The exclusive ICM poll reveals almost TWO THIRDS think mainstream, political parties have no credible policies on immigration.
It shows they believe foreign arrivals are getting favourable treatment over housing and other benefits.
And a large proportion of the population AGREE with some of the statements made by the odious Far Right leader Nick Griffin.
It also reveals that ONE THIRD of voters believe in a core BNP policy - that British-born people from ethnic minorities should lose all state benefits, including NHS medical treatment, to pay for them to leave the country.
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Narrow majorities also oppose the teaching of gay and straight sex in schools and say the Islamic faith treats women as second-class citizens, which are both core BNP beliefs.
HOWEVER, little over one in twenty people think the BNP have got the right policies to sort out the problem.
Tomorrow's poll shows the British public detest their racist insistence that white people's interests should be put first.
And just 10% say there should be an end to any immigration.
The ICM poll is the first full test of British opinion since Griffin's appearance on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday night.
The majority of voters (54%) think the show would have put people off the BNP, although 23% say it will win them more support.
And while 44% say white working class people have been abandoned, just 28% say they should be given any sort of priority.
However, it is clear the BNP message IS getting through among white working class voters.
There, the number who say they have been abandoned by the mainstream political parties rises from 62% to 71%.
And the number who say they should come first over people from ethnic minorities goes up from 28% to 41%
The poll does NOT say the British public are unrealistic about immigration.
Only 10% say there should be a stop on all future immigration.
The current system, introduced by Labour, of a points-based system allowing people with skills to come in, is backed by 64%.
Just 20% say the Tories' plan of a yearly cap on numbers will work.
However, the Conservatives' large lead in the polls mean 26% say they have the best policies on immigration, compared to 21% for Labour, 13% for the Lib Dems and just 6% for the BNP.
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*** ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 504 adults on 23-24th October 2009. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.
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BNP are the only choice for the British People The BNP understand our frustrations they are in touch with us unlike all the other parties and Nick Griffin tells the truth he is a Good Honest Man, I cannot say that about any of the other parties leaders a future BNP voter.
By Bev.. Posted January 24 2010 at 2:26 AM.
Visit south Yorkshire to see how our town has deteriorated. The local press reports cases from our courts and 75% are non British. I am not racist, I care about people who have less than I have but I fear the future for everyone as the British system cannot cope and we will eventually fall off the edge and drown.
If our neighbours overseas were only brought in for low paid, dirty work then that is returning to slavery. Make the idle youth of our country do the work for their dole money, or don`t pay them benefits.
By Chris.. Posted October 30 2009 at 11:19 PM.
(1) Population density in England is already far too high, especially in the south.
(2) No one is complaining about those (legal) immigrants that work & make a contribution and generally fit in OK.
(3) We object to those immigrants who don't/won't work, refuse any assimilation and on top of that are actively trying to change everything to suit them.
(4) Lastly, as an extreme example of no 3, those who even justify horrific "honour" killings of children, often their own, usually for assimilating, should be refused admittance or deported.
(5) Unskilled labour shortage ?
Put the indigenous indolent to work. Stop rewarding single parenthood for teenagers.
(6)Skilled labour shortage ?
Short term, recruit overseas. Long term, improve UK schools, encourage learning in the "difficult" subjects rather than the waffle subjects.
For those not of a mind for university (and that's quite OK), reinstitute something like the apprentice programs, vocational training etc like the old tech colleges excelled in doing.
Let's see some imagination from the gov't over something other than how to control everyones' lives even more.
By Stan.. Posted October 27 2009 at 5:39 AM.
Despite the EU costing us billions each year they will not give the people a vote on whether or not they want to stay in.
We thought we would be just trading with the other countries, not ruled by an unelected elite from Brussels fronted by an EU Parliament that has no power whatsoever.
That lie that the EU is a democratic entity has got to be one of the greatest cons ever.
It is a DICTATORSHIP, and we will be ruled over by the likes of Blair and his pals forever, and no say from us whether we want this it or not. It is their vision of a One World Government coming into being, and Obama is looking more and more to the EU and talking like this as well.
Those at the top of the three main Parties don't want that Referendum vote, because if we vote to leave the EU they wont get those top unelected jobs in Brussels when they finish at Westminster.
They must think we are a bunch of turkeys to go along with all the lies and deception that is churned out by them about the EU.
It is not doing us any favours and it is allowing millions from poor eastern EU countries to come into the UK as LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and stay for as long as they like.
So even if we could get rid of the illegal immigrants it would mean nothing with so many legal immigrants coming here daily.
