Three cheers for democracy!

Or is it?

Much as I dislike the BNP, I can't help but cringe at the hypocrisy shown by these demonstrators. I'm sure if you asked any one of them they'd say: "We must stop this fascist, racist scum from holding their gatherings because they will gag everybody else". Or something along those lines. Without even noticing the irony.
However, this lot could be excused their naivety because they seem to be mainly scraggly students, and we all did that sort of thing when we were scraggly students. We were full of good intentions, we wanted world peace and a spliff, but we didn't really know what we were talking about.

What I don't get is (what I assume is) a BBC commentator saying: "[...] wherever he [Nick Griffin] travels... a lot of thick-set men I think it's fair to say... security is the word but I think they are pretty thick set, I can tell you [...]" (minute 01.07-01.17 in the clip). Now, I may be wrong but I always thought that the BBC was funded by daylight robbery, also known as the licence fee, paid by everybody who uses a TV set to receive programmes, regardless of their political affiliation. In other words, they are supposed to be impartial and unbiased. I assume that, the BNP being so strong on law and order, those 900,000 people who voted them also pay the TV licence. Wouldn't they now have a good case to ask for a refund? I mean, not that it'd be the only one, but I'll gloss over that.

Anyway, just in case you were thinking the BNP is a good idea, check them out here. In a very, very superficial way, their policies could even sound appealing (if you ignore all that crap about white, white, white). What a shame they don't tell you how they'd go about implementing them. Could it be even they realise they're full of shit?