By Kasredin:
Five years ago, the British National Party was the great hope of the nationalist movement in this country. Nowadays it is largely an irrelevance. We need to be realistic however. Even if the British National Party still had around fourteen thousand members and over one hundred councillors then it would still only be one notch above an irrelevance.
The plain fact is that the British National Party has always faced too many obstacles to its successful expansion. These include a hostile press, and a tendency for certain elections to be rigged in favour of the evil establishment.
By contrast, UKIP has never, so far as I am aware, been the victim of electoral sabotage, and while they often receive negative press coverage, they do nevertheless fare far better than the BNP in this respect.
We now find ourselves in the curious situation where it seems that it doesn’t matter if press coverage of UKIP is positive or negative. Quite simply, UKIP is on the march.
Until recently, Clacton-on-Sea was an unremarkable town in Essex. It now appears to be the heartland of a growing rebellion by the British electorate. Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, has defected from the Conservatives to UKIP, and has resigned his seat so as to provoke a by-election in which he hopes to be the UKIP candidate.
If recent opinion polls are to be believed, then UKIP will easily win the by-election, thereby giving UKIP its first ever MP to be elected under the UKIP banner. If the national press is to be believed, then other Conservative MPs are also preparing to defect to UKIP. How many MPs will defect remains to be seen, as does the number who can be re-elected under the UKIP banner.
Followers of my blog will know that I am very critical of UKIP, although I think it is fair to say that I pay them a compliment by mentioning them at all. I do not live in the Clacton constituency, and at the present time I do not expect my own MP to defect to UKIP. I cannot see myself ever voting UKIP, but I admit that the rise of UKIP may have some benefits for the nationalist movement.
The next general election could easily result in a hung parliament, but not like the one we have at present. Even with the benefit of the D’Hondt system, the Liberal Democrats narrowly avoided a wipe-out in the recent European Parliament elections. There is a real likelihood that the LibDems could lose all their seats in Westminster at the next general election. Even if they hold onto a few seats, there is a possibility that UKIP could replace them as the third biggest party in the House of Commons.
Imagine a hung parliament in which UKIP MPs hold the balance of power between Labour and the Conservatives. One possible outcome would be either the Labour Party or the Conservative Party forming a minority administration, but minority administrations do not have a favourable history in this country. Imagine you are a government minister in a minority administration. You work hard to draft legislation to put before parliament, but you know that there is a strong likelihood that MPs will either reject it or else demand significant changes.
Few governments would tolerate that uncertainty for long, and so it is likely that a minority administration would seek a pact with another party. A minority Labour government had a pact with Liberal MPs in the period from March 1977 to September 1978 whereby Liberal MPs agreed to support the Labour government in return for certain policy concessions. By contrast, a coalition is a more formal arrangement whereby two or more parties share government.
One possible outcome would be a grand coalition of Labour and the Tories with UKIP in opposition. Nevertheless I am not sure that many Labour or Conservative voters would welcome such an outcome, and I recall that after the last general election there was never any talk of a Labour-Tory coalition.
We should therefore expect a hung parliament to result in either a coalition government involving UKIP or else a minority government bolstered by a pact with UKIP. There is therefore a very real possibility that UKIP could in the next few years force Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union and the Council of Europe.
As a nationalist I want far more than UKIP are offering. I want Britain to halt immigration, and then consider a repatriation programme. Nevertheless I accept that UKIP can remove two very large obstacles to a nationalist victory. It is impossible to end immigration unless Britain first leaves the EU and the Council of Europe.
The people of Clacton will decide who to elect as their MP in the coming by-election. I do not think for one moment that I can influence their decision, and I am not sure I even want to. What I want is for all nationalists to keep their eyes firmly focussed on our eventual goal.
However people vote in elections today, we need to work hard to persuade them that nationalism is right for Britain. I urge readers of this site never the buy national newspapers until there is at least one national newspaper which is sympathetic to the cause of the indigenous British people. In case you are wondering, I cannot remember when I last bought a national newspaper, but it must have been years ago.
I also urge readers of this site never to join UKIP or to donate any money to it. Voting for UKIP is one thing, but save your money for the cause of true nationalism.
By Kasredin © 2014
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PharmaPhil
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I had heard that UKIP check members to see if they were BNP, so I wouldn’t join anyway.
But a vote if it hurts the powers that be.
I think ultimately they will disappoint but it gets the public used to voting outside the mainstream.
PharmaPhil
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The chap bumped by Carswell has taken his ball home in a huff but they have more chance of their first MP this way.
Shaun
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UKIP are good in one sense: they are showing a breakup of establishment thinking amongst certain sections of our current political classes. Gusteuv le Bon would’ve noticed this as the first sign of revolution. What happens when UKIP are receiving 40 % of the White vote? Nationalist ideas are breaking into the mainstream.
UKIP, of course, won’t do anything for what true nationalists are concerned with: the 14 words. But they are moving the centre ground.
Mike Newland
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It really is quite amazing how so many of UKIP’s supporters have allowed themselves to project onto it an image of what they themselves want – basically a nationalist party – when on the basis of its present stance it’s not.
The same thing happened when people kidded themselves that Griffin had qualities he did not possess.
UKIP is a single issue group concerning the EU which has tacked on other stuff half-heartedly to bag a few more votes. The best hope is that pressure of events forces it into a nationalist stance.
johnb
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Ukip is the party of the city of London banksters It is genuinely anti EU because all the financial people can see that the current Eu is in its death throes. The financial system is way beyond sick free trade having destroyed the economies of most nations In about two weeks the economy is going to crash and by the May elections who knows which parties spin will capture the public fancy. One thing I am sure of is that both the tories and Labour will do their best to hang the City of London around Nigel’s neck, especially if the pound goes down the drain with the rest of the worthless paper.
Anna
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Disgusting asking people not to join or assist UKIP.Utterly DISGUSTING and a truly poorly written piece of hack journalism
PharmaPhil
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They’re a small means to an end, I bet you’ll be disappointed in the end by them.
JohnB
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UKIP will go the way of the Lib Dems and disappear. whether this is before or after it absorbs the Conservative party is uncertain because this is based upon many world wide events chief amongst them
(1) whether the banksters war with Russia will result in an accommodation or in continued escalation to the point that the EU becomes financially untenable and the Euro collapses.
(2) the growth of understanding amongst the British general public as to the real political and economic situation. .
A real flash point is going to be Scotland where Salmond was just told firmly to sod off despite his trying to rig the election with legions of ignorant children, and the EU is seen as a increasingly less tenable alternative to the nation state. There will be fewer rational people who want to jump off the cliff and try to go it alone in an increasingly difficult world. The SNP’s child voters will mature and most will lose there chimeric visions of utopia.
Nationalist political parties such as the BNP are going to be increasingly successful. because they have the correct policies for the future, and because more and more people are realizing the complete divergence between the aims and policies of the capitalist elite and the ordinary citizen.
Max Musson
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I’m sorry but we don’t share your faith in nationalist political parties, Johnb, for all the reasons set out in many of my articles on this website. Certainly, there is every reason to believe that White racial nationalism, or White racialism, will eventually prevail, but that success will not flow from traditional electioneering, but from the tactics and strategies that we advocate, here: http://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-path-to-power-3/, and here: http://www.westernspring.co.uk/laying-the-foundations-for-success/.