The BNP is a British Sinn Fein

Fraser’s piece on the BNP is well worth your time. Parts of it were eerily familiar as I had the feeling that I’d been down this road before. That’s because I have: the BNP’s strategy is pretty much the same as that employed by Sinn Fein in the Republic of Ireland. There wasn’t much talk of Marxist economic theory or the urgent need for a United Ireland when Sinn Fein was out canvassing Dublin housing estates. No, it was this sort of stuff:

Certainly, Mr Dunne could scarcely be more different from the stereotype of the tattooed thug. Besuited and softly spoken, he talks about taking his family to Kew Gardens and says that he wants to serve locals — ‘black or white’ — as best he can. It is a racially mixed estate, and there is no telling what the ethnicity of the voter opening the door will be. But the first, a young white man in his thirties, is a quick success.