Up close and visceral with the BNP
A Day at the Racists heads for Barking.
By Jon Bernstein Published 24 March 2010 18:19
A diary date for those of you who like their theatre politically charged. A Day at the Racists -- which imagines a fictitious BNP election campaign in the very real Barking constituency where Nick Griffin will soon be standing -- will be playing for one night only in, yes, Barking. On 16 April. During the election campaign. Somebody knows something about timing.
The play -- currently finishing a run at the Finborough Theatre, just off the Brompton Road -- has had very respectable reviews from Michael Billington of the Guardian and in the Independent, too.
The play features a British Asian wannabe BNP MP and a former Union man -- scar on his cheek from a violent confrontation with the National Front back in the 1970s -- as her campaign manager. Both are broadly sympathetic characters, ambivalence guaranteed.
Granted, it's a stretch to imagine this smart, self-aware woman choosing to represent the British National Party, but once you are past that, it's a compelling watch that benefits from an intimate space and being played in the round.
It's also full of good lines. Among them is this one, on how playing the race card is like erotic films:
You know what they want, they want the naughty stuff. But you don't give them what they want, not upfront. You hint at it, you suggest it, but you don't give it to them until they're gagging for it, then . . . bang.
"A Day at the Racists" by Anders Lustgarten is at the Finborough Theatre, London SW10, until 27 March.
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43 comments
If mass Muslim immigration took x years, will the future mass expulsion take a longer or a shorter time?
@Barnes
Well put.
You forgot to mention that the audience of liberal wankers, degraded and depraved by their immersion in liberal wankerdom, will imitate the liberal wanker journalist, parrot his liberal wanker words, and do their best to be as much of a liberal wanker as he is.
@ Bill Corr, 13:00
Let us hope it takes a much shorter time.
Personally I favor generous grants, reducing to zero over a period of say, three years.
I see no reason to delay taking our country back.
Well I must say how refreshing to find a web site where you can say WANKER without being banned, its like a living back in the eighties when PC meant a police officer.
but looking the BNP from a neutral position, and not being bios I would say the BNP will do very well at the election, every body seems to agree with there views. although you do get one or two fruit loops who dont.
townslives:
You must forgive me if I missed the fact that Will is (probably) ironic.Yes I should pay attention. You must admit though that it is sometimes difficult to tell because the BNP members's posts are SOOOoo! downright lunatic that you have to look twice to see if someone is taking the mickey or not.
So a liberal wanker writes a play about the BNP, a party he has never had any direct contact with any way and so based his story on the ramblings of idiot jounalists, in order to please liberal wanker journalists who write about the BNP, but who also have had no direct contact with.
Its like one big happy wank fest.
Its a circle of onanism, each liberal wanker busy wanking off the next liberal wanker until each reaches a shuddering climax of stupidity.
Sad and pathetic, the whole lot of you.
Got to agree with Lee John Barnes
Pathetic journalism so call it gutter press
gotta agree with Lee John Barnes too, I have no idea where everyone gets this impression that the BNP are racist from. Voluntary repatriation is not racist at all, they're perfectly happy to debate this point blacks and asians, just so long as they're at the other end of an international telephone line, and that's not racist at all.
The media keeps reporting on things like BNP members sending death threats to school kids who campaign against them, but I'm sure Gordon Brown regularly sends death threats to members of the young conservatives.
Anyway the entire body of the British Media, from the Mail to the Guardian to Private Eye are run by the liberal cabal of George Monbiot, Peter Tatchell and Darcus Howe who secretly control the world, so any reporting of them is bound to be biased.
These first 3 comments sound like the ramblings of certified lunatics. What are they doing on this site?
If only we had proper knowledge of the BNP,I am sure we would find that they are cuddly, humane, friendly, misunderstood souls who just need a big hug!Is that it?
Monbiot, Tatchell and Darcus Howe are controlling the world? You really are a bunch of comedians.
PLEASE! go and spew your bile on another site!
In the States, these types would be wearing white sheets and burning crosses. If there aren't jobs (you yobs) in your part of Birmingham, perhaps there's a spot for you wearing further south wearing a Millwall kit.
Save 6 music btw.
Daniele: I think (and hope) Will was being ironic.
