But the risk is that lies are becoming accepted as truth, like the bizzare fantasy that immigrants get priority for housing (see http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=3637 for independant research) or that the Holocaust was faked (please…).

Scapegoating plays to a real human instinct to blame “them” for everthing. Its behind every genocide and massacre in history – from the Hutsis to the Nazis.

Remeber your GSCE history lessons on propaganda? The BNP are leading ordinary people down a dark path with their manipulation and image management. They want to channel your (often justified) anger for their own purposes.

And its a powerful tactic, which seems to be working – hence the views on this page that anyone that hates the BNP must by definition be “lefty”.

Suprised..well disappointed these last few weeks to see how immature the ‘left-wing’, unscrupulous, fascist actually so many of them are. Using fascist and undemocratic tactics, black properganda – more and more frantically to prevent democratic debate and zero-in on the real proposals. Just reading through this thread – quite bizarre almost a mccarthyite paranoia that supportive or sympathetic comments appearing on news sites are probably the result of a organised campaign by a ‘team’ of BNP activits.

did you know that the British Union of Fascists was a Labour splinter group created by Labour minister Oswald Moseley?

are you aware that there are people of various ‘color’ oppossed to the economic consequences of unmoderated immigration?

Guys, please take it from a moderate, liberal, peaceful person. These are mainstream reactions from mainstream people. Left wing peer groups acting astounded and shocked by the grass-roots reactions to the QT debacle are real. The fascism in actuality is coming from people like the UAF and the autocratic Labour government. Please wake up. thanks.

Jack, London, England.

If nothing else, the huge number of pro-BNP policy comments is suprising, given what polls tell us about the views of British people.

But it would be difficult to stop… its one thing spotting similar mistakes, but how can you detect small but well motivated groups with multiple log-ins posting (and recomending) multiple messages? They had time to prepare after all.

Even if they went over the top, the 1000 anti-facist protesters at least made a public statement of their beliefs – the deluge of HYS and Sky News comments could easily have been made by a handful of similarly committed but secretive racists.

Not if it was a mistake made in haste. If you’re trying to bang out as many messages as possible in a given time, its likely you’ll make the same mistypes. I spotted 7 mentions of BMP, only one was anti-BNP.

Also seems a high number of “recomends” for each of the comments – would be interesting to see if these are consistent with historic trends.

Given the potential impact of these comments, I think measures to screen for trolling campaigns should be stepped up.