The BNP is the same old gang
‘Our British Union of Fascists will without a doubt be misrepresented by politicians of the older schools. The Movement did not begin with the wiseacres and the theorists. It was born from a surging discontent with a regime where nothing can be achieved. The Old Gang hold the stage; and, to them, misrepresentation is the path of their own salvation’.
‘The enemy is the “Old Gang” of our present political system. No matter what their Party label, the old parliamentarians have proved themselves to be all the same; no matter what policy they are elected to carry out, their policy when elected is invariably the same. That policy is a policy of subservience to sectional interests and of national lethargy’.
‘The Italian Fascists were more utterly defeated in the election of 1919, about three years before they came into power. Their leader polled only 5,000 votes against the 100,000 of his Old Gang opponent – a result only some 20% as good as that which I was afforded by the people of Stoke-on-Trent in the election of 1931. If we turn to the case of the German Nazis, we find that they were routed again and again by national combinations of the Old Gang before they approached power’.
‘If the situation of violence is to be averted, the Old Gang Government must be overthrown and effective measures must be adopted before the situation has gone too far. The enemy today is the Old Gang of present parliamentarianism’.
- Oswald Mosley, ‘The Greater Britain‘, 1932.
Send a signal to the arrogant, old-gang, parties — Vote BNP!
- BNP website, August 2008.
The old gang politicians’ phoney concern for investors and savers may make for ‘tough but caring’ conference speeches, but it’s been deeply irrelevant to most ‘ordinaries’ for one simple reason: We don’t have any stocks and shares; we don’t have any investments or savings.
- Nick Griffin, BNP leader, October 2008.
The British National Party has achieved a dramatic breakthrough in Bexley, where, in the face of a concerted campaign by all three old gang parties, we still outpolled both LibDems and Labour.
- Nick Griffin, January 2009.
When will the old gang politicians understand that repeating the same story over and over will not make it true.
- David Owens, BNP councillor, January 2009.
Common sense it may be, but it has taken an awful long time to dawn on any spokesman from the three ‘old gang parties’.
- Mike Green, West Wales BNP, October 2008.
[T]he failed gang of political parties, who are directly responsible for the state of Wales and Llanelli today.
- Kevin Edwards, West Wales BNP organiser, January 2009.
However much hostile journalists tried to dress it up, the bottom line of the story in every report was that people have had enough of the corrupt old gang politicians and are turning to the BNP.
- Martin Wingfield, editor of BNP newspaper ‘Freedom’, September 2008.
It is just another, rather sinister, attempt by our opponents to try to gag us. They know that our message, especially that of economic nationalism, is what people want to hear at this time and the Old Gang parties are doing their best to keep that message from them.
- Martin Wingfield, February 2009.
The Old Gang are in a state of panic as they see their stranglehold on British politics slipping away under the weight of massive BNP votes in local elections from across the country.
- Martin Wingfield, February 2009.
In Barking and Dagenham the election of twelve BNP councillors produced a frenzy of government initiatives backed with untold amounts of cash. This is part of a tactic the “old gang” politicians have developed to try and halt the progress of the BNP.
- Birmingham BNP blog, July 2007.
What’s wrong with voting BNP then Jesse? If you or anybody else think the old gang parties can change then you’re only deluding yourself.
- Stephen Stone, BNP supporter, April 2007.
The establishment; the press and the old gang parties may like to demonise the BNP and portray it unfavourably. But, who else stands up for the indigenous people of Britain and the island of Ireland.. Definetly [sic] not the old gang parties of Labour, Lib Dem and Tory as we can all see.
- John Delaney, BNP supporter, January 2008.
Don’t listen to the propoganda [sic] and spin spread by the Old gang parties of Labour and Tory. Look around at your community, you can see what is happening for yourself. This is a result of the Old gang politics that we have had for the last 30 years. Make a protest.
- John Mitchell, BNP supporter, January 2008.
