Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-

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

It's a phase. I remember when the 'National Front' was all the rage back in the 1970s, and then died away.

I specifically remember it not because of any sympathy or hatred, but because I remember the instructions that were barked out by my local chapel of the NUJ. In those days you weren't allowed to write in papers unless you were NUJ. Anybody outside of this closed shop had to find alternative employment. The NUJ instructions were quite categorically that if any articles appeared anywhere that showed the National Front in a good light, then the author would be thrown out of the NUJ. In other words, they would no longer have any work. The instructions also encouraged journalists to always write negatively and emphasise bad things about the NF. At one chapel meeting there was even a suggestion that bad stories about the NF be made up.

So, my immediate memory of the National Front is that the national press, television and radio was not allowed to write or broadcast anything balanced or positive about them. Those were the lovely days of trade unionism trying to force people to believe only what they wanted them to. Thank goodness for Margaret Thatcher coming along and putting a stop to all that, and allowing free speech!

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.

I have this theory that were we to bring back the death sentence for carrying anything that is designed specifically to kill, like large knives, guns, etc., that we'd suddenly have reclaimed our streets.

I'm waiting to see what the Boris initiatives are for fighting street crime in London. It's a shame the CPS and the out-of-touch Courts never back the police up by putting heavy sentences as a norm on street criminals.
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* Christopher England just said that *