The Curmudgeon

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Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Ideas Behind Our Programme Do Not Oblige Us to Act Like Fools

A highly disciplined extraordinary general meeting of the British National Party has given the customary 99% approval to a constitutional change incorporating Gordon Brown's idea of Britishness. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has decreed that an assumption that only white people care about kicking immigrants out of Britain could be construed as racist, and has threatened the BNP with legal action. Asked whether the BNP had now put racism behind it, a party spokesbeing gave a note-perfect New New Labour reply, throwing aside the legalistic technicalities of mere affirmatives or negatives in favour of a steely and uncompromising focus on the public relations aspect: "Let's put it like this: If, as a result of this, a court rules that we are now a bonafide party, that's a great stamp of approval. If anyone says we are racist, we can say 'no we're not, it's been proved in court'." It remains to be seen whether the change is as sincere as Labour's conversion to neoliberalism or the Conservatives' conversion to Blairism.

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