The BNP made absolutely nothing out of the Lindsey oil refinery dispute, which was specifically about the impact of immigration on the white working class. It has found its million nasties and Nazis, whom we all knew were there. There are no more to be had.
The BNP does not have a working-class following. Nor did Mussolini or Hitler. You'd get an A* at GCSE for writing that they did, but you'd fail A-level. Fascists never do. Mussolini had Jews in his early Cabinets, and many in his party. There were Jews in Mosley's New Party. Only when Hitler supplanted Mussolini as Europe's leading Fascist did these things change. Jews, you see, largely came from the right class. The lower middle class. Ward by ward, box by box, the BNP is just the same.
The Lindsey convenors went on to join the Visteon convenors, Peter Shore's old agent, and the immediate past Leader of the Liberal Party as candidates for No2EU - Yes To Democracy. If the BNP-obsessed media had paid a third as much attention, then who knows what might have been achieved? There will be no old Communists or Trots hanging around at the next stage of the re-emergence of a proper movement. They can be left to New Labour and to the Cameroons.
To that process, the BNP is simply irrelevant.
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Just to be clear you are not equating being Jewish as being the same as the BNP?
ReplyDeleteYou are merely saying "Jews come from the right class"? Lower middle class. That seems a rather odd statement.
BNP membership/support is rather obviously a matter of choice.
Being etnically Jewish is not a choice.
And its silly and a failure at kindergarten level to think or say that Jews come from the same class.
You make on occasions good points but every so often the old anti semite slip shows.
Perish the thought.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the BNP does have at least one Jewish Councillor, and Griffin made an explicit appeal to Jews in his European Election broadcast.
That Ashkenazi Jews are Aryan enough for the BNP says quite a lot, since Sephardic or Ethiopian Jews certainly wouldn't be. It is no more taken in by the notion of a single Jewish people than are the declining Ashkenazi nationalists of its beloved State of Israel.
Must be some reason BNP now so pro Israel. Anti Muslim yes. But also electioneering.
ReplyDeleteIt won't get them anywhere. Jews in the Thirties were largely in the target class. They have gone up in the world these days. And of course, that was before the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteThey now say that they are after the Catholics.
ReplyDeleteThough mercifully with little or no hope of success. Catholics are too far up the middle-class scale for that these days. Thank God for Catholic schools.
ReplyDeleteThe only Catholics who might consider the BNP disagree with it by supporting the global free market and its neocon wars, making them de facto schismatics anyway.
ReplyDeleteBNP voters have no reason for doing so except an obsession with race. All else, such as their reasons for wanting to abolish the monarchy, is conditional and dependent on that obsession.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that very many of them do in fact support the global "free" market, having failed to think it through or being incapable of doing so. And I more than suspect that even more of them support the wars in Iraq and, especially, Afghanistan.
The racism, the capitalism and the warmongering are all contrary to the Magisterium, of course.
Just to emphasise the point in Comment #3 made unfortunately anonymously.
ReplyDeleteTo the fashionable racists of the BNP, Islamophobia is the New Black.
As Catholics, Jews and Blacks have progressed up the scale to "respectability" (to all but the most idiotic racist) so the focus of attention switches to the "threat" of Islam. Racists always need a threat.
And I welcome the "Jewish" councillor in BNP ranks. As Im sure David welcomes former RUC man and practising Presbyterian Billy Leonard as A Sinn Féin councillor in Coleraine.
Her relatives certainly don't welcome it.
ReplyDeleteI'm Jewish and I vote BNP. Shalom Bitches!
ReplyDeleteIf you believe that, then you'll beleive absolutely anything.
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