“Tho’ cowards flinch and traitors sneer …”

Sorry, just saw your comment for some reason. Those, as of today, are the responses that we have received.

Duncan Stott:

Thanks for that. I hope Huhne proves up to it.

My email address is in the full profile at 5cc.

As far as I know, so far only those two sets of questions have been formally presented to the BNP by the intermediary.

However, during the weekend I did present another opportunity for responses to two further sets of questions from the full list, as indicated here http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6008#comment-179433 and here http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/6008#comment-179439 .

As you can see, no answers were forthcoming.

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On a separate note, for future reference, is there a way to confidentially contact you offline via email or via your blog ?

Did you ever get answers to any subsequent set of questions, or were there only the two sets? I can find the first set, and the ones linked to above but I can’t seem to find any others.

Interesting to go through stuff with a clear head when things aren’t so immediate as they were months ago.

The answer says that anyone who trusts government immigration stats is gullible, and the BNP will conduct a population audit. So we’re supposed to trust the party of Richard ‘three murders in Barking’ Barnbrook over the current ONS.

That’ll work.

You’re a bit fucking thick, aren’t you?

“The writer and economist Philippe Legrain is unimpressed. “It shows a complete lack of trust in the British people to suggest that if they’re exposed to racist views on television, they’ll all be swayed by them.”

Many [new BNP supporters] are traditional Labour supporters who now feel abandoned by the political mainstream, anxious about their future and distrustful of any figure of authority…

It is the failure to engage with them, and with their fears and concerns, that helped pave their way to the far right…

Others fear that support for the BNP will continue to grow unless mainstream politicians accept that indigenous Britons are being unfairly treated. It’s a view that has led many politicians who are not racist nevertheless to echo the claims of the far-right…”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8275282.stm

What I don’t understand is how they can combine this insistence on debating the BNP, with denial of the BNP’s policy concerns. To advocate debate with the BNP suggests a recognition of the concerns of its voters. However, on many other issues, this blog and its regular contributors downplay or deny these concerns. (It’s true the BNP is itself evasive).

A specific example: Geert Wilders recently proposed the deportation of several million Muslims. He back-pedalled the next day, and the BNP hides behind “voluntary repatriation”. There is probably substantial support for mass deportations, and yet concrete proposals are absent from the political arena. Now, I know what Sunny Hundal would say to that. He would say: “no evidence for that option, its at most a tiny minority who want that option, British voters are concerned about extremism, we (Asians / Muslims) must therefore deal with the extremists in our own communities”. Such denial of widespread xenophobia is a typical response, from the political and media elite.

But if you follow this logic, then either

a. the BNP belong to the ‘tiny minority’ – so in that case why spend time prominently debating with them?

b. the BNP agree with Sunny Hundal and the political mainstream – meaning they have no problems with Islam as such, or with immigration as such, they just want the government (and the Muslim communities) to deal with the Islamist extremists. So in that case, what’s the point of the debate?

If the mainstream response is indeed correct, then surely it is all very simple. The government can intern the ‘tiny minority’ of Islamists, and the ‘tiny minority’ of Muslims who support them, and indeed the ‘tiny minority’ of EDL supporters. Then, with these 300 or so people interned somewhere like Thurso, the BNP will dissolve itself, harmony will prevail, and Britain will be happy and glorious once more.

And a “wench” or two

The quotes above alone are enough to undermine the credibility of the entire BNP. He’s the best asset the liberal left have.

Put him up against a few Black or Jewish panelists, just watch him froth at the mouth.

Can you clarify whom you mean. Am asking, since Like Nick Griffin, am sure you are not claiming it to mean white people

Perhaps some thought that would also be the effect before Glenn Beck was interviewed. Though I do not think that the many ordinary american folk were driven to change the ‘staggering and unsettling’ demographic in the states.