The dust has almost settled. My assessment of how the BNP performed.

ok a few facts for you

Non-EU immigrants can't claim benefits - they have to be paying their own way

Aslyum seekers don't get full benefits and aren't ALLOWED to work until they're granted refugee status.

Why would you say less than 1% of BNP voters were racist? Was there some kind of survey?

That isn't a statistic is it? It's a guestimate, based on what you would like to think because you don't want to admit that a vote for the BNP is a racist vote.

i hate the BNP and all they stand for but the shame of it is that the BNP do "pull" people in by having one or two policies which on the face of it seem perfectly reasonable, i know thats how they reeled some of the people i know in.

i know some very silly women who are very anti immigration, i know some of them were talking about voting BNP or UKIP.

people just dont realise what would happen if the BNP did get some power - then they would show their true colours.

i think they tried to go "respectable" and decided to brush up nick griffin, make him look like a politician, give the party a face.

im sooooo glad it didnt work.

Above was addressed to giveitago.

"not another single young man or woman would be killed"

but older, married people would still be killed?

Stormfront are a Nazi group, akin to combat 18 I think, this group makes the BNP look like a bunch of choir girls!

Never mind about all the racist attacks and murders which go on in Britain wherever the BNP start throwing their weight around then, eh? Because those people don't matter, right?

"And yes, I know the BNP's policies could do with a little adjusting"

A little? Uh-huh

I think they were voted in to represent the trade unions that the BNP wants to ban actually, and for the welfare state and NHS which the BNP would dismantle.

Not convincing - BNP party is a mandate for hate and nothing more. You know it.

Daftpunk UKIP has and does address the issue of mass immigration so why not vote for them? Also IYO has the BNP changed how it operates?, I'm told now that it is now suited and booted in many respects. It has for instance turned up to UKIP conferences (suited and booted) pretending to be a member and handed out leaflets talking about "in fighting issues" and the person takes the leaflet, to find out that's its an offer to join the BNP. I'm also told that they continually ring various offices pleading to "get on board" UKIP can't stand them, why do they do it? So Daftpunk if you are in the know, and apparently you are, how has the BNP changed its tactics to get more votes?

I second SoupDragon.

I've tried to think of something pithy to post but for some reason " fuck off you racist twat" keeps springing to mind. I don't know why.

No you are wrong there dp - the parties have been talking about it - labour actually did something about non eu immigration and it's very hard to get into the country - believe me - I know - I was trying to recruit and the best professionals were from asia and it was almost impossible to get someone in.

EU is different and there's nothing to be done unless withrawing from the union is what people want.

DP - the absence of any proper policy on education, health, the economy, the elderly, the environment, international relations etc- their agenda is racist - forcing many British people out of the country. It would be like Uganda and Amin.

There would be a civil war.

Is that really what you aspire to?

hopefully in Local Government...That's the plan anyway...

Dear God Please NO!

I've posted from www.hopenothate.org.uk before but I'll do it again. Then I'm hiding this thread as all this vile congratulatoryBS is making me queasy.

"The only difference between the BNP of today and the BNP of old is presentation. The BNP knew that to be electorally successful it had to improve its image. It is the image, rather than the fundamental politics, that has changed.

Too often we hear the BNP being described as "anti-immigration" or "nationalist" or even simply "rightwing". Nothing could be further from the truth.

The BNP leaders might wear snappy suits and tone down their public message but their real politics are the same as they have always been.

The BNP is racist and nazi and must be exposed as such."

well I voted Tory (I know Riven, 2Shoes the rest of ou shoot me now - but he's a decent MP and I figured I'll be f*cked no matter who gets in so may as well keep in the current bloke who does actually do some good on a local scale) but I would NEVER vote BNP.

We had a BNP candidate.......thankfully he didn't bother having any of his racist bullshit posted through my letter box

"the immigration problem"

Explain to me DP in you own words what is problematic about immigration? I know what I think but I want to hear in YOUR own words what YOU personally find problematic about immigration?