Venturing into the far right

It’s a wet bank holiday in May so I can think of nothing better to do then to update my blog, surprisingly my last bit of doodling created a bit of success and everyone who I would chat too would usually start the conversation with “I read your blog by the way”. So it’s good to see that some people actually like to have a read of this thing.
I thought today I would talk about the time when I had a look to see what right wing politics was like. It was around about this time last year and I was now legally registered to vote, but of course who would I vote for? I weren’t going to vote for the Labour party, they banned smoking, went to war and bunged on loads taxes on the things I love the most. Didn’t quite fancy Conservative because I hate yuppies and bankers and the Liberal Democrats just seemed like a bit of a protest vote. But if I wanted to make a protest vote why not make a proper one, so at around April of last year I went to a BNP meeting at the local Chelsea supporters bar.
Now before I go on I will tell you about the story behind my interest into getting involved with the most evil people in the world ever. I live in Morden; the last town of south London, if you haven’t been there you’re not missing much. But about 4 or 5 years ago there was a bit of debate over what the local bottle factory should be turned into. It was agreed by the council at that time it was going to be turned into a multiplex cinema, filled with restraints, shops, a bowling alley, arcade and all that jazz. Wicked! Finally something to do around town and something to put Morden on the map, more jobs, more money being pumped in. But at the last minute someone changed their mind and it was then turned into the largest Mosque in all of London at the time, people were obviously quite concerned… Then the flyers started coming through the door. Being quite young at the time I didn’t really care for politics so I never really had much interest in what the BNP did or were I was however pummelled with information on how they was evil and had no right to be a political party, along with a few policies in the manifesto as to why this was. But like I said I didn’t care for politics at the time but I was starting to notice a lot about social identity, especially race. This was probably to do with going to a massive multi-cultured school. A 1200 pupil high school which was split to about 60% black, 30% white and the rest Asian, now I’m not one to care about the colour of someone’s skin as an important factor of their personality, but at school I didn’t have any black or Asian friends, neither did any of my friends, or anyone else I knew at that school, same with the Asian kids also. The playground would pretty much be segregated, us white kids would play football, why the others would play basketball. We would however have the odd black’s v white’s football match which would usually end in violence. This was my first experience with racial tension and I can’t say I really learnt much from it, but it did sort of give me an idea of what the BNP were trying to get at, although I didn’t know exactly what their goals were.
A few years passed, then there was a terrorist attack and more flyers came through the door, then my neighbour (an open member of the BNP) lent me a book by controversial American politician and “racial realist” David Duke called “My Awakening”. He told me that you couldn’t buy the book in England due to its content and that no matter how hard some parts may be to read, I must read it all. The fact that it was banned in the UK had already sold me, even though it was nearly a thousand pages long. I didn’t know who David Duke was nor had I even heard of what he done or what he represented, but despite what your view may be he wrote a damn good book. He explains in great detail about the differences in race, referencing over 200 different scientific experiments and studies, with an index of forward reading, he then explained all his political views of which some I quite agreed with, the main one being full racial equality which was basically no more forced integration, no more race laws, no more forced employments for minorities. This always seemed to make sense to me, surely people shouldn’t be forced to integrate and be told to get along they should just do it. Surely the only way to stop actual racism is to ignore the fact that we are different by the colour of our skins and accept that we are human beings, and surley its stupid that someone should be forced to employ someone from a minority just because the law states they should, people should be employed by their skill and not by their race.
Needless to say the first 250 pages of the book were incredibly interesting; the second part however was a bit long winded and hard. It was all basically anti Semitic studies about the holocaust and the Jewish influence on the western world, which has never really interested me anyway as its too much of an American subject, and as for the holocaust even if it is exaggerated, people still died and that’s all that matters really. The 3rd part of the book was a bit of a biography on how he rose to be a senator and all that American political Jazz, and how at one point he was the Grand Wizard of the Knights of the KKK, which was a bit of a modernisation of the old Klan. Still basically just as racist, but with less lynching’s, and he did eventually change the white robes to suits, but I digress.
I can’t explain every aspect of the book because it is bloody long and there is a lot in there, some of which I can’t really remember. But reading that book did open me up to another view, some of which made a lot of sense, some I didn’t agree with. But from then on I started to give the right a bit of a chance. The BNP however was a peaceful party, and I’ve always said whether you’re an Islamic extremist or a right wing politician you have the right to say whatever you like, which is why I couldn’t understand that when Abu Hamser was at large he was getting away with inciting actual killings on the streets of London and Nick Griffin was being arrest for a bit of a rant in a pub.
Over the months after reading the book, I was given more information on what the BNP did and some of their policies, which did again open me up to how the media perceive them. Many of their policies would be blown out of proportion, I remember the Sun reporting that the BNP believed that EVERYONE in Britain should have the right to own a gun, when really the actual policy was for people who had served in the army for over 25 years could have the right to own a gun. The main one is that the BNP would deport everyone who wasn’t white and British from the country. There isn’t actually anything like that written in the manifesto last time I checked, but even if it was surely that would expensive and impossible and of no benefit to anyone. There is however a policy that states only residents of the common wealth could immigrate to Britain and that the immigration gates should be closed.
Then one week last April I was invited to go to a meeting, so I went. The meeting as you can imagine was filled with predominately white, working class males, very similar clientele to what would usually occupy the pub on a match day. I don’t remember much of what was said in the meeting, but I must confess I did get a sense of racism in the crowd, but only from a minority of people, the rest of the people I spoke to were normal blokes that I probably usually talk to when the football was on, this media perception of the BNP being filled with skin head yobs looking to go on a bit of a paki bash was mostly bollocks. But I secretly already knew that. But it is the minority that did let it down for the majority and I left not being converted as a BNP member. I was still undecided on my political views, mainly due to one of their policies being that if you are not white you can not become a member of the party because you are not “indigenous” which is bollocks because I have black mates who are more British then myself. I also didn’t really like Nick Griffin; he’s not a great speaker and has a smug sense of greatness over everyone else that seemed to be there, and I got the impression that he seemed to be holding the party back from being an ideal nationalist socialist party, and his second in command Mark Collet has been proved a prick by both a junkie Russell Brand and a shit Channel 4 documentary which just made him look like a lost, gay, Nazi looking for someone to accept him in life. I am however very fond of British tradition and have no problem at all admitting to being a nationalist, and I think that even though at the moment the BNP is failing horribly at being a believable political party I do see this potential of it restoring those little things I love about Britain. Working classes taking refuge in pubs and free houses, old people smoking roll ups, the language of the market stool trader, football on a Saturday afternoon, greasy spoon café’s, binge drinking, secret love of art and culture, sex, drugs and on the dull lifestyle and all those other little pleasantries that I love about this country.
I have also had a few run ins with people from militant left wing organisations such as “searchlight” an organisation that attacks BNP meetings and in some cases their members as well. I have met some people from the organisation that actually take pride in the fact that they went to prison for attacking what could of well been a peaceful family man who just happened to be a member.
I can understand why people are so strongly against the party and I can understand why people would think it was racist and fascist and all that palaver but some of these people haven’t properly had a look in and met the people that follow it. There’s always going to be a minority that ruin it for everyone else but I think there is a racist shadow that follows the party and at the moment I wouldn’t vote for them, but with a bit of a makeover and a few policy changes I cant see any reason why they wouldn’t be seen as a proper working class party, but I think for now I’ll just stick to my guns and wait for a new party that hasn’t been invented yet that will tend to my needs without the risk of being battered by a bunch lefty fanatics.