This is a really good bit of political commentary, actually. It's all too easy for either side to say 'it's all their fault!', but really, the fault usually lies somewhere in between - the right wingers may be responsible for screwing up a lot of things, but so are the left wingers for supporting worthy causes with an unflinching attitude of head-up-their-own-ass which makes their support less than useless. (And I say this as someone who is politically left wing himself.) As an example, my Dad is an environmentalist, and is a member of the local county board of supervisors. We live in an area which, in a nutshell, has way too many vineyards taking way too much water out of the local rivers and creeks, and he's been trying for years to get an ordinance passed that will stop them from doing this. Going against him are the vineyard owners themselves, of course, who are pretty powerful, but a major thorn in his side from day one has been people who are nominally on his side, but who will not accept anything but a major and immediate victory. As a result, the minor victories keep getting turned around on him by people who say, 'no, that's not good enough - we won't accept an inch! We demand a mile!' And as a result, they don't get either. It's pretty frustrating. I've heard of the BNP, but being an ignorant Yank who hasn't been paying much attention to the news lately, I hadn't heard that they'd won anything. May I enquire as to the extent of the damage?