Nick Griffin and the British National Party are keen to portray themselves as on the sides of traditional British culture.  They see a gap in the market that they can fill. While other parties surrender to multiculturalism, Islam, and politically correct secularism, the BNP stand up for traditional British Christianity. This is nonsense. There is nothing Christian about the BNP.

On the BBC’s ‘Question Time’ programme, British National Party leader Nick Griffin stated: ‘If Muslims do stay in this country they must remember that Britain is essentially a fundamentally British and Christian country’. The BNP is a ‘Christian’ party that can save ‘Christian culture’

The BNP have created a front organisation called the ‘Christian Council of Britain’, headed by BNP activist and electoral candidate Robert West who leads religious services at various BNP events, including the party’s ‘Red, White & Blue’ and reportedly preaches on topics such as ‘the importance of nationalism’ and how “homosexuals do greatly err”. For West, a multi-racial society is a form of ‘Holocaust’, with immigration used to create “Lebensraum” for the Third  World. Despite initially denying any connection with the BNP, West has admitted that the BNP “encouraged and facilitated” its establishment.

Why the BNP are not Christian

-          There’s nothing Christian about the BNP’s ethics. For Jesus Christ, humanity was all part of one family. Christianity from the outset taught a universal message which dissolved the idea of race or nation, teaching that it is of no significance to God. He said that we should love our neighbour, preach the good news and understanding to all nations. He taught the parable of the Good Samaritan, to show our true neighbours were not just those from the same race. Most of all, he abhorred violence and the hatred that is fascism’s speciality.

-          The BNP use Christianity as an excuse to attack Muslims. Rather than refer to the actual teachings of Christ, the BNP’s favoured role model are the Crusaders. In a letter, Nick Griffin wrote “We will never allow our children to become a minority in our homeland! We will fight to the bitter end, just like our Crusader ancestors, to preserve our Christian culture and heritage. The spirit of the Medieval Knights lives on in all of us!”

-          The BNP’s use Christianity as an excuse for their homophobia. British fascism has a history of extreme homophobia. While the party’s policy is no longer officially to ban homosexual activity, they are always keen to claim that homosexuals are an affront to Britain’s ‘Christian heritage’. 

-          The BNP’s real ideology is pagan. Christianity, of course, is a “foreign import”, and for the extreme activists within the BNP inner circle, like all other imports it must be purged.

The BNP’s Foreign Affairs spokesman Arthur Kemp wrote in his March of Titans that “the introduction of Christianity has to count as the single greatest ideological catastrophe to ever strike Europe.”

Ever since Himmler’s obsession with the occult, there has been a strain of Paganism with fascism, as zealots attempt to reclaim a purely European religion.

Lee Barnes, the BNP’s legal director, is a particular fan: ‘Christianity is a semitic religion, it is creature [sic] of the deserts of the Middle East not the forests of the Northern Europe [sic] and its symbol the cross is an instrument of torture not of living redemption’. In place of Christianity, Barnes advocates Odinism, the worship of the Norse pagan gods of pre-Christian Europe, and he connects the Odinic ‘tree of life’ (Yggdrasil) with a religion based on race: ‘The roots represent our descent from the Gods and our connection to the Earth, the trunk represents our shared European racial heritage, the main branches of the tree our nations and tribes, the twigs on each branch represent each family unit and each single leaf symbolises an individual life’.

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Issac Newton

The BNP claim to be a patriotic party, but seem ashamed or ignorant of one of Britain’s proudest contributions to the world – our ideas.

It’s not just the British language that you can hear in every country in the world, its the influence of our leading thinkers. Britain is the proud home of Newton and Darwin, of Shakespeare and Byron, of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Tim Berners Lee.

Perhaps what we should be most proud of our political and economic ideas. Britain was the home of the industrial revolution, the greatest increase in wealth humanity has ever seen, finally freeing the world’s population from a life of drudgery on the farm. Just as importantly, we spread the idea of parliamentary democracy, of liberalism and government for the people.

The BNP’s influence on the other hand are European. Continental thinkers like Rousseau and Nietzsche. Continental philosophies of romanticism and existentialism. Continental political ideologies of fascism and nationalism. Continental economics of protectionism and corporatism.

Some of these ideas have some merit to them. Some of them were a disaster that lead to mass war and genocide. None of them are British.

British Ideas

-         Liberalism. British people believe in fair play and tolerance. That as long as you follow the rules, do you part and don’t hurt anyone, you can be part of our community. We believe that politics is important, but that it shouldn’t be an all encompassing religion. Ever since Locke and the Glorious Revolution, we’ve believe in checks and balances on power and gradual transformation, rather than violent revolution

-         Free markets. Britain is the home of Adam Smith, David Ricardo and David Hume. Our believe in open markets and free trade helped us become the richest country the world had ever seen. We believed in keeping bread cheap for the poor, rather than protecting greedy capitalists with captive markets.

-         Working with the world. Britain is the greatest country in the world – but that doesn’t mean we can just ignore everyone else. We don’t just believe in free markets, in our Empire we created the biggest free trade zone the world’s ever seen. We don’t just believe in freedom, we used our navy to put an end to the slave trade. Not least, we don’t believe in fascism – which is why stood alone against the Nazis in World War II.

BNP Ideas

-         Authoritarian nationalism. The BNP believes that the people is the nation is the state. If you’re parent and your parent’s parents weren’t born here, you can’t be one of us. Blood is everything. The tribe is greater than any individual. A strong central government is needed to lead us to greatness. Politics is all encompassing.

-         Corporatism. The BNP openly admit that they steal their economic ideas from Asian countries such as Japan, but in truth their ideas have been popular on the continent for much longer. The BNP believe in cosy dinners where government bureaucrats, rich industrialists and union leaders stitch up the future of the economy, rather than let individual workers and consumers decide. They believe in protection and regulation, tariffs and quotas and waiting lists. An economy closed to the outside world and searching after the past, rather than a dynamic, creative leader of the future

-         Fascism. The BNP like to pretend that they’re not a fascist party, but their ideas remain the same. Its not just the big ones, like hating people of different colours and races. It’s the economics, the politics and the superstitions. Both the BNP and the Nazis are corporatist, protectionist, have both nationalist and socialist influences, believe in a strong state, read Nietzsche and Heidegger, hate finance, are fascinated with environmentalism have both nationalist and socialist influences,  and Paganism, distrust modern art, want to censor the media, break up large retailers, institute national service, dislike America and the Jews,  and have leaders that admire Mein Kampf.

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