From: "Steve Leyland" <...>

I note with disapproval the rise of a similar thing with more votes
going to the BNP :(

Street crime is not all down to immigrants, I've seen plenty of
caucasian teenager chavs kicking off and no coppers in sight – all too
busy back at the station filling in paperwork to meet government
targets.

You are right of course. You are trying to get me to start about Nazi Germany aren't you?
The Germans were a highly civilised intelligent nation, and it only took a strong leader to turn a highly disillusioned majority of the population against the minority scapegoats.
The BNP are preying on those similar fears now, luckily for us they don't seem to have a brain cell between them to turn the majority of the majority to their way of thinking. The one thing we must guard against is a strong leader doing it more subtly and controlling the media too.
As for Labour, "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime", as Jim Royle would say, "My arse!"