Shop! Horror! / January 15 2007
What was, until recently, a small cake shop on the High Street here in the small Derbyshire town that Audrey and I call home, is soon to open its doors as an office/shop/surgery belonging to the representatives, members and officials of the local British National Party.
It has robust metal shutters protecting the windows and door at the moment, but there is a colourful new sign above the entrance - decorated with several eye-catchingly glossy Union flags – that bears the legend ‘The BNP The Truth The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth.’ (sic)
Ours is a fairly parochial but rather close community that has never really benefited from any substantial redevelopment or government investment since the local coal-mining industry collapsed about 20 years ago. The presence of the BNP here is not a total shock, though it is a little surprising for such a small and friendly, rural village. Surprising to me, anyway - perhaps I am being slightly naïve. It wouldn’t be the first time.
So – what to do? Shall I wait for the doors to open in a few weeks’ time and step inside offering my trenchant views on their distasteful opinions and methods? With the high level of unemployment, low level of education and general fundamental, overall dissatisfaction of most of the people who live here, I would probably be wasting my time. It is a very sad fact, but any potential BNP canvassers would unfortunately be preaching mostly to the already converted, as it were.
Hey, Audrey, time for us to move on, methinks.
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One comment on “Shop! Horror!”
Graham Boffey / January 16th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
This is truly a sad indictment of our troubled times. I am sorry that such a thing should happen in your town. All I can say is that every right minded person should boycott the institution and continue to preach against bigotted intolerance at every oppportunity. If this doesn’t work, fire bomb the fascist bastards.
Graham
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