Chatham House Gets It Wrong

Yesterday evening I went to hear Anna Hashimoto play the clarinet sublimely in the Cadogan Hall. This evening I went to Chatham House to hear an on the record talk on what should be done about far right extremism in Britain. We were all given a report of the findings thus far which I have not yet studied but from what was said by the two authors of the report and the panel of experts it seems the extreme right wing is very dangerous and needs to be studied in greater depth. It was made clear that the authors would like additional funding to enable them to carry out the further study deemed absolutely necessary to understanding the extent of the problem and what needs to be done to sort it out. The report equates the BNP with UKIP, which I suspect will upset 99% of UKIP members. They are both labelled as movements to the Right of the centre-right Conservatives although of course we know that the BNP is a national socialist party and therefore of the extreme left. Why can those on the left never accept that the Nazi party is a socialist party and thus a scion of the left? A significant number of UKIP members share the same concerns apparently of BNP members about immigration and Islam. I wonder how many members of the Labour Party do likewise. Perhaps if the authors of the report get their further funding they will be able to find out. The BNP exists for the same reason all political parties exist but there are very few who vote for their particular policies which it seems to me are born of fear of being made to live in a land of immigrants, in a land with a different culture and in a land with less likelihood of being able to get a traditional job. We have failed these people by giving them no education and allowing the BBC to talk down to them. The wonder is that millions of our fellow citizens are not out on the streets demanding redress for the failure of our politicians for whom the Labour party must bear the greatest blame. There were two questions that it would have been interesting to have heard the answers to (a) did the panel think the BBC could be responsible for a reaction to the stories they put out day after day on the benefits of immigration, multiculturalism and so on and (b) how many others do they think also resent the unbridled immigration and the manner in which they have been forced to adapt in a short space of time to significant  changes in our culture? I do not believe there is a significant risk of violence from the BNP and the idea of any risk if violence from UKIP is risible. I would be more worried about violence from the left of which we saw specific evidence in the recent riots. Chatham House would be much better off investigating the extreme elements of the left, including the trades unions.