Is the BNP a Protest or Ignorance Vote?

Even though this is old news I was getting my haircut and like taxi drivers hairdressers seem to think they should be running the country. I was subject to the political rants of someone who thought the BNP was a good party one that should be in power. So it has once again made me think did the BNP get voted into the European parliament through ignorance or a protest vote against Labour?

Nick Griffin leader of the BNP was voted into the European parliament alongside Andrew Brons. Why would people vote for a party that only needs the surfaced scratched to see the racist underbelly? One reason would be the recent outbreak of MP’s expenses including pornography films paid for in hotels, MP’s lavishly decorating homes with taxpayers money. With slogans like ‘Truth truck.’ and ‘British jobs for British workers.’ at a time when people are angered they make interesting reading. The economic slump and the classic phrase ‘They come over here and take our jobs.’ is perhaps another reason, people might agree it’s time to ship out the foreigners and give the jobs to British people. That was one of the points my hairdresser brought up, he argued that British people should be first pick for jobs, when I pointed out that around 40% of nurses on the NHS were foreign he said ‘Good, just give the jobs to British people.’

The thing is you can’t just hand over a job like a nurse to just anyone British or not, it takes years of training and education and with almost half of Britain’s nurses vanishing overnight if BNP had its way a national health service already struggling to cope would collapse overnight. Reports have also stated that a large portion of NHS dentists are foreign and with a growing amount of British dentists heading for private healthcare we need these foreign people who have come to our country to provide a service to all.

Ignorance is one of the things I’ve noticed when talking to people about the BNP, I don’t claim to be a political expert I don’t think anyone could, politics is on the go twenty-four hours a day 365 days a year. So I don’t know everything and I would never claim to, but the people I am talking to seem to know even less and this ignorance is dangerous, my hairdresser could not see the racist views of the party but he dreams of Britain once again becoming an empire at the expense of foreign colonies.