The most depressing thing about the DuckIsland Parliamentary crisis is not only that it makes people think Lumley should stand...

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but that this, and the Banking Crisis are going to be a massive shoe-in for fucking fascists.

It is actually scary.

Well if they can make the trains run on time....

You mean BNP? Why exactly?

Blimey. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown just made this very point on QT the minute I posted it.

We're all thinking it aren't we?

meh, the fact that the fascists are flatlining (3-4% in the polls) despite this, demonstrates that this is not the case.

Because people will see them as some kind of 'ordinary people' alternative, which is exactly the kind of shite they use in their propaganda.

no, because anyone who even thinks of voting for the BNP is a fuckwit, expenses crisis or not quite frankly

and if people think UKIP are whiter than white, then they just haven't experienced UKIP!

There are lots of fuckwits where I live.

the thing is the BNP are simply too fascist for all but the hardcore Nazis. There is an appetite for right wing populism, as seen in Europe, but the BNP ain't it.

well it's a shame

they should be banished, fuckwits, that is

if people can't see the BNP for what they truly are then I despair of their upbringing

think what this will inspire more than anything else is apathy tbh

UKIP are of course the only truly right-wing party in the UK, but they are hardly credible, half their MEPs are crooks and they have no particular stars in their party. I suspect the BBC bias against anything right wing helps to keep them down too.

Don't know if apathy is exactly the word though. I mean even if you are really motivated to make the right choice who can you vote for? You only get to choose which crook will be in charge.

it's not correct to think they are all crooks though onager

a lot of them were, but plenty of MPs weren't

but it's tainted the whole lot and put people off

also check out your local options. Not all of them are crooks although gawd knows how that works in the European elections ;-)

Bizarrely puzzled by the op. What has Joanna Lumley got to do with the bnp
other than blasting them?

my thread was meant humorously. But you know, it is nice to see someone actually being passionate about an issue and doing something about it.