How many seats will the BNP take from Labour?

Lots and lots, I hope, enough anyway, to pour concentrated bleach into the gaping, open wound of Labour's crass stupidity.  Lest you doubt their imbecility read Fraser Nelson's post at The Coffee House in which he reports that Nick Brown, the Labour Chief Whip, no less, has put down a motion in the Commons to ban Nick Griffin and his side-kick from access to Parliament - despite these two being recently elected to the Euro-parliament by their British constituents!  What else illustrates better the contempt for ordinary voters which years in office has swollen like a maligant tumours in what passes for brains amongst Labour 'big-wigs'?  As Nelson puts it far better than I can:

Whose fault is it that Griffin was elected in the first place? As I argued in the News of the World a while ago: if I had my way, I'd base Griffin in Westminster so MPs would see his smug face walking past them every day. I'd have them queuing in front of them in the canteen, propping up Annie's Bar, holding court in the Churchill dining room with his skinhead guests, the works. I want him in their faces, until they take seriously the problem he represents. For Griffin is there mainly on white working class votes. He is a reminder of the MPs' collective failure to reach out to forgotten voters - their failure to tackle the immigration debate, their obsession with swing voters in swing seats.

In hoping that the BNP will take seats off Labour, what I really mean is that I hope they reduce the Labour vote enough for others to take previous safe Labour seats.  I do not under-estimate the potential danger they pose, and I agree whole-heartedly when Nelson writes this:

I find them [the BNP] wholly loathsome, genuinely racist and fundamentally un-British. Where I differ from most is that I also regard them as a real danger in our politics and society, rather than a lunatic fringe. Their views (anti-EU, anti-mass immigration) are that of the mainstream in Britain but find no Westminster representation.  Looking at Westminster's response to the BNP so far, I'd say the horror story of their success is far from over.

Comments

[dearieme]

Quite a contrast to Labour's sucking up to the terrorists of the IRA, eh?

[David Duff]

Ah, yes, but once again it is a case of your terrorist is my freedom fighter!