The Wardman Wire

The BNP are mentioned in three stories I have seen in the newspapers [well, on their websites - I don't buy the paper versions any more or, in the case of the BBC, watch the broadcasts] today:

Firstly, the BNP are rejected by UKIP after they proposed an electoral pact at next years European elections with UKIP focusing on the South and the BNP in the North.

Quite rightly, too. The BNP must not be allowed any lee-way to get any form of representaton anywhere. All parties must fight against them at the polls.

Secondly, trade unions want to be able to expel BNP members. As far as I can see, they have no real reasons to be do this except because they want to.

I don’t like the BNP, but as I have said before, banning them and refusing them their right to their own political beliefs and association helps no-one. We should rather engage them in dialogue and expose them that way. For as long as the BNP remain a legitimate political party, they must not be banned for their political beliefs, however disgusting they are.

And thirdly, BNP voters are thick, having an IQ level at the age of 10 of 98.4. Even those who don’t vote had an IQ of 99.7.

Of course this piece of “news” means little*, espiecally since what this study hasn’t done though is provide any form of correlation with their IQ now. But it does kind of make the point of the type of people who vote BNP…

* Especially with the “fact” that Lib Dem voters had an IQ of 108.2 at 10 - if they’re so clever, why don’t they vote for a party that could actually win?