Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for 10 years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
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Good news from the fascist Green Arrow site. The Nick Griffin Uber loyalist has called it a day, his site has expired, its shuffled off it's mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible... it is an ex-blog.
So, one less blog spitting out its bile must be good news, but it also means we miss a bit of a laugh. For instance, he recently started a post with this classic line...
"Now those of us with half a brain have known for a long time..."
The BNP are done for, and know it very well. If Cameron wins the next election that's the end of them. Labour will bounce right back in areas like this the minute they're out of government nationally, as everyone who wants to vote against them in Whitehall will turn to them.
And then there's the fact that they're mentally bankrupt, incompetent losers. They haven't got a policy between them.
They talk about representing the white working class, but even if you accept that the white working class magically have different interests to the black or brown working class, the BNP would only harm them.
For example, in Stoke, they proposed cutting funding for Citizens' Advice, despite the fact that many working-class people use the service. This was presumably to spite immigrants. But they actually spend more money on home visits to white clients and on running very expensive bureaux on white council estates, so this is what the BNP want to annihilate.
They do not have a clue what they are doing and would be totally lost if they went anywhere near power, because they don't actually care if their voters live or die, they just want a chance to enact their paranoid fantasies.
And that is why they are never going to achieve anything.
July 20, 2008 6:29 AM | permalink
The BNP are done for, and know it very well. If Cameron wins the next election that's the end of them. Labour will bounce right back in areas like this the minute they're out of government nationally, as everyone who wants to vote against them in Whitehall will turn to them.
And then there's the fact that they're mentally bankrupt, incompetent losers. They haven't got a policy between them.
They talk about representing the white working class, but even if you accept that the white working class magically have different interests to the black or brown working class, the BNP would only harm them.
For example, in Stoke, they proposed cutting funding for Citizens' Advice, despite the fact that many working-class people use the service. This was presumably to spite immigrants. But they actually spend more money on home visits to white clients and on running very expensive bureaux on white council estates, so this is what the BNP want to annihilate.
They do not have a clue what they are doing and would be totally lost if they went anywhere near power, because they don't actually care if their voters live or die, they just want a chance to enact their paranoid fantasies.
And that is why they are never going to achieve anything.