Here's a conundrum which has puzzled me ever since I ran up against the National Front's repatriation policy 30 odd years ago. Forgetting the logistics, the collapse of the NHS, the deletrious effects on the economy etc., it would not be too difficult for a constitutionally elected far right government to frame a piece of legislation stopping all immigration - at any rate, immigration by all the ethnic groups which the far right objects to.

Equally, the repatriation of all immigrants would not be too difficult to engineer. There would of course be massive demonstrations and protests, but these could easily be put down by a few tanks and troops with tear gas, baton rounds etc. Equally, there would be massive protests from abroad, and Britain would be reduced to the status of a pariah (pirranah?) nation. But that would hardly bother the BNP. They would be quite happy in their whiter than white isolation, with only their fellow European fascists and the Ku Klux Klan, and the white South African millionaires they've been courting lately for company.

Of course, there might be economic chaos, as Britain suddenly finds its workforce depleted, and the rest of the world imposes sanctions to stop us trading abroad. Still, there's always those tanks and tear gas canisters and baton rounds to quell the starving populace. And if rubber bullets didn't work, I couldn't imagine the Nick Griffins of this world shedding too many tears over using real ones.

The nub of the problem from the BNP's point of view is that a very large proportion of the "immigrant" population was born here and has the same rights of nativity and nationhood as the rest of us. In other words no British government of any stripe or persuasion would be able to deport these people, and no foreign government has any obligation, legal or moral, to find homes for them.

In other words,whatever the BNP might say about "constitutionally" returning Britain to a totally white society, it cannot be made to happpen. Too many of the people they plan to throw out cannot leave because they've got no other country to go to.

Now, either the BNP realises this, or they're an even bigger bunch of fruitcakes than I take them for.

How then do they plan to deal with the native born "immigrant" population? Either I've missed something or the only solution which would be open to them would be to adopt the one chosen by their mentor; the little Austrian corporal.

That's right, the BNP cannot achieve its stated goal of a 99% Aryan British population without planting huge numbers of people in concentration camps. Well, let's face it, they're going to need them for all the people who will rise up in objection to the hounding of innocent citizens. For that matter, they'll need them for all the trade unionists, left wingers, liberals, gays, gypsies, travellers, and anyone else who dares to foul the air of their Aryan paradise.

A constitutionally elected fascist far right goverment is an impossibilty, and the BNP knows it. Their facade of constitutional respectability is just that, a facade, and it's creaking pretty badly as things stand. If the next few years brings the sort of circumstances which allows them to grow into a major political force, you will see the BNP shed that facade and reveal themselves as the totalitarian thugs and barbarians we already know them for, just as a surely as a snake sloughs its skin.

Don't let it happen. Kill the snake off now.