The BNP have written a response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission who have accused them of breaching the Race Relations Act by denying “non-indigenous” folk from joining the BNP.
Their twenty-two page response questions the impartiality of the ECHR and conspiratorially implies that the ECHR have announced their concern about the BNP’s non-admittance of “non-indigenous” people into their party because of issues at ECHR. Last month the National Audit Office refused to sign of the ECHR’s accounts because it paid out consultancy fees without permission from the Treasury. There have also been a series of resignations and briefings to journalists concerning Trevour Phillips, the Chairman of the ECHR.
The BNP are painting this as a “God-send” as it will allow them to get air time for their views. They are also using the ECHR actions as an “establishment” attack
on the “British people” and claim that the ECHR want to close down the BNP.
While the BNP are wrong in thinking that “British-ness” can be pseudo-scientifically defined in terms of race, this whole affair is a clear demonstration of how the demolition tactics against neo-fascism must change. Traditionally, our identity has come not from race, but from our respect and admiration for our institutions like
the army, Parliament and the Church. To be British is to possess the gentle values which bind us all: tolerance, respect for one another and fair-play
Both the anti-democratic violence from UAF etc and the legal proceedings from quangos like the ECHR are ineffectual and provide the BNP with a narrative of victimhood. Instead, we should show to the electorate that our faith in liberal democracy, the free markets and justice for all is correct and the only way to
prove that is by engaging in debate.
