Securing the Middle Ground But Losing the War

People vote for the BNP because the BNP send nice young men in suits out to canvas for votes of white people in racially mixed areas. They ask people what troubles them about the area (crime, rent, litter, whatever) and promise to deal with it if they get elected, while also saying that most of said problems are caused by "ethnics" (sic) rather than good old British white folk.

Likewise, Respect send people out to knock on Muslism doors in racially mixed areas, and promise to solve all their problems if elected while claiming that most of said problems are caused by "Islamaphobia" and the war in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the three main parties send out leaflets that do nothing other than slag off the other two, while ignoring local people's complaints altogether and occassionally shouting that the BNP are nazis who must be stopped without going into any detail as to why.

xpost: Basically, yes. Not that I would criticize the Tories for moving left, but I think Labour have been taking their traditional working class left-of-centre vote for granted for too long and it's starting to disappear.

My theory is that, after a while people get a little sick of being told that they're fat, stupid, lazy, violent, racist, promiscuous, chain-smoking, binge-drinking scumbags. Or, to pluck one but one example out of the air, that no stone must be unturned to make sure that other people don't have to go to school with their children. Etc etc etc.