[…] 1981, it had nothing like that when the renamed British Nationalist and Socialist Movement was disbanded in 1983. Many of them do seem to have joined the BNP; how much of the BM’s decline was due to Ray Hill’s activities is a matter for speculation. I remember, at a meeting addressed by Sir Ronald […]
[…] Cabinet. But the impact of this new state form is disproportionately visited upon different members of an increasingly fragmented working class and wider society. For example, a BNP councillor can get two years for bomb-making in Manchester while Muslims with a few dodgy contacts can get life imprisonment for paint-balling in the Lake District. […]
[…] influence over its direction, but that large part of the electorate who see little meaningful difference between any of them and are looking elsewhere, including at the BNP. Oborne recounts a visit to the traditional Labour heartland of Dagenham and Barking with local MP and unsuccessful 2007 Labour deputy leader candidate Jon Cruddas. ‘It […]
[…] witch hunt of the BBC. Blair’s legacy? Well, Tony saved the Tory Party from oblivion through his failure to deliver the socialist goods. He also enabled the BNP to appear radical to the socially excluded white working class, by saying that the class war was over and proclaiming the free market inevitable. Bye Tony, […]
[…] identity means something quite different in Sandy Row or Andersonstown than it does in the academic world of the Lower Malone; and that both al-Qaeda and the BNP represent the politics of cultural identity. Which is why we need to bury the politics of cultural identity for reasons that Jim Larkin, Rosa Luxembourg, Sean […]
[…] a senior Police officer in Middlesborough. Labour has also lost ground in a number of local authorities to the Liberal Democrats. This and the rise of the BNP mentioned in note 8 above seems to indicate that the GMB machine concentrates on the importance of Parliamentary seats to the detriment of local level politics. […]
[…] in the run-up to the 2001 general election, it was claimed that entire streets had applied for postal votes after receiving visits from gangs of men. The BNP (which did so unexpectedly well in nearby Oldham) denied that their supporters were behind the alleged coercion. Meanwhile, Tory Graham Quar, while out door-stepping, was confronted […]
[…] setting out the tributaries that connect, say, the National League for Clean Government with Pemberton-Billing, Page Croft and Beamish through to Mosley, the National Front and the BNP has yet to be written. Perhaps a full account isn’t possible – after all these people don’t exactly leave minutes of their meetings for posterity. Note […]
[…] appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance in Targets Practicised by the British “Permanent Government”‘, an attempt to systematise what is […]
[…] of its first appearance, dismissing it because one of the many leads Pepper turned up was a Sid Carthew who, unbeknown to be Pepper, is a former BNP member. Cohen used the syllogism first used by Searchlight: Carthew is a fascist therefore Carthew is not reliable; Pepper quoted Carthew therefore the book is not […]
