Monday, January 01, 2007
The Guardian reports that the English National Opera ballerina who has been revealed to be a member of the BNP is facing a barrage of complaints demanding she be sacked. Her public pronouncements over the weekend have hardly shown her to be one of the great undiscovered thinkers of our time, more that the hysteria whipped up by the British Government of the last twenty years has meant the population at large tends to be completely ignorant of what the real state of immigration is.
Should she be sacked? At the moment, it being silly season and only a short while since the Nick Griffin courtcase failed, that would probably help the BNP, allowing them to portray themselves again as 'the voice of the people' being censored by a 'distant Westminster regime that want to open our borders so your granny, yes YOUR granny, can be raped by illegal Bulgarian immigrants!!1!'.
Instead I think the Government should offer her a Home Office post with complete responsibility for immigration. It's an issue they have noticeably never taken seriously and which they regularly follow the rabid dictates of the right-wing press, so why not give a confirmed fascist the job rather than pussyfoot around it?
The Daily Mail in their report of the story show that they have readers who are unashamed of their support of the BNP. Certainly, my comment of yesterday questioning why they wrote 'The BNP is certainly repellent, with its knee-jerk hatred of foreigners and history of organised thuggery' when the Mail shares most of the BNPs beliefs appears to have not been allowed through. Shame that.
Should she be sacked? At the moment, it being silly season and only a short while since the Nick Griffin courtcase failed, that would probably help the BNP, allowing them to portray themselves again as 'the voice of the people' being censored by a 'distant Westminster regime that want to open our borders so your granny, yes YOUR granny, can be raped by illegal Bulgarian immigrants!!1!'.
Instead I think the Government should offer her a Home Office post with complete responsibility for immigration. It's an issue they have noticeably never taken seriously and which they regularly follow the rabid dictates of the right-wing press, so why not give a confirmed fascist the job rather than pussyfoot around it?
The Daily Mail in their report of the story show that they have readers who are unashamed of their support of the BNP. Certainly, my comment of yesterday questioning why they wrote 'The BNP is certainly repellent, with its knee-jerk hatred of foreigners and history of organised thuggery' when the Mail shares most of the BNPs beliefs appears to have not been allowed through. Shame that.
Labels: BNP, British National Party, Daily Mail
