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I'm not sure you should be taking those 'proles' so seriously. I'm from a proletariat family. I grew up in a proletariat area, about as rough as they come, and I know a lot of people (including members of my extended family) who for years have bitched about islamic people and asian people and even black people, and moan about 'foreigners stealing our jobs' and even joke (yes joke) about voting BNP. I say it's a 'joke' but really I think it's an expression of frustration at the way English people are increasingly feeling like foreigners in their own country. How do I know they don't really vote BNP? Because we 'proles' make up... what? 80% of the voting population? 90%? And how much of the vote do BNP really have? If all the people who say that they might (or do) vote BNP were serious, we'd have a BNP government! As it is we don't have a single BNP seat.

Don't mistake people bitching for more than it is. As a white Englishman who's first language is English (raised by white English people who's first language was English) I can relate to the frustration people are feeling. I worked in one job where I was the only English guy on an all-asian team of developers who all spoke in some language I don't even know the name of. In another job I was the only English developer on an all-Isreali team who all spoke in Hebrew all the time. These were not offshore assignments; they were both desk jobs in British cities, and yet I found myself the "foreigner" who is out-of-the-loop because he doesn't speak the "native" langauge. So I can understand when someone jokes that they might vote BNP, but I never would and so far (if election results are any indication) neither have they.