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Sunday 18th October 2009
The BNP at the BBC

To paraphrase Chesterton, when the working class stop believing in Labour they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything - the BNP in Dagenham, Jamaat-e-Islami and the SWP in Tower Hamlets and the Christian People's Alliance in south London.In today's Observer I look at how the British establishment is hopeless at dealing with the extremist politics that result. One hopeful sign is the emergence of conservative organisations campaigning against fascism in all its forms, most notably the Centre for Social Cohesion and Nothing British About the BNP.  From a crudely electoral point of view Tories have everything to gain from a BNP vote damaging Labour. It is good to see them putting the national interest before party advantage.

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mary
October 19th, 2009
4:10 PM
One of the vilest aspects of the far right currently is the way they talk about repatriation. I mean this for example: 'It is late in the day, but Europe still has time to turn around the demographic time-bomb which will soon see a number of our largest cities fall to Muslim majorities. It has to. All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop'. The kind of person who speaks like that has no place at the BBC. anyone agree?

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Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer. You Can't Read This Book, his account of modern censorship, will be published this month by encounter. 

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