A fascinating, and I believe hugely important, new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) concludes that it is not immigration but alienation and an inability to overcome social challenges such as isolation and low skills which are the main drivers for BNP support.
This is something that I have been saying for a long time, backed by my experiences trudging the streets in the more deprived parts of West Yorkshire.
The finding contradicts the argument that immigration is to "blame" for pushing voters into the arms of the BNP.
If anything, the opposite is true, namely where folk have experience of living with migrants they are LESS likely to vote to the BNP.
It is also axiomatic of a wider political and social truth, the more we have an opportunity of getting to know each other, the more our lives overlap, whether at school, at work, or even at leisure the more we can understand and appreciate each other and realise that there is much more that unites us than divides us, and indeed often learning to celebrate that diversity.
The report can be downloaded from here http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=742
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