BNP’s “tribute” to Harry Patch, the Last Tommy

A strategy often used by the neo-fascist British National Party is to eulogise Britain’s wartime past as a means to garner more support. This propaganda tactic aims to legitimize their party in the face of accusations that they admire the Nazis (i.e. not patriotic).

A recent example was the BNP’s “tribute” to Harry Patch, the Last Tommy who died over the weekend. After giving a history lesson on the First World War the author, going by the pseudonym “ Titvs Advxas”, lightly touches on Harry Patch’s life and then says, “ The British National Party, it seemed to me, was the only political party who remembered Henry Allingham in the previous week, at meetings and in their own press. This weekend, the shame from the other parties from their own neglect, has forced them to remember Private Henry John Patch”.

The BNP are perfectly entitled to remember Britain’s sacrifice, but to wrongly imply (see Gordon Brown here and David Cameron here) that they are the only party that cares for veterans and the war dead is politically arrogant and immoral. The legacy of our veterans should be left out of politics.

Having read Harry Patch’s obituaries (see here and here), it is obvious he was an honest and caring man. He had the gentle and very British qualities of tolerance and sympathy towards other peoples suffering. These aspects of his character are the very antithesis of the BNP who have sought to claim him, and Henry Allingham, as one of their own (notice how they wouldn’t have dared done this while they were alive. The dead can’t bring about legal proceedings).  

 

Harry Patch said that he was glad that he never killed a man, deliberately aiming instead for the ground. He was so deeply affected by his experience during the Great War that he would not even watch a war film. But even mild mannered Harry Patch, knowing the difference between good and evil, said: “Hitler wanted to govern Europe, nothing to it. I would have taken the Kaiser, his son, Hitler and the people on his side … and bloody shot them. Out the way and saved millions of lives.”

Contrast Harry Patch’s admirable views to the views of some of the BNP.

·         Barry Bennett – former BNP candidate for the South West in the European elections, once said “whatever’s good enough for Hitler’s good enough for me.”

·         Mark Collett – former head of the BNP Youth and now head of the BNP’s publicity unit said “Hitler will live forever; maybe I will”.

·         Nick Griffin – leader of the BNP said on Hitler, “Adolf went a bit too far.”

 

Could their obsessive use of Britain’s former military glories during the World Wars be a compensation for their fascination with Nazism? Some might say that they are using British military sacrifice as a physiological defence mechanism.   

 

David Cameron’s and Gordon Brown’s tributes show that it is possible to respect veterans in a non-political way. However, the amoral and emotionally insecure BNP’s idea of remembrance is to use our inherited freedoms, left to us by our hard fighting ancestors, as neo-fascist propaganda.   

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15 Responses to “BNP’s “tribute” to Harry Patch, the Last Tommy”

  1. Black Ops says:

    More on ‘Titvs Advxas’:
    http://watchingthefascists.blogspot.com/2009/07/pro-nazi-writes-for-bnp-website.html
    (A bit of context for you: ‘Britain Awake’ is an extremist blog that promotes the radio show of the neo-Nazi ‘Blood & Honour’ organisation.)

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  2. yomomma says:

    This is what Tim Montgomerie and James Bethell of ConservativeHome want for the country is it?
    http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/07/18/go-ahead-for-mega-mosque-in-dudley-97319-21365612/
    That will fit right in with the current architecture!
    Look what LiLaC want in YOUR town:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1202009/Bloody-siege-Calais-The-violent-new-breed-migrants-let-stop-coming-Britain.html
    I hope they move in next door to YOU.

