I do NOT regret one minute of my time or one penny of my contributions to the cause, but feel real anger at how Ng managed, mismanaged and then callously betrayed us.
]]>I urge you to engage in daytime doorstep politics. Ascertain if the resident as any local issues that need to be addressed and then act on their behalf as if you are already. Do NOT approach the local councillor because you are after taking their position. If a successful outcome is secured in can go into a local leaflet. Attend you local tenants and residents association meeting. Become pally with the locals and take up their issues. Issues that might be either on an individual basis like for example a housing matter. Or perhaps something that might be affecting the locality on a wider basis. Grassroots politics is NOT just leafletting, in fact I would suggest advise that it is just a very small part local politics. Have a go and see what results it brings!!!;-)
]]>Apart from the UKIP option, which none of us are allowed to join, where we could add real activist strength to their cause and to perhaps protect it from the poison of liberalism. We can only vote for them. But for activsts, voting is not enough and all ex-BNP activists know this to be true. Time is extremely short, the BNP I think was making some decent inroads and these could have been greater. Here, my view is that Griffin hasn’t and wasn’t entirely to blame for the slow prow progress of the BNP compared to the recent excellent success of UKIP. No doubt they picked up a large proportion of the ex-BNP vote, coupled with the fact that UKIP were continually in the spotlight in the run-up to the recent elections. In which case it could be argued that they experienced a larger version of the Margaret Hodge effect, (Barking and Dagenham local elections 2006), whereby because more people talked about them the more people wanted to vote for them. Some of the fault I believe rested with the direction of the groups and branches up and down the country not engaging in local politics at a greater grassroots level. And I don’t mean the table tops. I mean knocking on doors (before and not just during election time), assisting and attempting to solve local problems and addressing local issues.
The way I would approach the problem of the splintering of nationalism and for the urgent purpose of re-unification, I would approach any sensible and mature willing other groups as possible for that very purpose re-unification. I would also take on board the UKIP approach, we may not absolutely approve of them but undeniably their approach is working and it’s achieving a far greater level of success than the BNP ever enjoyed. That doesn’t mean nationalists have to betray their inner souls, just remember that sometimes the lion needs to take on the character of the fox in order to evade the traps. Gravity I think would then bring even more remnants of the BNP back together. But the hardline approach must, I repeat MUST be jettisoned. As hardline as some of our ideas might wish to on the outside be it is irrelevent when compared to what the voters will go for en mass.
If the British Democrats IS to pick up the baton then I think there needs to be an injection of urgancy and action. I think a national gathering in the autumn should take place whereby nationalists can interact with each other again and networks can be rebuilt and steps taken to re-ignite British nationalism once more. We don’t have much time left!
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