A mainstream UK political party is officially for whites only - that would never happen in Australia!

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From CONSTITUTION OF THE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY, Ninth Edition, published September 2005:

SECTION 2: MEMBERSHIP

1) The British National Party represents the collective National, Environmental, Political, Racial, Folkish, Social, Cultural, Religious and Economic interests of the indigenous Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Norse folk communities of Britain and those we regard as closely related and ethnically assimilated or assimilable aboriginal members of the European race also resident in Britain. Membership of the BNP is strictly defined within the terms of, and our members also self define themselves within, the legal ambit of a defined ‘racial group’ this being ‘Indigenous Caucasian’ and defined ‘ethnic

groups’ emanating from that Race as specified in law in the House of Lords case of Mandla V Dowell Lee (1983) 1 ALL ER 1062, HL.

2) The indigenous British ethnic groups deriving from the class of ‘Indigenous Caucasian’ consist of members of: i) The Anglo-Saxon Folk Community; ii) The Celtic Scottish Folk Community; iii) The Scots-Northern Irish Folk Community; iv) The Celtic Welsh Folk Community; v) The Celtic Irish Folk Community; vi) The Celtic Cornish Folk Community; vii) The Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Folk Community; viii) The Celtic-Norse Folk Community; ix) The Anglo-Saxon-Norse Folk Community; x) The Anglo-Saxon-Indigenous European Folk Community; xi) Members of these ethnic groups who reside either within or outside Europe but ethnically derive from them.

3) Membership of the party shall be open only to those who are 16 years of age or over and whose ethnic origin is listed within Sub-section 2

[Y's_habibitk 2]

what does happen in Australia?!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The BNP isn't "Mainstream", AJ.

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what does happen in Australia?!

The BNP isn't "Mainstream", AJ.

You still say that, despite their recent success at the polls?

The old country is moving on without you, it seems.

[alienlovechild 75]

Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Folk Community?

What's a folk community?

Who now refers to themselves as Celts?

Can the French and Dutch join the BNP?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Ethnocentric nationalism...because it's so retro.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The BNP isn't "Mainstream", AJ.

You still say that, despite their recent success at the polls?

The old country is moving on without you, it seems.

Firstly - the isn't so much that they substantially increased their share of the vote but that a lot more people abstained from voting at all.

Secondly - a lot of people who do vote BNP do so as a protest vote, not strictly because they believe in what the party stands for (though Nick Griffin and co have a way of making their ideas sound reasonable to a certain group of people), which is disappointing in itself (what happened to spoiling your ballot paper?).

Coincidentally - Australian law forces you to vote. Its actually a crime there to spoil your ballot paper.

I'll dig up the article I found the other day that basically gave a breakdown of the people who actually voted for the BNP and what they actually believe. Its quite interesting, though not terribly surprising.

Edited June 10, 2009 by Private Pike

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... a lot of people who do vote BNP do so as a protest vote, not strictly because they believe in what the party stands for ...

Do you have polling data to back this up?

Coincidentally - Australian law forces you to vote. Its actually a crime there to spoil your ballot paper.

As it should be. They sure do know how to run a country down there

[alienlovechild 75]

I'll dig up the article I found the other day that basically gave a breakdown of the people who actually voted for the BNP and what they actually believe. Its quite interesting, though not terribly surprising.

They won the Celtic vote? Does that mean long hair, swords and raiding neighboring villages will be fashionable again?

Think of the tourist potential!

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I'll dig up the article I found the other day that basically gave a breakdown of the people who actually voted for the BNP and what they actually believe. Its quite interesting, though not terribly surprising.

They won the Celtic vote? Does that mean long hair, swords and raiding neighboring villages will be fashionable again?

Think of the tourist potential!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

... a lot of people who do vote BNP do so as a protest vote, not strictly because they believe in what the party stands for ...

Do you have polling data to back this up?

Not offhand - but there was an article I was reading the other day that polled people who voted BNP. Basically suggested that they were low income people hit hard by the recession and who didn't see any major differences between the two major parties.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

... a lot of people who do vote BNP do so as a protest vote, not strictly because they believe in what the party stands for ...

Do you have polling data to back this up?

Not offhand - but there was an article I was reading the other day that polled people who voted BNP. Basically suggested that they were low income people hit hard by the recession and who didn't see any major differences between the two major parties.

That's the demographic I'd expect to vote for an outfit like this. But judging from what you've written about the article you read, it doesn't sound like it makes the case that they don't believe in what the BNP stands for.

So I have to ask, why do you believe that?

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

There were apparently fewer votes cast for the BNP that in the 2004 election...people are fed up with Labour more than anything else, or just completely apathetic.

Edited June 10, 2009 by rkl57

[The_Dude 1,142]

Wouldn't happen in Australia because they are already trying to get rid of all the Chinese and Indians. New Zealand is even further ahead than them.

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Wouldn't happen in Australia because they are already trying to get rid of all the Chinese and Indians. New Zealand is even further ahead than them.

These slanderous lies against God's chosen land will not stand!

There were apparently fewer votes cast for the BNP that in the 2004 election...people are fed up with Labour more than anything else, or just completely apathetic.

People who don't vote, don't count. You know that.