http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8088381.stm

Just recently, the BNP (The British National Party - in case you didn't understand) have just won two seats in the European Parliamentary elections. As you can image, the reaction from the socialist, anti-fascist hub of students I reside my life around have taken this news as a swift smack in the face for democracy. How have we arrived at such at a place, were around 600,000 of my fellow British nationals would vote in such a party? Have I, just like the rest of the political parties in this country, really badly misjudged the electorate and their incandescence towards the European Union?

The reason people have voted for the BNP is down to the fact that all the main political parties in this country are becoming far more isolated from the roots of its own people and completely nescient to the concerns of its society. The BNP, despite the faults of it being a proto-fascist party, does have genuine concerns for the British Isles, albeit fairly squinted down the barrels of a loaded shotgun towards some Somalian asylum seeker.

History has shown that when you a country is on a brink of economic and social meltdown - it will resort to voting in powers that go against the structural norm - especially when the norm is doing bugger or has done bugger all for the country. People crave change and will often rear the seedy underbelly of racism, fascism, nationalism or even anti-Semitism once mass discontent has riled people into action.

Amid the growing concerns of political party scandals and whether or not we are paying £30,000 for some Labour MP to keep a houseboat and where some MP's have decided to label us mere jealous plebs staring up at the ivory towers in Whitehall, the smell of the air is certain. It is a putrid, acrid smell of discontent. This has been stench that has wafted its way across Britain for the past 40 years since Britain joined the European Union (or then EEC 'European Economic Community' as it was called.)

Supposedly Britain was archaic, out of touch with a Europe that had recovered from the disaster of the second world war and was leading the new charge forward in a world dominated by the interests of the much larger conglomerates of the Soviet Union and the US. The French president De Gaulle, in many previous years had rejected the UK for admission due to a lack of serious political intent. And if he were alive today, he may just as well be repeating those words both to the UK and many of its Western and Northern European neighbours. For want of some better words, the European Union and its schematics will and shall always remain, in the minds of many in this country - a political plan draw up to protect Continental European interests (especially of those between Germany and France.)

It seemed almost ironic in many ways that 1973 saw the inclusion of both the UK, Ireland and the Kingdom of Denmark. In the post Oil-Shock years, Denmark opted out of the single-currency (although it will be introduced from 2011), the UK actively maintained their own opt-out cause (relying on the strength of the pound sterling) whilst most recently, the Irish people rejected the Lisbon treaty in 2008.

Going by the European parliamentary election results, it is the European sceptics, hardliners and right-wingers that have dominated the vote. UKIP (The UK Independence Party) managed to acquire 16.5% of the vote.

Should the Tories attempt to shed off the whole nice persona of 'Just call me Dave' Cameron and go with a much more tougher line on the policies of the EU and more importantly of UK domestic policies - they would marginally clean up in both the European and the general UK elections next May. We will have to wait until next year to finally see the Labour party and its dwindling and fractured factions finally split up and see what will almost certainly be a Conservative victory in the next general election. Even though, I'm a more of a Libertarian with mild socialist leanings, I would rather support a Conservative party than one which would want to see my friends repatriated out of the UK on the basis of their skin colour.


So ultimately, where does the BNP come into this? As a party that espouses a 'Britain First policy' they tap into the hugely demoralised and disenfranchised British public who are sick of inane mandates from Brussels and impositions of items that cannot be accepted into public.

However, more worryingly, is that if indeed people voted because of the above reasons, it seems that a vote for the BNP is just as easier as a vote for UKIP (who are more anti-EU and less 'look at all these foreigners' fascist) The BNP votes are perhaps more underlying of a genuine race problem in this country, which bubbles under the surface and often boils over the Daily Mail cauldron into a frothy mixture of rage and violence. The UK, for all its angles of multi-cultralism, suits many well who live outside the UK or within the hubs of ethnic mixing in London for example. But for all its idealism, the system is flawed once you venture out into the heartlands of the United Kingdom. The British people (or a proportion of them) do not believe that miscegenation from Europe and abroad is a good thing - and the blame rests squarely with the powerbrokers in Brussels and London who are allowing such people as Eastern European migrants into the country. Britain is an island. An island that was the conqueror of others rather than the subservients to others.

I am not too surprised in an age of political apathy and one of painfully acute racial problems (especially in areas that are not used to mass-immigration - the North as a prime example) has decided to turn to the BNP.

As I'm told by my friends about the horrors of fascism and the visceral machinations of evil that the BNP is, I wonder if indeed the British people themselves are infinitely more a machine of evil themselves than any political party could ever hope to be...