Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

On Sat, 03 May 2008 22:37:27 GMT, Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>David Friedman wrote:
>> In article <memo.20080503135219.3756B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Dormer) wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <ddfr-8B06C3.00280603052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David Friedman) wrote:
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>>>> There were some Nazi supporters outside of Germany, but I don't 
>>>> think they were ever anything close to comparable in number or 
>>>> importance.
>>> Note that the BNP, considered to be a Nazi-like party, has won a
number
>>> of seats in the local elections in the UK this week, and even have a
>>> seat on the London Assembly.  I don't believe any communist party
>>> candidates won.
>> 
>> Checking Wikipedia, they seem to get under 1% of the vote. They appear 
>> to be nationalists and anti-immigration--but it wasn't opposition to 
>> immigration that defined the Nazi program.
>>
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>You get the cleaned up official polite version of the BNP from Wikipedia.
>
>Think skinheads with swaztikas tattooed on their foreheads, wearing 
>Doc Martin boots and kicking the living daylights out of anyone "of a 
>funny colour".  Now give them some laser surgery on those tattoos (the 
>visible ones), put them in a suit and a bit of elocution to improve 
>their vocabulary.  Same words, said in a posher voice.  (they're not 
>just "anti-immigration", they're "pro-repatriation")

And they don't seem to be serious about politics, other than an "it
gives us respectability" sort of way.

One of the BNP councillors elected in Sandwell in 2007, James Lloyd,
was eventually thrown off the council for not attending a single
council meeting in the first six months after he was elected.

Alan Woodford
The Greying Lensman