We are baffled by a report concerning links between the Royal British Legion and the BNP.
A RBL spokesman talking to the Huddersfield Examiner confirms that Britain’s leading veteran’s organisation is taking a donation from a BNP suppporter from Skelmanthorpe who is spending 24 hours in a box to raise money for her two favourite causes: the BNP and the RBL. (NB haven’t been able to reach the RBL to confirm/deny yet, but the newspaper quotes seem pretty definitive).
We all support honest efforts to raise money for a worthy cause like the RBL, particularly in these economically straightened times.
But don’t charities realise that the BNP and its supporters cynically use this sort of device to bring respectability to their nasty brand of racist and extreme politics? A BNP donation to a Rochdale bird sanctuary, heavily exploited by the BNP spin machine, was a recent case in point. The BNP website has already started pushing the BNP-woman-in-a-box-RBL-donation story (see picture below from the BNP website). Expect more coverage.
And charities like the RBL must realise that the BNP work very hard to create links with Britain’s Armed Services, veterans and the memory of fallen heroes, a campaign strategy that works very effectively for them.
I am reminded of “Winter Aid” (Winterhilfswerk) which was the Nazi Party’s charity (1933-1945). Each year the Hitler Youth solicited donations to help the needy. The text on the poster below translates as: “No one shall go hungry! No one shall be cold!” The propaganda advantage was enormous.
Nothing British strongly recommends someone at the British Legion reminds themselves of the BNP’s constitution - particularly its whites-only membership policy, commitment to the repatriation of non-whites and its neo-fascist social/economic policies - and sends the cheque back.
The same advice goes to any other charity thinking of taking the BNP’s money.
Tags: BNP, RBL, social action
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why do you refer to the BNP as racists or fascist
have the BNP sent young British soldiers into illegal un-winable wars
deported our own people, including children to the colonies
sent our troops over the top in to killing fields
or sent children up chimneys and down mines
Perhaps when you want to see a fascist, look into a mirror
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all the poppies in the world wont bring them back
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What a sad decision by a formerly great insitution. I guess their new association with the BNP will in the end lose them more money through donations than it gains. This is very sad for British veterans who require care from RBL.
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do they forget many indian ,pakistani soldiers as well as many africans and dont forget the ghurkas have died fighting for britain.im afraid this makes the rbl very narrow minded,as any one taking monies from the bnp should hang their heads in shame.
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It’s not difficult to see the connection the lady makes between the British Legion and the BNP: the veterans fought to keep Britain British the BNP are the only political party doing the same. The Steadfast Trust is another exemplary organisation but focuses on the English in particular.
Sam Pauli: Those people were fighting for themselves. If any fools among them were fighting for Britain they are as much the victims of imperialism as those who fought to drive us out of their lands — and they were as cruelly misled as the British soldiers now dying needlessly in Iraq.
In any case, following WWII the Asians and Africans booted us out of their countries — and generally we agree that they had every right to do so. But if Inida belongs to the Indians, so does England belong to the English, Scotland to the Scots, etc.
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aye ..scotland for the scots i agree
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and we will welcome peoples from all over the world as we hold out the hand of friendship.
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So Scotland for everyone, then. Except the Scots who will no longer exist. Rarely is it admitted that this is the goal. (Is Pauli a Scottish name?)
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the scots will always exist,we are all over the world and you probably eat in MACDONALDS,watch TV ,use the TELEPHONE,and drive on a road with TAR MACADAM on it,so you see the scots will always exist
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