PatrickNeville wrote:
Do the BNP not have some black members?
Ian Paisley had some Roman Catholics voting for him in his constituency during his time as a Westminster MP and was a very good constituency MP by all accounts. It didn't stop him spouting his poisonous, sectarian, anti-Catholic bigotry at every turn during a time when Catholics were being murdered in his constituency though.
The BNP can be condemned out of their own mouths. I suspect the reason why there is a small number of black people in the BNP is because of the (now) anti-Muslim nature of the party, in common with many 'euronationalist' parties like France's Front National, which the BNP have relations with.
Also, the BNP has a neo-Nazi and violent past. Its original leader, John Tyndall, was virulently anti-Semitic and a neo-Nazi and the party has been associated with shaven heads and racist skinheads, like its predecessor, the National Front. UKIP doesn't have that association. The main thrust of UKIP support is often former Tories who want out of the EU. In fact, we've been called 'obsessive' many a time because that's the only thing Nigel ever talks about when he's on TV, like a broken record.
That's not to say that all, or even most, of their voters are racist skinheads. A lot of them vote BNP as a protest vote at their areas being swamped with immigrants. Their greatest support is generally in rough northern English mill towns where the population is divided.
Ok. I've bookmarked the UKIP's page to look at later on.