Be Nice People

Ok, so lets get one thing very clear. I hate the British National Party. I thought I’d better spell it out as I didn’t want the top brass at Banque Nationale de Paris getting the wrong end of the stick. Because I like people from other countries and don’t want to offend them, although the French are gonna get it if anyone does. So, back to the racists. There’s a bit of an uncomfortable climate at the moment. And I have a few thoughts on it, and I’m going to share them and at points everything I say wont be entirely clear in being anti-them. But I am, there are just few fundamental issues I have.

Primarily, people saying they should be banned or whatever. That’s quite funny really, quite a facist mentally to a right-wing political party. We live in a democracy, we have like free speech and stuff. So, as long as what they say doesn’t break the law they can do what they want cant they? [At this stage a point: how is most of what is said not inspiring racially motivated hate? It’s like what gets them going. But it mustn’t be because the Police aren’t arresting them all every time they open their silly mouths]. The price of free speech is dickheads like this. We could put everyone who doesn’t consent with popular opinion in prison or something but then we know where that all ends In 1984, the book not the actual year. I would like to see the faces of people in 1984 when we all turned up, though. Of course Nick G and his mates would fit in better back then.

So if it needs repeating I’ll repeat it. I hate them, the BNP. I just think they should be allowed to speak their minds. Stupid, tiny, wrong minds that they may be, they should be allowed to speak. The worrying thing is the people who listen is it not? The people turning out last week putting their ticks at the sides of boxes and voting for these people. These are the people to worry about. These are the disillusioned massed who can be turned by a – I refuse to use the word charismatic here, but you know he must be to these people – man telling them everything that is going wrong is the fault of….well we know who they blame everything on. But its these people who fall for the bullshit who are the problem. These are not people with posters of Hitler on their wall, espousing silly things about the holocaust on blogs. They’re normal people who’ve been misled. Ok, and they’re probably racist. But they’re not beyond hope. They’re the same people who fell for New Labour, they’re just the one’s who haven’t got disillusioned and turned to the bigger more acceptable face of the right wing of British Politics.

What I’m saying is, if we can’t convince these people that there is a better option than for voting for the BNP then maybe we are a bit fucked and maybe I’ll move to Chile. I don’t think we are though. I think its got a little bit overblown. It’s more heartening to see the outpouring of hatred for them, than it was disturbing to see their success but its all publicity for them and they’re loving it. I’m not trying to make a pedantic philosophical point regarding a sensitive issue but anti- things are often just what the thing needs. It helps them. I don’t see a day when the Anti-Nazi League are sat around kicking their heals in an office thinking they should call it a day, their existence makes some idiots be the anti-anti-nazis, that’s the nazis for people not following me.

If you stifle a voice you give it some credence with the kind of people who will be attracted to stupid things. The best thing to do with a dissenting voice is let people listen. Just educate beforehand, so they can listen and be all like “what a nob”. If we beat them up or use the media to bully them we’ve sunk to their level. And we don’t need to. Labour should just make a puppy dog their leader. With big eyes. Job done – call election, win election: all hail Prime Minister Scamp.