I only ask because once more this morning we find a prominent Labour politician talking up the chances of the BNP. It is only Neil Kinnock you may say, but he is being pushed out there along with John Prescott as the campaigning voice of New Labour.
It now seems to be the default position of Labour politicians to argue that the party must unite behind Gordon or else the BNP bogeyman will profit at their expense. Fine, argue for unity all you like but remember this, if disaffected voters are told that the BNP are a viable opposition often enough by people who should really know better then they will start to believe them.
You cannot fight the BNP effectively by talking them up. You cannot convince people that what the BNP stand for is wrong by uniting the political etablishment against them. They are an anti-establishment party for goodness sake.
By all means point out the BNP’s record as individuals and if relevant demonstrate why their candidates are not fit to be representives of their community. But at the end of the day you have to campaign on the issues so that people recognise that there are politicians and parties standing up for their interests and thus taking away their reason to turn to the BNP in the first place.
Oh yes, and just in case Neil Kinnock strays back into Wales, the BNP cannot win here. It is a mathematical impossibility. To hint otherwise is the best way for Labour to lose their second seat to one of the other mainstream parties.
Didn’t I say all this yesterday?
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