REFORM OF THE BNP
“THE NATIONAL PARTY.”
The BNP, despite its current
tactical success, needs to reform in a number of ways in order to avoid the
current momentum petering out. It also needs to address the problem of the
growing number of little nationalist parties.
Reform should make it attractive for these parties to merge with the BNP
into a united single “National Party”. Mentioned below are three areas
that definitely need attention:
1. Leadership structure. The current BNP
constitution makes the Party leader a dictator. This is clearly unsatisfactory and becomes more unsatisfactory as
the Party grows. Many people are
reluctant to join a Party so structured and are doubly reluctant to make
donations when there appear to be no safeguards on how the money is spent.
The old pre-1979 National Front suffered in the
other direction by having 20 equal “Directorate members”. This meant that the meetings of that
Directorate were often indecisive and always time consuming. As a talking
point, a system is required that is sufficiently broad based to give confidence
that the Party is not a one man dictatorship, but not so broad that
decisiveness is lost. The current
National Front system has much to commend it. A small number of people are
elected by the members. These elected members then elect a leader. A similar system could be adopted by the
BNP: say 5 members elected to a Directorate and from that 5 the leader is
elected but remains subject to the majority vote of the Directorate. The Freedom Party has a similar system.
2. The reasoning behind the policies of the BNP
needs to be agreed and written down.
Outsiders may think that BNP members have a single idea of the
fundamentals of belief. However, this is just not true and in
practice there is a wide spread of belief.
“The 6 Principles.” are published to focus discussion about this very
vital issue. Stating the principles
clearly will help the Party explain its position and be a positive aid to
recruitment.
3. The Party
name. The British National Party
started life as the New National Front. (The original National Front having
split up into many parts.) The Party
name was later changed by a very narrow majority, primarily at the behest of
Ray Hill, who was later found to be an infiltrator/agent provocateur. The past leader of the BNP was not English,
nor is the current leader. Neither appear to appreciate just how, to put it
politely, offputting the word “British” is to an Englishman and, I believe, to
Scots. The name British National Party is a positive liability to
recruitment in English areas. Another
reason is that to describe the party as British is a form of illiteracy. In the United Kingdom we are, “The National
Party”, we do not need to describe ourselves further.
“We hold our
land in trust from our forefathers for our children and our children’s
children”.
21st June 03
PO Box 83, Tonbridge TN9 1PP
002 Revised Dec 06