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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
We have had the BNP and the EDL and neither has really gained traction I'm not concerned about the UK and Germany but other nations i think could be very susceptible to the far right. Politics is an utter mess in the west at the minute i think predictions are out of the window at this point far too much anger with how things have been means the fringe has never had a better chance.
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I think the BNP were around at the wrong time (for them, lucky for us). I wonder if they would have done better in the current environment. Although there was also the fact they were too obviously racist and not talented enough to appear credible to the public. You look back at Nick Griffin's Question Time appearance and he isn't quick enough to deal with the questions or sufficiently able to rebrand policies as something more palatable.
As I said to be successful they're unlikely to be so obvious.
I hope the UK is an unlikely place for it to happen. I am not sure why it would be but it does seem as if we don't have any politically successful far-right parties. Maybe it's a function of our electoral system? Maybe it's because we have to stable, rather moderate, parties which have a stranglehold on the whole thing. Maybe we do have some sort of cultural resilience? I don't know. I think it's dangerous to assume it will stay this way. We have to ensure it doesn't.