Land of the Setting Sun
Caldron simmering in hungering desperation
To regain the smacks of the Past.
You seek to lunge ahead
On the energy of Your logic
And hopes not yet lionized.
You call upon Your histories
To lend strength to Your phantasies.
You coil up hard on Your proud self
Wrinkled and weather-beaten.
You struggle to nurture new flowers
On the dry rot of Your haunted memories.
Your youth, sniffed upon by strapped canine squads,
Rape-hate in Your stadiums
Striped with electronic rejoinders
To press softly-pliant, gaily-tinged plastic buttons.
Your elderly curl their ways to bankrupt health ministries
Where physicians fool with forms
And fill in football pools.
Your neighbors to the East—
Brazen, sordid—
Yank towards You
Roughly extracting for exacting theirs craved for.
You, Europe, sit pickled—
Soused in the juices of Your scummy heretofore.
Your dabblers in politics set flags unfurled
And their powers shame—
Shame!—
This Our world.

Anthony St. John

On the part about foreiners taking away british jobs, we are all wearing blinkers here I’m affraid, the number of jobs that way is a very tiny number this way, the main problem is, the big companies have been moving our manufacturing base abroad since Hong Kong we don’t get a vote to this fact, some MP’s have vested intrests in some of these companies and are then indirectly stealing from thier own people,

And the biggest crime of all is the countries own population who have fiddled in some way, most of the people reading this will know exactly what I am saying, so lets not call the political pot black unless we are ourselves squeaky clean and thus innocent.

What we need is a party comprising of MP’s from all the different parties just like we did during the last war, and what a really good team they were.

However, whilst I agree with you that the bogeyman of a ‘popular’ surge in support is just that, a more particular danger relating to a smaller constituency surely remains and should concern us as much.

I’ve wondered for a while whether the excluded, unemployed, disfranchised, demoralised, ignored, forgotten and ghetto-ised parts of the former white working class would find a political voice, the mainstream left having abandoned them in recent years. If none of the bigger parties has any large and consistent interest in this constituency, isn’t the door wide open for someone else to try to win them over? For the BNP to succeed in this would not be a ‘sweeping’ victory; but it would be extremely depressing and shameful all the same.

2-3% of the electorate as a whole is insignificant. But if this translates into clear and lasting majorities in certain wards it is disastrous. Perhaps a ‘moral panic’ is worth having if it mobilises people enough to avoid this particular disaster?