"gaz" wrote in message
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As I said, a view informed by a wilful ignorance of history.

My degree in politics and history says otherwise.

Then you should know better. The 'Nazis are really socialists' meme is
readily refuted by a knowledge of the history of period in which Nazism
developed.

The BNP
is a neo-Nazi party; its senior members all came out of the sewer of
extreme right politics in the 60s and 70s.

And? Your thinking is lazy, people and organisations change.
And what evidence is there that the BNP has changed? It's a Nazi party so
it will say pretty much anything to get elected. Its only firm principles
are nationalism and race supremacy. If you don't believe me, here it is out
of Griffin's own mouth:

http://www.wikio.co.uk/video/1162415

While their views on race and nationalism have not changed much, their
development of wider policies on economic issues is fairly new

Too right it's 'fairly new'. The BNP is opportunistic and it has correctly
figured out that in the neo-liberal consensus that both Tories and Labour
subscribe to, the traditional working classes are the losers. Labour is
doing nothing for such people so up pops the BNP telling them it's all the
fault of immigrants.

and that is certainly
socialist, and isolated from the restof their views would fit squarely
into 1983 Labour Party.

One could just as well say that isolated from the rest of their views,
elements of BNP policy would fit well with 1970 Conservatives. All this
debating about BNP 'policy' is rather beside the point, as it assume that
these are serious policies that the leadership actually endorse rather than
cynical devices to appeal to disgruntled Labour voters.

It maintains active links
with the KKK and european fascist parties. Yet apologists for it
like you try to claim that it is a more muscular Labour party.

The Labour Party are the only party with representation at Westminister
that are in the process of passing racial preference laws.

Unfortunately, yes. And this is the biggest threat that the BNP pose.
There is not a hope of the BNP getting into power; whenever they do get a
bit of local power they invariably screw up and get booted out. The threat
comes from mainstream parties introducing laws to appease the BNP vote.