Fascist on the London Assembly

Sat, 03 May 2008 11:36:55 GMT

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Millions of people across Britain will be shocked and horrified by the news that the fascist British National Party (BNP) has managed to grab an assembly seat in London – one of the most multiracial and diverse cities of the world.

While anti-fascist campaigning and the high turnout helped hold the Nazis back, it was not enough to prevent them from breaking through the crucial 5 percent barrier that guarantees a London assembly seat.

Much of the blame for letting the Nazis in lies with the political and media establishment that has whipped up a storm of racism against Muslims and immigrants

They have lashed out at Muslims to find a scapegoat for their disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and lashed out at Poles to deflect anger at the poor housing, decaying public services and dismal wages

The fascists feed off this climate of despair – and they will grow further if the anti-Nazi majority does not stand together and stand up to their politics of bigotry and race hatred.

London Meltdown

Sat, 03 May 2008 11:31:27 GMT

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What could go wrong did go wrong. Boris Johnson is mayor, with a convincing lead. The BNP got a seat on the Assembly. And the Left List failed to make an impact except in a few concentrated areas

New Labour has collapsed decisively not on some right-wing hocus-pocus about crime or immigration (although the media hysteria obviously contributed to this), but on the ten pence tax rate and the economy and the sense that Labour doesn't even try to represent ordinary working people any more

in part because of the poisonous climate generated over immigrants and Muslims, the Nazis of the BNP are on the Assembly while there estranged half-cousins from the National Front (who consider the BNP sell-outs) polled strongly

The Blairites' advice was evidently no use to Ken

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