Also from UKIP to SWP every political party agreed the BNP were small minded nasty racists. If you go back and have the PM, LOTO and the leader highest poling party (who weirdly is not one of these two) all pretending that the BNP was making a good point. Then I don't think the bins matter.
But I think the Barking Strategy plays right into that. What do you say when somebody says "that nice Nick Griffin is going to kick out the immigrants and then my Tracey will be able to play in the street without getting filthy"?
DON'T say "Nick Griffin's a racist and a Fascist" "immigrants make a positive contribution to society in lots of ways" "it's not the fault of immigrants if the street's dirty" DO say "we've listened to local people and brought in a new street-sweeping rota which we think you'll be happy with"
Scale that up to the national scale and here we are - although, as Stephen said, they don't seem to have a scoobie what the equivalent of improved street-sweeping is, which rather undermines the entire strategy. (It's a bloody awful strategy, to be clear, but at least it makes a kind of sense.)
And I don't know why the majority non racist political parties had lost their voice on this, and so much in the past year? Like, is it really as simple as Trump and X making them think the British public is not what it is?
It changed in 2016 when politicians got spooked that nationalist voices won a majority vote. The line became, ‘you’re against the people’ if you weren’t anti-immigration - and it’s really been a spiral since there.