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Originally Posted by iguanamanc
Some of them may well have read the BNP manifesto, which obviously does not contain some of the extreme views you highlight. That manifesto might well appeal to many - how should I put it - British people.
But I suspect you are absolutely correct that it is reaction to the obvious failings of the mainstream parties and their representatives.
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Absolutely. I expect that there will always be a hardcore of BNP supporters. But I think the level of support, especially from the white-working class, shows just how far the Tories and Labour have moved away from being parties of the people, Labour especially.
By focusing on the affluent, the middle class and swing voters (almost exclusively in New Labour's case), the main parties have forgotten, or neglected, their bedrock support.
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Originally Posted by Redlambs
Didn't one of their flids recently claim there's not such thing as Rape?
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Nick Griffin claimed the Qu'ran allows Muslims to rape non-believers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/18/race.religion
And here's the numpty I think you were referring to is Nick Eriksen:
On Rohypnol:
“It turns out that these stupid tarts are simply getting blind drunk, taking ‘recreational’ drugs themselves, and then having sex. Next day they wake up with an almighty hangover and a deep feeling of shame and regret. So what do they do then? Why, cry rape of course, and try to get a poor innocent man sent to prison in order to save their ‘reputation’ – as if they had one!”
On rape:
"Rape is simply sex."
"“Men who go along with the rape myth are either morons or traitors”.
“Rape is simply sex. Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal. To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting that force feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence. A woman would be more inconvenienced by having her handbag snatched.”
On women:
“Men are more intelligent than women – it’s a fact. Let’s be proud of it, let’s celebrate it, let’s take advantage of it, and let’s not tolerate women who seek to deny it.”
“Very few men have any inkling of the hatred and contempt which most women have for them”
“Feminist talk about ‘equality’ is just a pretext – their real agenda is to try to gain superiority over men”.
“Let’s be honest, for a woman to consider a job or career more important than having children is, quite literally, unnatural. Of course having children usually leads to women’s careers being disrupted, but so what? … Instead of complaining that nature prevents women from having successful careers women should embrace the career nature has ascribed to them – motherhood.”
On domestic violence:
Eriksen believes that figures that show women are the victim in nearly four fifths of domestic violence incidents are a lie and that men are the real victims. In an article in November 2005 entitled “Give her a slap”, Eriksen attacked campaigns that try to heighten awareness of the domestic violence and abuse as an attempt “to vilify men”.
Commenting upon a very public fracas in which Rebekah Wade, editor of The Sun, was arrested following a fight with her husband, the actor Ross Kemp, in 2005, Eriksen advanced his own solution. “Come on Ross,” urged Eriksen, “let’s see if you’re as tough as your on-screen persona – give your wife a good slap!”
On himself:
He describes himself having a “‘right-wing’, nationalist, patriotic, traditional viewpoint, promoting men’s rights and the national interest of the British people. Opposed to all forms of political correctness.”