British National Party! Not doing too bad, though. Still in the process of signing up, approximately, another 7,000 members since their membership list reopened. They must be doing something right!! he he.
Being a liberal/lefty is my idea of hell. Pure punishment; having to live off canapes while viewing at the latest modern art installation made out of tampons, then going to watch plays like this and also being surrounded by people at dinner parties braying as they snort cocaine. Its depressing just thinking about it! No wonder they all have meetings with counsellors and shrinks.
Agree with Lee Barnes.
Also when will the media stop attacking the BNP and instead attack the causes of the BNP's success such as the disastrous policies of mass immigration and multi culturism.
They should be applauding the BNP for having the guts to stand up and tell it like it is and opening up a debate the establishment has been too afraid to open itself for fear of being called the R word.
I agree with Lee John Barnes!
Being a "Habitat Radical" is okay when mummy and daddy are paying, but at some stage you're going to have to enter the real world.
Is Habitat still trading?
I think Mr Barnes covers most of the points that I would like to make.
I'm a big BNP fan. But Lee John Barnes uses somewhat intemperate language. I can understand why he's upset, after 30 years' of liberal media lying. But really, 'wankers' isn't the language a lot of floating voters would like to hear from their future elected politicians - even though he is being completely accurate.
Its alright stan, I am not standing for election.
Therefore I can call the liberal wankers, liberal wankers.
In fact most people I speak too say to me ' we need someone to tell the truth and speak the way it needs to be said in our language, and not speak lies and half truthes in the idiot dribble language of spin and PR' - so I say name the devil to shame the devil.
Yep, liberal wankers it is.
I suggest you unemployed BNP supporters get off your backsides and do something useful rather than clogging up the internet with your toxic comments.
Unemployed BNP supporters are doing something useful,Like putting BNP leaflets through Liberal wankers doors.no doubt you will get yours soon.
I was half expecting a torrent of abuse from BNP members over my mocking of their views by posting in the guise of a sociopathic hypocritical bigot.
I think it says something that if you post such views, the genuine BNP members can't tell the difference between those and their own views.
Well, tell me, is this the *same* Lee John Barnes? You're as mad as a box of frogs...
http://efrafandays.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/lee-john-barnes-on-radio4/
"I have no idea where everyone gets this impression that the BNP are racist from."
Well it from BNP leaflets, the BNP website, the speaches of Nick Griffin and talking to BNP members are reading their ignorant and idiotic ramblings on websites.
Why are you bothered about the BNP being racist - that's their whole point.
So it's not 'races' to replace indigenous white Britons with third world immigrants!
(oops, I meant 'racist').
Surely this is ethnic cleansing.
How many of the above so-called anti races (there I go again) have a problem with the Equality Bill, which legalizes discrimination against white males in the work place?
Oh, Mary, Joseph and Jesus, has Barnesy found another blog to haunt? I'd hazard a guess that at least two of the first three comments have the same IP address.
Remember, this is the bloke who calls himself the "legal adviser" for the BNP despite not appearing on any record of solicitors.
See the 'advice' he gave to Richard Barnbrooke.
http://efrafandays.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/whoops-ii/
Great comment from Lee Barnes.
How many of you idiots who label the BNP as racist have actually read the BNP's policies or watched Nick Griffin's speeches on Youtube?
Quite a lot of us, Leon.
Waddayasay, Lee? Oi, Odinsboy!
Will was being ironic, as pointed out above. Please pay attention at the back. Of course they're not racist, they just wanted to exclude non-whites from their Party. Lee Barnes and his onanism (or whatever) are just reluctant to be exposed for what they really are. You can be concerned about the ongoing and miserable shttfight over dwindling resources the last 30 years of economic policy has gifted to us, but those responsible are the Tebbits of this world, still out there kicking at ethnic minorities with the last of their strength. It’s the failure of New Labour to deliver any tangible improvement in equality and the failure of the Left to properly engage with these underlying issues that is a gift to these nutters. Being blinded by their preposterous Roderick Spode act, many on the left are just as dogmatic and laughable as the easy targets of the BNP.
I'd say Lee John Barnes is as mad as a saucepan full of frogs put on a cooker, except that it would give him ideas.
