Thanks to Question Time coming up there has been a lot of press about the BNP recently. As usual the bias, rage and outright hatred have been so thick on the ground you could cut it with a knife. The journalists writing and the politicos they quote are members of the political class which would suffer the most, ideologically and financially, if the BNP hit the mainstream so much of this is to be expected.

But a new term has come up in the anti-BNP articles that has not been used before. It started in an article by Sunny Hundal in the guardian and has migrated to the pens of journalists and commentators elsewhere. The term, which is used to describe those who will reject the BNP no matter what it says, is “Right thinking”.

Who are the “Right thinking” people? Clearly the phrase has very little connection with related terms like “right-wingers”. The phrase itself seems to encapsulate the pure and unadulterated arrogance of the political classes. Clearly this “Right thinking” refers only to their own opinions and not to others. I seriously doubt if their definition of “Right thinking” includes a wish to restrict immigration to less than its current level, which according to recent polls would make around 80% of the British populace “Wrong” thinkers.

Clearly the concerns and feelings of the general population do not matter to these “Right thinkers”. Clearly whether people want immigration or not matters very little to “Right thinkers” regardless of the opinions of the plebs they remain in support of it. If you look at most magazines, news broadcasts and newsprint its clear that “Right thinking” people from the upper middle classes predominate in the fields that provide the primary form of information to the masses. The fact that so many of the general public still disagree is an illustration not only of the strength of feeling against them but of their almost total disconnect with the reality of peoples everyday lives.

Being a “Right” thinker clearly means by its very definition that everyone else is wrong. In the case of immigration almost every person in Britain, Black or white, Muslim or Jew, is wrong. Only by agreeing with the minority view of the political class can anyone be right, regardless of that views relationship with reality.

This is the terrifying truth. The class which controls our educational institutions, our systems of government and for most of us our access to information and ideas has only a passing familiarity with reality. When their ideas conflict with reality, in their mind it is reality which must conform.

This is the truth more unnerving than any conspiracy theory. The hatred of the political classes towards the public and groups like the BNP is not just the hatred towards a political opponent, but a hatred of a reality which refuses to do as they tell it to. They consider themselves to be mini gods, molding a new society out of imperfect clay. When anyone contradicts this fantasy they fly into the insane rage of a spoilt child who cannot believe that its wishes are not going to be fulfilled.