The BNP would ensure the “protection of British companies from unfair foreign imports” (source).
The BNP believes that in order to rebuild our manufacturing base British industries need to be protected in a similar style to that employed by East Asian countries such as Japan or South Korea. In the past, such countries have used a variety of tactics including tariffs, quotas, special tax arrangements, cheap loans, and currency undervaluation. By limiting the number of imports and raising their prices, they believe they can give British companies a captive market.
Remember, the effect a BNP system of tariffs could cost us each an extra £1,300 a year.
The non financial effects of their protectionist measures are even worse:-
- They reduce diversity and choice. Today, we can wear clothes made by Milanese designers, drink wine from the valleys of New Zealand, or use computers made in Tokyo to access websites designed by Indians in California. It’s difficult to put absolute numbers on the value of this, but a recent fair estimate by Broda and Weinstein estimated the U.S. welfare gain from a greater variety of imports could be as much as much as 2.6% of GDP, or $1,000 each a year.
- Quotas create rationing and waiting lists. As well as tariffs, another mainstay tool of protectionist policy are quotas. The BNP might not block the entry of the new iPad to Britain entirely, but you’d have to be in the lucky first 1,000 people on a waiting list to get one. More crucially, there would be these waiting lists for items in every area of our life – from pairs of jeans to the latest medicine.
- They lose money from the British economy. While tariffs at least raise some money which could be used to cut taxes elsewhere, quotas don’t raise any money – at least for our government. What they do do is create an artificial scarcity which raises prices, but that extra profit goes straight into the pocket of overseas producers.
- They’d kick off a trade war. Once Britain unitarily imposed a system tariffs and quotas, it would not take long for other countries to respond in kind, or the WTO to chuck us out. British goods would be blocked from going overseas, leaving our manufacturing industry no better off than it was before and all of us worse off.
- They’d inspire corruption. The inevitable result of rationing is black markets being formed. Decent, honest Britons would lose out, while the corrupt and wealthy paid through the nose to to keep on their old lives.
- They take away consumer choice. In today’s economy, we as informed consumers increasingly expect to be in control. Rather than being what told to do by big government or by big corporations, we want to choose what we want and when. In the internet long tail age, our niche interests and tastes traverse the whole globe. We don’t want to wait six months after America for the latest Hollywood blockbuster or Sony gadget.
International trade and the variety of goods it brings make our daily life more vibrant and dynamic. The BNP’s plan would return us to a dull, grey world, where we all consumed the same brands, wore the same clothes and drove the same cars. They’d increase the corruption and jealousy in British society as people fought to get their fair share. They’d take away our choice, limit our freedom and make Britain a more boring place to live.
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I have a feeling other politicians will get us there first, maybe a ration on the amount of carbon we can emit?
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What will the Torys do to increase investment in British industry and jobs?
Nothing. So voters have nothing to lose by voting for the BNP.
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AussieAl – the BNP would cause a massive cut in investment. Just to start, they’d ban foreign direct investment. No more Toyota factories or Amazon warehouses
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NB have no idea how we true patriots think and feel; if they did they would not constantly attack the BNP, instead they would focus on the madness of multicultural policy afflicting this nation.
Vote BNP and stand up for British values.
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Hey P.A. hope your well.
Bad news though… British values of Fairness , good manners , justice etc etc dont really tally with the BNP and its ideals, hence it being a minority party since its formation and on the brink of becoming MULTICULTURAL … which is only right because you dont have to be a white christian to love Britain/England etc etc
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Isn’t it funny how the other parties always try to find flaws in BNP policies from the safety of blogs like this one, but will run a mile, or resort to the old accusation of racism, when challenged to debate BNP policies face to face.
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I’d very happily live off meagre rations if it meant being rid of the liblabcons.
Not sure the toffs that run this site could survive without their fine Cuban cigars though !!!
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I am convinced the Torys are scared of the possible electoral gains the BNP might make at the next election. I wonder what the Tory private polling shows.
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Jonathan, I’ve concluded that you must live in a different world from the rest of us!
Selective protectionist measures have always been used by the world’s major economies (Japan, USA, China), determined by a natural desire to protect their own people’s welfare, something that globalist Tories have never been motivated by. Nationalists have always believed in international trade but this has to be based on a solid bedrock of the home economy.
Your picture of the BNP implementing blanket tariffs on all imports is wrong. Selective protectionism is a positive measure in the interests of the British people.
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Jim, the only people those protectionist measures normally helped out was rich capitalists who their government had granted a captive monopoly.
Rightly, the British priority has always been free trade and helping the poor in our society. Sadly, that actually hasn’t always been the unanimous Tory position – take the Tariff Reform League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_Reform_League ). Thankfully, they were defeated by the Liberals, and those who’d rather keep the price of bread low than followed discredited continental ideas.
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Oi Jonathan du ponse
We had our own car factories before Toyota and what is amazon,its a river,grow up you idiot……….God these people have short memories.
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same oul peggy….think his way,or he will slander you,thats the racist way though,you wouldnt expect it any other way
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i think we could ration the bnps air intake
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Only if we can have your ration!
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Did you just admit to being an oxygen thief ? Or are you suggesting the BNP shouldn’t be given the oxygen of publicity?
If the latter is the case I think you should leave that to the controlled media, they have of coursed mastered the art of opinion manipulation.
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“Today, we can wear clothes made by Milanese designers”
Get in the real world!
Most British peoples clothes are made by kids in sweat shops in the far east, thats the truth about the globalization you harp on about!
