Posted on 03/01/2011 10:26:42 AM PST by Eurotwit
Almost half the country would back a new right-wing party that vowed to crack down on immigration and Islamic extremists, a shock poll reveals today.
They would also restrict the building of mosques and order the flag of St George or the Union Jack be flown on all public buildings.
The revelations will spark fresh fears of racial tension in Britain amid a new wave of support for extreme right-wing parties like the British National Party and the English Defence League.
Findings of the survey, the largest of its kind and involving 5,054 people, are in a major report called Fear and Hope – the New Politics of Identity, which examines views on race, immigration and multi-culturalism. Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband and campaigning left-wing MP Jon Cruddas will officially unveil the report, produced for the Searchlight Education Trust, tomorrow.
They will also launch Searchlight’s Together project to tackle extremism among white and Islamic communities with the slogan: “A plague on both their houses”. In one of the most revealing questions, pollsters Populus asked people if they would back a party that “wants to defend the English, create an English parliament, control immigration and challenge Islamic extremism”.
A total of 48 per cent said they would either “definitely support” or “consider supporting” a party with such an agenda, if it shunned violence and fascist imagery.
The results will alarm both PM David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband, who are worried about the rise of right-wing extremists.
In the 12 months to last September, 238,950 migrants were allowed into Britain, the highest figure since records began. Sixty per cent of people thought immigration had been “a bad thing” for England, against 40 per cent who said it had been “good”.
Thirty-four per cent said immigration should be stopped permanently or until the economy improved. The report also found opposition comes from all races, not just “white Britons”. And 52 per cent of Britons agree that “Muslims create problems in the UK”.
Searchlight director Nick Lowles said: “The harsh truth is we are in danger of losing touch with the public on race, immigration and multi-culturalism.”
Maybe the UK and Europe aren’t doomed afterall. Most people will put up a fight when they see their lives and those of their children being destroyed.
People wanting to stop the rampant rise of radical Islam are now considered to be right wing extreemists?
The bar has moved so far.
David Cameron is leading the world on Libya and now this. Maybe England hit rock bottom and is on the rebound?
I really don’t get it.
It’s a big wide world out there and if your preference is for a repressive, ugly, totalitarian sh*& hole, WHY COME TO AMERICA to live?????
Just stay there (or GO there) and you be happy as a pig in s^%$!!!
It would be much easier than coming HERE and trying to controvert the will of a nation which ALREADY and LONG AGO fought for and won IT’S independence from just the sort of abject tyranny you would like to impose!!!!
Duhhhh!!!!!
Orrrr….maybe it doesn’t REALLY have anything to do with religion…….ya think????
Here’s the problem, see, these BS Muslim clerics duped the MSM and they THINK they also duped the American people. Now they are finding out that they can’t get around American voters as easily as they did the MSM!!!
The British Isles are no stranger to blood. No doubt there are many who are willing to do what it takes to keep Sharia from becoming the law of the land.
“The revelations will spark fresh fears of racial tension “
Being anti-Islamic is no more racist than being anti-communist was beiong anti-Russian.
Its NOT about ethnicity. I have no problem with non-Muslim Arabs. Its about a dangerous and foreign political ideology.
They are coming to take everything we have, and destroy our system to create their world wide socialist empire. communism/socialism can't exist where there is an capitalist alternative. You can't fool people living under socialism/communism that things are great, when they can look over at a free capitalist country and see how much better things COULD be!
Excellent news, Hopefully the U.K. is on the rebound...
Good news—Let the Right wing put an end to the madness. Hindus, Asians can become good subjects—Islamic people can not and should be banned and expelled if they cause trouble.
Whatta laugh. The only extremists in England are the far Left traitors who are openly trying to displace and then replace the English population in their own land.
The BNP and the EDL would be considered mainstream moderates if this was 1965.
This is Europe we’re talking about - never anything in moderation, never a quick change in tack, but once they get going look out.
Economic distress + immigration + charismatic and opportunisitic leadership = WWI or WWII style European nationalism +++
They should expect violence - not avoid it, just expect it.
Muslims will contentedly take over a country via non-violent means, taking advantage of the host country’s openness, freedom, hospitality and political correctness,
until they realize what is happening and start to push back.
Usually at that point, the Muslims are numerous and put up quite a bloody fight.
Welcome to the Tea Party, Mates!
Cool. Maybe we FREEPers can find a home in the UK, turn IT into a global power again. ;-)
At least there are some in Formerly-Great-Britain that want it to be Great again some day.
I’ve been there..since early 80s and I lived in Manhattan and realized how much twits...not you personally..hated me for what I was
an unrepentant white Christian from Dixie
sign me up
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