The UK, BNP, and the Modern McCarthyism

Nearly two centuries after Hegel, contemporary politics – especially of the Left – has not only abandoned dialectic and reason, it has regressed to mere “picture thinking.” However, the pictures the general public is presented with are only of two types: the “fascists” and the smiling face of “multiculturalism.” In this simplistic worldview, we are either in one camp or the other. There is no room for anything more complex or nuanced than this.

Just over a week ago, Daniel Finkelstein highlighted in his ‘Comment Central’ blog – in the online edition of The Times – an advertisement for a Researcher for BNP Assembly member Richard Barnbrook. The advert had been placed in the staunchly Left-wing, pro-multicultural Guardian newspaper by the Greater London Authority. The blog headline was, “Wanted: Neo Nazi with typing skills,” and the opening line, “Fancy a career as a neo-fascist?” The entry consisted of only a few very short lines that suggested the author’s utter amazement at the advert in question.

Finkelstein could have used the appearance of this advert to ask why a party that he himself denounces as “fascist,” has been elected to a seat on the London Assembly, and, moreover, to question the direction in which the country has been heading in the last decade, or why there has been so little dissent by so many opposition politicians, despite an increasingly despairing public.

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The UK, BNP, and the Modern McCarthyism
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