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Undoubtedly, there are many people who believe that the number of immigrants in recent years has grown, is growing, and ought to be diminished. Only the British National Party is prepared to say this unequivocally, the other parties preferring to beat about the bush so as to avoid the charge of sounding nasty.
This is to the BNP's credit. Plain speaking is a virtue. Unfortunately it is not a virtue which large parties with a chance of winning can afford to indulge in, because it puts off as many, if not more, voters as it attracts.
Truth to tell, however, opposing immigration, even non-white immigration, is not being nasty: only unfashionable. Until relatively recently - say 30 or 40 years ago - the belief that societies should protect their homogeneity was as common place and British as roast
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beef and Yorkshire pudding. Most bishops and most newspaper leader writers - of which I was one at the time - were prepared to say amen to that.
Of course there can be other reasons for not voting for the BNP. Perhaps the leaders of the party are stupid, bad- mannered, coarse-grained, foul-mouthed and brutish.
My personal impression from the TV screen is that they certainly have ugly mugs, which is a good enough reason, in my book, to give them a thumb's down. Not so, however, their views on race, which could well be the one thing about them that, in the present politically correct climate, does deserve to be tolerated. 
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