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Yes I haven’t seen a Milanese label yet in Primark!
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“They’d inspire corruption”
LOL!!!
Stop it now, you’re just making yourself look silly!
I’m genuinely concerned about the sanity of NB, what does this site hope to acheive? Do you honestly think floating voters might visit this site and be put off voting BNP?
Badly researched articles cobbled together with left-wing lies and scaremongering, all your articles get ripped to shreds and you have no coherent sensible come back!
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I think we have enough actual corruption already!
But as always it is scare stories about what the BNP might do, rather than what is actually happening here & now with our mainstream politicians.
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Many people had a better diet under rationing during the war than prior to it. The hungry 30s were called that for a reason.
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They had a better diet because of less fat content and also burned off any excess calories. We are now living in the instant food era, did you ever peruse some of the contents?
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Polly baa, you are a devil! You have now issued a death threat against members of the BNP>Not nice. Now be a good boy and baa sense.
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No, they had a better diet because they could afford to buy food even though it was rationed because it was also price controlled. My father was unemployed from 1932 onwards. Eventually he got a job as a waiter in a pub. It came with his room and meals so my grandfather insisted that he took the job as that was one less mouth to feed.
As I said, that’s why it was the Hungry 30s.
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mrs t tried to bring back the hungry 30s in the 80s…jayboy still cant understand anything you say
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Oh, good grief! NN are trying to take over from the tabloids! Even most-anti BNP posters have fled this site, presumably out of embarassment!
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if NB believe that most Britons wear fine Italian haute coiture, drink fine Kiwi sauvignon blanc and have a high disposable income to spend on laptops etc… it just goes to show how out of touch the Torys have become during their long years in opposition.
The BNP deserve the protest vote of the pissed off and fed up!
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Pollybaa, wish you would stop this pretence of being a scot, you are giving us true brit scots a bad name. smoke de weed man, smoke de weed.
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the powers at be are at work jayboy so ill let you worry bout the asian shopkeeper for now
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Pollybaa, just how did thatcher bring back the hungry thirties? you have a cheek since you helped bring the downfall of the british motor manufacturers , talk about being adult, +your daily cry was “out boys out” because the tea was cold etc. You and your ilk have done a good job in bringing this country to its knees, never mind mrs thatcher. She had something you guys never had, a pair of balls, you crying, moaning smoke de weed, drink all day twats.
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Jason im confused , when you first entered this site you were a proud Ulsterman harping on about your Precious bloody Protestant land in the north of Ireland… Now you are a true Brit Scot ?? unless you somehow explain how youre both, ill start to think you are having an identity crisis… lol i have parents from two different countries (none of them in the united kingdom) and im an Englishman. You should really pick a team and stick with it !!
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alas ,im not allowed to post a reply to your inane ramblings,good old british democracy.
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thatcher style
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robbie burns?fifeshire?brit scots?and he accuses ME of smoking cannabis ….fascists dont do IRONY do they?
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required,what is your point caller?of course your argument is to blame everything on any peoples you dont see as ethnically equal to white christian english!wonderful sentiments,and of course in no way racist,fascist or bigoted!!!!!!!Taxi for required
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I think you’ll find i blame the Lab Lib Con 3 in 1 pro EU, immigrtion, MMGW claptrap party for the problems Britain has, silly little man.
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Pollybaa, if one is using a true scots dialect then Rabbie, not Robbie, would be the correct way to pronounce it. I would know this since I am of British/ scots heitage. I also do not smoke de weed, and am not a fascist, but there you are, vote BNP. You are at the moment in a blind state but perhaps you will eventually see the error of your ways.
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Sorry,im not allowed to reply to your inane ramblings.Democracy is at work?
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Maggie style
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Both parties represented on here have so much in common its very frightening looking on as an unbeliever in both of them
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Pollybaa, you are easily frightened, the truth shall set you free. There is an old adage that says ” there is none so blind as those that cannot see “. I think the person who said that must have had a replica of you in mind. You really do not seem to like anything that has a specific betterment for this island in mind. Is there anyway we could help you?
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Jonathan
you are being disingeneous, as we both know that the BNP are not going to win the keys to 10 Downing st. Voters have a right to know what the Tory’s industry policy is, especially those who might be dithering between voting Tory or BNP.
As i said, Britain has nothing to lose by flirting with the BNP.
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The purpose of our Policy Focus series is to show how their policies would be disastrous for Britain, and hurt most the working class the BNP claim to represent.
If you want to know the Tory policy, your best bet is to visit http://www.conservatives.com/. It’s not really our job here to discuss the mainstream parties.
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“No more Toyota factories or Amazon warehouses”
They’ll probably disappear anyway!
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I don’t recall the BNP ever stating you “have to be a white christian to love Britain/England”, only that you have to be British to be British.
The establishments view is that the indigenous British do not even exist and if they do they’re a mongrel people and yet it’s the BNP being accused of the dreaded racism.
Jack Straw : “The English are not worth saving as a race”, now imagine if Nick Griffin had said that about the Irish, Jewish, Polish, Nigerian, Somalian etc etc
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The TRL actually sounded a good economic policy…
“The TRL aimed at the British Empire being transformed into a single trading bloc to compete with Germany and the United States. It was in favour of hefty duties on imports and the channelling of the money raised from these duties into social reforms.”
Whats wrong with that?! Thats the most sane tory policy I have ever heard!
As for the bread, I’m sure there was plenty of wheat in Canada!
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naw mate ,i just dont like the bnp,simpleees
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oh and bigot.
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