Like socialism, fascism is essentially a working class ideology in origin, and therefore has quite a few points in common with socialism, or the more extreme forms of it anyway. The Nazi Party was originally the German Workers' Party, Benito started off as a socialist and though the latter broke away from socialism and Hitler eliminated most of the left-wing element in his party in the Night of the Long Knives, it would be wrong to deny that socialism had no influence on fascism. Nazism developed the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft, or people's community; like communism, fascism believed in a radical break with the past and creation of a new order; various social reform was enacted (increase of paid holiday, anti-child labour legislation, compensation for asbestos-related illnesses), which of course only applied to Aryans, but was still quite left-wing when compared to other Western countries. National Socialism was pretty much that, quasi-socialist ultra-nationalism.

The BNP just continues in this tradition, which of course the economic crisis has done much to foster, as declaiming the filthy rich, especially when they are Jews (they must have been over the moon when the Madoff case came out) and other "dirty" foreign types, is a sure vote-winner when it comes to poor whites who need to blame someone for why they don't have a job, other than their own lack of intelligence and willingness to work, naturally.