"®i©ardo" wrote in message
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Col Colt wrote:
"gaz" wrote in message
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Col Colt wrote:

The threat comes from mainstream parties introducing laws to appease
the BNP vote.
They are certainly appeasing someone with their racial preference laws,
but it aint the BNP vote.

Ha ha. Very funny. British jobs for British workers. British homes for
British people. Yeah right, nothing to do with appeasing the BNP vote.
The reality is that the BNP is a highly opportunistic party.

So there was nothing opportunistic about the birth of New Labour?

Well Blair was always a small c conservative so i think his commitment to
liassez fair economics was genuine. Much of the rest of the party was much
more sceptical - and as it turns out, with good reason - so you could say
that they were being opportunistic.

I am not attacking the BNP for being opportunistic. All parties are
opportunists to some degree. But the BNP's opportunism is the key to its
rather incoherent set of policies. Gaz tells us that BNP's desire to
nationalise some industries makes them akin to Labour 1983. It's a ********
argument. You could just as well say that the BNP's racial attitudes and
barely hidden support for 'repatriation' of brown and black skinned people,
its nationalism and support for a strong armed forces, makes it a
comfortable fit within the Conservative Party of the 1970s. But that would
be as unfair as saying that parts of its policies are old style Labour. And
it also massively misses the point, that the BNP is attempting to make
itself palatable to sections of Tory and Labour voters, so naturally it
adopts policies that will facilitate that objective.