[…] influence over its direction, but that large part of the electorate who see little meaningful difference between any of them and are looking elsewhere, including at the BNP. Oborne recounts a visit to the traditional Labour heartland of Dagenham and Barking with local MP and unsuccessful 2007 Labour deputy leader candidate Jon Cruddas. ‘It […]
[…] witch hunt of the BBC. Blair’s legacy? Well, Tony saved the Tory Party from oblivion through his failure to deliver the socialist goods. He also enabled the BNP to appear radical to the socially excluded white working class, by saying that the class war was over and proclaiming the free market inevitable. Bye Tony, […]
[…] identity means something quite different in Sandy Row or Andersonstown than it does in the academic world of the Lower Malone; and that both al-Qaeda and the BNP represent the politics of cultural identity. Which is why we need to bury the politics of cultural identity for reasons that Jim Larkin, Rosa Luxembourg, Sean […]
[…] a senior Police officer in Middlesborough. Labour has also lost ground in a number of local authorities to the Liberal Democrats. This and the rise of the BNP mentioned in note 8 above seems to indicate that the GMB machine concentrates on the importance of Parliamentary seats to the detriment of local level politics. […]
[…] in the run-up to the 2001 general election, it was claimed that entire streets had applied for postal votes after receiving visits from gangs of men. The BNP (which did so unexpectedly well in nearby Oldham) denied that their supporters were behind the alleged coercion. Meanwhile, Tory Graham Quar, while out door-stepping, was confronted […]
[…] setting out the tributaries that connect, say, the National League for Clean Government with Pemberton-Billing, Page Croft and Beamish through to Mosley, the National Front and the BNP has yet to be written. Perhaps a full account isn’t possible – after all these people don’t exactly leave minutes of their meetings for posterity. Note […]
[PDF file]: […] same time insisting that the Jewish conspiracy they exposed was undoubtedly real. (p. 222) In February 1967, the League merged with the then British National Party ( BNP) and the Racial Preservation Society (RPS) to form the National Front (NF). Chesterton was its founding chair and remained a leading figure up until 1970. He […]
[PDF file]: […] they founded the British National Party, the Constitutional Research Association, the British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women, and the British People’s Party. In the case of the BNP, its leaders decided on a policy of deliberate camouflage. All mention of Fascism and National Socialism was banned, and while the party would still be anti-Jewish, […]
[PDF file]: […] was alleged to have shouted ‘Britain first!’ during the attack.6 0 Britain First is the name of a minor far-right party formed by breakaway members of the BNP in 2011, and as it happens Clarke Rothwell, the chief eyewitness who claimed the killer shouted 59 60 ‘Britain first!’,6 1 has been named as a […]
[PDF file]: […] The New Antisemitism, which condemned anti-Zionism as ‘Jew-hatred by other linguistic means’. He goes on to compare the far left with the neo-fascist British National Party ( BNP) as far as their ‘hatred of Israel’ is concerned and for their use of Zionism and Zionist as ‘preferred code for Jews and Jewishness’.2 MacShane was […]
