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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom
I've just heard on the radio that the fascist British National Party have just won a seat in the European Parliament (for the Yorkshire & Humber region). It looks as if they may win another seat in the North West too.
As some of us people here have voted in the Euro elections, what do you think - something to be worried about, a relative storm in a teacup, or an utter irrelevance?
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Absenteeism mixed with the rise of a racist party's profile is certainly not to be thought of with dismissive complacency, even more so since that same complacency was widespread in economical analysis throughout the mid-to-late 90's, when the thought of an American economy collapsing wasn't regarded so much as something that would trigger worldwide recession. See what happened.
It's a natural progression that the initial hatred for the banks, at first demonised for being the main cause of the recession itself, is now directed at the very organ that gives them the kiss of life, the government and its infrastructure of conflicting/conspiring parties.
The fascist fringes of aspiring government parties like the BNP find their natural habitat in times of acute crisis like this, since they touch an already super-volatile nerve in the (scarce) working class electorate, the most likely to push them up the scale at large, unless, of course, conflicting and more rational political forces sway them to their side.
It's too early to really asses what the outcome might be, since a possible BNP rise will find a labour marketplace drastically changed from what it was 50/60 years ago. It's not just people who happen to be white and 'traditionally' British who vote for the conservatives either, and not all the immigrant labour force is a unified entity as it is often thought of.