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Originally Posted by demonrail666
The challenge should be for mainstream politics to get its act together sufficiently enough for people not to be drawn to single issue parties like the BNP, UKIP, etc. I have no sympathies with their politics, but I fear that suppressing the BNP will only reinforce their appeal amongst sections of an electorate increasingly alienated from the centreground. Besides, so far as I'm aware, none of the BNP's policies break any laws. I say let them speak openly, if only so that their position can be more openly scrutinised and subsequently picked apart, hopefully by someone with a bit more savvy than Charlie Brooker.
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You cant expect anything from the mainstream parties (two factions of The Busines Party) - they're responsible for the economic decline and social atomization that spawns these disenfranchised elements of society!
The only thing that could happen would be the more extreme faction of the two, which usually doesn't bother with pretending about social niceties, would co-opt it: start espousing similar BNP/UKIP rhetoric, policies, and so on.
Thats what happened here in Australia with the One Nation party, and in the US with their 'angry white male' phenomenom in the '90s & again in the 2008 election.
The way to combat is looking at what these groups are appealing to - are there legitimate grievences being used for alterior motives? And the place to do it in is community organisng, independents, third parties, et cetera.