http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7382831.stm
As people may or not be aware, a staggering 130,000 people voted for the BNP in the recent London elections. Obviously it's important not to blow things out of proportion and start seeing fash under the bed, but it begs the question as to why in a supposedly 'multi-cultural' society a far right party has grabbed it's biggest result since the 1930s? What's the solution.
I reckon this is the backdraft from the hounding Griffin and co. took a few years back over 'hate speech', which was also metted out to any institution that chose to involve them in debates. If people aren't going to get on a platform and show up the BNP for what they are (how difficult can it be?), then it's running the risk of them being able to portray themselves as being different from "politicians" and win over a lot of disaffected voters.
