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Little by little In electoral terms, the British National Party are still miniscule but success in local elections is now regular to the point of being almost monotonous:
The far-right British National Party have picked up another council seat after a by-election in Essex.
His party has tried to moderate its policies and rhetoric in an effort to shake off its racist image and become more electable.
The by-election was triggered by the death of a Labour incumbent.
In common with everybody else, the BBC always refers to the BNP as ‘far-right’. Such nonsense. The BNP is not of the right, near or far. It is an old Labour-style socialist party with a bit of wog-bashing thrown in. They are, in the truest sense of the term, the Nationalist Left.
But quibbles aside, there can be little argument that their appeal is widening if not spectacularly then at least steadily.
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Isn’t that what a fascist party is? Nationalistic, racist even, but in economic terms they would make Marx happy.
They weren’t called National Socialists for nothing!
I was under the impression that it was rather the other way around: a wog-bashing party with a bit of anything else that might be popular thrown in, from punitive criminal codes to organic agriculture.
I don’t know that we can conclude their appeal is widening–though they are clearly attempting to widen it. Perhaps their fanbase is more resilient than that of other parties; perhaps they are picking up marginal voters for whom the appeal of mainstream parties is narrowing.
What a shame that Diana Mosley has just died and missed the moment of ultimate triumph!
Thank you, David, for placing the BNP somewhere other than the right (anywhere will do). Actually, I don’t think they are strictly placeable on the classic right-left political scale. Their single, guiding policy is British whites first. It’s not entirely fair or accurate to call it wog-bashing, since Nick Griffin has expelled the bashers. For example, he demands higher standards of behaviourial control than than famously exhibited in 2001 by John Prescott, and BNP councillors suffer far more provocation, too.
As for the mainstream political menu Griffin merely tacks on whatever he thinks might resonate with the public (always, of course, in a way that fits with the Brit-first policy). I suppose it makes them a political party as opposed to a single issue pressure group. But it’s difficult to believe they care about anything but race.
There only strength is that political correctness has done so much to erase discussion of the subject. When the mainstream does converse the raison d’etre for the BNP goes out the window.
On balance, however, we should consider ourselves fortunate that the white racist party in this country is characteristically mild. If you want to see the American variety in action go visit http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/ These people write openly about vertical expulsion of the jews and truly venerate the real Nazis. It is quite the most alarming catalogue of hate.
What is a wog? Seriously…I have read the term several times since I have begun reading the blogs but have no idea it’s meaning.
Well so does MEChA for that matter, but they are not white so no one cares. I have read several books on the nationalist parties and both of them stated that instead of the BNP being an outgrowth of the Tories (which some lefties claim) their numbers are almost entirely drawn from disgruntled (old) Labour supporters.
For Debbie in the US;
‘Wogs start at Calais’
Oh Debbie, are you being ironic? Well, anyhow, it is drawn from the epithet Wily Oriental Gentleman, applied I imagine by Kipling’s splendid men in red. In 1980 a book was written with illustrations of a black doll called golliwog. Generations of British children were then given black rag dolls with this soubriquet. It transposed itself into the trade mark of a jam-maker, and the loved symbol was applied to their bootles of jams for most of the 20th century. Political correctness did for it about a decade ago and now only the fearless blogger dares to utter the forbidden last three letters.
I allways wondered why a friendly smiling well dressed black person was considered racist.
Then I moved to Battersea.
No-one should be surprised that the BNP draws its support, as related by AID above, from (old) Labour voters: both groups have always been predominantly traditional working class, and despite Labour prissiness & piety, your (Labour voting) British Working Man has always been robustly intolerant of darkies in large numbers, while happily absorbing small numbers of them in the workplace.
I smile when BNP candidates score a victory in a Labour stronghold, because it puts noses out of joint among Guardian readers. Mind you, if you found yourself shaking hands with a BNP type, you’d want a long hot shower afterwards.
When I think of Nick Griffin, I think of the affable, well-dressed rabble-rouser in ‘American History X’.
The BNP are a nasty bunch, but nature abhors a vacuum. The systematic closing-off of any debate on the nature and direction of multiculturalism has played to their strengths.
It’s also interesting to note that that most reprehensible of mainstream parties, the egregious Lib Dems, are not above playing fast and loose with the race card (viz. Tower Hamlets).
Also, I adored my stuffed golly when I was little. He was one of my most cherished toys. The thought that he was ‘racist’ would simply have been inconceivable to me.
But David, did the wicked caricature of golly as a symbol of coloured inferiority imbue you with deep racist leanings? Can you cruise the ‘hood without thinking of marmalade?
