Gutted

I am not patriotic in any way to be honest but have always had a strange tempered pride for Britain. We are one of the oldest deomcracies in the world. We never bothered with facism and locked bad old Oswald Mosley up so he could think about what he'd done in the forties. When the economy was going tits up between the wars and there were communists and spartacists knocking about all over Europe we just shrugged out shoulders and carried on. Sure we wreaked a deathly havoc over vast swathes of the earth with the whole empire thing , are responsible for horrible poverty and such in africa after leaving our big colonial houses and letting any nutjob take over and we did starve half of Ireland to death once- but I've always thought we had something special. I was wrong.

We are in fact a nation of reactionary tossers. Just because the economy is in a mess and The Telegraph have shown that our MP's are a little bit crooked we have decided to vote for the BNP. Germany voted for the Nazis and obviously this was a horrific mistake but at the same time they had to go through a long and bloody war, near economic collapse in which their currency was meaningless and accept the humiliation of having to accept guilt and pay compensation for the first global conflict. We have started voting for Neanderthal wankers because some people used money that wasn't theirs to have their moat cleaned. The BNP gained two seats in the recent European elections which is two seats more than any party so open in their islamaphobic, anti-semitic sentiment should have. Despite numerous videos and articles exposing what the real message of the BNP is it seems that some people have been drawn in by their outward claims of wanting to preserve a "national identity". We are a nation of immigrants and ultimatley the entire human race stems from 200 hundred primitive humans that came from the "cradle of life" in Kenya, although I'm not sure how well this would sit with the BNP.

Their concerns are insane. A major one that Nick Griffin re-iterated again in his smug victory speech was councils banning St Georges day festivals but tax payers paying for ethnic minorities when they wish too have "their festivals". Why is this a problem? Are there not more pressing concerns about at the moment? (global economic meltdown and international terrorism are two that spring to mind). The other point that Griffin fails to understand is that St Georges day festivals are not banned by villanous ethnic minority groups who hate white English people, they are banned by councils who fear that they will be hijacked by far-right political groups using the oppurtunity to preach a hateful message of racial purity in Britain- which I suspect the BNP would at such a festival given the chance. I highly doubt that they would be using St Georges day festivals as a colourful mardi-gras with dragon floats and brown shirted children throwing Mein Kampf shaped bon-bons to an adoring public.

Despite all this I still take heart from the fact that the BNP gained fewer votes than in 2004 and have been allowed to sneak into the European parliament by a dodgy electoral system. It's just a bit disgusting that all it needs is a name change, from the National Front, and people to claim for chocolate bars on expenses for voters in Britain to start running to the far right when they get to a ballot box.

*I have opted to go for a more palletable picture than Nick Griffin's podgy, slack jawed face. Even writing about the BNP to say that you despise everything they stand for is too many references for one blog.