Labour fears the BNP because

It takes one to know one. It takes a thief to catch a thief, so the saying goes. The best gamekeeper is a reformed poacher because he knows what to look for and how a poacher hides. Labour have long understood that fear is what drives voters to the polling station, and in the lead up to New Labour and Blair’s ascension to Downing Street that is what they worked on most successfully. Yet in 1997 this country and its people had nothing to fear but fear itself. We had a new Princess and a thriving Royal family, a strong and growing economy, the Cold War was over and this country had no enemies for our armed forces to face the threat from. They focussed on telling us that the Conservatives were evil, though evidence showed that to be untrue – it was successive Conservative administrations that had achieved the state of peace prosperity we then enjoyed.
The foremost fear the Labour party worked on in this country and right across Europe was fear of foreigners. Xenophobia is the proper name for that, and they covered their tactic by accusing all and sundry of xenophobia. They converted the meanings of words and preached a whole new lexicon. Fascist, for instance, they threw about to establish an assumed superior knowledge for the under class to learn, altering it to mean anything other than the original meaning – an authoritarian government of a socialist nature. They worked the crowd like players on a pantomime stage and the orchestrated the response from stalls. Now we see that Labour are terrified of the BNP and the horrible contorted features of its leader Nick Griffin strutting around like a chief bully in the playground surrounded by all-male heavies.
Nobody should fear the bully. His gang is a collection of temporarily hopeless juveniles desperately looking for any cause to do the thinking, to look after them and stick up for them in a fight; to feed their hunger and teach them prejudices. Bullies learned their craft at their father’s feet, their mother’s knees, within the family fold. They find the support they crave in the underclass that fears because they have grown up in fear and feel they need the support of a school bully figure for defence in a frightening world. But there was nothing to fear and they knew it. Mrs Thatcher stuck up for the people of the Falkland Islands, and the people of Kuwait, in the sure and certain knowledge this country expected it and supported those actions. Labour had a huge mountain to climb so they undermined it – by spreading their own racist message in the stalls of an audience of xenophobes.
In fact racism is a reaction indulged in only by the stupid. Excluding 90% of the population of the planet from your potential circle of acquaintances simply because of their outward appearance or tribal origins has got to be stupid; it limits your life experience and trading possibilities to those very close to your own vulnerable clique. Racists are halfwits. One might think there cannot be that many ignorant and stupid people registered to vote in this country. Public reaction to Nick Griffin’s public humiliation of the BBC’s Question Time TV programme proves otherwise.
Control of the food supply is a basic requirement for success to a totalitarian regime, but control of access to medicine and supply of medical aid is even more important in the long run. If the state controls the hand that rocks the cradle and dictates what soothers can be used on a peevish infant the state also controls the education of those whose parents have no other options to take. This country used up the most accessible natural resources a long time ago and left us as a nation living on our wits. Spawning generations of half-wits is the beginning of the end for such a nation. The way to do that is to have people shun the traditional soothing medicines and have them only afford and prefer illegal known or reputed painkillers and soothers – cannabis. Yes, the poor in the council estates do use cannabis to get the baby to stop crying. Cannabis destroys brain cells and limits the development or cognitive powers, leaving those people unable to make proper judgements that would come naturally to normal people. Labour has not only dropped immigration controls but it has dropped the system that stemmed the flow of cannabis and other mind altering, destroying, illegal substances into these islands.
So now we have a country of people a third of whom are racist and vulnerable to a racist agenda peddled by fully funded propagandists like Nick Griffin. Labour let this happen because they themselves had secured that core vote on a similar message, using people who said they were not in public but on doorsteps said what they knew the perceiver wanted to hear.
The only times I have encountered true poisonous racism, not joking, not humourously getting used to human differences, but real hatred and fear, is from members of the Labour Party. In a pre-election debate held at the United Nations Association in Reading one man, who I vaguely recall was named Philip from the Sudan, stood up and asked what was the meaning and origin of the phrase, The Third World? The Conservative Party candidate gave a full definition and source of that horrendous phrase – after a world war the United Nations had set about rebuilding the world and had to decide where resources should be targeted to start up the whole trade thing again. They defined things in three categories, the First World, who spent and bought and built, the Second World, whose identity is no longer known, and the Third who would grow and make an sell things to be delivered. All three needed help but that definitions helped identify the type of help to be delivered.
The Lib Dem candidate waffled something nondescript, irrelevant and inaccurate. The Labour person agreed with the other two. I stood up and related a tale of a man who had been working on another African 6 month engineering contract and finally found time to visit his grandchildren for Christmas, had even bought a Man U strip for his grandson, but found his way blocked by an African war zone. As he sat in his hotel room in Addis Ababa he was appalled to see that same grandson live on CNN squatting in the desert with a begging bowl, naked because someone had stolen his clothes. I asserted that the candidates’ reaction to this would tell us the meaning that phrase has now.
The Labour women stuttered that well, she thought it might be possible for some Africans to be qualified as engineers with a lot of support and outside help.
That is racism.
She believed that Africans, and maybe all people of pigmented skin, are by definition of lower intelligence and less capable that white people. One hears a huge, um but, in response to this. Yes, Africans were accomplished mining engineers long before Europeans arrived back there. They built the pyramids, they built palaces and wore gold jewellery. The contents of Tutankhamun’s tomb show that they had furniture crafted from wood using mortice and tenon joints, and made machines from metal long before Europeans had learned how to make chairs to sit on.
The racist message has sunk so deeply into the European psyche that now a third of the electorate secretly believe the same as that Labour candidate. Now the BNP have harnessed that set of fears Labour have little left to rely on for votes.