AS an historian I was going to write a piece on the history and evolution of the British National Party. After due consideration I decided that I could be spared the effort of trawling through that particular sewer by directing people to http:///searchlightmagazine.com. Despite disagreements with Searchlight on some issues to do with the BNP it still remains one of the best sources of information available on the subject for the general reader.
Two developments within the last few days have been generally heartening regarding local attitudes to the BNP. One is the John Twyford column in this weeks Tiverton Gazette which exposes some of the realities of what the BNP really stands for, and secondly the response of Geoff Knowles and other members of the parish council to the BNP operation at the weekend. Both show that, despite its image, this area of rural Devon is not going to be the pushover for the BNP that they might be expecting,
The personal position of this blogger is that the arrival of the BNP in our community is the political equivelant of an outbreak of HIV. Behind the patriotic language and calls to a return to a semi mythical England lies the same politics of hate and division that lead to the holocaust and in more recent times in the former Yugoslavia, the death camp at Omerska and the massacre at Sbrenitsa. That is the reality of what the BNP stands for. They can replace the knuckle dragging skinhead image but essentially they remain the same. Anyone who wants proff of that need only look at the UK politics section of the Stormfront Bulletin Board where the BNP sit alongside their former colleagues now in openly Nazi groupings like the British Peoples Party and North West Nationalsts. The party itself remains the same organisation that spawned the likes of the Soho nail bomber, David Copeland.
This blogger will be fully supporting the forthcoming leafletting campaign that is to be mounted in the village by opponents of the BNP. As in Broadclyst we will be making sure that our communities will not be turned into breeding grounds for the virus of hate promoted by the BNP.
And that is the final word on the subject as far as I am concerned.
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Fully in agreement Tobireg!!! I was sickened to have the BNP leaflet put thru' my letterbox and just managed to catch the leafleters as they walked on up the road...I made sure I shouted up the road after them to let them know their facist propaganda was not welcome on my doormat and that I had just ripped it up and thrown it in the recycling. I am heartened to hear that the parish council is taking a stand against this party of ignorant racists!!!
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