Whatever you do, don't support the BNP.

I'm not up on the nuances of the British National Party (BNP) platform. The British seem to have some kind of problem with the party. Evidently its doctrines and/or personages are not to the liking of really top drawer people and those who take their marching orders from really top drawer people.

My view of the BNP is more simplistic and it is this: the BNP advocates immigration policies that will reverse the mad policies of the establishment parties of Britain. The meaning of any vote for the BNP will be crystal clear to the establishment parties who can then contemplate having either to enter into a coalition with the BNP, be governed by a BNP government, or shift to the right to take the wind out of the BNP sails.

A BNP vote may be absolutely the right thing to do on its merits for all I know. Even if this is not the case, the option of using a vote for the BNP as a way of getting the attention of the people who have so enthusiastically gotten Britain into the mess it's in now just doesn't seem to occur to significant portions of British voters.

Aparently the situation described by John Derbyshire below is unpleasant to the British but they are simply clueless on how to use the political system to their advantage.

It's like watching a horror movie. You know the young guy and his girlfriend are going to split up in the castle cellar to find the source of the screams and clanking chains. You know it's a terrible idea and you want to yell out to them not to do it. But you know they're going to go ahead and choose the absolutely worst option available to them. All the evidence is against that course of action but they will persist in it until disaster strikes:

Crime syndicates, frequently run by immigrants, have taken over large areas of British cities. Look at this astonishing picture from the Daily Mail. Caption: "Hundreds of officers in riot gear mass in a residential street in London yesterday afternoon before launching raids on 19 business and shop premises in the adjoining Blackstock Road which are thought to be a front for organized crime."

If you read the adjoining story, you learn that: "In Blackstock Road, officers handed out leaflets in English and Arabic to explain the operation." Arabic, huh? Right.

Another resident, Sean Cooper, 56, said: "Abu Hamza used to preach nearby and that attracted a lot of the wrong kind of people." Right, again.

As it happens, I used to live in Blackstock Road. I had lodgings there for a few months while studying in London during the mid-1960s. At that time it was a quiet lower-middle-class street populated by English people — people who had not yet really been introduced to the joys of diversity; people who expected that if they called for the police, police would show up; people who would walk in the streets at night, a thing nobody in England does now.

This the British meekly accept. Where is the evidence that their beloved "safe" political parties are going to do one thing to change this?

"March Diary: Talk of the islands." By John Derbyshire, NationalReviewOnline, 4/1/08 (emphasis added).