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Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck.
What this demonstrates, and what really fucks me off, is how flawed is the Labour approach of using the BNP as simultaneously a) an inspiration for their own policies and rhetoric; b) a justification for their racist policies and rhetoric (see Margaret Hodge still clinging to the idea that any other approach is "sweeping it under the carpet"); c) a bogeyman who is to be held up in comparison to said racist policies and rhetoric as if to say "if you don't vote for our slightly racist party, the really extreme racists might get in!" It was always a totally immoral and intellectually bankrupt approach to take, but it also fundamentally doesn't work - in fact, it leads to the BNP taking more seats. You stupid motherfuckers. You're not just scheming amoral Machiavellian bastards, you're also not very good at even that.
I don't really see this getting any better any time soon, for as long as the government (and opposition, and media) continue to play to racially-based fear and distrust whilst doing very little to address the factors that actually lead to the creation of disenfranchised underprivileged white populations looking for somebody to blame. |
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