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Mar 31, 2021 · Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published last month, revealed that the unemployment rate for Black people, at 13.8%, is triple that of white people at 4.5%. TUC general ...
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Jun 11, 2009 · Written by: Arun Kundnani. The election of two British National Party MEPs owes as much to new forms of racism in mainstream politics as to alienation from the Labour Party. Over the last few years, much of liberal England has given up on the idea that racism is a significant social problem.
Conservative shadow defence minister Enoch Powell 's "Rivers of Blood" speech in 1968 was both influential and widely regarded as anti-immigrant with racist overtones; the party's leader at the time, Edward Heath, condemned it, although some Conservative MPs defended Powell's speech.
Jan 23, 2013 · A new history of the far Right shines a light on the culpability of centre-ground politics for fascist gains. Britain’s far Right is in pieces. The British National Party (BNP) is electorally dead; the English Defence League (EDL) has been fractured by infighting, its figureheads taking cheap potshots at one another while its leader, TommyRead More...
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party in the United Kingdom formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982 and was led by Nick Griffin from September 1999 to July 2014. Its current chairman is Adam Walker. The BNP platform is centred on the advocacy of "firm but voluntary incentives for ...
May 29, 2014 · First, the BNP became the most successful British far-right party ever, winning two MEPs in the 2009 European elections. The party fell apart and its support has now largely collapsed – it lost ...
Nov 3, 2011 · Westminster council has seized on the notion and proposed a ten-year residency qualification for its housing waiting list. Excluding migrants from waiting lists last surfaced in the 1970s, was found to be discriminatory and racist then, and it is now. It is based on racist myths repeatedly refuted by extensive research that ‘they’, (the ...
