Yes,
because Mossley became Prime Minister and everything.
If you talk about the BNP as if they were a threat, you make them into a serious political party. For decades they've been a joke, and now you people are pandering to them and giving them exactly what they want - serious attention. If you treat them like a genuine threat, what happens is that every anti-establishment nut-job and tinfoil hat wearing buffoon comes out of the woodwork and starts voting for them because they become the new 'anti-establishment' party. That's what happened with the fascists and the communists. As soon as you treat them like anything more than a bad joke, you lend them a kind of legitimacy in some people's eyes. If you ignore them, they will go away.
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If you talk about the BNP as if they were a threat, you make them into a serious political party. For decades they've been a joke, and now you people are pandering to them and giving them exactly what they want - serious attention. If you treat them like a genuine threat, what happens is that every anti-establishment nut-job and tinfoil hat wearing buffoon comes out of the woodwork and starts voting for them because they become the new 'anti-establishment' party. That's what happened with the fascists and the communists. As soon as you treat them like anything more than a bad joke, you lend them a kind of legitimacy in some people's eyes. If you ignore them, they will go away.