The BNP wishes to portray itself as a party tough on crime, untainted by the political correctness of the other mainstream parties. They would bring back the death penalty, introduce automatic prison sentences for repeat offenders and electronically tagged chain gangs to provide labour (source: BNP mini manifesto 2007). They seek to create a new culture of discipline by restoring corporate punishment in schools, bring back national service and require each adult to own a standard issue military assault rifle. (source: BNP manifesto 2005)
As part of their reactionary nostalgia, the BNP believe the behaviour in our society is going downhill, and the only way to confront this is with the return to a culture of discipline. While mainstream politicians might promise tougher sentencing or giving headmasters more power to expel pupils, the BNP take this to an extreme: compulsory prison sentences, canes back in our schools and guns on our streets.
The BNP believe that Britain should follow the Swiss example, where each adult that has completely keeps an assault rifle and ammunition in their home. Not only they say would this be a significant deterrent to crime, but it would act as a check on a strong central BNP government.
The problems of crime and deprivation in our society are complex, but the BNP’s policies would only succeed in making them worse:
Guns on our streets. Britain doesn’t have a gun culture. The BNP are openly advocating the policy in order to create an army of gun toting vigilantes and it’s likely that their wish would come true. Increasing the arsenal of our criminals without solving the underlying social problems is a recipe for disaster.
The British people simply don’t like guns, or want them in this country. We’re not Switzerland or America. One of the blessings of living in Britain today is that we don’t have to be afraid of running into armed criminals at night. There’s nothing British about gun culture.
Bring back the cane. The BNP would return corporal punishment to our schools. While giving teachers and schools more power is desirable, that doesn’t mean bringing back the cane is the right answer. Children from broken homes need their teachers to be their friends and mentors, not another authority figure who inflicts pain.
A culture of violence. The BNP doesn’t understand modern, liberal Britain. The British people don’t want to live in a society where our young are conscripted into the army, the innocent can be killed by the state, or chain gangs roam our towns.
No real answer to the Broken Society. While the BNP claim to be on the side of Britain’s poor, their authoritarian policy shows their true instincts. If the BNP were really on the side of Britain’s deprived, they would struggle how to deal with the problems caused by family breakdown, the drug war and anti social behaviour. Handing out assault rifles is not the answer.
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You never see a rich tory toff at a shoot with a gun do you, oh no. prat.
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“Children from broken homes need their teachers to be their friends and mentors”
What rubbish! Most kids hate their teachers and treat them with the contempt they deserve. If modern teachers had a backbone some discipline could be instilled in the little brats!
“Britain doesn’t have a gun culture” & “One of the blessings of living in Britain today is that we don’t have to be afraid of running into armed criminals at night.”
Tell that to PC Sharon Beshenivskys family you bunch of idiots!
“the innocent can be killed by the state”
Eh!?!?!?!?!? Where’s that come from?
Yet again NB’s vivid imagination is running away with itself, seriously guys take up literature, you’d have Dan Brown quaking in his boots with the far-fetched conspiracy tripe you spew out on a daily basis!
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“the innocent can be killed by the state”
How can you make such a self evidently stupid statement as that?
Would you like a very long list of names of “the innocent killed by the state”?
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Oh this is wrong on so many levels, following along the lines of the liberal left wooly thinking, about not even allowing children to have toy guns because it makes them violent while ignoring imported gangs & their culture having a real war on the streets of our cities.
Apparently they’re victims of the white man in some way.
I saw a TV programme about mainly black gangs & how they end up with guns, it actually was blaming the middle class whites without a shred of proof.
I have seen policemen make ridiculous statements that when pistols were outlawed, the owners gave them to criminals when I have never heard of one conviction for this, guns have serial numbers, the police know the serial numbers & who owned them.
When they were outlawed the guns had to be accounted for or else!
Also you have policemen saying that virtually all replica guns can made into lethal firearms which is nonsense to anyone with a working knowledge of the subject.
If you are going down the “Ban everything to be safe” route then include house bricks, kitchen knives, cars, tobacco, alcohol, stairs………………….
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People like yourself who attended public schools often handled rifles in the cadet corps or whatever they are, so should we watch out for you going “Postal”?
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I didn’t attend public school WTF…
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You plebs should go to some of the enriched parts of London or Manchester where there is “no gun culture” and give out some hugs and kisses as your puppet leader has adviced. You know it’ll work. xxx
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Switzerland eh?
Maybe we should be more like them, they just banned minaret building!
I will repeat the story about their militia, before WW1 Kaiser Wilhelm was on a state visit to Switzerland & he inspected the militia who numbered 250,000 & asked one man “What are you going to do when 500,000 of my best troops come over the hill at you?”
He replied “Sir, we will shoot twice & go home”!
The Kaiser never got round to invading Switzerland & they remained neutral.
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I’ll also repeat my decimation comment about how we live on an island but our borders appear porous & anything can come in.
Drug or gun smugglers on the large scale put things in shipping containers, about 1 in 10 get searched so if you spread things out, you may lose 10% of your goods but 90% gets through.
Criminals have no problems getting stuff in.
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The other point about people “going postal” is anti depressants & similar legal drugs that we are increasingly fed by the drug companies.
You remember the barrister & his shotgun that the police killed?
He had been on anti depressants.
I have been to coroner’s court hearings & heard about people on these drugs suddenly committing suicide.
In the US there is a whole load of these cases of people suddenly acting out of character & doing violent things such as murder & suicide.
They also used various anti-depressants.
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A question for you, has the handgun ban worked?
