http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/27/shock-poll-shows-rising-tide-of-right-wing-nationalism-115875-22951794/#ixzz1RlBMC6Fp
Almost half the country would back a new right-wing party that vowed to crack down on immigration and Islamic extremists, a shock poll reveals today.
They would also restrict the building of mosques and order the flag of St George or the Union Jack be flown on all public buildings.
The revelations will spark fresh fears of racial tension in Britain amid a new wave of support for extreme right-wing parties like the British National Party and the English Defence League.
Findings of the survey, the largest of its kind and involving 5,054 people, are in a major report called Fear and Hope – the New Politics of Identity, which examines views on race, immigration and multi-culturalism. Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband and campaigning left-wing MP Jon Cruddas will officially unveil the report, produced for the Searchlight Education Trust, tomorrow.
They will also launch Searchlight’s Together project to tackle extremism among white and Islamic communities with the slogan: “A plague on both their houses”. In one of the most revealing questions, pollsters Populus asked people if they would back a party that “wants to defend the English, create an English parliament, control immigration and challenge Islamic extremism”.
A total of 48 per cent said they would either “definitely support” or “consider supporting” a party with such an agenda, if it shunned violence and fascist imagery.
The results will alarm both PM David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband, who are worried about the rise of right-wing extremists.
In the 12 months to last September, 238,950 migrants were allowed into Britain, the highest figure since records began. Sixty per cent of people thought immigration had been “a bad thing” for England, against 40 per cent who said it had been “good”.
Thirty-four per cent said immigration should be stopped permanently or until the economy improved. The report also found opposition comes from all races, not just “white Britons”. And 52 per cent of Britons agree that “Muslims create problems in the UK”.
Searchlight director Nick Lowles said: “The harsh truth is we are in danger of losing touch with the public on race, immigration and multi-culturalism.”
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Anti-fascism shares with its alleged opposite a belief in the cleansing or redemptive power of violence. They share as well an obsessive preoccupation with race. Indeed it could be said that organisations like Searchlight and the ANL do more than even the BNP to keep racial awareness alive. Both fascism and anti-fascism are uncompromisingly modernist movements, concerned with narrow categorisation and so unsuited to a post-modern age of complexity and permutation. Searchlight, for example, was horrified when some Hindu and Sikh community workers refused to be classified alongside Muslims as 'Asians'. Here were ethnic minorities daring to defy the pressure group definitions. In reality, the violence and nihilism of anti-fascist activists are almost laughably remote from the conservatism of most ethnic minority populations.
ReplyDeleteIt is easy, and tempting at times, to dismiss anti-fascism as a peripheral fringe interest, irrelevant to our lives and thoughts. However its crocodile-tear appeals are in some ways more effective than those of the more traditional far left. Anti-fascists claim to be opposing a political evil. In so doing, they evoke memories of that evil and the wrong done to millions of our fellow human beings. Many people of good will, therefore, fail to see that they are being manipulated. This is why ritual denunciations and balkanising 'group rights' are in danger of pervading public life. The subjectivist definition of a racist incident in the MacPherson Report - any incident that the victim or anyone else 'perceives' as racist - has all the totalitarian characteristics of anti-fascism, yet few dare to describe it as totalitarian for fear that they might be smeared as 'racist'. Likewise, the attempts of New Labour apparatchiks to unearth political 'information' about the Paddington rail crash survivors had all the furtive and perverse instincts of a Searchlight campaign. Such influences have touched conservative politics as well. In the interests of inclusiveness, the Tories tend increasingly towards reverse discrimination and group rights, forgetting that many black and Asian people want freedom from racial politics.
Anti-fascism, like its fascist precursor, is primarily anti-human and misanthropic. It despises its supposed constituents as much as its sworn enemies, and has a vested interest in promoting racial conflict. When we recognise that fascists and anti-fascists are as one, their rhetoric of hatred will lose its power.
Aidan Rankin is co-Editor of New European. His book, The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism was published in 2002 and is available from New European Publications, 14-16 Carroun Road, London SW8 1JT, price £9.
http://www.cesc.net/radicalweb/scholars/rankin/ar2.html
The results will alarm both PM David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband, who are worried about the rise of right-wing extremists.
ReplyDeleteThe Zionist Fabians above will naturally be alarmed- being Communist of the Bolshavik type Nationalists are their enemy along with Christians and home owners!
Strange- They never worry about Far left extremism- being in Westminster.
Camerons Big Society NEO MARXIST Saul Alinsky- read his rules for radicals online- then you understand The Big Society.
CZARS-ACADEMIES-TARGETS-POLY-CLINICS-MINISTRIES ETC Any minute i expect Stalin to jump out telling me the number of tractors and carrots have been produced.
having spent time behind the iron curtain the lingo is familier to me..so why is a supposed Capitalist country using Commie tags?
Easy- it ain't Capitalist anymore- Bankers get the profits the people get the debts- in anyones language thats Fabian Fascism!
PPPs is soft Fascism and look how long that scam has been in.
When they say Capitalism- it doesn't make it true-no more than Calling Britain a Democracy does- last time I looked we had a CONSTITIONAL MONARCHY- WE CAN'T HAVE BOTH!
The LIBLABCONS FABIAN PARTY!
lol QT CAMERON " WE MUST BE MORE TRANSPARENT"
He's so funny-Bless the Cabbage patch doll.
We hear often about the public funding of anti-Nationalist action & propaganda in Britain, but no one ever talks about this network of 700 groups being funded with our EU tax money.
ReplyDeleteThese groups are sponsered by the EU, and are being paid with public funds to act against Nationalists all over Europe.
http://www.enar-eu.org/Page.asp?docid=15767&langue=EN
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