Yet notice how this issue is not discussed because they want people to equate immigration into the UK with illegal immigration only.
Nothing adverse is ever said about the EU by those characters in Westminster.
The truth is never told because they don't ever mention it. After all the people of the UK may realise what is going on and demand to leave.
It is absolute madness.
What an absolute irresponsible scam it all is.
Those who are behind this should be charged with treason for giving away so much of this country, and selling us down the river.
But, of course, they wont be.
By TomW.. Posted October 26 2009 at 2:34 PM.
By Alistair McKenzie. Posted October 25 2009 at 12:14 PM.
Im sorry to say Alistair that i wish your comment had a bit of truth attached to it.But sadly it doesnt peoples attitudes have took a dramatic change over the last few years.The people voicing these hardcare right wing views are no longer neo nazi thugs but just normal everyday law abiding british citizens.Thats the scarry bit about it !!!
By paula.. Posted October 25 2009 at 9:55 PM.
I thought the Queen wasn't permitted to voice a political opinion. Someone, somewhere is getting extremley scared for some reason. Their little apple cart is getting rocked. The experiment is failing Mandelson, get used to it. People are sick to the back teeth about the amount of political correctness (and the resulting loss of freedom of speech) inflicted upon them.
By Ian Clark.. Posted October 25 2009 at 7:55 PM.
Quote:
" It also reveals that ONE THIRD of voters believe in a core BNP policy - that British-born people from ethnic minorities should lose all state benefits, including NHS medical treatment, to pay for them to leave the country. "
What a dang cheek?!
So its okay for immigrants or British-born non-whites to do the unpleasant jobs that the English/British won't do(!), and to pay taxes and NHS deductions from their lowly salaries BUT the minute they dare to get sick or be made unemployed, they should pay for help or leave?!
What codswallop, utter tripe and total nonsense!
If all the people the BNP and their short-sighted supporters are against (including hard-working, educated, decent, high-salaried non-whites) were thrown out of England/Britain, the country would be in a for a severe and prolonged shock.
All those "get them out" campaigners are conveniently forgetting the several times the Government, London Underground, etc, etc, were forced to go abroad to entice foreigners to come here to work in the first place.
Work which paid low salaries, had long unsociable hours and were rather degrading, in which English/British people refused to partake. Someone somewhere had to do it!
They came, they worked hard, they managed to survive and raise families in often hostile environments. Now they are being lumped together with illegal immigrants and foreigners who commit crimes.
London Transport (underground and buses) was practically kept afloat by the Caribbeans!
Who else was gonna get up at 4am, 6 days a week, 25/30 years ago, in dank dark foggy weather to walk to work (cos don't forget, there was no transport until the foreigners got the buses out and the tubes/trains running)!
Or the wars where non-whites fought alongside the whites to defeat the common enemy.
Or the NHS needing experienced qualified nurses, doctors and other anxillary, but just as important, staff to keep it going once it was up and running.
Yes, it was fine to "let foreigners in" then. Now, its "get them out, get them out, every last one of them!"
Yes, recent immigration controls here are rubbish, but throwing the baby out with the bath water?
How quickly and conveniently the BNP and their ilk forget!!!
By Mo.. Posted October 25 2009 at 7:20 PM.
So the Queen is backing labour WOW
Nick Griffin the Oliver Cromwell
By Nick Barfoot.. Posted October 25 2009 at 2:16 PM.
the BNP are the only viable party out there to deal with immigration, i don't agree with all their policies but then again i don't agree with all of Labours & the Tories but should i still vote for them??? no, i will vote BNP as i feel they hit on the problems that i'm concerned about (immigration, Europe, financial aid to foreign countries etc), personally i think the BNP would do a lot better if they had someone else leading them, someone who was more articulated and able to handle pressure, even so they will still get my vote until i see something real from the tories.
By deanfelton.. Posted October 25 2009 at 1:04 PM.
How many of the comments on this page are genuine? I bet most have been written by BNP/Nazi party members!
By Alistair McKenzie.. Posted October 25 2009 at 12:14 PM.
labour knows it cannot rely on the white vote to keep power thats why it has flooded us with immigrants .
By kate.. Posted October 25 2009 at 11:51 AM.
By jon ward. Posted October 25 2009 at 8:36 AM.
Absolutely spot on - nothing else to add.
By Enlightened Patrioit.. Posted October 25 2009 at 11:05 AM.
I love the comments regarding the righteousness of the main political parties.
