- Joe Priestley

What Mrs Hodge said.

White voters are deserting us for BNP,” says minister

Well it’s not the sort of headline you ignore, is it? I’d be interested to know how many others bought yesterday’s (16/04/06) Sunday Telegraph on the strength of its front page; my guess is sales would be up.

Employment Minister Margaret Hodge had told the paper of her concern at the growth in support for the BNP in her Barking and Dagenham constituency where, she said, eight out of ten white people were considering voting for the BNP in the forthcoming local elections. Naturally it made the front page.

I wonder if anyone else felt an initial tinge of pity as they read the Employment Minister’s words - I almost felt sorry for the woman. She seems so much out of her depth, like she was overwhelmed by the seriousness of the situation yet at the same time unable to say just how serious it was.

But then I began to wonder what her real concern is. Is she concerned that her constituents are suffering because of the immigration policies of past and present governments, or is she concerned that because of that suffering they are turning to the BNP?

Is she concerned about her constituents or about herself?

She is after all Employment minister. Her responsibilities include: The Labour market and the economy; Ethnic minority employment (she’s Chair of the Ethnic Minority Employment task force); Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers; Disadvantaged areas and regional issues; and Adult disadvantage. Yet she appears surprised that her constituents are upset at the effects of Labour immigration policies. If she doesn’t know how and why mass third world immigration impacts on traditional British communities, what the hell is she doing in the job?

Let them eat cake

Margaret Hodge has been a Labour MP since 1994 and an Islington councillor for 20 years before that - she’s a champagne socialist. But you’d expect even a champagne socialist to be able to string a few coherent sentences together, especially when she’s also a government minister. Mrs Hodge shows us how wrong we would be to make such an assumption.

Nothing she said was clear and unambiguous. It was as if she’d had to keep one eye on the escape hatch - she didn’t want to be too precise in case at some later date she may be tied to her words. So she fogged everything up.

For instance, although she started by talking about the situation from the perspective of her white constituents, “They can’t get a house for their children, they see black and ethnic minority communities moving in and they are angry..in 1994 it was a predominantly white working class area.Now.you could be in Camden or Brixton,” she stopped short of actually defining the problem.

Mrs Hodge got caught in a trap. It’s one that establishment politicians are frequently finding themselves in, and it’s a result of them serving two constituencies - that of the ethnic minorities and that of the white majority. The problem in Barking and Dagenham is that government-sponsored mass third world immigration is in the process of destroying the white community, materially, spiritually, and morally. And the problem for establishment politicians is that an increasing number of white people are coming to that conclusion and are no longer afraid to say so.

But of course Mrs Hodge couldn’t articulate her constituents’ problem so precisely. If she had done she’d have had to counter it with the pro-multiculti mantra in order to keep her sizeable, and increasingly significant, immigrant constituency happy - and even she must know by now that whites are tired of the politician’s bullshit about the so-called benefits of multiculturalism.

So she twisted the argument and tied it in knots so as to arrive at the convenient solution that what was needed to solve Barking and Dagenham’s problem was more affordable housing - there, that’ll stop ‘em from voting for the BNP.

Between the lines

But Margaret Hodge says also that we “. need very much stronger leadership nationally to promote the benefits of the multicultural society.” Ah yes, those people of Barking and Dagenham, if only they could learn to appreciate the benefits of diversity maybe they’d not need affordable housing after all!

Mrs Hodge patronises her constituents; you see, “It is fear of change.” It’s not the change that’s the problem, it’s the ‘fear’ of change - it puts you in mind of the nonsense argument that it’s not crime that’s the problem; it’s the fear of crime. If only the people of Barking and Dagenham weren’t so terrified of change, if only they learnt to embrace the difference that thousands of third world immigrants have brought to their community, then they’d be truly happy.

And as if to reassure themselves, the establishment makes a big play about it being a working class thing, this objection to mass third world immigration. That’s the line in the Daily Mail, the Times, and the Telegraph - it’s not a race thing, it’s not even a culture thing, it’s a class thing. I suppose it helps them sleep at night. The working class, well, they’re a bit lumpen aren’t they? They lack the sophistication required to appreciate the finer points of diversity. “It’s the poorest whites who feel the greatest anger because there is no way out for them,” Mrs Hodge explains. What she doesn’t explain is why they would want a ‘way out’ if diversity is as marvellous as we’re told.

I don’t know about you, but to me this smacks of desperation. Who are they trying to kid that this growing objection to enforced diversity and mass third world immigration is restricted to the working class. It’s true that the greatest impact has been borne by working class communities because that’s where Britain’s elite in all its arrogance decided to dump third world immigrants. But the divide between working class and middle class isn’t what it was and now there are few urban communities irrespective of their average income level that haven’t felt the consequences of mass third world immigration. The objection isn’t a working class thing, it’s a white thing.

Of course neither Mrs Hodge nor the Labour Government accept responsibility for the devastation that mass third world immigration has visited on traditional white communities like those in Barking and Dagenham, “Were we to blame for the change?” she asks rhetorically. “No,” she replies, “it happened on the back of Right to Buy.” You gotta laugh!

