Aneirin
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The trouble with any group, be it political or other, if they were founded on distasteful policies, no matter if the official line, in this case with the BNP, their racist views are dropped for political expediancy, there will always be racism within the party, as people if they feel passionately about something, they will keep it to themselves. With that kind of history, would you want to give your support, which the vote is, to such a person . The other thing of course, is political parties, when they get hold of power, political parties with their power, change their policies to suit themselves, take New Labour for example, what it is/was compared to the Labour of old. Now say the BNP became respectable, they dropped their racist, sexist, homophobic and other minority views and got into government of this country, who is to say they will not revert to their old policies, who is there to stop them doing so, as government, they are the controlling body of this country. BNP if they become respectable, I would treat them as a wolf in sheep's clothing, very much like any other political party I guess, but, that's me.
< Message edited by Aneirin -- 10/27/2009 6:14:23 AM >
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