Brit Working Class Warms To Bnp Fascists

IN BRITAIN this week everyone is writing about the horrifying move of working-class Brits to the racist British National Party, or BNP. And there is a fear among the chattering classes that the BNP will make substantial gains in the local elections coming up in May. But they really cannot believe it. Writes Rachel Sylvester in the Daily Telegraph,

I find it hard to believe that a sixth of people in this tolerant, decent and middle-of-the-road country really will... put an X in the far-Right box when they fill in their ballot papers in two weeks' time.

Oh please. It is the middle class that believes in tolerance, decency, and middle-of-the-road. The working class belonged to the Labour Party because it was a fighting party that at least talked about a class war against the Tory toffs.

The problem is that the traditional working class, the non-working class that lives in �social housing� and �on the sick,� i.e., on disability rather than work, has rather gone off Tony Blair�s Labour Party.

Actually, it is probably closer to the truth to say that the Labour Party has gone off them.

It used to be that the Labour Party lived and breathed the working class, but now it is more interested in canvassing support from social workers, teachers, and immigrant Muslims and doing the multicultural thing. Understandably the working class feels betrayed.

On top of that the welfare state has destroyed the authentic culture of the working class. It used to be that working-class men had jobs, got married, and supported their children. They liked a smoke, and they liked a drink. In the welfare state, they don�t need working-class men. Sorry fellahs.

In Germany when the ordinary people got reamed by the lefty politicians in the 1920s they regressed, in their demoralization, to the tribal politics offered to them by Adolf Hitler.

Today in France and in Britain the elite has tired of telling the working class that it is the salt of the earth. They have gone on to other enthusiasms. Whereas they used to demonstrate their progressive faith by throwing other peoples� money at the working class now they show how advanced they are by encouraging unlimited immigration and making Britain into a tolerant multicultural society.

And they are surprised that their former proteges are upset?

What is happening is that the working class, the folk that the Fabian socialists had organized into the tribal politics of class, is now shifting towards another form of tribalism, the tribalism of being native French and native British and hating the new pampered favorites of the political class. Abandoned by their lefty tribal chieftains they are seeking new clan leadership.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.