Nick Griffin with Jobbik's Balczo Zoltan earlier this year
For several months Nothing British has become concerned about the rise of pan-European neo-fascist alliances that have developed since the election of the BNP back in June.
Today, Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, announced that he was forming a new bloc within the European Parliament. He said the new political alliance will fight “this monstrous federal Europe”.
The ”European Alliance of National Movements“ raises fears about nationalist parties across the EU joining forces to generate funding and increase their political clout.
Key figures in the new grouping are fellow MEPs Bruno Gollnisch, vice-President of Jean Marie Le Pen’s Front National (FN) and Balczo Zoltan, vice president of the neo-fascist Hungarian party, Jobbik.
The group cannot muster enough support yet to be recognised as a formal political grouping in the European Parliament, for which they need at least 25 members from 7 countries.
But they will get funding as a pan-European grouping, sharing in a pot of money Mr Griffin put at 11 million Euros – nearly £10 million.
The BNP leader said that would be divided between the nationalist parties represented in the new group, with about £360,000 likely to go to the BNP.
This development is potentially very dangerous. It has wide ranging implications on issues such as the economy, immigration and race relations.
Britain has a proud history of rejecting fascism, but with increasing European federalism and the rise of national socialism and extremism across Europe we may no longer have a say in the matter.