Tell me who is more of a danger. The governing party who took us to war on a lie and, in the process, killed tens of thousands of innocent Iraqs and hunderds of our own service personnel, hoped to drive through 90 day detention, has reintroduced double jeopardy, has turned the country into a state surveillence nation, has allowed it's very own MP's to defraud the taxpayer on a truly massive scale. Oh, and bankrupt the country to boot. I could go on and on.
Or a political party on the fringes with absolutely no chance of winning the next General Election
Please don't preach to me about the horrors of the BNP. The incumbent government is and has been more dangerous to democracy in this country that the BNP will EVER be.
I would NOt vote for the BNP but many people in this country need to wake up and smell the coffee. Labour is the danger to our country, no one else.
By Robert.. Posted October 25 2009 at 10:08 AM.
Like most britts in this country,i do feel like a second class citizen,with the influx of so called asylum seekers/cheap foregin labour,the uk people now have a lower standard of living than ever before (cheap labour driving down wages) while everthing eles goes up.i am neither fore/against the BNP,but belive in some points made by them,i watched the program and do belive it was a witchhunt, as a regular viewer of the program this was not the same program.And has for jack straw, do people forget what his explaination was when he meet mr mugaba (the mass murderer)it was dark and i dint no it was him)the audacity of labour
By steve mcr.. Posted October 25 2009 at 9:12 AM.
The BNP are their own worst enemies. If they were less radical they could actually become a party with a lot of influence in the political system.
There is now room for a new political party as the top parties give the appearance of being one and the BNP is too extreme.
By jon ward.. Posted October 25 2009 at 8:36 AM.
The fact is that the mass immigration into this country cannot be stopped until we pull out of the EU.
This is because EU law (which we have to obey as Brussels law now overules our law) says that those from EU countries can come and live in UK without let or hinderence. Even if that included criminals, we are not allowed to send them back by order of EU law.
And non of these people are vetted, we have no idea who we are letting into the UK. No wonder our prisons are getting fuller by the day.
Utter madness, yet those idiots in Westminster choose to go along with this without batting an eyelid.
That is why we have had the recent influx of people from recently joined poor EU eastern european countries.
They are not illegals, and they have the right to come and stay here and bring their families if they so wish and there is nothing we can do about it. Even if the whole population of these poor EU countries choose to come we have to take them. That is EU law.
It will simply get worse as the EU expands to take in more poor countries who wish to join (and why wouldn't they with the prospect of being able to come to UK and claim the welfare benefits we would not get if we went to live in their countries). Where we are going to put all these people is anybody's guess.
It is madness. And there is no end to it except to leave the EU before we become a complete nonentitity and end up as a small riff raff state in that great Dictatorship called the EU which will be run by people like President Blair or Emperor Cameron.
These top politicians have no intention of taking us out of the EU, but they themselves will go on to get even greater power as the reward from their other unelected 'old boys club' pals in the EU.
So don't be fooled by the three main party's saying they are going to tackle immigration.
The simple truth is THEY CAN'T until we are prepared to get out of the EU and simply trade with this entity, which is what the people of this country thought was the original intention, and not to be taken over by Brussels, lock, stock and barrel.
The Constitution/Treaty that we were promised a referendum on (and non of the main party's will give us), means the complete handover of our powers and Sovereignty to the EU.
Democracy for all intents and purposes is dead in the UK so they might as well get rid of Westmiinster as a Parliament and turn the place into apartments to house some of EU legal immigrants who will continue to flood into our country.
The idiot MPs we have from the three main Parties don't have the guts or the incentive to fly in the face of EU law and to think about the people already in the UK.
So many of them are already struggling to find jobs, housing, medical care, etc for themselves and their families.
So which of the three main parties will be the ones to turn around and simply say NO to the EU crazyness of saying anybody can come and live in UK who is from a EU Member country.
The answer to that is NONE OF THEM.
That's why I hope they end up losing their seats at the next election whether to BNP or UKIP. The need to stop what is happening is URGENT. We have to get out of the EU Dictatorship now before we completely sink, along with our will to do anything about it.
By Tom W.. Posted October 25 2009 at 6:20 AM.
People will drift to the BNP is the government fails to address issues such as immigration and the stresses immigrants are placing on our social fabric. Britain has been doing a great favour to many immigrants who come from oppressive, backward societies. All the gratitude we get is a litany of unreasonable demands and a rejection of societal norms that have been in place for decades. I suggest that all newcomers sign an agreement to accept our culture and not be granted citizenship for at least a decade. Any transgressions within this time will result in the summary return to country of origin. When in Rome to as the Romans do; when in Britain do as the Brits do!