Unless action is taken we will end up in the sea, we can’t keep moving further and further out of our towns and cities. Make a protest against the old gang parties of Tory, Labour and Lib Dem.
- Maureen Gooch, BNP supporter, January 2008.
Comments
| 23 February 2009, 7:55 pm |
If the fascists are the only ones offering sense in the face of madness, who else can the people turn to? If their ranks were to swell a hundred fold would the newcomers swallow the entire BNP pie? Unlikely, they just want safety from the tangible threat of Islam. It’s an unconscious desire, don’t you feel it?
| 23 February 2009, 8:25 pm |
Naah, people aren’t that stupid.
Spode runs a lingerie shop – did you know?
| 23 February 2009, 8:38 pm |
The problem is that BNP supporters, especially in places like Dagenham, see them not as a coherent political party but as a cross between a protest, a psychic scream for help and a bout of necessary projectile vomiting. This is the reason why they vote BNP: it’s a vent for their anger, sense of powerlessness and need to stick it to a society they think is against them. Whether or not the BNP membership keeps repeating itself isn’t really the point. People keep voting for them regardless.
| 23 February 2009, 9:06 pm |
Not true – I just finished Diana Mosley’s autobiography and was stunned to find that her and OM’s big, big goal in life was to form the EU. They were socialists, and felt the EU would bring socialism to its proper place and avoid inter-European wars. She spent at least a quarter of the book talking about it.
| 23 February 2009, 9:06 pm |
I should add, as if it needed saying, that the present BNP could not be considered supporters of the EU!
| 23 February 2009, 9:12 pm |
It sure is scary with all these demagogic politicians threatening to throw out the “old politics” and institute “radical change’. If we don’t watch out they might spend a trillion dollars on condoms and lawn sod, whilst talking about *stimulus” (no doubt some fascist, phallic thing).
| 23 February 2009, 9:22 pm |
Not that I’m doubting your contention but suppose the BNP DID really reform and become an ultra-nationalist party without the racialist element, would the left consider that to be a good thing?
| 23 February 2009, 9:32 pm |
Its interesting that the photos suggest that in the 1930s older fascists still had jawlines, yet by the early 21st century these have disappeared into a jelly of superior Aryan blubber. Must be all that rich Bavarian food.
| 23 February 2009, 9:33 pm |
would the left consider that to be a good thing?
No of course not, the left prefert swastikas and all the trimmings. The more the BNP move towards sanity the less they like it.
| 23 February 2009, 9:44 pm |
Yeah, whatever you say about old Ozzie, at least he kept in shape. Nicky needs to develope a better upper body workout regime, that’s for sure…
| 24 February 2009, 2:27 am |
A lot of you are bigots. The Gev Pearce school of humanism. You attack his pork not his politics. Make no mistake about it if there was someone with the looks and charisma of OM. around today, adjusted, to todays realities, you would see a catalyst for change like Obama. If Odyseus himself called the Cyclops a ‘one eyed monster’, Chev Pearce and his ilk would be lining up to label him a racist bigot!
| 24 February 2009, 3:40 pm |
The difference is of course that Oswald Mosley was a lot more successful with the ladies than Nick Griffin and friends ever will be. “Vote Labour, sleep Tory!” Mosley once said when he was a Labour MP. I guess he later changed his tune to something more like “every woman adores a fascist. The boot in the face, the brute. Brute heart of a brute like you”.
| 24 February 2009, 3:44 pm |
Dixiemink, yes it’s funny how Diana Mosley spent so much time talking about her genius hubbie Ozz Mozz accurately predicting the formation of a European union rather than focusing on their infatuation with the Nazis, relationship with Hitler, etc. I remember reading her whinging about the dastardly post-war Labour government restricting Mosley’s right to travel abroad or something like that and her complaining that the full injustices of socialism suddenly became clear to her. Not quite as bad as the Holocaust though, was it pet? Silly old fash.
ha!
Not an original thought in their heads.