EmmaB, Jeddy and Joe,

You have all made similar points about how to deal with the disaffected.

I have posted here on many occasions that the bases of progressive social policies should be:

Wage depression - ruthlessly enforce a fair minimum wage so that all workers receive the same minimum protection.

Social housing - build more of it.

Schools - build more of them

Hospitals...and so on.

The answer is not for working folk to start falling on each other like dogs in an effort to tear out what they believe is the best deal for themselves at the expense of the wider community. That is what BNP politics are: greed, selfishness, entitlement and hatred of "them", "the others" etc.

There can never be any toleration of people who actually believe that the way to improve a society is, in effect, to have a 'cull' - whether that be extermination or transportation.

I and people like me are campaigning for that sort of political dialogue but it justs get harder and harder to get past the Keith's of this world who have just wilfully decided that we are "swamped", "flooded", "deluged" etc etc, by a "tidal wave" of "unprecedented" and "unnecessary" or "unjustified" immigrants that are "crowding" this scepted isle, blah blah blah.

As you can all see, it doesn't matter how much evidence piles up against them, they just won't change the tape that runs on a loop in their head. Ultimately it is pointless and you just have to leave them behind.