Something has clearly gone awry in the British National Party’s HR department this week. Either that or there is an intern in their ranks with a warped sense of humour (even for the BNP).
The neo-fascist collective has placed two ads in the Guardian for staff, which Comment Central blogger Nick Anstead had to point out to the left-wing broadsheet.
Proving that whether right-wing or left-wing, employees of both sides are capable of incompetence, let me first address the fact that it took a 3rd party source to make the Guardian aware of what is in its Jobs section. Good work, editor.
However, I can hear the plausible excuses emanating from Guardian Towers already – editorial impartiality, the BNP has an equality opportunity to advertise for neo-Nazis etc. Still…
But more worryingly, what spawned the idea to place such an ad in such a paper? Did the BNP base its recruitment strategy on market research which suggested an impending shift from the left to the right? Out with the corduroy jackets and in with out-dated, Daily Mail-esque prejudice dressed up as patriotism?
Or is it that a party operating from such a low base of scruples assumed that admin staff care not whether they are typing for the Devil, so long as it pays well?
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The advertisements are not from the BNP but from the GLA’s very own Human Resources office – it is their policy-requirement for recruitment.
But hey – don’t let fact in the way of a good anti-BNP rant.
Idiot.
It is the GLA’s policy to place ads in wildly inappropriate places?
It is the BNP’s policy to allow this to happen?
Maybe they are the idiots.
More over, far right parties seem to always seem to gain votes in economic instability. With all the main parties hugging in the middle, could this be a deliberate ploy to turn one into a flag waver?
A good point. Though hopefully the promise of dollar bills wouldn’t be enough to convince closet capitalists with liberal pretences to jack in their morality… Assuming the BNP could actually deliver some semblance of economic prosperity, which requires a large leap of faith…