Which UK Party has the following as part of its core policy?
We will freeze immigration for five years, speed up deportation of
up to a million illegal immigrants by tripling the numbers engaged in
deportations, and have ‘no home no visa’ work permits to ease the
housing crisis.
No not the BNP, who now have two MEPs, but UKIP with 13 MEPs.
Staying with UKIP as they now have the second largest number of MEPs in the UK and intend to field a large number of candidates in the next General Election should we now consider them a Mainstream Party?
Moving over to Holland and the situation where the far-right PVV has won 4 European Parliament Seats and has Nine MPs in the Dutch Parliament.
For some years the Idle Man has considered Dutch Public opinion as an indicator of future trends in British Public opinion.
If the Dutch, who for all my adult life, have been one of the most tolerant of nations has moved this far to the right, then my guess is unless the Mainstream Parties in Britain address the reasons for the BNP and UKIP gains, then in five years time the Far Right may not just a cause for concern, but a major force in British Politics.
But I fear the three main parties, other than occasionally wringing their Hands about the rise of the BNP and promising to do something to address the reasons, will actually do little, or nothing.
In the European Parliament my guess is that two BNP MEPs will 'double team' with the four MEPs from the PVV (after all they have so much in common) but whether they and the PVV join the Independence/Democracy Group (of which UKIP is a member) or combine with other Far-Right MEPs (with whom they have less common ground) to form a new Group is going to be a situation to watch.
External Links to the Parties Mentioned in this Post
UKIP - United Kingdom Independence Party
See the UKIP Policies Section both summary and detail.
BNP - British National Party
PVV - Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) English Website
Other External Links
Independence/Democracy Group Web Site
Independence/Democracy Group - Wikipedia Entry
Nick Robinson BBC Political Editor Blog
Mark Mardell's Euroblog
We will freeze immigration for five years, speed up deportation of
up to a million illegal immigrants by tripling the numbers engaged in
deportations, and have ‘no home no visa’ work permits to ease the
housing crisis.
No not the BNP, who now have two MEPs, but UKIP with 13 MEPs.
Staying with UKIP as they now have the second largest number of MEPs in the UK and intend to field a large number of candidates in the next General Election should we now consider them a Mainstream Party?
Moving over to Holland and the situation where the far-right PVV has won 4 European Parliament Seats and has Nine MPs in the Dutch Parliament.
For some years the Idle Man has considered Dutch Public opinion as an indicator of future trends in British Public opinion.
If the Dutch, who for all my adult life, have been one of the most tolerant of nations has moved this far to the right, then my guess is unless the Mainstream Parties in Britain address the reasons for the BNP and UKIP gains, then in five years time the Far Right may not just a cause for concern, but a major force in British Politics.
But I fear the three main parties, other than occasionally wringing their Hands about the rise of the BNP and promising to do something to address the reasons, will actually do little, or nothing.
In the European Parliament my guess is that two BNP MEPs will 'double team' with the four MEPs from the PVV (after all they have so much in common) but whether they and the PVV join the Independence/Democracy Group (of which UKIP is a member) or combine with other Far-Right MEPs (with whom they have less common ground) to form a new Group is going to be a situation to watch.
External Links to the Parties Mentioned in this Post
UKIP - United Kingdom Independence Party
See the UKIP Policies Section both summary and detail.
BNP - British National Party
PVV - Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) English Website
Other External Links
Independence/Democracy Group Web Site
Independence/Democracy Group - Wikipedia Entry
Nick Robinson BBC Political Editor Blog
Mark Mardell's Euroblog
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