How many of you idiots who label the BNP as racist have actually read the BNP's policies or watched Nick Griffin's speeches on Youtube?
That one to the Ku Klux Klan is particularly memorable.
Are the EDL state-backed agent provocateurs?
Was the UAF totally wrong footed by the big number of EDL supporters in Bolton?
Can the Labourist regime afford to pay both sides?
Excellent. The 'Special Needs' BNP Brigade are out and about today.
That should have said skin colour and race...
The BNP are expert online comment board hijackers, something I suspect suits vicious, jobless layabouts who blame their ills on others based on skin race. If the BNP belong to the master race, I might stop ticking "white British" on forms.
"How many of you idiots who label the BNP as racist have actually read the BNP's policies or watched Nick Griffin's speeches on Youtube?"
I've met him and heard him speak - time I can never get back sadly. Anyone esle think he looks like a demented owl? (except owls aren't usually racist as far as I know...)
Anyone suggest any names for a play about labour MP's.
'A day for five thousand quid' perhaps or even 'a day in the dock'
Or conservative MP's.
A day in the duck house
So short of crap to write about the BNP that we now have the 100,000,000 review of the obviously very unsucessful 'a day at the multiracists'.
Even Lee Barnes had has his insane heroin racked coma woken by the sheer boredom of what goes for copy these days in the Islamoliberal press. (his theory of radical marxist wanking as the driver for all this however is mistaken).
It must be really depressing being a journalist these days. Once it would have been a coup to get a job on 'The Times' and the opportunity to write stunning copy but that was before it became a travesty of itself. Does Yasmin pay you all extra expenses for writing your little bits of anti-bnp shite everyday?
May Odin and Xenu bless us all and lead us to hold hands and sing 'Kumbaya' together even as the vibrant Third World hordes pour into our Green and Pleasant Land, live on benefits and blow themselves - and others - to bits on public transport, thus enriching all our lives.
A play based on the Government crap printed in the media. Wow it really does surprise me how so many of you take government fed media as Gospel. Get your subnormal heads out of the sand and go read the truth not propaganda crap.
The BNP is the only party that represents the British people, LibLabCon are to busy bending over backwards to keep the muslim invaders happy, at the cost of our own heritage and culture. Flooding the country with huge influx of migrants, changing our very own society and nobody asked us the people what we wanted. 75% of our country and sovereignty handed over to EU, again nobody asked us the people. Two illegal wars with three illegal regime changes by Labour party war mongers. LibLabCon war machines.
Sending troops in to conflict with lack of equipment and vehicles. Selling off what remains of Britain's assets to cover the costs of illegal wars and continued influx of immigrants. Give me one good reason why i should not vote BNP !
It's no longer implausible to imagine an intelligent, well educated middle class person standing for the BNP. The leaked membership lists disclosed quite a few such. I see the party has just adopted a Cambridge-educated barrister as a PPC, for instance.
To identify yourself as a BNP member in the teeth of the incessant blizzard of liberal odium, and often to risk your job as well as your social okayness, takes guts as well as the attributes that NS bloggers value. Being an NS-blogger type does not need much intestinal fortitude, however.
Nilsson might go further and draw a parallel between being a British Nationalist these days and being a member of the CPGB at the height of the Cold War.
Except that unapologetic members of the CPGB were to be found in academia and the trade unions in wondrous plenty even after 1956.
Bill Corr wrote 'Except that unapologetic members of the CPGB were to be found in academia and the trade unions in wondrous plenty even after 1956.'
Add to that the governing party of today.
So in the light of these changes what does it say about what groups might be governing in future years?
Will:
Absolutely! I even fell for it, not being a BNP member.
As I said earlier, their views are so.. yes, so sociopathic to use your word, that I thought, at first glance, that you must be "one of them". Only when I read it again later I realised it was a piss take.
Interesting though,and very revealing, as you say, that BNP members couldn't tell the difference either.
To paraphrase Robert Frost,
The forest is dark and deep and I have promises to keep,
And far to go before I sleep.
Muslims'flight will be expansive as their stay was expensive,
Whatére they leave was ours by right, they will not need it on their flight.
I am a Knuckledragging BNP supporter.
Vive Britannia.
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