Golliwogs are much older than 1980, circa 1900. Incidentally, there’s an interesting comment on the BNP being left of centre authoritarians at Political Compass.
Emo,sorry meant to type 1890! I believe Robinsons have brought back the golly now, as well.
I understand the term Wog originated in India in the early 19th century. According to the story I heard, British soldiers had begun calling the Indians “niggers”, which was causing some understandable offense. The powers-that-be decreed that henceforth the native people of the country were to be addressed as “Worthy Oriental Gentlemen”. Like soldiers everywhere, it probably took all of ten minutes for this to be shortened to the acronym ‘wog’.
All reminds me of Fawlty Towers where the Major is telling Basil a story something along the lines of:
How he took a former girlfriend to watch England play India at Lords:
“and she said ‘who are these niggers?’. I said they’re not niggers! That’s the west indians. These are wogs!”
When the political elite of all three main parties and none, show utter contempt for their voters; when they wall off whole areas of legitimate debate to avoid the hard facts that face the unprotected masses, then slowly the people look to anyone who will really listen. The huge threat to the white male will have to be faced sooner or later. The threat to the native Briton posed by now entrenched Islamic terrorists is in your face. It will not go away. The subversives who gave the nation away will have to answer at some stage. Nothing will change that.
These BNP people will grow and grow because of the failure of the bloated political elite who infest the whole of Britain, to the point where one asks “Is there anyone left who is not riding on the gravy train”.
Tregagle’s comment is intriguing because he (I assume) seems to understand where the BNP is coming from, but the assumptions he represents are rather hard to comprehend.
I feel very threatened on all sorts of grounds. I’m second to none in my paranoia, I thought. (Or perhaps in my eknoia, for readers of David Cooper, since they really are out to get me.)
However, I’ve never felt threatened as a “native Briton” (as opposed to a Western liberal atheist) by islamicist loonies. And I’m completely clueless what huge threat there is to my whiteness and maleness. (Let alone why whiteness might have any value.)
Guy, anyone who has lived in Saudi Arabia for instance, for a long time, will have some understanding of the mindset of Islamic fanatics. The foundation of an Islamic sharia state is not a rather desirable aim, but rather an absolute necessity, and worthy of any sacrifice. Do not think for an instant that this is an exaggeration and do not think we are speaking of minority factions.
The destruction of Western religion and ideology is, they believe required by the Koran. They do not argue about this.
It must follow that Islamic extremists in Britain will hope to disposess the people of Britain. I have no sympathy with the BNP but can see that the elector will increasingly see in them a party who is not deaf to their interests, and not afraid to offer them leadership.
Guy,
You write “let alone why whiteness might have any value”. I can hardly believe that even non-whites think the towering achievements of our civilisation have no value. Look at the product of your people, then at the product of the other races. Which do you admire most, particularly as an atheist (eastern mysticism leaves us behind, I confess)? As a liberal atheist, in what other country outside of those predominantly influenced and peopled by the white Europeans races would you care to live and raise your family?
You seem to be professing astounding ignorance and possibly even following the Boasian path to white racial denial. If you are not actually a cultural marxist, wake up.
Regarding Tregagle’s assertions of white doom, well, if you extend present trends of rate of childbirth, immigration and miscegenation you get minority status. No doubt about it. France and Britain (really just England) are at the leading edge of this process in Europe. We will, though, have the opportunity to assess how it plays (violently I should imagine) elsewhere. The US government says the white majority will disappear around 2050, though that depends on how you categorise the proportion of Mexican immigrants who are hispanic, non-indians. Canada could be even further advanced than that, though the high proportion of inately intelligent, law-abiding east Asians who have taken up residence there may moderate the process.
There are two questions here:-
1) Is this inevitable or can it be changed?
2) Will our civilisation be continued by a poopulation substantially weighted towards inately low-IQ, Third World peoples?
OK, that’s the fuse lit. Where’s the explosion of moral indignation?
I read in the Daily Mail (my mother buys it – not me!) words to the effect of,
“This is a sorry day for Democracy”
spoken by some mainstream party hack. Wrong – it is a great day for democracy that someone different can be elected, however strange his views! If that’s what the people want, then that’s what they should get, and it would be a sad day for democracy if the Labour party decided otherwise.
Hitler was originally a communist. This is were the term national socialist workers party comes from. The BNP has nothing to do with the left. It is true far left and far right politics has some cross over elements but they should not be confused. Also the labour party of today is more right than left. The victory of America in the cold war has meant that left wing politics is now all but gone.