BNP

Over the past few years the British National Party has seriously contested council elections all over the country and now has 56 councillors at district and borough level (a very small number out of over 22,000 councillors nationally).

In a recent election in the North West the BNP polled circa 23% of the local vote (not enough to win the seat but it is still a concern). The BNP profile is lower, their outward appearance more respectable and their racism and hate-filled ideology downplayed in favour of a more muted and circumspect approach. But make no mistake, they are still the same bigots, racists and nazis that they ever were.

Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, has often noted that; the Holocaust never happened, the Jewish conspiracy is a fact of life and the immigrant is the prime mover in all that hits at the living standards of ordinary people.

These odious, cesspit morals fester further prejudices in society, leading to enough credulous voters supporting it for it to achieve a certain level of success in local elections.

Alas, I am increasingly under the suspicion that "we" are a largely uneducated (in a critical capacity) populous. Irrational, supersticious and very, very dangerous. Flipancy is useful here: Is democracy useful when the electorate does not know anything? What extent can we trust these people? and finally, who is to be held accoutable?

The rush to the centre ground in politics has resulted in vox-pop politics this is NOT democracy.