As you may know the European Parliamentary Elections are coming up soon. Now I am quite pro-Europe and believe it to be good for Britain and all other citizens of Europe, so what really ticks me off is those Xenophobes like the "British Independance Party" or the BNP who want to pull out of Europe all together. Fortunately those parties never get any seats in the European or British Parliament and probably never will. Now I fail to see what Britain could gain from pulling out of the EU. Amoung other things if we left the EU: Our farms and heavy industry would loose subsidies that presently help sustain them, our foreign trade would decrease, political relations with European nations would degrade and we would be unable to participate in future schemes such as the European Rapid Reaction Force which may help protect us against terrorism. These so called parties (because people like the BNP are just thugs in suits) preach on about how the EU is destroying our culture and our sovereignty but I fail to see how. The EU isn't a dictatorship governed from Brussels like these Nationalist fools would make it out to be, it is a democracy with representatives from all member states, including Britain. The laws passed by the EU are progressive, they help sustain the environment and I hope that, in the near future, they will take more drastic action to reduce Carbon emmissions. On the subject of culture: How does an alliance somehow change our social beliefs and way of life? The nature of Culture is to change with the times not to stay static, otherwise we'd still be poking each other with swords and going to the local hanging.
This brings me to my next point, Xenophobia and Biggotry in British politics, primarily the BNP. Though I am yet to see their Party Political Broadcast I have heard it is highly offensive. Offensive enough to be banned by Channel 5 and heavily censored by the other networks. One of the broadcasts involves a story about a girl being raped by a man of Asian decent. You can guess what happens after that: Lots of lunacy about how all non-Caucasian individuals commit crimes and how they're ruining our culture and traditions. As I mentioned before the nature of culture is to change and grow with the times and I find it hard to believe that Britain is becoming some sort of Neo-India. If they're so worried about changing culture why don't they have a gripe at globalisation? In a way it would be better if these thugs, these Facists, would be banned from preaching such obvious racism. But such is the nature of democracy that all people get a voice, no matter what their political views are, a stance which I agree with.