UK - Why do bigots keep getting elected?

That's what Nick Cohen wants to know, writing in the Guardian.

Sadly, in an otherwise good article he fails to find the answer that is staring him in the face. Then again, considering the Guardian's The Aslam Affair, it's not surprising.

The answer that eluded Cohen is that the rise of the BNP is directly related to the rise of Islamists. While the BNP's response may be prompted by bigots within the party, some in the public are fed up with the government's Muslim appeasement policies. I warned about this some time ago and yesterday I wrote this:

I'm not a racist or a bigot and I don't support the BNP. But the latest election results here in the UK, show that people are getting fed up with the erosion of our culture and its replacement. The Left and Communists have banned together with the Islamists. At the last anti-war protest and the Muslim protests over the Muhammad cartoons, there they were, sholder to sholder, the Communist led anti-war movement and Islamists. And in the case of George Galloway and his Respect party, they were one and the same.

Is it any wonder people are starting to push back?

People are simply fed up with banning books, plays, piggy banks, billboards, Christmas and Piglet too, simply because it offends Muslims.

A similary vote happened in France in 2002.

The weakness of the government and an opinion backlash against immigration following last fall's violence has allowed the resurgence by France's ultra-nationalist candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front. He had approval rates of 12 to 14 percent in recent opinion polls.

Le Pen, 77, who calls for strict controls on immigration, caught the French mainstream by surprise by placing second to Chirac in the first round of the 2002 presidential election, winning 17 percent of the vote to Chirac's 19 percent in a crowded field.

A recent poll in Britain found that the vast majority of Britians favored more strict controls on immigration.

One only has to look at the current situation in America to see people know the danger and want something done. Sadly, unless our mainstream politicans can deliver that something, voters may turn to those who they think can.
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