BNP: Bloody Nonsense Party, Bigoted Nasty Prats etc

Too often, when it comes to the BNP, those of us with a rational mind and an average to high degree of intelligence are tempted to just hurl insults (or eggs). It is all too easy to just blow a raspberry in the face of such blinkered bigotry and hope it will go away. We need to challenge these idiots head on with facts, rationality and, well, the truth instead of their propaganda. This is the sensible and lasting way to destroy the ideas and ‘values’ of the BNP.

The trouble is, and I might be alone here but what the hell, every time I see, hear or read a single utterance from anyone who supports or is a part of the BNP, all I can think about is repeatedly bashing them across the head with a brick dipped in vomit and stale piss. All I want is for them to disappear, not necessarily to ‘die’, but just to not exist anymore. A puff of smoke and the bastard racist is gone. Magic.

Racism of any kind is something that I’ve just never understood; that capacity to hate based on nothing but someone’s outward appearance and ‘race’, stuff that they can’t help and shouldn’t need to apologise for. I watched the recent Panorama special ‘Hate on the Doorstep’, where two undercover Asian reporters posed as a couple who’ve recently moved into the Southmead estate in Bristol. They wore concealed cameras whenever they went outside and the house they were renting was rigged with cameras too. When I think about the stuff they filmed during the weeks they lived on that estate, my blood boils. I find that my fists clench in rage when I watch a random thug walk up to the male journalist and just punch him in the head without provocation. I want to scream in anger when the female journalist is threatened by a brick-wielding kid wanting to mug her. Every snide comment and shout of ‘Paki’ makes me want to cry. During their stay, they we verbally and physically abused over 50 times by kids and adults on that estate and on the St Anne’s estate a few miles away. The first day that they arrived at their rented house, there were BNP pamphlets on the doorstep. This estate and many like it are the BNP’s ‘target market’; ignorant and ‘working class’ racists looking to take out their frustrations on a blameless but easy scapegoat. A scapegoat the BNP are happy to point out in exchange for votes.

With Nick Griffin appearing on Question Time tonight, I hope some difficult and revealing questions are asked of him. If I was there, this question would be the one I’d like to ask him:

‘Mr Griffin, with the recent BBC Panorama special exposing extreme racism on an estate that your party has leafleted, would you say that the violent and abusive attitude the residents aimed at the Asian reporters is something you would condone or would find acceptable from supporters of your party?’

No doubt Griffin would condone the actions of those on the film and make out that any in his party that behave that way are certainly in a minority, despite the image ‘the press’ puts across.

‘I see, so any in your party that are outwardly racist are in a minority and shouldn’t tarnish the reputation of the party as a whole…much like the minority that make up the ‘ethnic’ population of this country. Or the minority of extremists that carry out terrorist attacks in the name of Islam. Or the MINORITY of ‘ethnic’ youths that commit crimes against ‘whites’. Yet this minority is such a danger, such a supposed threat to the ‘decent, white majority’ you think they should all be deported. That minority of extremists make Islam an “evil and wicked” religion, your own words. Does that same argument work with the Catholic Church and the clergyman convicted of child abuse? Is the irony of all that lost on you, Mr Griffin, or are you as ignorant and bigoted as the ‘minority’ that we saw on film?’

To be honest, I hope someone sneaks in a pool cue and cracks the smug fucker’s skull wide open, but a tricky question is just as good. It’s not that the BNP are something to fear really, or that they are a legitimate political force that must be challenged…they’re just too stupid and infuriating to live. Extreme, moi?