As an (ignorant/naive) American (USA type) these posts could come across to me as alarmist and paranoic concerning a small and surely insignificant extremist group (I over-simplify) but then Crow Sister recounts this: "One young guy of my aquaintance is a genuinely good person, I've never heard him express any form of racism - he likes what the BNP have to say about supporting the working class. He likes what they say about ensuring British interests are not undermined by Europe. He also thinks it unfair that British people don't recieve the same degree of support in their own country, that foreign people do. Now that's the way the BNP would put it."

And then it reminds me strongly what a German national told me once. He said that when Hitler first came to power the working men liked and admired him. He said that for the first time the bosses came into the pubs and sat down and drank with their working men, that the class barriers had been broken by Hitler. He said that it was hard for the working men to come to the point where they admitted that Hitler was a "rascal" (his term).