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  3. Diana says:

    Why I support the BNP -
    Comparing the BNP to Nazi party is like comparing a dwarf to a giant, there are some similarities, but there’s still a huge difference between them. For instance if the Germans had voted in the BNP rather then the Nazi party there wouldn’t of been a 2nd World War, nowhere have I seen that the BNP wish to create a totalitarian super human race to take over the world, have you? To the people who call the BNP and its supporters ‘fascist’ do they actually know what the word means? Look towards Labour, the EU and Islam for good examples of fascism, additionally I’ve never seen UAF protest against any of these. When the mainstream parties state that it’s a sad time for Britain as we’ve elected fascists when we fought to defeat fascists during the 2nd World War. Well I think you should ask yourselves if they would of bothered fighting and dying for this country when less then a century later we are now giving are towns, cities and country away.
    Immigration has gone through the roof under Labour, now in London the English feel like a foreigner their own country. Parts of the country are now heading towards ghettoization. Take Hackney for example, it now has display boards like those that can be found on motorways. Instead it states the number of drug dealers arrested in the last few weeks, no joke. Why’s Hackney now like that? Because it’s full of Africans. Africa’s a hellhole because it’s full of Africans, Hackney’s a hellhole because it’s full of Africans. The same can be said between other parts of the country East London, Birmingham, and Northern Cities and the connection between Pakistan. In London the 9% black population account for 40% of the knife crime. Nationally the 1.5% black population fill 15 % of the prisons, they commit a disproportionate amount of the gun, knife and rape crimes, fact. The hippie left like to state that this is because of poverty. Well this is a racist sentiment in itself. The only way to get out of poverty in a capitalist society is through hard work and intelligence, so blaming the crime rates on poverty is just as bad as saying that black people are lazy and stupid. People don’t just ‘magically change’ when they enter are boarders, 1/3 world people equal a 1/3 world country. Multiculturism is built on the false assumption that all races and cultures are equal, this is like stating that Europe is equal to Africa, when it obviously isn’t.
    A question the Sikhs and Hindus need to ask themselves is ‘what if the BNP capitulates and Islam is all over?’. A large proportion of them are in this country today as they fled their previous one due to Muslims, are they willing to let history repeat itself? The Muslim population is growing rapidly, it more then doubled within the last decade. With a fertility rate of 3.8, double that of the English, along with polygamy and the ability to bring in women from Pakistan, the Muslim population will continue to rise at an explosive rate. They state that Islam is a religion of peace, and you can clearly see that Islam brings terror wherever it goes. They state that not all Muslims are extremists, but Muslims breed and there’s only one version of the Koran. In a poll 100,000 Muslims declared they openly support Al Queda and feel the 9/11 and 7/7 bombing were justified. These people are living amongst us today and want to see us dead. There has been a ridiculous amount of both failed and successful acts of terrorism by the British born Muslim community within are country. The most well known are the 7/7 bombings. One of most deadly would have been an attempt by a Luton Muslim called Abu Munthir. He wanted to detonate a dirty bomb in this country and would have achieved his objective if the police hadn’t foiled his plans. How long till the next successful deadly attempt? It would be foolish to say that there won’t be any retaliation as there wasn’t last time. A lot of people will die and it will be entirely the fault of the left. Our government has made it clear that they are unwilling to expel nasty Muslim characters like Anjem Choudary from our county. Instead he lives on benefits paid by the British tax payer, and his very presence in our country could lead to the deaths of those same people who pay towards his benefits. This video outlines the dangers of a multicultural society – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJcsQYZEGU
    The stupid and the brainwashed like to portray an image of a ‘final solution’ scenario occurring if there was ever to be a BNP government. Unlike Nazi Germany we live in a democracy, no one wants a Civil War with the 7 million non whites living in this country, no wants to live in a war zone. If this was to happen it would be likely that another hippie government would take over after the BNP, as no one would vote for the BNP again, let those who had been previously expelled back into the country, and they’d each be 20k richer anyway.
    Another important issue we are going to have to deal with is the fact that the total number of white people is declining, while the number of the all the other races are increasing. White people are less than 8% of world population and declining, we are a minority, and yet the majority still call us racist for trying to stop our race from being overrun, every race has a homeland (Asia is 99% Asian, Africa 99% African) but Europe is less than 40% European and declining from third world (mostly Muslim) races coming to work and intermarry and we are still made to take it. Our race is dying thanks to hip-hop and the ADL making white people feel guilty of saying they proud of being white.
    The whole world population is nearly 7 billion people and of that more than 70% are Indian/Asian, and on top of that rnb and hip-hop is making teenagers want to be black and trendy for blonde haired white girls to go out with black guys in high school because there’s no white pride, if you look into the future you will see the white race will die out, we black/brown/blonde haired whites are only 8% of world population and decreasing, media will realize this a bit too late just like they ignored the “global warming” phenomenon.
    40% of London is now non-white. Whites will be a minority group in Leicester by 2010, 2015 in Birmingham, and by 2025 in Oldham and Bradford. When will this stop? White people have the lowest fertility rate of all the races and cultures in this country at 1.8, while the ideal rate is 2.1 for the desired growth rate. At 1.8 are race, along with are culture will decline. As more and more unskilled foreigners enter this country more and more skilled Brits are leaving. 400,000 Brits left alone last year, in comparison 450,000 Brits died during the whole of World War 2. The same is happening in America, by 2050 it’s expected that white people will become a minority group, mainly due to Latino immigration. In Sweden Jens Orback, former Cabinet Minister for the Social Democrats, said during a radio debate that: “We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us.” The Swedish Social Democrats appear to have decided that the way to regain and maintain power is to import Muslim voters (which also appears to be a Labour tactic). They must be mad, when they become the minority Muslims will convert, kill and rape the lot of them (they already have the highest rape figures in Europe due to a recent influx of Muslim immigrants).
    It’s a precarious position being an ethnic minority. The Native Americans and the Aborigines now live on benefits because of it (but at least they fought back with their bows and arrows and spears and didn’t just allow it to happen) and we all know what happened to the Jews. The Germans hatred of the Jews was because of jealously, the Jews had the jobs, the money and businesses. There’s not a race without a story of what the white man has done to them. We’ve colonized and controlled others countries, enslaved and annihilated other races. If white people were to become a minority a similar hatred because of jealousy would likely occur. Additionally in a democracy we would be unable to stop Sharia Law occurring. Do you really hate your own race so much you wish to see it extinguished? Are you prepared to voluntarily give up your own country?