Surely all of us that oppose the establishment and its equality cult and the consequential invasion of our homeland by third world immigrants must be pleased whenever we hear liblabcon politicians seeking to avoid responsibility for the mess that Britain has become - it shows they’re getting worried.

Cry for help

Margaret Hodge’s statement follows a familiar pattern, and it seems to be one that most establishment people use when discussing the immigration/race/culture issue. It begins with something close to recognition of the problem and then via a tortuous route it concludes that what we need is more of the same.

In fact I wouldn’t put it past these people to set up a programme of compulsory multiculturalism appreciation classes, along the lines of the wine appreciation classes held at community colleges up and down the country - where people could learn all about the various characteristics of the various communities now resident in the country and how best to enjoy their ‘immense’ contribution.

I don’t know whether eight out of ten whites in Barking and Dagenham will vote for the BNP in this May’s local elections; I hope it’s ten out of ten. But almost as important as the vote is the establishment’s fear of that vote - because the fear tells us that the establishment is aware of the problem and that it is expecting a reaction to it. And the encouraging thing for the BNP and its supporters is that there’s not a damned thing the establishment can do about it, other than multiculturalism appreciation classes and the like.

The problem is mass third world immigration and its consequences. But because the establishment is the sponsor of mass third world immigration it cannot admit to the problem without accepting responsibility for it. Britain’s political establishment has failed in its duty of care to those it purports to represent, it has failed to plan, it has failed to anticipate, and it has failed to rectify. And given this, the only avenue open to it is to shift the blame. It’s the old communist line: Communism isn’t working because the people aren’t trying hard enough; Multiculturalism and multiracialism aren’t working because white people aren’t embracing them with sufficient gusto. It’s not the fault of the ideology; it’s the people that are to blame.

So it would be naïve in the extreme to believe that the liblabcon set will do anything of any consequence to sort out the awful mess it has spawned. The best it can do is blame the rest of us for not doing whatever it was that we were supposed to do in order to make the grand scheme work. Anything else and it takes the blame and ultimately suffers the consequences - and it’ll not do that willingly.

Margaret Hodge’s fear that eight out of ten voters in Barking and Dagenham will vote for the BNP, and the Rowntree Foundation’s fear that 25% of white voters nationally are considering supporting the BNP are like cries for help that nobody will hear.

What these statistics mean is that there is a growing objection to mass third world immigration and its effects; in other words there is a growing objection to the political status quo. Margaret Hodge et al; the Rowntree Foundation et al; the Times, Telegraph, and Mail et al; all are integral elements in the status quo which in the final analysis is dependent upon the support of the population. And now that that support is beginning at long last to evaporate, just who is it that Hodge and company think will come to their aid?

An equal and opposite reaction

Consider the enormity of what has happened to Britain and the British people since the end of WWII; we have gone from relative homogeneity to Babel. Just think of the massive effort that must have gone into this transformation of Britain from community to chaos, in just sixty years.

It really amazes me that the television networks, which more often than not lead the attack on British tradition, have the gall to broadcast programmes like ‘The Way We Were’ that illustrate so starkly just how much we’ve lost over such a short time. If there was any justice in this world the vast majority of Britain’s political and social elite would spend their remaining years behind bars.

But as we know, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Now consider an equivalent amount of energy to that spent on the destruction of Britain, but where this time the energy is spent constructively. That will be the magnitude of the British people’s reaction to the establishment’s action of imposing chaos on order.

The establishment’s fears are real - dogs don’t bark at ghosts. Each of us knows how he and his family feel, and how his neighbours feel, and his community. The establishment knows this too, and it has the added advantage of knowing, with much more precision than the rest of us, how the country feels also.

Our ruling elite know exactly how the rest of us feel - that’s why they don’t want to know! As Mrs Hodge admitted, “The Labour Party hasn’t talked to these people. This is a traditional Labour area but they are not used to engaging with us because all we do is put leaflets through doors.” Of course that’s all they do - they no longer dare face their constituents on the doorstep because they know all too well what sort of a reception they’ll get. So they hide behind glossy leaflets.

The growth in support for the BNP will advance at a corresponding pace to the growth in disenchantment with the status quo, and to the intensification of the adverse effects of mass third world immigration. It’s obvious isn’t it?

And how is the establishment going to turn things round - it will do what it always has done because that’s all it can do. It will blame everyone else for the misfortunes it has brought upon itself, it will continue to act as though the multicultural/ multiracial model was the ideal, in spite of all the contrary evidence, and it will seek to silence dissent. And in carrying out each of the above actions it will further encourage the growth in disenchantment with itself, and in so doing will encourage yet more people to consider the BNP.

You see, the establishment can’t save itself. It has lost the argument and so everything it does from now on only draws attention to its shortcomings. Its great plan has reached fruition - the only problem is it’s turned out to be less a Garden of Eden and more of a 21st Century Dagenham and Barking.

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