The political landscape has deliberately been undermined by successive governments who abuse their power and allow the public to be treated with contempt, abusing our rights, and allowing the rich to get richer while we effectively pay for it.
We have a “democracy” but the things the government does, like going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, bailing out banks, and indeed for some of the most important decisions the government takes, we actually have no direct influence over whatsoever. We have a choice about who gets to make the decisions “on our behalf”, but we don’t have a choice about what decision is made. Even when the decisions are unpopular with the public, nothing is done about it, that then becomes the fault of the political establishment for being arrogant and out of touch, and our fault for accepting injustice without enough opposition.
If the BNP feels that the voices of the “indigenous white people” are being ignored, that isn’t racism, its simply blinkered self interest, maybe something we are all guilty of, but politicians are particularly so. We are ALL being ignored by the political establishment, the problem is that our democratic system is systematically and consistently failing US the people who make it work, depend on it and pay for it.
Parties like the BNP can only exist when the democratic system is failing to the point where objectivity, reason and trust have been severely undermined. The anger felt by the public is fed upon by the likes of Griffin who are only really adding wind to confusion and providing a knee-jerk reaction that a significant number of people can identify with.
It cannot be possible that the educated men and women who govern our society can have lost reason to the extent whereby, for example, some MP’s who cheated the expenses system have to pay back a few thousand pounds whereas others who cheated the system to a far greater extent (e.g. by avoiding Capital Gains Tax) are not punished. Isn’t the moral being taught there, that the more you abuse the system, the more likely you are to escape punishment? Look at the bankers too, that’s another fine example. A working class man can be sent to prison for fraud, but politicians especially and bankers seem to be above the law.
It is not correct that the media should portray Gordon Brown was the greatest Chancellor ever when he sold of the countries gold reserves for virtually nothing and totally decimated the pension system. So why do the media do this?
How can Griffin say that London has been “ethnically cleansed”? What kind of understanding or appreciation of history does a statement like that show? Weren’t people killed because of their ethnicity in places like Bosnia and Darfur? Who has died in London mostly because of their ethnicity, white people or minorities? The only reason people like Griffin can get away with statements like that which show a contempt for human life, is because we have already listened to the judgements of people like Tony Blair who are prepared to lie and distort the truth for political ends, even if that means people will lose their lives.
Politicians have to realise that although you can win a particular argument by distorting the truth, there are many more valuable things are lost, such as integrity, the value of honesty and objectivity.
It should be clear that if the only way some people in this country feel that they can adequately express their political views is through someone like Griffin, then there has to be something wrong with the political system itself. We are semi-enfranchised, we have a vote but what is its true significance? Do we have direct influence about the issues that really matter? We think democracy is working for us, but it seems clear that the view of the majority of the people in this country is often suppressed, and because the mainstream parties are not listening or offering anything intellectually viable, people are following unreasoned instincts and drifting to people like Griffin and the BNP.
The media gets hysterical about racism, but the problem is much deeper than the reactionary and inflammatory statements that people like Griffin have as their stock in trade and the media latches onto for it’s sound-bites. “Racism” is deeply entrenched in society in ideological constructs and economic structures, these are much more difficult to perceive, and the media rarely gives enough time to examine the concepts behind why racism exists, so in reality the problems that underpin the very reasons why racism can exist have never truly been tackled. Today’s politically correct establishment are only creating a greater problem for future generations.
In all this confusion and heated debate, what should arguably be the real focus of our anger escapes examination and punishment – i.e. the political system and the political establishment as a whole. We are being deliberately manipulated! We are entering an era of “barbarian politics”, devoid of intellectual integrity, justice and objectivity.