Far-right BNP deserves no sympathy

"Am I alone in feeling no sympathy, none at all, for those drippy losers, the so-called lost souls who are delivering their votes to the fascistic, but now fashion-conscious BNP [the far-right British National Party]?" asks columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. A recent poll by a Sunday tabloid newspaper suggested 45 percent of voters in one east London borough were considering voting for the BNP in local elections in May. "After decades of universal education these voters - ignoramuses and bigots - have learnt nothing about the evils of Nazism and racial hatred. They rush into the arms of a ruthlessly manipulative party which makes them feel like local heroes for impugning mainstream politicians, the middle classes, immigrants, the EU, Jews, Muslims, blacks and Asians. So let them. The BNP and the always disgruntled deserve each other; they inhabit the same airless pit of reproach, rejection and irredeemable pessimism."

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