[…] Cabinet. But the impact of this new state form is disproportionately visited upon different members of an increasingly fragmented working class and wider society. For example, a BNP councillor can get two years for bomb-making in Manchester while Muslims with a few dodgy contacts can get life imprisonment for paint-balling in the Lake District. […]
[…] 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. […]
[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 racist Lady Birdwood who reappears in the sixties and seventies. 27 Patriotic Party – see George Thayer, The British Political Fringe (London 1965) p. 61. The BNP reference is in Report on Fascist Organisations by Christopher J. Cowling in NCCL archives, DCL box 42, folder 10. 28 This emerged in the course of […]
[PDF file]: […] leader, letting the borough go to wrack and ruin. McSweeney was an effective organiser who went on to work for the likes of Margaret Hodge, combating the BNP in Barking. He went on to organise Labour Together, which worked hard to end the then leadership of Jeremy Corbyn whilst, as Get In suggests, pretending […]
