Whilst I am ranting about the BNP, the two main parties should be held to account for the part they have played in assisting them. They have disgracefully allowed the BNP (who are profoundly un-British and indeed anti-British) to cloak themselves in a mantle of faux patriotism.
In whose favour does the person loves his country cast his vote? The old Labour party was in many respects a fine institution, combining patriotism with reforming zeal and a genuine social conscience (unlike the ersatz kind so loudly proclaimed by the modern Labour party). And now? Love of one's country is a disreputable thing in their eyes. When the likes of the excellent Tony Benn and a few others go, there will be no-one left in that awful party with even the slightest sense of decency.
As the for the Tories, they appear to be rather confused. As far as I can judge, they think that patriotism consists of the following:
One should bomb and invade as many Muslim countries (selected, it seems, entirely at random) as possible. Admittedly they did not start many of our Middle Eastern adventures, but they supported them and still refuse to admit that they were wrong to do so, to their eternal shame. This unleashing of mass slaughter upon innocents abroad they then combine with grovelling to the worst Islamic extremist elements at home, and selling our national sovereignty to the band of kleptocrats, rejects and failures that make up the ruling class of the EU.
I imagine because the Tories are weak, pathetic and useless they like to appear tough by sending better men than they to die in unnecessary and immoral wars abroad. They presumably view these deaths (and those of untold numbers of civilians) as a reasonable price to pay for the bolstering of their egos.