Revolutionary Rants

It pissed down all day. Really heavy rain at time, too. I managed to get long enough between lashings to sweep leaves so that the new pup can go up to use the garden.

Other than that I’ve made curry, cooked some of the stuff for a roast (enjoyed at Mum and Dad’s, very nice) and played Warcraft. Now I am watching Wexford before retiring to bed at the end of another week. Can’t wait for Tuesday, though!

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The British National Party has gone rural. The little “idyllic” West Sussex village of Upper Beeding is the latest parish council target of the UK’s least savioury political party. Blonde mum-of-three Donna Bailey (part of the new, family friendly face of the BNP now the likes of Mark Collette have been pushed back down the ranks) is standing for a position on her local parish council. Essentially, she says, she is wanting a new swing put up for the kiddies in the park - oh, and maybe a youth club eventually as the village has trouble with ‘hoodies’ hanging around the local shop in the evenings.

Donna, a beautician (although she has a degree in Business and German as well…), says everything the BNP says is “reasonable”. No one, Donna claims, should be ‘forced’ into repatriation but it is a good idea… As are the other thinly veiled racisms of the BNP.

In recent inteviews with the Guardian and Mail Bailey, like the BNP local councillor I interviewed for Huddersfield Student a few years back, trots out the ‘misunderstood’ and ‘we’re not very right wing at all’ lines. It seems that after the aforementioned Collette, and Nick Griffin, the leader of the party, were caught on camera waxing lyrical in rather unsavoury terms on issues of race during a meeting that all party hopefuls are told to be good and couch all the party’s right wing propaganda in comfy language and add a bit of “Why us?!?!” for good measure. It is an interesting change in PR. A few years back, Griffin was in the Sunday Times Magazine, Collette on a documentary saying AIDS was ‘a friendly disease’. They had a brief vogue, interesting and nonthreatening, there to have the mickey gently taken by a journo or three, but now the BNP is feeding on the lack of interest in politics in Britain now, creeping into council and parish seats, causing publicity grabbing fusses during general or larger elections. Not so funny now, a bit scary in fact.

Lets hope the true blue village of Upper Beeding thinks so, too. And if not, give them their publicity and let them tell everyone what they really are…

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