Would you ever vote BNP

[lilelvis2000]

Their leader, Nick Griffin, is Cambridge educated. Just because they're thugs doesn't mean they're all stupid.

It also shows that racists come from all economic backgrounds, rich and poor, educated and not. As I look around the floor I work on, I wonder how many there are. Like NG, they smile at you and are courteous to your face - but if only your back was turned and it was a dark alleyway and they had a knife and you were an ethnic...

[Euro-commuter]

Their leader, Nick Griffin, is Cambridge educated. Just because they're thugs doesn't mean they're all stupid.

Being Cambridge-educated is not inconsistent with being stupid.

(not specifically referring to Griffin here).

[DodgyAgent]

One thing BNP are not is stupid

[Troll]

48% might


There is hope for the nation

[wendigo100]

Being Cambridge-educated is not inconsistent with being stupid.

(not specifically referring to Griffin here).

True, but it does rather discount most of this:

I believe that the entire party share an O level between them. That's why they fight a lot. They can't agree on who keeps the certificate which is rotated weekly. They each have 11 ASBO's though and 3 advanced ASBOs and went on to higher education at Broadmoor.

In any walk of life, you underestimate people at your peril.

[threaded]

Ah.

In the Good Old Days it was consistent with being a homosexual spy for the Russians... a.k.a. "Stalin's Englishmen"...

Quite odd how MI6 & the Reds had the same recruitment policy.

Yes, at Cambridge it's the boys, and at Oxford it's the drugs.

[Euro-commuter]

Ah.

In the Good Old Days it was consistent with being a homosexual spy for the Russians... a.k.a. "Stalin's Englishmen"...

Quite odd how MI6 & the Reds had the same recruitment policy.

I have heard it said that the homosexuality was irrelevant, it was just the method used to recruit those who were already sympathetic to Communism; and that it was possible to recruit spies in Cambridge only because there wasn't a strong Socialist Society there, so the sympathisers were unknown. In Oxford, by contrast, the left-wingers were active and loud, so they couldn't be made into spies.

It's a bit of the "let's keep them in mainstream politics where we can see them" style, which equally applies to a respectable BNP.

[Old Greg]

There are rumours that Griffin was into the Cambridge spirit (youthful indisdcretions of a sensitive nature with an older man - leader of the NF). This is said to be a reason for the Nazi group Combatr 18's split from the BNP.

[Euro-commuter]

There are rumours that Griffin was into the Cambridge spirit (youthful indisdcretions of a sensitive nature with an older man - leader of the NF). This is said to be a reason for the Nazi group Combatr 18's split from the BNP.

I don't believe that. I mean, I have no idea about Griffin's personal life but I'd guess that the split is due to Griffin's aiming for the mainstream, whereas Combat 18, well, with a name like that you would never be going to be "mainstream", would you?

And Tyndall (I take it you mean him??) was sort of with the BNP till his end (depite having been expelled), being charged together with Griffin in Leeds in 2005 for "inciting racial hatred" (Griffin was acquitted, Tyndall went to face a higher court, as they say).

But let me waffle no more on a subject about which others can doubtless speak more, em, authoritatively.

[Denny]

why dont you lend them your O level and double their intelligence.?

Come to think of it, you could probably do with their O level yourself.