Monday, 11 April 2011
An Asian who believes he is English?
This is an 'English' Democrats campaign video. This is the kind of politically 'correct' brainwashing you will have to sit still for if you leave the British National Party, and join this gang of multiculturalist quislings. Eddy Butler believes the 'English' Democrats are the best alternative to the BNP for nationalists. So much the worse for Eddy Butler's reputation as a nationalist and for his political judgement.
I supported Eddy's leadership challenge in 2010 because he represented the lesser of two evils. He would have been an improvement on Griffin with all of his corruption and incompetence. Having more personal ambition than principle, Eddy now appears to be pursuing a barely hidden, open 'secret', agenda with and for the English Democrats. It saddens me to have to say this as, on a personal level, I have always liked, and got on well with Eddy. However, one's loyalty to the party, and to the cause it champions must, necessarily, come before personal considerations.
Eddy Butler has a small personal following of politically unsophisticated cultists, just as Griffin has. Neither men are genuine ethno-nationalists, and neither has what it takes to lead the BNP into parliament.
There will be a leadership election this summer. Eddy Butler will not be a candidate, at least not for the leadership of the BNP. He has made himself into an embarrassing irrelevance with his cranky promotion of the 'English' Democrats, which is a great pity because his blog has served a necessary purpose by exposing Griffin's wrongdoing.
We should gratefully acknowledge Eddy's contribution of the last ten months but we need to move on, in the sense of distancing ourselves, the party loyalists (as distinct from the Griffin cultists) from the treacherous liability and loose cannon Mr Butler has shown himself to be in the last couple of weeks. That was then and this is now. No one man is bigger than the party. Forgetting that fact has been Griffin's greatest mistake. It should perhaps not surprise us too much that one of his closest associates for many years, Eddy Butler, should make the same mistake.
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ReplyDeleteYou make some good points, however, I think things have moved on, thousands of people have left the BNP never to return, a few might rejoin a cleaned up BNP but I guess not many. After fourteen years in the BNP I will never return, Griffin has destroyed the party's reputation..it is finished. I might join a new racial-nationalist movement ( or at least a racially aware movement), the party is shedding members like autumn leaves.
ReplyDeleteWhat is in a name lets move on!
The party still has approximately 8,500 members, and its policies are immensely popular. It is only its leader, Griffin, that holds it back. Not merely through his disastrous holocaust-denying, plastic mafioso, public image but through his jealous purging and marginalization of talent, and promotion of dross like himself.
ReplyDeleteNever say never, and never say die.
The British National Party is the only game in town for a serious nationalist. The trouble is the dealer is as bent as a nine bob note. The answer is to change the dealer, and clean up the game, not to get the hell out of Dodge.
I would gues the party has far fewer than 8,500 members, and what members it has left are of the armchair type. My local group formerly had about eight activists, in now has none, only one of those people is still a member and he is now non-active. We worked very hard building up the group in a difficult area, we had a membership of about thirty. This has all gone, I for one will not be spending hours of my time trying to build up the BNP again. Like the NF the name of the BNP stinks. For ever Griffin's name will be linked to the BNP. So a lot of people agree with the BNP policy, why wouldn't they vote for another party with similar policies.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I quite agree about the ED's.
I am finding out about two political parties that I've taken no interest in hitherto:
ReplyDelete1)The English Democratic Party: founded 1994, very strong on the Zionist/Jewish conspiracy, but no notion of how to get a popular following.
2) The English Democrats: somehow pinched the name of the aboveparty, but the complete opposite - very nice and sweet about England and the English but seemingly oblivious that there's no point in doing this if you leave out the absolute importance of ETHNIC IDENTITY. I feel that if the BNP does finally hit the buffers, I would rather rejoin the NF than connect myself to something so wishy-washy as the English Democrats. But then Eddy Butler and Chris Beverley are not wishy-washy, so I am left a bit baffled by it all.
Dennis Whiting
Now you can see why many people were opposed to the civic attempt to overthrow the leadership, Many people were aware of the liberal mindset of the people you supported and chose to stick with the incumbent. That doesn't mean you necessarily support the actions of the incumbent but would rather stick with the devil you know than the liberals you don't.
ReplyDelete"Eddy Butler has a small personal following of politically unsophisticated cultists, just as Griffin has. Neither men are genuine ethno-nationalists, and neither has what it takes to lead the BNP into parliament.
ReplyDelete"There will be a leadership election this summer. Eddy Butler will not be a candidate, at least not for the leadership of the BNP. He has made himself into an embarrassing irrelevance with his cranky promotion of the 'English' Democrats, which is a great pity because his blog has served a necessary purpose by exposing Griffin's wrongdoing."
"Politically unsophisticated cultists". Surely you must be talking about the BNP's very own so called 'hardliners' who would rather espouse their priniciples to a small pub full of old men than get any sort of political power?
ReplyDeleteNo, I use the word cultists to refer to people who allow a leader to do their thinking for them, and follow that leader unquestioningly. Too many of this type within the British National Party, and too few intelligent types who are also bold enough to criticize, have landed us in our present mess.
ReplyDeleteMichaela Mackenzie made the point well, last year, when she pointed out the responsibility of members for having permitted Griffin to make himself into a petty tyrant.
As for the perennial 'hard liner' vs 'soft liner' debate it is tangential to the point about cultists. No doubt John Tyndall also had his cultists, people who are loyal to a personality, more than to a political ideology.
I would say this though: it is very far from being self-evident that the way to achieve electoral success is by watering down the existing BNP policy.
It seems much more likely that what is holding the BNP back electorally, as in other ways, is the flawed public image, historical baggage, and inadequate, dysfunctional personality of its leader.