Yes, this is an article about The UK, so why would we care about it?  I wish to examine this whole “right-wing” situation as it pertains to racism.  Time and again it is leveled that between The Left and The Right, politically speaking, that The Right is full of racists.  That The Right is where Hitler was.  That The Right is where you will find White Supremacy.  Apparently this seems to be how politics are viewed worldwide.  If you’re a Leftie, you’re okay and you love everyone.  (Well, except the wealthy.  And unborn babies.)  If you’re a Rightie, well, you are a homophobic, racist, sexist, slavery-endorsing, narrow-minded, power-hungry dolt who needs to apologize for the sins of every Right person in history.

Seriously, I’m still trying to figure out how this affiliation came to be.  I am a Right-Winger.  I am sometimes compared to Hitler, as was Bush, (obviously), and all sorts of horrific ideals and sins are automatically attached to me because of my Conservatism.  It stuns me that people are so blinded by deception.  They would be struck dumb if they knew I support Israel!  (Think about it.  It’ll come to you.)

This fellow here, in the UK, British National Party leader Nick Griffin.  He is a “Whites-Only” kind of person.  Obviously, duh, this is not an ideal that will win you a lot of votes.  His bigotry and ignorance is on him, however.  His message only has strength if people follow it and drink it up.  My contention with this article is not so much that Mr. Griffin has asinine views of race, but that he is looked upon as being a Rightie.  It’s like a slap in the face to Conservatives the world over.  As a white man in America, I can say this is a comparison we really do not need, ever.

I just don’t get it.  Racism is a Leftie ideal.  They love that stuff.  They need to keep minorities under their thumbs using social-programs and government-assistance that is solely designed to keep minorities ignorant, stupid, and clueless.  Right-wingers, like myself, view minorities as….well, nothing.  They have no special place with us.  They deserve no more or less than whatever they can make for themselves, like any person this side of Heaven.  If they have good character, they are well-received.  If they have poor character, we shun them.  Just like we would anyone.  They are just like us.  (Us being white folks who read this.)

I am vexed.  Seriously.  I just don’t see how Conservatives who are Right are lumped-in with this racist piece of trash in the UK.

I will say I am impressed that the BBC let this guy on TV to speak.  While that may sound odd, it is still Free Speech, and the Brits have that just like we do.

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From AP as posted on Yahoo

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 1 min ago — 22 Oct 2009

LONDON – The leader of Britain’s far-right party outlined his vision in a controversial television debut that critics fear could help his whites-only party ease into the political mainstream.

British National Party leader Nick Griffin feuded with fellow panelists and was excoriated by hostile audience members in a tense appearance on the BBC’s “Question Time” program Thursday night.

“It was hard-going,” he told The Associated Press in telephone interview after the show, describing the program as “a bit like a boxing match. I took some punches but I was able to land some punches too.” Still, he complained that the audience had been stacked with minorities.

“They put us on in London where the indigenous population is in the minority so we don’t have much sympathy or support,” he said.

Question Time gathers Britain’s leading politicians, journalists and other public figures in a panel to take questions from a studio audience. The three-decade-old program has become something of a national institution, and many have condemned Griffin’s invitation as awarding his far-right group an undeserved aura of political respectability.

The BBC said that, as a publicly funded broadcaster, it must cover all political parties that have a national presence. The BNP has no seats in the Britain’s Parliament, but earlier this year the party won two seats in the European legislature.

The program showed Griffin defending himself against accusations that he sympathized with the ideals of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party — but also showed him ducking the question of whether he ever denied the Holocaust.

“I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial,” he said, smiling faintly as the studio audience snickered. He later said he had changed his mind about the Holocaust, but then refused to explain exactly how.

Fellow panelist Chris Huhne, a lawmaker with Britain’s Liberal Democrats party, spoke for many of the show’s guests when he predicted that Griffin’s credibility “is going to be seriously damaged by his performance.”

“This is a person who comes from a fascist background, anyone who watches the program will see exactly what he stands for,” he told the BBC after the show.

But Griffin’s appearance on the taxpayer-funded show has divided the country — with one government minister saying the BBC “should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favor in its grubby history.”

“Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimized the BNP,” Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said after the show’s taping.

One expert said that the Cambridge University-educated Griffin would “see this as a breakthrough into mainstream media.”

James Shields of Warwick University compared Griffin’s Question Time performance to a similar television appearance by French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1984, a groundbreaking appearance Shields said had helped soften Le Pen’s image in the eyes of many French voters.

Griffin’s performance will be dissected in Britain’s media.

His defense of the “indigenous Britons” drew scattered applause in the program, but he seemed to stumble when he claimed the media was distorting his message. He declined to give any examples, saying there were “far too many to go into.”

When Griffin criticized homosexual behavior as “really creepy,” he was shouted down by members of the audience, one of whom invited him to go to the South Pole.

“It’s a colorless landscape. It would suit you fine,” the man said, as the audience laughed and cheered.

Griffin’s appearance was greeted by rowdy and sometimes violent protests at the BBC Television Center in west London. Hundreds of anti-fascist demonstrators rallied outside the BBC headquarters, and at one point about 25 people breached a police cordon and ran into the center’s lobby.

BBC footage showed some being pulled across the floor by their arms and legs by security.

“Shame on the BBC!” one female protester yelled as she was being dragged out. Scotland Yard said three officers were injured in the protests, and six people were arrested.

The BBC made no apologies for its show, saying Griffin had been subjected to tough questions.

“We remain firmly of the view that it was appropriate to invite Nick Griffin,” BBC deputy director general Mark Byford said after the taping.