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Tim Collins talks about the BNP
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Melanie Phillips on the BNP
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Melanie Phillips
The Spectator and Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips has written an excellent piece on the failure of Westminster’s elite to get to grips with the BNP.
According to Phillips, the BNP’s ”opponents have settled upon the wrong strategy.” She says that instead of trying to legislate or suppress the BNP it should be taken head on. And the Liberal Establishment’s failure to do so is “precisely why Griffin has made the headway that he has.”
Phillips also points out the futility of attacking Nick Griffin for being a racist. Even though he is one. Phillips believes, quite rightly, that Griffin’s appeal is not built on his racist beliefs but on his opposition to “mass immigration, Islamisation and the loss of sovereignty to the EU.”
As Phillips says: “These are all legitimate concerns which are widely held by people who fear the loss of Britain’s historic identity — but which are stigmatised as beyond the pale by an intelligentsia which considers any such expression of nationalistic sentiment to be a form of racism.”
The liberal elite’s flawed theory that “bigotry and imbecility of ordinary people” are responsible for the rise of BNP is condemned for being narrow minded. Phillips says it is the fault of the elite for turning ”patriotism from a civic virtue into a racial crime” and it “has driven thousands of decent, patriotic British people, both white and dark-skinned” into BNP supporters.
EDL monitor: arrests in Manchester
Monday, October 12th, 2009
48 people were arrested in Manchester
48 people were arrested over the weekend in Manchester, says the Guardian.
According to some estimates, 2,000 people attended the protests, by the English Defence League (EDL) and members of Unite Against Fascism (UAF) on Saturday afternoon.
Most of those who were arrested were for public order offences, but there were a few detentions for racially-aggravated offences, possession of weapons and drugs.
UAF protesters are believed to have outnumbered the EDL by nearly two to one.
Before the protests kicked off, the BNP released a strategically worded statement distancing itself from the “anti-Islamism” group. The BNP conspiratorially claims that the EDL is a Zionist front organisation, or is some other form of conspiracy run by “some dark hand” , quite possibly the State. But new evidence has emerged from UAF which claims that many of the EDL’s members have close associations with the BNP.
What isinteresting about the tactics of the EDL are its similarities to those of the National Front during the 1970s, who would attract supporters through their immediate concerns, in this case it the rise of Islamism in the UK, and then introduce them to a wider ideology of nationalism and race. Many lower level members of the NF would then pursue a course of violence and whipping up tension within fragile communities. So it comes as no surprise that Saturday’s protest saw some protestors sporting NF flags.
