In message , John Rowland
writes

2. You play into the hands of the nutters in the BNP and the right
wing press.

Support for the NF/BNP always goes up massively whenever Labour are in power
and always goes down to nothing whenever Labour are out of power. The vast
majority of BNP voters don't support the BNP's racism, they are merely
opposing the Labour Party's racism (although they are using a spectacularly
ineffective way to do so).


I think you're right. The perceived wisdom is that the BNP pick up
support from those awful Tory party people. In reality it seems to be
people who you'd consider natural Labour party members who turn to the
BNP. I've heard people say New Labour has no "vocabulary" to deal with
racial problems. Well they'd darn well better learn one if we want to
avoid a BNP upsurge in the upcoming GLA elections.

--
Edward Cowling "Must go - to find Shrodinger's Cat !"