Sunday 6 April 2014

English Democrats, Oh English Democrats!

It seems politics is becoming interesting again. It also seems that there are a few people who still check my blog despite it not being updated for a year and even then it was very irregular. Consequently, for both reasons I thought the time was now right to begin writing again in the hope that it might make a little difference.

To start I thought I would edit and republish the following which was originally published in late 2010, nearly 4 years ago. Time sadly does fly by far too quickly!! I also intend to add at least one item per week as I do enjoy writing and hope that, as a bonus, some readers may also enjoy what I write.

Elements from my previous article are in italics and updates to it are not.

I did have great hopes for the British Democratic Party, who I thought would take the Nationalist baton from the British National Party but the party failed to meet my expectations and unless a great deal of work is now done, will sadly fail at the starting blocks. Consequently, with that disappointment and my increasing belief that the Union only serves to support the weaker nations, who it seems, resent what the English have achieved in so many ways, consider the only way forward is actually with an English party who fights for all things English.

Well, my decision is made and I’m now a paid up member of the English Democrats. Having been out of active politics for the best part of 2 years (obviously now 6 years!). it’s not been an easy or quick decision to make but I think it is the right one after considering all of my options, but obviously excluding anything left-wing or the LibLabCon. Recent events have shown me that all three parties are even more past their sell-by date than they were when I wrote this first. The Lib Dems under the “leadership” of Nick Clegg are now completely out of touch. The recent debates with Nigel Farage of UKIP have shown Clegg to be an inept liar and totally lacking in understanding of what is important to the indigenous population of these lands. I guess you’d expect nothing more from a career politician born with a silver spoon in his mouth. What was even more surprising about the debates was that he seems to have lost his bottle. His debating performance against Cameron and Brown was applauded but Farage wiped the floor with him. It’s no wonder that Cameron and Miliband have said they will refuse to debate with Farage.

My research involved a review of the details contained on the Electoral Commission web-site and if you haven’t looked at it already have a delve at the information contained there about all political parties.

Having spent 10 years as a supporter and member of the British National Party, it was a wrench but having seen the dramatic rise in popularity followed by the extreme mis-management, impropriety and collapse under Nick Griffin’s leadership I could not possibly contemplate a return.
The following information has changed quite a bit since originally written, but it seems even more apparent that Griffin as a state asset was tasked with collapsing the far-right and has destroyed the BNP in the same way he destroyed the NF. Additionally the BNP is now in a better financial position but still owes money with the Decembrists situation still, I believe, hanging over him and possibly the Michaela Mackenzie case as I’ve seen nothing to indicate this was settled. With the party on the verge of financial collapse I would urge all its members to get out while they can. With rumoured debts of around £700,000 and outstanding costs from court cases involving Unilever, Michaela Mackenzie’s Employment Tribunal, Equality and Human Rights Commission and the “December Rebels” someone is shortly going to find themselves very much out of pocket. The latter of these incidents prompted my decision to stand down from active involvement, knowing what dedicated and decent Nationalists Kenny and Nicholla Smith, Steve Blake and Ian Dawson are. The first link in the following sentence no longer works and Eddy Butler has gone very quiet of late but is believed to have joined the English Democrats. To see in more detail how and why the BNP are falling apart have a look at Eddy Butler's blog (no longer available) and if you want to know more about Eddy then see this link Wikipedia Eddy Butler. The latest information provided to me shows that the BNP has less than 2000 members and in the Nationalist community, as well as predicted by almost all political commentators, it is believed that Griffin will not keep his seat in the European Parliament. Having been bankrupted it is very likely that he will disappear from the political scene, presumably having squirrelled away the hundreds of thousands of pounds accumulated during his time as an MEP.

The following paragraph, as do some later ones refers to short-lived parties who had very little impact on the political landscape and no longer exist with their flash-in-the-pan leaders disappearing into oblivion. It seems that some of the BNP rejects are heading to the British Freedom Party. Expelled BNP members Peter Mullins, Michaela Mackenzie and Simon Bennett together with Lee Barnes formed the BFP only recently (see British Freedom Party Wikipedia entry). However the party is already in trouble with party treasurer John Savage resigning after falling out with Lee Barnes and nothing having been heard or seen of party leaders Peter Mullins and Michaela Mackenzie since the appallingly produced and acted introductory video posted on their site. The party is trying desperately to appeal to disenfranchised Nationalists announcing such high profile defections, from the BNP, as unelected councillor Mick Simpkins. Barry Bennett has also recently joined so they will have at least one member who knows what he’s doing! I think it might be obvious that I have not been impressed with the BFP.

