What makes you think the working class are left wing, many of them often vote Tory.

The working class like every class vote with the party that they think best serves them and that will vary depending on which issue is of greatest concern.

For many right now the issues is jobs and with a lot of migrant labour in the UK that has become mixed up with immigration. That has made them more receptive to some of the policies of the BNP.

Where as some here have tried to view the BNP in principally a left /right context I don’t see it as that , because that’s not what drives the BNP.

In the same way it is simplistic to see class in Britain as AB=Tory/Right CD=Labour/Left.

Be it people or parties, you can’t just put people in to boxes like that and if you do you get GiGo…. Garbage in Garbage out.

Peter.

Rob Ford has a good point, BNP support is distinctly working-class and left wing. Peter, just because you are a left winger yourself, doesn’t mean you have to accept that you are like the BNP because they are left wing too. I can accept that the SNP are very different from the BNP, although both parties are leftist, and although I am at variance with both. If the BNP were right wing, I could accept that and still call myself a right winger without thinking of myself as being like the BNP. Why do you have a hang-up about this?

“Free marketeers they ain’t.”

Little Englanders they are.

In this respect I think that the core of there Ideology ( if they can even spell that let alone put a coherent one together) isn’t left or right but rather everything view through the prism of defending those elements of British identity that they see as under threat, be it sovereignty, culture, heritage or indeed race.

As such it isn’t really a set of beliefs that can be seen as principally economic, but rather economic policies are chosen on the basis of there ability to protect those things they feel are threatened.

Therefore their economic policies with regards to protectionism or nationalisation although largely associated with the left are adopted because they are deemed to protect Britain from perceived threats rather than as part of a right or left economic orthodoxy.

Peter.

I’m undertaking some research on BNP support currently, using the largest dataset of declared BNP supporters ever compiled. The evidence from this is that the BNP’s base is strongly working class, particularly older and less educated working class voters. They do better in the North, and particularly well in Labour dominated industrial areas. The evidence strongly suggests they are picking up disillusioned Labour voters in Labour strongholds.

The BNP thus look much more like left-authoritarian rather than a right-wing party, a hunch strongly confirmed by even a casual reading of the literature on their websites. Free marketeers they ain’t.