BNP's Griffin urges restrictions on Chinese imports

[pampango]

Source: BBC

The British National Party have called for restrictions on imports from China to protect British jobs. Leader Nick Griffin told BBC Radio 4 British industry faced "disaster" unless something was done to halt the flow of cheap goods into the country.

The BNP, which is campaigning on a platform of leaving the EU and restricting immigration to the UK, has yet to publish its manifesto.

Mr Griffin, who is standing in Barking and Dagenham, said action was needed to protect UK manufacturing from unfair foreign competition, particularly in the country's remaining industrial heartlands. "We don't believe British workers can compete with Chinese workers who are working for a fraction of our wages," he said.

He said his party was not "isolationist" but believed the liberal economic policy pursued by successive governments had "utterly bankrupted" the country. He added: "The alternative is to give up on industry because everything would go China. It would be a disaster."

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8634032.stm

[dmallind]

1. Hmmm....

How many will pretend their advocacy of the exact same thing is "completely different"?

How many will swallow pride and say "even racist Hitler wannabes have good ideas sometimes"?

How many will disavow their advocacy of the same idea because it's been coopted by an objectionable fellow-advocate?

My guess is about 90,5 and 5........

I'd like to think in an analogous situation I'd have the balls to go with option B.

In this case of course no need as I think he's a loon suggesting a loony idea.

[Romulox]

3. Just in case the OP was too subtle for ya, dmallind spells it out for you:

You disagree? You're just like the BNP! :silly:

[dmallind]

4. Niope - not the point at all

I wonder how people will react to sharing the same opinions as the BNP. I am predicting stupid false equivalency, not agreeing with it.

Hitler loved German Shepherd Dogs. So do I. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. But then I don't believe in cartioonish caricatures and simplistic slogans as cogent thought.

[Romulox]

5. Right. Yours was an *completely innocent* (and non perjorative!) invocation of the name of Hitler

to compare to the opponents of "free trade". Just like the OP chose this article without any agenda. :silly:

How many will swallow pride and say "even racist Hitler wannabes have good ideas sometimes"?

[dmallind]

6. Where is the comparison to all opponents of free trade?

Is Griffin NOT a racist Hitler-wannabe? Do you not think restricting China trade is a good idea, or at the least not see that many DUers so think?

I am not "innocent" because there is no crime or unethical acvtion here to be innocent of. Griffin is a fascist loon. He wants to restrict C hinese trade. Many Duers agree with him. So far I suspect this is inarguable. My musings concern how they will handle that, as (see your own overreaction) people often have a problem when they agree with those whom they despise, even if the agreement has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason for their antipathy.

[Romulox]

2. You'd have to be RACIST to oppose "free trade", huh OP?

Very subtle. :rofl:

[pampango]

7. Hardly. In Europe it has been the far-right, not the left, that has used the Great Recession

to its political advantage in promoting anti-immigrant and anti-trade policies. The BNP wants the UK to withdraw from the EU so that it can impose tariffs on imports from the rest of Europe and immigration controls on European immigrants.

In the particular case of the BNP, indeed you have racists who oppose "free trade". (That hardly proves that you have to be a RACIST to oppose it; just that you can be.) More to the point, the British National Party is a far-right wing political party. (You and I probably agree that far-right wing parties are most often racist at their core.) In a continent full of "free trade" it is the far-right that wants to dismantle it. ;)