{"id":551,"date":"2002-05-06T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2002-05-06T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/05\/just-the-facts-maam\/"},"modified":"2002-05-06T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2002-05-06T19:32:59","slug":"just-the-facts-maam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/06\/just-the-facts-maam\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the facts, ma&#8217;am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; The best cure for Anglosphere idiocy is data, so here&#8217;s some on the British National Party, the UK&#8217;s equivalent of Le Pen&#8217;s French National Party. At least one BNP candidate for parliament did as well as Le Pen in recent elections, accoriding to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/uk\/newsid_1507000\/1507680.stm\">BBC News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMr Griffin, a Cambridge law graduate, is pictured on the BNP website in a family shot with his wife and four children. However, no mention is made of the fact that he too has been convicted of inciting racial hatred.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAt the general election in June, he stood for the seat of Oldham West and Royton, where weeks earlier racial tension had led to rioting, and won 16.4% of the vote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The alienated right-wing fringe is all over Europe, not just on the Continent.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; The best cure for Anglosphere idiocy is data, so here&#8217;s some on the British National Party, the UK&#8217;s equivalent of Le Pen&#8217;s French National Party. At least one BNP candidate for parliament did as well as Le Pen in recent elections, accoriding to the BBC News: Mr Griffin, a Cambridge law graduate, is pictured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/06\/just-the-facts-maam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just the facts, ma&#8217;am&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-8T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}