You always get a reactionary backlash when there's a big influx of immigrants into a society. Look at what happened in North America when the Irish were pouring in during the potatoe famine. They were caricatured as apes in American newspapers, and were often beaten up and terrorized by "Native American" gangs, as shown in the movie "Gangs of New York". The Irish reacted by forming their own violent gangs.

And look at what's happening in the USA right now with concerns about the large numbers of Hispanics who are coming into the USA.

Large scale immigration always provides an opportunity for reactionaries and extremists to get the native population in a country stirred up against foreigners...for the usual simple reasons: they feel that their jobs and their culture are being threatened.

So, yes, as long as immigration levels to the UK stay high, the BNP will profit by getting more support from native Britons who are afraid of change.

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The one thing that could cure all this divisive nonsense would be if:

- Economic advantages and social freedoms were fairly much equalized all around the globe...and then people wouldn't feel the pressing NEED to emigrate to other countries, would they?

They'd mostly be quite happy to stay where they were.

This, however, would require the human race to get way beyond their present state of self-aggrandizing and competitive awareness...needless to say. ;-)

I don't expect it to happen anytime soon. But that doesn't mean it can never happen. I think the ultimate destiny of this planet has to be a unified and prosperous human society....or a complete collapse of human civilization and a massive die-off of our species.

Either way, the planet will definitely survive, but we may not. I hope humanity makes the intelligent choice between those alternatives.