problem on its hands: it has been required by court order to change
its constitution in order to open its membership to Blacks and Asians.
One can imagine the consternation of the 14,000 members of the far-
right political party which is currently open only to Caucasians,
which is against mixed marriage, and which campaigns for Blacks and
Asians to be repatriated back to their countries of origin.
As a fringe party, the BNP is not totally irrelevant in British
politics. From some 500 votes in the 1987 elections, it has gone up to
attracting about 190,000 nationwide in 2005. It won some 5% of the
votes in the London-wide vote in 2008 and won a seat in the hallowed
London Assembly – with about 56 councillors nationwide.
The white-only membership of the BNP is at the heart of its identity.
Its current constitution defines its potential membership with the
particularity of an apartheid byelaw:
"2) The indigenous British ethnic groups deriving from the class of
'Indigenous Caucasian' consists of members of: i) the Anglo-Saxon folk
community; ii) the Celtic Scottish folk community; iii) the Scots-
Northern Irish folk community; iv) the Celtic Welsh folk community; v)
the Celtic Irish folk community; vi) the Celtic Cornish folk
community; vii) the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic folk community; viii) the
Celtic-Norse folk community; ix) the Anglo-Saxon-Norse folk community;
x) the Anglo-Saxon Indigenous European folk community; xi) members of
these ethnic groups which reside either within or outside Europe but
ethnically derive from them."
And yet the compulsion to open up the party membership will hardly
transform the party. There can't be that many Black and Asian
masochists pining for the opportunity to spend their free weekends in
the midst of angry ethno-exclusivists debating how best to run them
out of town. In any case, the road that leads to full BNP membership
is fraught. There are those two years of funding the party before
earning the right to vote at BNP meetings, and the full five years
before qualifying to challenge Nick Griffin for his job as party
chairman.
So, to get its token black members (and earn a pass-mark from its
nemesis, the Equality and Human Rights Council,) the BNP might
actually have to make an effort. That is why I suggest the following
advertising copy:
"YOUR PARTY NEEDS YOU NOW!!!
Are you a victim? Have you been swamped by alien immigrants? Have you
lost your land, your homes and your benefits? Have your women been
seduced and married by alien races? Have you become a second class
citizen in your own land? Is your very culture now threatened by
foreign cultures from across the seas? Don't be a silent victim! Join
us today!!"
These are some of the sentiments that the BNP taps into across
Britain, but if he uses this copy, Griffin will find that the words
have such resonance across the world that, for every ten new
membership enquiries he receives, only a couple will be from his
ethnically pure Caucasian demographic. – But if he embraces his new
members, and campaigns effectively for them, he will find a lot more
'ethnically pure' Britons heading home to balance out his immigration
worries over the 'browning' of Britain.
http://blogs.african-writing.com/chuma/?p=763
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