tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post8937818855074294144..comments2023-11-03T10:31:19.854+00:00Comments on Assistant Blog: alarming newsJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04267191412203443333noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-11833668963244898132008-01-09T11:27:00.000+00:002008-01-09T11:27:00.000+00:00Dear British National Party Member,I wish I had wr...Dear British National Party Member,<BR/><BR/>I wish I had written a more eloquent challenge to the column written by Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express on Monday. What I had being trying to do was write about how genuinely shocked I was that a mainstream newspaper had allowed itself to pander to the politics of ignorance in order to sell copies.<BR/><BR/>In the 21st Century, to still support a system of government that was intellectually challenged and beaten in the 19th Century and then crushed finally in the 20th is absurd. Nationalism in whatever form holds offers nothing to the world today. A world of increasing interdependence where the foundations are being laid for ever increasing and democratic systems in global governance. Globalisation has for the last 80 years meant the increased movements of goods and services across the world and more recently the increased movement of people too. It is not an invasion when people from across the globe and from parts of the world that this country had control over come to this country to work. Many were invited don’t forget. Each country will always maintain their fundamental culture, but these will be enhanced by the inclusion of others. <BR/><BR/>There will be problems with integration. They are not insurmountable however and the perceived threat from Islam and the supposed Islamification of Britain has more to do with the isolation felt in many communities than any inherent evil threat. <BR/><BR/>Whatever your frustrations with the current political system (frustrations held by many) the old BNP tactic of targeting poor white folks and explaining to them the reason that they are poor is because there is less of the cake to go around is never going to gain you power. Besides those tactics are based on those of the Nazi’s which many BNP supporters are familiar with and I suspect admire. A badly written book by a mad racist whilst in jail in the 1930’s does not a 21st Century ideology make. <BR/><BR/>Harking back to a past where Britain was all great and white and everyone else neatly stayed within their national boundaries is ignorant in the extreme and stupid. So take your Nazi uniform fetish, appalling bad music, misuse of the Union flag, and ignorance and don’t come back until you’ve had a good hard think and read some books and talked to a few people of all backgrounds. Why not go to Brick Lane and have a chat with some of the locals, hear about their hopes and fears and where they came from. Why not go travelling? Exposure to the real world will change your mind, you’ll see its great because its so diverse. Then come back and try and shape politics in a positive way. Don’t hate people, realise the world is changing, people move about and things are coming together. If people of whatever background or colour are excluded then work hard to champion their corner, but not with the lame argument that it’s the ‘other lots’ fault. <BR/><BR/>Ok lecture over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-42664229624462372502008-01-08T20:29:00.000+00:002008-01-08T20:29:00.000+00:00Here's Leo on the radio, http://uk.youtube.com/wat...Here's Leo on the radio, <BR/><BR/>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9G7EBw1Yc<BR/><BR/>And here is a write up of a bbc discussion about it;<BR/><BR/>http://houseofdumb.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html#6377655936028419463ba bahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14178542110930629126noreply@blogger.com