Far right rise in UK
A survey this week has revealed that up to 25% would be willing to vote for the fascist BNP party. "That's something we have never seen before, in all my years. Even when people voted BNP, they used to be ashamed to vote BNP. Now they are not," said Labour Minister Margaret Hodge MP.
The BNP was founded in the 1970s by John Tyndall, a former National Socialist who dressed in paramilitary uniform and in his youth traveled to Germany to buy his first pair of genuine jackboots. But in 1999, he was ousted in an internal coup by Cambridge graduate Nick Griffin, son of a wealthy Conservative party official, who has exploited anti-Islamic sentiment since 9/11 and last year's London bombings to widen the party's appeal.
The BNP is fielding candidates for 356 seats, more than it has ever contested before. It currently holds 15 council seats across Britain, including six in the depressed northern town of Burnley which has a large immigrant population.
In the 2004 local elections the BNP received around 800,000 votes, not much in a country of 60 million, but enough to sound alarm bells, particularly as it forged links with similar anti-immigrant parties abroad like France's Front National and the Belgian Vlaams Blok. In the last European Parliament elections, the BNP won 4.9 percent of the vote.
Its campaign manifesto is aimed at white parents, stressing that immigrant children should not be taught with native English speakers until they are competent in the language, that state-funded schools should not have to teach in Asian languages, and that teachers should be allowed to spank children, despite the ban on all corporate punishment by the European Union -- which the BNP wants to leave.
It was BNP supporters who were suspected of the brutal murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. The police failed at the time to recognise it as a racist murder. The Mac Pherson inquiry in 1999 stated that it was 'institutionalised racism' that failed in the investigation to find the killers.
More information can be found at:
http://www.yre.org.uk/towerhamlets.html
The BNP was founded in the 1970s by John Tyndall, a former National Socialist who dressed in paramilitary uniform and in his youth traveled to Germany to buy his first pair of genuine jackboots. But in 1999, he was ousted in an internal coup by Cambridge graduate Nick Griffin, son of a wealthy Conservative party official, who has exploited anti-Islamic sentiment since 9/11 and last year's London bombings to widen the party's appeal.
The BNP is fielding candidates for 356 seats, more than it has ever contested before. It currently holds 15 council seats across Britain, including six in the depressed northern town of Burnley which has a large immigrant population.
In the 2004 local elections the BNP received around 800,000 votes, not much in a country of 60 million, but enough to sound alarm bells, particularly as it forged links with similar anti-immigrant parties abroad like France's Front National and the Belgian Vlaams Blok. In the last European Parliament elections, the BNP won 4.9 percent of the vote.
Its campaign manifesto is aimed at white parents, stressing that immigrant children should not be taught with native English speakers until they are competent in the language, that state-funded schools should not have to teach in Asian languages, and that teachers should be allowed to spank children, despite the ban on all corporate punishment by the European Union -- which the BNP wants to leave.
It was BNP supporters who were suspected of the brutal murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. The police failed at the time to recognise it as a racist murder. The Mac Pherson inquiry in 1999 stated that it was 'institutionalised racism' that failed in the investigation to find the killers.
More information can be found at:
http://www.yre.org.uk/towerhamlets.html
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