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    • Sam says:

      Diana. The problem with your argument is that you are looking at problems and not causes. Why is there a disproportionate level of black crime (if there is at all), because from the beginning of history poverty and crime have gone hand in hand, it’s inevitable. And, because we live in a fundamentally racist system, whether you’ll admit it or not (I know that i’ve got jobs in the past because i was white and middle class, whereas a black person from a poorer background wouldn’t) these people have no way out of poverty.
      I think that what the BNP have fundamentally missed is that the loss of our heritage and culture has nothing to do with race. In fact what they fail to appreciate is that immigration is no new thing, our history is a succession on different waves on migrant groups and even invaders! Multiculturalism enriches our culture so much! The problem is that the cooperate world, run by wealthy white men, has created a monoculture by buying up our high streets, and forcing independent retailers out of business. Supermarkets, Coffee chains, fast food outlets. The same dish is being served to us every day. Race is no threat whatsoever to anything you love. It’s the fact that what you love has been sold off to the highest bidder while you were pointing the finger at the wrong people.

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  4. Tree says:

    I’ve seen this comment before Diana – please see comments on the article regarding the BNP’s warped views on history in order to get my opinions and counter arguments to your fascist propaganda.

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  5. Bill Corr says:

    Jens Orback? This mention of his famous-notorious quote is best rendered:

    “We must be kind and understanding to the scorpions and reptiles gradually taking over our habitations so that when they are in the majority they will be kind to us”

    Is his name a Swedish version of Aurbach ?

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  6. Bill Corr says:

    A quick search on YAHOO took me to the Orback quote:

    “We must be respectful … when they become the majority …”

    Go to YAHOO and type in the vile traitor’s name. The quote in in
    ‘The Iconoclast – New English Review’

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  12. Sam Pauli says:

    here diana ,i thought we d seen the last of you in that paris tunnel

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