They say a bogus assaylum seeker is someone who passes through various safe countries in order to get to britain.

For example, lets say someone from Afghanistan. They pass through an estimated 15 safe countries before they get to Britain. The BNP would argue that they could stop in any of those countries but choose Britain because we are more incline to give them a home benefits and various other luxuries.

They do however say that when France Sweden Ireland Belgium and Holland go to war it is our moral duty as neighbours to accept them.

I think what people are saying is in general they have good policies but many are unpractical. Im sure when i was reading the Daily Mail the policies where presented very differently. Hmm must be my imagination i mean...Newspapers never exaggerate....do they?

To be honest most of their policies are just pandering to the masses, they are unworkable and just go from right to left seemingly at random, whilst sneaking in their own "all foreigners out" policy here and there along the way. It screams "ill thought out" to me.

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Reading through their economic policy it just seems to me as though they are confused. They keep talking about a thriving Britain, whilst at the same time talking about reducing imports and kicking out foreign businesses. Here are some sound bites.

"We further believe that British industry, commerce, land and other economic and natural assets belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people. To that end the BNP will restore our economy and land to British ownership."

"The BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports."

And it goes on like that. All the way through they claim to want a "thriving Britain", yet at the same time they are going to selectively stop imports from some countries and kick out foreign businesses? Why not just isolate ourselves from the global economic community while we're at it?

It doesn't work, it panders to the masses, sets unrealistically high goals, blames problems on foreigners here and there and most points seem to conflict with another. And that is exactly what most of their policies are like.

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Pretty much all of their policies follow this suit. Set unrealistically high goals, attempt to pander to the masses, blame immigrants, ignore conflicting policies. They are ill thought out and empty.

I can see the point others make about asylum seekers regarding passage through various countries. If you are genuinely seeking asylum you should claim it in the first 'safe' country you come across. However, that perhaps pases unfair responsabilities on certain countries bordering a problem nation. The EU proposed a system where asylum seekers would be processed centrally in Europe and would then be sent to which ever EU country needed them or could best cope. Unfortunately that was in the rejected EU constitution which everyone hated despite what I expect to be a large majority never even bothering to read it.

I'm not so sure I would agree that in general they have good policies. They do have a few I would agree with but most of them are ill thought out and they have many others which I would strongly disagree as well as a few which contridict each other. There's no question that if they ever did get into power (which they won't) they would be a complete disaster for the country. I also find it funny how some conservatives can support them given how liberal most of their (non-immigration) policies are.

I just copied the BNP's bulleted statements. So before you disagree about anything that you thinks sounds good, you might have to click the link and read the whole view on it.

data from STTNG: Reading through their economic policy it just seems to me as though they are confused. They keep talking about a thriving Britain, whilst at the same time talking about reducing imports and kicking out foreign businesses. Here are some sound bites.

I remember a time when Britain ruled the world. It did so by the strength and genius of it's own people.

Yep, this. They aren't even consistent. They are just a racist party trying to look politically mainstream so they can get some votes.

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@Tyrannical

No, it did so because we owned most of the world's production and administered most of the world's economically active people.

Now all we have, as a productive industry that exports things people want, is financial services. The rest of our economy is unproductive consumerism. If our country was actually valued on what we produce (including services) vs. what we consume we would be nothing.

Whereas America has a lot of manufacturing and does actual R&D.

I'm not Data, I am a real person here.

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As for your comment. We also did it by conquering a quarter of the world and using foreign populations to serve us .

We are pretty pitiful as a race we argue who is allowed to live in a country productive or counter-productive it really shows we can't utimately find or won't pursuit alturistic actions these days.

This goes for every country, our people is the human race sure with have difference but really we should look out for eachother no matter what. What would of happened if Pangaea wasn't broken, would we still have the same problem

Where did i say i want them in power? All i said was i would rather have them than Labour.

And how would they take advantage of it?

BNP is popular because Labour have been so counterproductive in last few years which largely frustatrated society. Griffin and his puppets are just very good at manipulating people that were left alienated by politics. But voting for them even as a protest vote is silly, they have no real policies, and wont do anything constructive.

But British politics needs to answer immigrant problem in the UK to deal with rising BNP popularity and frustration in the society. (And this comes from an immigrant living in the UK)

Of course they are, they have the experience and are a much, much bigger party. Although they haven't done a good job at all IMO...

I read a few of the stuff last night before i went to bed, a few of them have been posted here. And i have to say, like Tyrannical, i liked quite a bit of what i saw. Would it work? You say it wouldn't... But IMO it can't be much worse than it is now.