Next to UKIP the biggest of the group of parties loosely classed as Nationalist. UKIP had much promise when it managed to get a fair few MEPs elected in the 2004 Euro-elections, but it failed to deliver and despite being a supposedly anti-EU party have had no impact whatsoever either with the EU or in domestic politics back home.
However, in the last couple of years their profile has increased rapidly with my insider contact reporting that they now have over 35,000 members. Farage’s recent performance in televised debates with Nick Clegg, as mentioned above, has increased his popularity and is expected to do very well indeed in the European Parliament elections in May this year. Unfortunately, Farage has made the same mistake as nearly all other political leaders in essentially denying the existence of the English nation. It really is time that the English took appropriate action to prevent the extinction of the English identity. The only party supporting that stance is, of course, the English Democrats.

I have great respect for The National Front, (the web-site links here have been removed), having cut my political teeth with them in the early 90’s but they are making a big mistake in sticking so steadfastly to their unworkable policy on repatriation i.e. ".... the National Front would halt all non-white immigration into Britain and introduce a policy of phased and humane repatriation. Such a policy would be expected to extend over 10-15 years and its completion would thus depend on the recurrent election of successive NF governments". Although seen by hard-core Nationalists as being “true to the cause” it simply means that the party will never be accepted by the vast majority of the voting population in this country and will never reach the heights it did in the late 70’s.
Although, a couple of years ago, the NF showed great promise in taking the membership from the disintegrating BNP, they themselves seemed destined to self-destruct and there now exist two National Front factions after a split in the leadership. This situation has given rise to legal action in an attempt to resolve the matter, a costly and further divisive course of action and currently rendering the NF inactive in electoral terms. This together with the insistence of some of the key players to regularly refer to all of the problems we have here as a "ZOG conspiracy" renders them totally inaccessible to the vast majority of British Nationalists, let alone the British public.

The England First Party are just a smaller version of the NF with a broadly but not as specific policy on repatriation i.e. "Stop all further immigration and start a programme of voluntary repatriation of non-European immigrants back to their lands of ancestral origin”.
This is another party no longer with us, but the link above does take you to the site for probably the only decent nationalist magazine now available, that being “Heritage And Destiny”.

An even smaller party, the English Independence Party (web-site now unavailable) led by Andrew Constantine has presumably disbanded, having, been formed in April 2000, as Andrew Constantine registered the English Peoples’ Party in February 2008 (a very, very small party now with only a Facebook presence).

Yet another new party - One England has only very recently formed, I’m not sure how they will do but with only a (seemingly now disabled) Facebook page and no web-site as yet it looks like it is going to be a struggle.

Next the “will they or won’t they” English Defence League, not strictly a political party but currently looking at the options for introducing a form of membership, if the posting on their Facebook site on Sunday, 14 November 2010 is anything to go on. “There is a lot of Rumours going round with regards to a membership scheme. So to set the record straight – At the request of a large proportion of the EDL we are looking into the option of a voluntary membership scheme”. Potentially, with the support they have, they would rival any of the existing Nationalist parties for members but probably not for support at the polls.
Now that their well-known leader Tommy Robinson, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, or whatever he calls himself at the moment, having left to join the counter-extremism think-tank The Quilliam Foundation but having seemingly disappeared from their web-site as a result of his sentencing in January this year to 18 months in prison, for three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud by misrepresentation in relation to a mortgage application, and so will be out of action for some time. As with Griffin, the suspicions in right-wing circles is that our Tommy was “turned” by the powers that be.

So finally to the English Democrats who pretty much have the policies, that are potentially acceptable to the electorate and that I am comfortable with. The party has a membership of similar size to that of the BNP when I joined and so I feel that much can be achieved in the future, particularly if it does not get side-tracked by dalliances with other Nationalist groups. I have confidence that any differences in that area can be overcome and the party move forward united to a bigger and better future. See here for details of English Democrat policies. I will report on progress in due course.