Congrats cucuhullan on your fine and well rounded debate on the forementioned topic. Unfortunately, your arguement is slightly flawed. The unions have spent hundreds of thousands of �'s over the years distributing various leaflets depicting the BNP as nazi's, fascists, racists etc in the hope of stopping any support for them. Yet support still grows! They are winning more council seats, standing in more elections and gaining credability. Most of the candidates are in fact normal people and NOT nazi's!!!
What you have to remember is that this is not just a 'british' trend. It is all across europe (front national in France, Vlams Belang in Belgium, NPD in Germany etc). Just because you may or may not agree with a party's policies that doesn't neccessarily mean they are right or wrong. All you are doing is reflecting your own personal opinion. Its called 'democracy' or 'democratis' which is a latin word 'demo' meaning peoples and 'cratis' choice (excuse my latin as I never studied it but the theory is correct). Now the key word is choice. The BNP is actually creating democracy by increasing the choice for the electorate. In the end the people will choose and maybe one day it will be the BNP's turn. Are Spain and Italy such bad countries? After all, they were both under fascist rule relatively recently under General Franco and Mussolini (whose grand-daughter, Alessandra Mussolini is currently a MEP). Politics is a very complex subject and never is anything 'black or white'. To debate on matters of nationalism is complex and requires extensive research of past and present. Only when the arguement is lost that the insults and name calling of nazi, fascist, racist etc are thrown about.