The Ideal BNP

Message from Andrew Brons MEP

Friday, 28 October 2011

Dear Fellow Nationalist

I must, first of all, thank you for your attendance at the BNP Ideas Conference.

The quality of the debate and of those contributing to it said so much about the people whom the Party has lost over recent months and years and those whom it is continuing to lose. If the Party had set out to alienate and deprive itself of talent of all kinds, it could not have done a better job. The Party has lost: national, regional and local officials of the highest calibre; councillors, speakers; writers; editors of publications and of websites; and experienced administrators.

The positive side of this haemorrhage of talent is that it has not been lost for ever. These people have gravitated towards the BNP Ideas website and towards the 22nd October Conference. This is something about which we can be optimistic.

The Conference was remarkable in many ways. There was a unity of a very special kind. It was not that everybody came to the meeting of one mind and then proceeded to engage in mutual congratulation and spontaneous and ill-considered congratulation. People came with a variety of different and mutually inconsistent and even incompatible proposals and default positions. A consensus of sorts did emerge but only after agonised reflection, re-consideration and reasoned argument.

One house rule was established from the outset and this rule permeated the whole atmosphere of the meeting. It was that there would be an almost unprecedented freedom of speech, complemented by an agreement to listen to views with which one disagreed and to contest those views only after the speaker had finished.

Richard Edmonds made an early plea for spiritual unity, even if institutional unity eluded us. It was echoed by one speaker after another and it was agreed that there would be mutual tolerance for members who had taken different paths and end up in different organisations. That might be regarded by later chroniclers as ‘a historic moment’ or even ‘an historic moment’!

Another remarkable feature of the meeting was the conviviality between people who had not always been allies. I hope that these features of the meeting will endure to create a new political culture among Nationalists.

Perhaps the most unusual feature of the Conference was that it was not stage-managed in advance. It was described as a ‘bottom-up’ rather than a ‘top down’ meeting. Cynics might observe that this had at least as much to do with the fact that its organisers were not completely in agreement, as it had to do with a passion for liberal democracy.

Many had come to the Conference disposed to form a new party without delay. Most were persuaded that break-away parties that are established when the ‘parent party’ is still operative, invariably fail. Furthermore, they accepted, reluctantly, that parties cannot be founded immediately on the collapse of the ‘parent party’.

As you know, it was agreed to establish a ‘parallel structure’ that would initially fill the gaps left by the BNP for those who were not disposed to work closely with the current regime. However, it would be ready to establish a successor party when the ‘parent party’ had been driven into the ground by the current suicidal strategy of driving all critics out of it.

It is important to start to build this parallel structure without delay. We cannot afford to be unprepared when the avalanche of debts and criminal and civil actions destroy what remains of the present party.

1. Individuals should register their names with the ‘structure’ without delay by sending an e-mail to the BNP Ideas website or by writing to my home address. Please understand that I might not have the time to enter into any protracted correspondence and might have to delegate this task to others.

2. Meetings of past, present and possible members in localities, preferably with a guest speaker and some planned activities locally.

3. As many people as possible should be encouraged to view the BNP Ideas website and to register there as individuals. People who would like to contribute articles to the website should send them there by e-mail.

4. It is to be hoped that a template for leaflets bearing your local address or box number will be available.

5. You should contribute to the campaign for a referendum to get Britain out of the EU.

6. Make contact with as many other Nationalists as possible and invite them to keep in contact with the ‘structure’ even if they have left and joined other parties.

The Conference that was held last Saturday was a great success. Let us make sure that it does not become a lost opportunity.

A further more detailed communication will follow next week.

Yours sincerely

Andrew Brons MEP