It was Thursday 22^nd October that the face of British politics changed forever, well that’s what the media would have you believe. Before the broadcast of Question Time the press were clambering over the news that such a terrible politician could be making his way into our very own living rooms. After the show we still have a furore amongst certain groups.

I’ve read all of the recent news stories about how Nick Griffin encountered a “lynch mob” and the audience were unfairly biased against him. That aside the most interesting one for me is that a YouGov poll suggests that 22% of the electorate would “seriously consider” voting BNP the next chance they are at the polls. The most surprising part for me is that politicians from both Labour and the Conservatives have been lambasting this poll. We have Peter Hain talking about how the BNP have “hit the big time”. What confuses me about this having discussed this at length with several people is what is the real issue at heart? It is that the BNP have fascist roots and are racist or is that just a side?

For me this is demonstrating a much bigger problem, one that has become ubiquitous with modern politics. That is that they don’t listen to the voter’s concerns; more worryingly with the recent expenses scandal they have shown complete disregard even abhorrence. I’m sorry but how dare an elected official treat their voters, who lets not forget are their bosses in such a way.

Taking this back to a grass roots level I often hear the average person on the street talk about local authority services. One such example would be social housing. Some “native” or “ indigenous” people can wait many months’ even years for social housing. While this would be fair if it were a first come first serve basis this does not seem so. You can have such an “indigenous” person who has lived in an area for their whole life being refused housing yet having a immigrant/outsider/alien get a house almost immediately. How do the politicians think this makes people feel? Incensed?

This argument goes well beyond being a tolerant society and racism. People who have lived somewhere all of their life feel a sense of entitlement, at least in comparison to an immigrant. I mean we now live in a society where it’s offensive to say blackboard and whiteboard.

Now more than ever I think we need some sense injected into society.  Racism, fascism are all just covers for the excuses of the mainstream political parties failures in recent years. They need to start sitting up and listening to the real concerns of voters and stop this political correctness nonsense. People don’t care about the colour they want to know why somebody from a foreign country got a house before they did.

Writer’s Footnote:

While this may sound very biased towards the BNP, I personally wouldn’t vote for them, nor would I vote Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or even the SNP after Angus Robertson’s disregard for my tax pounds.  However I do make the point in voting, voter apathy only creates more problems.