Aneirin
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Why do I have to post with criticism attached? I was trying to be dispassionate about an emotive subject and provide some context.
I saw plenty of flags hanging out of windows, on cars etc.
An example...
It's a commonly held belief that immigrants are favoured for social housing but very little research is required to show that that is quite wrong. I can see how trading on this anxiety would bolster tumbling newspaper sales and even recruit the gullible to support the BNP. But by stating this as though it were fact and not simply a bit of mass hysteria, you abandon impartiality and go further than merely reporting BNP philosophy but inadvertently validate it.
The House of Lords did a report on this and came to the conclusion whites were being denied social housing in favour of immigrants, not because immigrants were getting something they weren't entitled to, they were getting what they were entitled to. However, there were not enough resources to go round and the staff had to make choices and they chose the immigrants so they wouldn't be accused of being racist. The Lords noted that extremists parties misrepreasent this situation but admited it was fertile ground for extremists and suggested the government should act quickly and put in more resources to solve the problem. However, the government hasn't and Labour, Libs and Tories don't need any votes from the the white underclass to get into power and obviously don't want to represent them so they have left the white underclass with no one to represent them but parties like the BNP.
In fact no one represents the poor anymore since Labour supposedly a left party that you think would naturally represent them, is busy making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
I understand this, as I have been through the mill with the social housing and it's points system, but in another city. A city where for some reason the city took in some 1500 immigrants when it already had a severe housing problem for it's existing inhabitants. What came to happen was houses that were deemed unfit for habitation were quickly made habitable and these homes dished out to the incomers whilst the existing people on the housing list stayed on the housing list and even found themselves further back down the list and I am talking families here not just individuals.
There was in that city a rising anger directed towards the incomers, BNP was doing well, many I knew were turning to BNP as a response to the injustice they felt, they were not racists, they generally had no problem with other races, but they felt no one except them is representing their issues. The priority for a father is to provide a home for his family and the usual social and political machines were not helping, the support they came to have for BNP was in reality a protest, a venting of frustration over the whole mess.
What did irk most on the housing list was the situation with the 'unfit for habitation' houses, they being fit for habitation, there would be no one on the housing list, as these houses exceeded the number of people that needed them. Nothing was being done to these houses until the incomers came, in which the money was suddenly made available to make fit the least worse and often they were rennovated to a higher standard than the existing habitable properties and the size of the house was not matched to the incoming applicants family status, a single person often got a three bedroom house. Yet more injustice when families were crammed into much smaller houses and families increasing in size could not move to a larger house.
Myself and my small family unit, we got given an unmodernized 1920's built apartment, complete with no heating and the original gas lighting in situ, which I ripped out. That place was forever dark, cold and damp, no one was happy, but we had somewhere to live which was better than what some unfortunate families didn't have.
So yes, given the situation I experienced as one of the homeless but working, I can see very well how BNP was doing well in those areas. Labour party affiliation was dwindling rapidly.
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