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Platform the Bastards

June 8th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

BNP voters aren’t going to listen to me. I don’t blame them. But then, this message isn’t aimed at BNP voters. This is aimed at those of you still desperately clinging to the idea that No Platform is going to work.

As I write this, I’m listening to a live broadcast of a speech by bog-eyed slime ball fuck-wit Nick Griffin. I’m struck by the overwhelming sense that Nick is quite clearly a moron, that he’s just another politician like any other, promising truly atrocious policies presented in the sort of style more commonly associated with infomercials and tele-evangelism.

It’s obvious, isn’t it? The best way to ‘stop’ the BNP is to put this man on television and allow him to make people feel that same sense of queasy repulsion I felt.

You can’t really go around yelling, “BUT THEY’RE RASCIST” and expect that to have an effect on people who don’t give a shit about racism. You can’t go around yelling, “BUT THEY’RE FASCISTS!” and expect that to have an effect on people who don’t understand what fascism is, and you can’t go around yelling, “BUT THEY’RE NAZIS!” and expect people to believe something that sounds so fantastical and absurd.

Quite simply the best way to fight the BNP is to let people understand just how pathetically typical of bad politicians they really are. Platform the bastards. It’s the only way. Of course, if they try imposing their national socialist shit on me I’ll raise up a militia and have them exterminated like the vermin they are.

Just saying.

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