Comments on: On the British National Party

By: alman162

alman162 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:30:59 +0000

http://bnpbabes.co.uk/helen-riddell-newcastle/ what a joker!

By: Andrew Brundle

Andrew Brundle — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:57:15 +0000

Hi Bruce.

I wrote to you before to complement your Zen Garden design, Geocities.

I too am a Brit but for the last ten years have been living in Bangkok. I’ve not been back to England in all that time, but have nonetheless followed events.

It seems to me that this BNP nonsense is just the latest in a series of things that are, but by bit, turning the UK into a joke. I would hate to go back there.

BTW — my guess is that your children are luuk kreungs. My son is, too. He attends a private kindegarten near Don Muang and is treated like a god. Not because he is the son of an Oxford-educated Brit who makes cheap websites for the good people of Thailand.

On the contrary, he is treated this way because he is a “mongrel”.

By: Bill Lees

Bill Lees — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:33:17 +0000

Another chance to tell my favourite story about the great son of Hampshire and humanitarian cricket commentator John Arlott. He was on a plane flying to Johannesburg during the days of apartheid, and was given an immigration card to fill in. One of the questions was labelled “Race”, against which JA had simply entered the word “human”.

By: Shez

Shez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:57:34 +0000

There are no such thing as different races, only one human ‘race’ with different ethnicities. The term ‘race’ as used commonly is a misnomer. So let us celebrate our diverse ethnicities – it’s what, among other things, makes us interesting. The BNP are a minority party and always will be, but like Bruce I wouldn’t suppress their output, rather encourage it so they can show themselves for the misinformed idiots they are.

Oh, and get off your arses and vote!

By: JackP

JackP — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:52:10 +0000

“we haven’t had any pogroms” – I wouldn’t be so sure, even if you do need to go back a while.

I don’t think that a majority of people in the UK are racist. I think it’s a small, and decreasing minority. (Unfortunately, when one of them chooses to publicly be a twat about your children, you’ll probably think the proportion is higher) Also unfortunately, that minority, when added to BNP spin about ‘protest votes’ and the spin they put on their politics, this plus disenchantment (meaning turnout low, protest votes high) was enough to get them elected.

I hope all the people in the NW and in Yorks who don’t like the BNP but didn’t vote are thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

By: horuskol

horuskol — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:24:58 +0000

While I tend to agree with your post there (especially the undercurrent of non-specific hatred) – and I find your point about letting them bloviate so that people who have some sense will come around to the idea that the BNP and other extreme political parties are a bunch of idiots, I have limited confidence in the sense of the masses.