Saturday 25 August 2007

BNP attempt to make political capital out of murder

The British National Party reported the murder of 16-year-old Andrew Holland in Farmworth, Greater Manchester and that of eleven-year-old Rhys Jones on the Goxteth Estate in Merseyside.

The blames mainstream politicians for turning Britain into a 'moral and lawless sewer'. They claim that juvenile gun crime might be 'expected' in Britain's 'ethnic ghettos' but that it is not very prevalent in 'native' British areas. They accuse politicians of undermining traditional values and claim that TV celebrities celebrate the destruction of 'conventional morality'. They describe liberal columnists who support legislation which removes the rights of parents and teachers to discipline children as 'wicked'.

It is disgusting that the BNP could turn the murder of the Andrew Holland into racial issues. They claim that the murder of Andrew Holland was racially motivated as the person who has been charged with the murder is a 26-year-old man called Mahmud Makxoudin. The BNP does not really care about law and order or the families of people who have been murdered - they are only concerned with highlighting the fact that the murder was committed by a Muslim in order to score political points and push forward their racist agenda.

It is wrong for the BNP to intimate that gun violence is normal in areas with large ethnic minority populations, as if this is an issue which governments should ignore as part of a perceived cultural trait in black communities. The BNP fails to address the role that education, employment and housing might play in the life chances of working class black people living in our major cities. Liberal politicians are certainly not completely free of blame - they appear to think that violence is 'expected' in white working class communities too and seem unwilling to tackle these problems. The BNP rejects the non-white working class and the mainstream political parties have rejected the working class as a whole.

The breakdown of the family and discipline is not to blame for increasing juvenile gun crime. The economy fails to provide secure jobs for working class people even if they are well-qualified. For the minority of people without qualifications looking for a job is much more difficult. The government should work with trade unions to force companies into providing higher salaries to their workforce rather than relying on the free market. The government could bring more industry into public ownership so it can regulate wage fluctuation. This would make industry seem more stable and restore that idea which many people claim to be a thing of the past: job insecurity.

I do not think the BNP has genuine sympathy for the victims of gun crime or their families unless they are white. Furthermore, I do not think that the restoration of corporal punishment and a return to Victorian family values will make the situation any better in our large cities.

3 comments:

The Green Arrow said...

Well I live in a real deprived area of South Wales and we are not shooting each other to death on a weekly basis. Care to explain why not?

But then rap music is not a big thing in the Welsh valleys.

fightforpancakes said...

If it had been a white bloke that had killed a 16 year old muslim there would be uproar and would definateley be considered a racist attack.
Why is the murder of whites by ethnics never considered a racist attack.

Cable Street said...

The recent spate of shootings have been isolated to certain areas of the country and the fact that no significant shootings which have been reported in South Wales is good. However, working class areas seem to be more vulnerable to gun crime and thus local communities should be vigilant. There is no cause for alarm.

As for the comment about white on Asian attacks, I think that all attacks which are racist in nature should be considered as such. I happen to agree with 'fightfor pancakes', though I probably don't agree with the political stance he represents. If we are serious about tackling racism, then we must accept that all communities bear responsibility for perpetrating racist attacks. Racist attacks are an insult to communities no matter who is guilty of committing them.