers me up or saddens me...
 
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geni said:
The kind of jobs the average BNP supporter is likely thinking about are hard to offshore. Construction, retail and general labouring.
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To be honest I find it hard to fathom what 'the average BNP supporter' is thinking.
Maybe they should do those jobs better, then they might be seen as a more reliable service than whatever cheap off-the books illegal immigrant labour is apparently 'stealing their jobs'.
 
I don't support the BNP because I am a Jew. Once they get rid of the blacks, Muslims, and Pakis, I'm sure I'll be next.
 
What, you mean you're not already on their list?

Rolfe. (Never likely to be on their list and I'd damn the lot of them to the fires of hell.)
 
Hmmm, tell that to all the 20-whatsit countires in Europe that have achieved independence in the past century or so.

Seems to me it's fine for a small independent country to want to retain its independence, and would you suggest that Denmark would be better off as one of the Lander of Germany, and Norway really made a big mistake voting for independence from Sweden, and Ireland should never even have considered leaving the UK because that was icky....

Don't be daft. If it's OK to be an independent country, and OK to want to stay that way, why is it suddenly "icky" to aspire to that status?

Rolfe.
 
parky76 said:
I don't support the BNP because I am a Jew. Once they get rid of the blacks, Muslims, and Pakis, I'm sure I'll be next.
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Heck, I reckon I'd be on their list despite actually being white and British - don't need to have a different colour of skin to be an ethnic minority, it just makes you a bit harder to pick out!
 
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