Nowhere for British voters to go
Bookworm on May 17 2009 at 9:39 pm | Filed under: Britain, England
Remember how, in a thread a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the fact that there is no middle for European voters? If they’re concerned about their own governments’ destroying their national cultures, or an unchecked flow of immigrants who (a) game the system and (b) are incredibly hostile to their new host countries, the current governments turn a blind eye to them. Indeed, worse, people who voice these concerns are labeled as racits and hounded into silence.
The only organizations in Europe that lend an ear to the concerns that ordinary Europeans have are the nationalist organizations that seek to purge their respective nations of all but those who can prove that their ethnic roots lie deep in the respective country’s history. (I’m careful not to say “far right” groups, because these groups cannot be nailed down politically in terms of left or right, or, rather, in terms of state or non-state. Their common denominator is racism.)
Well, the scenario I predicted, that disaffected Europeans will find their only haven in the arms of racists may well play out in Britain. If you’ve been following the news, you’ll see that Britain has been rocked by a revolting scandal concerning the the spending habits of members of parliament. The MPs’ habits are especially egregious given that these men and women are pretty useless, insofar as they (a) have handed over real power to the EU and (b) refuse to listen to concerns from middle of the road Brits about out-of-control drinking and licentious behavior and about unchecked Muslim immigration. Brits want to give their ruling class the boot, but that leaves them with few choices. Melanie Phillips explains:
If the opinion polls are to be believed, the result is likely to be a hugely increased vote for the fringe parties at the upcoming European Parliament elections.
This would be, however, more than a little perverse. For as the recipients of a protest vote against the corruption of democracy, these fringe parties leave much to be desired.
For all its slick repackaging, the BNP remains an odiously racist party, with its leader blurting out the fact that he doesn’t regard British citizens of Asian descent – indeed, any ethnic minority – as British at all.
He has a criminal conviction for a racist offence, and BNP members are regularly embroiled in ugly or even criminal displays and activities.
As for UKIP, that itself is tainted by corruption, with one of its former MEPs jailed for benefit fraud and another kicked out of the party after being charged with money-laundering.
BNP busSo neither party is an attractive proposition – indeed, it will be deeply dismaying if the BNP in particular wins any seats at all.
Nevertheless, both stand to gain because they articulate key issues of overriding importance to the public – such as mass immigration and membership of the EU – but which the mainstream parties obdurately fail to address.
These issues are fundamental to the very identity of the country and its ability to govern itself at all. Indeed, their neglect can even be said to have contributed in no small measure to the expenses scandal.
Unrelated to the main point of this post, I rather wonder what racist “offence” the BNP leader committed. It could indeed have been a gross act of racial violence, but in Big Brother Europe, the rule is that non-Muslims are sanctioned for anything from the moderate to the gross, while Muslims are ignored, regardless of how incendiary their statements or actions are. This attitude from the ruling class is also likely to make Brits sympathetic to ugly fringe parties. Even if governments cannot distinguish between the meaningful and the insignificant, ordinary people can. They’ll be sympathetic to those they believe were treated unfairly, and hostile to those they feel are getting an unwarranted pass from the system.
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Were there a party who made a non-racist stance against those immigrants who gamed the system and refused to assimilate, rest assured that the racist, not to mention Neo-Nazi label would be used against it. Like you said, between a rock and a hard place.
There’s no place for British voters to go because they long ago stopped bothering about politics and so lost their country. So it is with Britain, so it is with the rest of the EU, and so it may well be with us.
One of the most salient comments I’ve read pointed out was a lament to the effect that, “if only voters had spent half paying attention to what was happening in their government that they did watching sports, daytime TV or otherwise goofing off.” I would hate to think that we lost our country because too many people simply didn’t care until it was too late.
Many people in America frame the issue of the right to arms as being a recreational right that comes at the expense of people being murdered.
The real issue that they have been programmed to ignore is that guns is only one of a few pillars sustaining human ingenuity and independence. Without certain elements as a foundation for such human virtues, human beings will always look to a Strong Man or Strong Party to take care of things. This inevitably makes people vulnerable to manipulation. You cannot manipulate, for example, people who don’t need anything from you. If they are economically self-sustainable because they are self-sustained security wise, what need they have for big government or the promises of social utopia or even nationalism?
Nationalism is only a danger when people start believing that so long as they make the nation great, that they themselves will become great and prosperous. Nationalism is perfectly okay when people first improve themselves, and let their improvements improve the nation.
Obama and his cult followers have sinned and their sin is that they believe that they need not get rid of their vices and corrupt antics. They believe, as a result of their limitlessness greed for power and hubris that they, that simply through their existence shall improve America. That America can be made great through their policies, and a great America will then absolve them of their guilt, the blood on their hands, and the numerous atrocities they have had to order to accomplish their goal.
It isn’t so, however. Those that built America were great, and thus created something of lasting worth and excellence. But just because America is powerful and prosperous, does not make us as individuals automatically wise, powerful, prosperous, or excellent.
I shouldn’t worry about us. The British public usually finds a way to “game the system” in a way that gets its requirements across. In the run up to the last election the national mood was that, while we were all a bit pissed off with Tony because of the mess surrounding our entry into the Iraq war, we weren’t pissed off enough to elect the opposition, who probably couldn’t be trusted with running a market stall, let alone the country. The national press kept telling everybody that you couldn’t use the electoral system to reflect this result. Then when the election came around TB was returned with a much reduced majority, so everyone was happy (except the reporters).
The thing you have to remember is, these are Euro elections and, as such, you are basically electing people to go on an extended all-you-can-eat-buffet train (with all the trimmings) between Strasbourg and Brussels for four years. Euro MP’s don’t actually DO anything as all the power in the EC lies with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucrats. They just make a lot of boring speeches to some uninterested Belgians. So there’s no chance that any of these MEP’s will actually institute any of their policies. This gives people freedom the freedom to pick kooks just to annoy the government and, while UKIP are appealingly loopy, if they really want to scare Gordon and his cronies I imagine the BNP are the way to go. Should be err… interesting, anyway.
P.S. Griffin’s conviction was for a ‘Holcaust Denial’ offence, or rather for “incitement to racial hatred” as holocaust denial isn’t actually illegal in Britain (unlike Germany, for example). Not hugely material, but it does emphasize the point that the BNP’s opposition to violent Islam is mostly opportunist electioneering, it’s anti-semitism that really “floats their boat”.