What The Fuck ?

Well, irony upon ironies. After we've spent the last few years marching round the world and telling them how to behave, it appears that we don't even have our own house in order. We the British seem to have just elected two far right politicians to Europe. Not only is this an international embarrassement, but it also shows the gulf between the way we project ourselves to the world and the reality.

It's also sad to see how well the UK Independence party has done, an organisation that wants us to leave Europe and isolate ourselves even more than now. But it's the success of the BNP that is most worrying. It may well be a protest vote, but this type of thing has been gathering momentum for a while, and not all those who voted see it that way. Many must believe the creed that 'non-British' people should be sent home. The idea of 'racial purity' is nonsensical of course, as we are all descended from a small group of people in Africa. In recent times the concept of being British is all but meaningless as we are the result of countless invasions over the centuries. And so, the cut off line that these people seek to establish between British and non-British is arbitrary and ultimately ridiculous. 

But we all know these things of course. And yet enough people voted for this tripe that there are now going to be two BNP politicians representing our country at international level. This makes me cringe, and I'm horrified as to what the rest of Europe will think. After all the lecturing we've done to other countries about democracy, freedom and our way of life, it seems that a lot of work needs to be done at home before we go off on any more international adventures. And anyone who thinks it's all a big joke, to be shrugged off in that way that we British do so well should pause for thought. This isn't some survey in a magazine or a silly TV vote on something. This is a real election where people have voted for the BNP and elected two of them. How much more of this needs to go on before we wake up ?