By valproic.. Posted October 25 2009 at 1:16 AM.
Sarah - we are not in Iraq any more - and never should have been.
By Damo.. Posted October 25 2009 at 12:32 AM.
I am not thinking that all who vote for the BNP are rascist, but sadly uninformed people in the reality of immigration for those coming to the UK. I am also making a hugh generalisation, but I am guessing that their knowledge comes from papers like the Sun and this paper.
Not world travel beyond the all in resorts in Europe. Nor actually spending time with people facing the home office and its ever changing rules and expectations.
THE BNP are evil through and through, if you want to scream at the main parties vote for an independant or small party
By Sally.. Posted October 25 2009 at 12:37 AM.
If the BNP want to be proactive perhaps they could fight in Iraq on our behalf.
By Sarah.. Posted October 24 2009 at 11:47 PM.
The BNP are using their immigration policy to win support and get in power. THEY HAVE NO INTENTION OF CURBING IT AT THE LIMIT THEY SAY! He has said it himself, he just wants to get into the position of being in control, and then he's free to do whatever he wants. He will go back on every word he says. He is just a 21st century Hitler.
One of the 3 main parties will put a cap on immigration. There is no need for people to be naive and vote for a disgusting, racist arty out of frustration. If you're going to do so, then vote for UKIP or Green Party ... anyone but the BNP! URGH.
By Harry.. Posted October 24 2009 at 11:44 PM.
There are far more English scroungers than immigrant scroungers. Generally people who vote BNP have achieved little and want to blame someone else. I have news for you..the world owes you nothing. The reason immigrants build businesses, get top school results and jobs as doctors and lawyers is because they work and study hard. All you moaners should try it.
By jon.. Posted October 24 2009 at 11:26 PM.
Well done the BNP for at least brining these issues to light in main stream. For far too long anyone who spoke out mass third world immigration was branded a racist.
At last we can talk about the elephant in the room.
By Mark.. Posted October 24 2009 at 10:44 PM.
I think Nick Griffin and BNP are not getting a fair chance look at the mess labour has done the tories are not going to do much on immirgration either,british people should come first in this country but we dont
By mike.. Posted October 24 2009 at 10:19 PM.
It doesnt matter who is coming in - the fact is WE ARE FULL!!! Which part of that do Labour, Lib Dems and the Tories not get. Hospitals, doctors, dentists the roads, council services, police, housing etc etc are all stretched - and Labour are closing youth clubs and play groups to pay for them - putting children out on the streets. Now they are even building on green belt land. We want quality of life not quantity, and none of the 3 main parties give a hoot. But not in their up market, upper class neighbourhoods though, hey?
By Damo.. Posted October 24 2009 at 10:14 PM.
The reason given for the Tory lead on immigration is questionable. While Labour belatedly first introduced the points system (because it was in power) the Tories had previously proposed it and were then opposed by Labour. I suspect labour will soon copy the "cap" idea.
By MikeScotland.. Posted October 24 2009 at 9:07 PM.
Labour and the Tories are the same. Different ties but same lies. Maggie Thatcher said she would stop immigration but she never so im expecting all the same old lies from the three main parties up to the general election. However some of us wont be fooled and will only vote for the people who will stop immigration and who will put British interests FIRST!!
By James.. Posted October 24 2009 at 8:55 PM.
I am a foreigner(east european)Nick G does not want in this country. However, I do understand his frustration as Labour are the party to be banned first if you English wish to achieve a better relations with other nationals.
Labour has ruined this country, their incompetence created BNP and Labour should apologise to you, British people for creating this mess, which would take 30-40 years to clear up for any other government(s).
Nick Griffin is only somebody because of the total failure of Labour's immigration policy.make it a crime to vote for labour then BNP would disappear.Replace Labour with UKIP or other party(ies).
And send Blair to the Hagues!
By Marek Potnicky.. Posted October 24 2009 at 8:50 PM.
I live on a housing estate south of Sheffield, 12 years ago one of the most sought homes in Sheffield, now it's a ghetto
We are flooded by workless immigrants many dont even speak English most have cars all have mobile phones and every one has preference to housing education and health
We have families with babies living in one bedroom flats one baby has to live all of her small life with the stench of illegal drugs drifting to her home 24hrs @ day, a well known vicious Asian drug pushing crack user lives directly below her family
After many complaints and evidence the Sheffield police take no action because she throws the race card, they are terrified of her
By John Beatson.. Posted October 24 2009 at 8:08 PM.