Why is it that gun crime has got worse, the tighter the law has become?
Why do we have drive by’s involving sub machine guns that were never legal for the public to own?
There is a “gun culture” in this country, it was a criminal gun culture that was imported & glorified by the likes of 50 cents.
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“A culture of violence. The BNP doesn’t understand modern, liberal Britain.”
Must admit I don’t think much of modern, liberal Britain either, it certainly has a culture of violence, visit any town centre’s on a Friday or Saturday night.
You approve of that?
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This is classic middle class divorced from reality liblabcon elite talk “we dont have to be afraid running into arrmed criminals at night” what planet are you living on, where i live you do. if not with guns with killer dogs or knives.
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You say the BNP “require each adult to own a standard issue military assault rifle.”
You bare-faced liars! The BNP 2005 manifesto(which you link to) says nothing of the sort. The only people required to bear arms are adults who have completed their period of military service!
Not exactly every tom, dick or harry as you insinuate!
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Davey, the period of military service is compulsory, so every “Tom, Dick or Harry” does have to undertake it.
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Maurice
We spoke earlier today on the phone. It seems even your website very anti- BNP is not delivering a proper punch. Its a big bad world out there, full of injustice but I don’t think your website will stem the flow of the BNP. They are at critical mass now. I liked you on the phone – not often I get to talk to a tory toff. If you ever need some security, then I can help.
God bless and take care.
Aldaman.
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Don’t worry, Maurice has a blanket he drags round and sleeps with.
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No the BNP are not at critical mass Alistair, almost but not yet.
If you know the meaning of the term ‘critical mass’ then you’ll know what I mean.
Onwards And Upwards !
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I see, so the Nothing British policy is that only criminals have guns?! It’s worth noting that in the USA some states have strong gun control and others practically no gun control – and it’s the states with the LEAST gun control that have the LEAST crime. No-one breaks into your house at night in Texas or Vermont because they know you will have a gun and there’s no comeback if you use it on them.
As for “military service”, if you aren’t prepared to help defend this nation then you don’t deserve to be a citizen. The BNP aren’t talking about 1950s style conscription with square bashing and getting sent abroad to fight foreign wars, they’re talking about a citizens’ militia which teachs people how to keep and handle guns safely so they can be “armed and free”.
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Yes this is very much what I have heard & read, that in the big cities where gun control is tightest such as New York & Washington, that is where you are most likely get shot or mugged at gun point.
I think it is basically an UN policy that civillians should not own guns.
Only the state should own guns.
I say if the state doesn’t trust you, then don’t trust the state.
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ah ha.
So ashamed of this ridiculous blog is the author that it’s anon.
Surely you’ve no feet remaining between you.
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Yes, sorry Hepburn, having the post author isn’t not part of our theme, but I’m not trying to hide away…
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Thanks, Jonathan, carry on the good work. Your increasingly hysterical rants can only help the nationalist cause! All pretence of objective analysis has gone out of the window with this latest “policy brief”.
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How? Nobody yet seems to be disagreeing that its BNP policy to hand out assault rifles/
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The BNP are in favour of the Bill of Rights are they, especially the gun bit? I didn’t know that, so thanks for the heads-up.
I used to support gun control but two things happened to change my mind. The first was things like the Wapping Strike. Let’s face it, if the lads had been tooled up then the scum would not have won, would they, Lord Bethell?
Secondly, there is Iraq. Come on – the resistance took off like a bat out of hell just because every bugger had a weapon.
So, whether it is a Whiggish fear of government or a desire to protect your country from foreign invasion, an armed citizenry makes sense.
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We want democracy in action, not democracy inaction!
Armed citizens, scared politicians, sounds good to me!
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“…the problems caused by family breakdown, the drug war and anti social behaviour. Handing out assault rifles is not the answer”.
But sending poorly equipped soldiers, armed with little more than an assault rifle, to die in Tory backed wars that not only have nothing to do with us, but will not go one step to solving all of the above mentioned problems is the answer right ?
You lot live in another world, climb down from your ivory towers and come spend a while in my neck of the woods.
You’ll soon wish you were armed with more than a rifle.
Roll on the General Election.
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I dont know what drugs NB have been ingesting since Christmas, but their rantings are becoming increasingly delusional. The BNP want to bring back discipline into society; the Torys want more of the bondage.
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Allowing law-abiding citizens to own guns instead of just criminals?
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Sounds great to me, a vote winner!
Maybe the Conservatives could add it to my other suggestions for vote winners, instead of being Michael Winners?
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Haha, so Jonathan is not a Conservative & not public school boy either!
So next you be telling us you went to a bog standard comprehensive & are just a normal working class sort of bloke?
Well I did & I have plenty of experience with guns in the past, all very legally, I am not a gangster & don’t feel the urge to shoot anything living, I get no power or ego trip out of guns.
All responsible gun owners are like that.
Well obviously a duck hunter will shoot ducks of course but it is not my cup of tea.
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Excellent when can I sign up?
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So it is exactly as Davey, said then: A bald face lie.
There are millions of adults too old for military service and there will be substantial numbers ineligible for military service so the BNP do not “require each adult to own a standard issue military assault rifle” as your lying post states.
Only those who have been vetted, trained and trusted to hold a rifle.
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Go on stand up & take a bow!
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Shh, you’re making the BNP more popular, vote BNP & get a free assault rifle!
Vote mainstream, get more tax & misery?
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Excellent idea!!! Perhaps if the law abiding were armed we could crawl out of this dystopia that Labour has created.
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