TIAL wrote:The BNP..........
I read that article by Charlie Brooker, it's extremely well written and absolutely correct.
I couldn't watch more than a few seconds of that propaganda video - normally I can watch with disapproving interest, but I know the target audience and it makes me sick - I strongly believe that to show that to kids is tantamount to child abuse. I do, however, find the below clip extremely interesting - and I'm not Russell Brand fan by a long stretch, but I gained a bit of respect for him after watching it:
The BNP are a hateful collection of thuggish nazi *, trying to present themselves as politicians, but thankfully only the extremely misguided and stupid can't see past it. They are absolutely no better than the National Front. What is worrying about the whole expenses row that has been dominating the headlines over the last few days is that it may give parties like theirs a larger proportion of the vote. They say they fear for the future of this country, but their ideals couldn't be further from how this country has ever been.
What I alluded to earlier in another thread about censorship and what Yudster referred to - in my mind at least - being far more extreme than Jonathan Ross, I was essentially talking about parties like the BNP and the National Front - you can't censor them because it effectively gives them a bigger voice and makes them look victimised and therefore people start to feel sorry for them. They'd love to be banned, I'm sure, for those reasons - which is why they must never be.