Well here's my 2 pence worth, and I guess I will probably end up with the term racist thrown at me again when that is untrue.
I think as others have said the BNP have gained seats because the majority of people in this country look at people working on the minimum wage and getting by only to see money thrown at people who seek asylum in this country. Many asylum seekers make the extra effort to get to the UK because they are wrongly under the impression that the streets are paved with gold.
I just say things as I see them, and a person scrounging/cheating the system of money that you and I paid in are all the same as far as I am concerned. Now before you all go ands flame me I would like to say that I realise there are genuine cases of people persecuted in other countries, I am personally involved with someone from a country (South Africa) who has seen it from the other side with people being beaten on the streets and families putting their money together to get the younger generation ou of that terrible mess. This person has had their own family memebers arrested and on one occassion apparently tortured and killed by the government, which was apparently a common occurance for anyone who did not stand in line.
BTW this friend is not a scrounger/assylum seeker, she is in this country paying a large amount of money each year to study at university. she does however not agree with the way this government is allowing hoards of people into this country, and she confirmed as a foreigner herself that the opinion is that the UK is paved with gold. She has a relative working for the local authority in London dealing with asylum seekers and she has many stories to tell, including that a large number are actually working in factories using forged National Insurance numbers. It is claimed that the government is turning a blind eye to this practice and they are not worried because of the shortage of factory sweatshop fodder and they are getting the Tax and NI from these employers/employees anyway, so why would they care?
The failure of government in this country to act effieiently in these matters is the main reason that parties like the BNP get votes. I guess many of you noticed that the government kept saying that there was not a problem with asylum seekers, and then turned around and have admitted how bad things are when they could not keep it under wraps any longer.
The namby pamby doo-gooders are playing into the BNP's hands
