The endeavour would not be fruitless, since I know there are a lot of bad elements within the BNP right now. But you have to realise the difference between the parties voting base and the party itself.
I just think their voter base are not that bad, from what I have seen anyway, and I think they are unfairly demonised, when they are usually just ordinary working-class people looking to make an anti-establishment vote.
If the BNP do get more support, they will be forced to become more moderate to appeal to their support base. They have already disassociated from the more extreme elements eg Combat 18. So maybe in the future they will be less bad.
At the end of the day they do have an economic policy that could just as easily come from the old left, if they drop the overt racism they wouldn't be that bad.
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