Toxic dwarf attacks fascists

Blears has been giving us her wisdom again. Much of it is boilerplate unease over metropolitan middle-class Labour's abandonment of their core vote and the subsequent attempts by the BNP to fill the vacuum left over. There were some points I'd like to point out, though.

Ms Blears accuses the BNP of playing on people's apprehensions and peddling "pernicious but plausible lies".

Well, they are twice as good as you then if their lies are plausible. Your lot can only manage pernicious.

It had employed a "cunning strategy" of "detoxification"

Er, like New Labour then...

but warns that shouting "Nazi" at BNP activists is not the answer.

Good luck with that, love. The Left knows of no other tactic but moronic chanting of slogans and abuse. Anything else would require having to reason with their enemies, and their death-grip on our culture has ensured that they haven't had to do that for a long while.

She also writes that the leaked list published earlier this week, containing the names, home addresses, phone numbers and professions of some 10,000 members, revealed support for the BNP was "tiny".

Hmm. Of course their influence is tiny, but this is a bit of a tactical blunder from Blears. The Left's attempt to deflect attention away from their allies in extremist Islam relies upon 'bigging up' the Far Right in Britain as a threat equal to, or greater than Islamism. Blears is doing the cause no good at all by pointing out that the BNP are a small bunch of clowns.

"And unlike during the 30s, modern British fascism does not enjoy any sympathy in the civil service, chattering classes or the media," she writes.

Not the BNP's fascism, no. Your fascism, of ID cards, massive state expansion and interference in citizens' lives, arbitrary detention for a month, the use of extreme laws to persecute citizens on minor issues (e.g. Terrorism Act over dog-fouling) seems to have an awful lot of support in all three groups.