“Racist!” “One-eyed freak!” “Fascist!” Yes, I regret to inform you that I felt the need to write something about our good friend Nick. This has been prompted by his recent visit to my hometown of Cockermouth, Cumbria, which was hit by severe flooding at the end of November. My initial reaction on hearing about his visit was “get out of my town!” I have now, however, rethought my opinion on the politics of my fellow human-being Nick Griffin.

The first few words I used there are just some of the oh-so intellectual reactions frequently heard about Griffin. Another one is “he doesn’t represent Britain.” The sad fact is, though, that on a certain level he does. That’s why he won a seat in the European Parliament in last year’s elections (embarrassingly enough, it was in my region) along with a colleague, and it’s why there’s fear that he may win a seat in British Parliament in the constituency of Barking and Dagenham. But on another level, he represents Britain as much as people like Jade Goody do. I see a lot of similarities between these two sadly famous people. Both were/are decried as racist; both graduated with a third-rate degree (Griffin from here, Goody from the esteemed education establishment of Big Brother); and both of them- wait…what would happen if Nick Griffin was diagnosed with cancer? I suspect people would think it a good thing for him to die slowly and painfully, just as they would for any other peederfile, frawd or generic skumbagg. I believe that this great man of British fringe-politics occupies the same unfortunately large space in the general public’s mind as paedophiles do. A figure to be condemned, placed in the stocks, pelted it with left-over food, and to be the whipping boy of the frustrated members of an inherently unfulfilling society.

 He is a feature of the great British ‘celebrity culture.’ He is not a feature of British politics! He certainly wants to be, and- through the immense amount of attention he receives in the media, and through the passionate reactions his policies provoke in people- that is what he is beginning to be. It would be a great shame if he won the seat in Barking and Dagenham: I know I would be thoroughly unhappy to be represented by Nick Goody. And I’m sure that with his overwhelming parliamentary representation of 1 he would have us goose-stepping through the streets of London, preparing our sons to be soldiers, and on the Polish border by the following Monday (that is, those of us who are left after he eradicates every one who is not part of the indigenous British population of the last 10,000 years- so, a few oak trees, some red squirrels and a couple of Neanderthals like Russell Brand and Alistair Darling).

 So we have two choices:

 1)      Egg the bastard! String him up by his ankles and have Mexican immigrants use him as a piñata! Force-feed him curry! Break his toilet so that he has to get a Polish plumber to fix it or sit on a pile of his own fascist shit! Discuss the finer points of Arab culture RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS EYE!

2)      Realise he’s just another person with controversial opinions. Recognise him as a non entity. Stop victimising him, giving him the attention he craves. And STOP writing blogs about him on student politics sites…

Filed under: fascism, jadegoody on February 5th, 2010