British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan
BNP activists are planning to ”March on Westminster” on St George’s Day 2010 – just a few weeks before the General Election - to call on the government to repatriate British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.
Since its founding the BNP has passionately advocated isolationism. The march is an indication that they see an opportunity to use their opposition to the war to tap into growing concern in the heartland of Britain about our military commitments overseas.
BNP activists are organising for ex-servicemen to lead the march and put pressure on policy makers to “bring the troops home” and to stop what the leader of the group has called “[propping] up Zion.” Activists are expecting the support of sympathetic organisations such as Soldiers off the Street (Bill Murray, director of SOTS, has said that he will be present) and the BNP’s Scottish based veterans charity of choice - FEBA.
Some activists are planning to conceal their political identities to approach bona fide organisations to support the march. Reputable charities being approached include Combat Stress, a charity for soldiers suffering from the mental stresses of war, and Afghan Heroes, which was set up by the mothers of eight soldiers killed this year by Islamists in Helmand to help raise awareness of the conflict. The leader of the organising group is believed to be Ian Holt. He has blogged on the BNP social network that he has written to Afghan Heroes and is intending to write to the Royal British Legion for support.
BNP election strategy
Our research into the BNP since the June 2009 elections has found that the neo-fascists are trying to carve out a populist electoral strategy in the lead up to the 2010 election and it is hoped that by tapping into growing voter scepticism towards the liberation of Afghanistan they will be able turn it into what one activist termed, “political capital”.
Public scepticism about our military’s roles overseas has been growing for some time and it is getting worse. According to a recent ICM/BBC poll, more than half (56 per cent) of Britons oppose the war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, while only about 37 per cent support it.
Now that his party has significant political representation in the European Parliament, Nick Griffin is desperate to show to voters that his party has a lot to offer and is capable of holding its own in a serious political arena come the next election.
BNP foreign policy
The BNP’s strategy for the region is to pull out and they deny that “AF-PAK” Islamism poses a threat to Britain. Peter Mullins, the BNP Defence spokesman, believes that British troops should not be ”spilling their blood in an American-directed foreign war”.
There is a clear distinction between the “anti-war” rhetoric of the Left, which aims to tap into concerns about “neo-colonialism” and wars on the “Muslim world”, and the BNP, who are tapping into the lack of enthusiasm for the war and it reveals how there is a real tiredness about the confict that exists in Middle England – as the BBC’s poll has already revealed. Despite the best efforts of the Rothermere and Murdoch press, the Establishment’s failure to clearly state why we must prevail in Afghanistan is allowing elected conspiratorial extremists to advocate reasonable arguments of retreat.
Politicians must do more than simply saying “more must be done for our troops”. Most reasonable people can see that better equipment and greater care for our brave soldiers is obviously needed. But, most importantly, all the parties (Labour and the Conservatives included) must reiterate that being in Afghanistan is in our national interest because the world, and so therefore Britain, is a safer place as a result of our presence in Afghanistan.
Nothing British comment
Nick Griffin believes that Islamism “can bring [the BNP] to power.” Nothing British see it as a threat and not a political opportunity. Islamism and Afghanistan are not political footballs and treating them as such only puts our national security and Britons lives at risk.
Post-script
British National Party activists have announced that the event will take place on 25th April 2010, this of course is not St George’s Day, which actually falls on the 23rd April.
Tags: Bill Murray, March on London, Royal British Legion
In fact the Sun reported that LIE in their load of crap……………….and then put an appology in the sun for lieing,it was a fabricated lie just befor the EU Elections,we are always behind our troops more than the other parties,do you know why?………………because we are PATRIOTIC and don’t want to see more deaths of our soldiers in another illeagal war.WELL DONE BNP.
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RJ Mitchell, was is patriotic about calling Churchill a “f******g c**t”? Or believing that “whatever is good enough for Adolf is good enough for me”? Or for going out to Libya for money from a tyrant who was responsible for funding the IRA and murdering a policewoman? What is patriotic about supporting Ayatollah Khomeini?
I welcome a response.
Cheers for your comments.
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I’d like to think activists of other parties will join in the march. Although their parties merely pose as patriotic the rank and file membership of the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems includes many normal folk. And it would be a sad indictment of nothingbritish’s style of smear-politics if charities and organisations concerned with peace and with forces welfare chose not to participate in the peace march because some of the organisers are members of the BNP.
Sam Pauli said: “once again the bnp are exploiting joe publics sympathy by bringing out the khaki uniforms”
The BNP share the public’s outrage at all our sympathies re: 9/11 and 7/7 being exploited for empire – most especially the men and women in khaki.
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“are trying to carve out a populist electoral strategy “,/i>
Even were that the case, so what? And I don’t think it’s true anyway. A nationalist party by definition opposes empire and colonialism, and since the natural tendency of all populations is nationalism they are also populistic.
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will islamists in britain also join this march? they oppose the war for different reasons of course, but it would be interesting to see whether their principles won out over their other principles. The islamists are not british, do not see themselves as british and are hostile to the british way of life!
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aussie youhave got a bad case of islamaphobia
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Hi Maurice
Sorry i took so long to get back with a reply,just got in from work,I’m no Historian when it comes to Winston Churchill but any leader would who was in Churchills posistion would of said and done the same type of speech.I remember when The Falklands war and i was in the T.A,we all volunteered to go,anyway we never.Margaret Thatcher done the same type of’ patriotic speech’,to get the people of Great Britain behind her(no one knew where the Falklands was).When it was over she destroyed our Car,Steel industries etc by selling us of to foreign companies i.e British Leyland=Honda.
I don’t know where you guys get this ‘Nazi’ thing from,i am NO nazi,i love my country and hope and pray that we can salvage some of our industry,whats left of it for our childrens future.What makes me cringe when you get these so called politicians who say’we need to get more apprenticeships for the young,IN WHAT INDUSTRY,WE HAVE’NT ANY.
Libya,well i’m not to hot on that subject either,all i can say about that subject is ‘its politics’ and was nothing to do with the public and our opinion,i would say that MACDONALDS is/was a fund raiser for the IRA and yet nothing was done or said.The IRA,caused a lot of Death in our country and yet today,they are MURDEROUS POLITICIANS,UNBELIEVABLE.We are under the same threat today(7/7 rings a bell) from the radical Muslims in this country,you may not like to believe it,i do and thats my freedom of choice,i don’t hate no one but it would be nice for us all to get on 1 day when they accept this is Great Britain and we have our laws and our laws only.
Iran,again another Muslim country trying to take over the world,you though Hitler was mad the radical Muslims are the same and i DON’T want it in my country,theres probably going to be another(weapons of mass destruction)reported to the public and more obscene publications from the abhorrent media.
We have,with the help of the Americans have interfered with other peoples countries and end up paying out extortionate sums of Tax payers money to try and put it right,IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US,so lets keep out and if the Yanks want to do it,well let them but keep our soldiers here to protect this country,i.e our borders from bogus asylum seekers causing so much animosty with the British people.
Thanks Maurice
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sam, i have nothing against moslems or the religion of islam. When i refer to islamists, i am referring to extreme islam and the advocates of sharia law, subjugation of women, intolerance of all other beliefs and practices and complete disdain for the western world and its practices.
islamists were resposible for 9/11, madrid and london, bali and a multitude of other indiscriminate bombings and murders around the globe.
yes, i do have a phobia about these people and i recognise them as a threat to my way of life
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really,id never have guessed
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with your enlightened view of the world sam, surely you think islamists and their belief system is pretty abhorrent?
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