Taken to task by former Tories

Ouch! A stinging mailbox this morning with half a dozen ex-Tory BNPers taking umbrage at my remarks yesterday on those who have switched their allegiance from the Conservative Party to the British National Party.

I will, of course, reply personally to everyone upset by my stated preference for Old Labour recruits to the BNP rather than those who have come from the Tories. I must stress that this is my personal view and it was only published in my personal weblog. It is not the viewpoint of the British National Party or that of the Freedom newspaper.

"I find it bizarre that you should you regard my conversion to the BNP of less value than that of someone from the Labour Party," one aggrieved ex-Conservative scolded me.

I shall reply to him that I'm only talking about Old Labour. There are no recruits from New Labour because the Blair and Brown agenda is so far from the ideals of nationalism that there could never ever be a meeting of minds.

Back in the General Election of 1979 I met a huge number of Tories and they were all certain that Margaret Thatcher would end immigration and put the 'Great' back into Great Britain. After that election, thousands of British Nationalists deserted our cause to join the Conservatives - all duped by Thatcher's phoney nationalism.

In 1983 I met a great many more Tories but this time our meetings were far from friendly. I was campaigning in support of Britain's miners while they seemed happy to see their Party systematically closing down an energy source that was vital for our country's self-sufficiency.
"If we don't support our miners now, in 20 years time we will be relying on coal imported from Eastern Europe to keep our homes warm and our industry running," I told them. But they didn't listen - they were more worried about 'Reds under the bed' and on getting one over on Arthur Scargill.

Then there was North Sea Oil, our Fishing waters around the UK, the Railways, our airlines, Water, Gas, Electricity and the Post Office. One by one essential services and resources, vital to secure a country's independence, were hawked off at a cut price to the highest bidder. The very foundations that were so vital to any Nationalist economy, dug-up and destroyed for ever by consecutive Tory Governments.

I just find it difficult to understand how anyone claiming to be a nationalist could ever have been a member, supporter or official of a political party that did so much in such a short space of time to destroy our national interest.

Anyway, that is my last observation on this matter. I most certainly don't want to rock the boat when things are going so well. The BNP can accommodate quite a broad church of political views as long as the fundamentals of nationalism remain at its core.

And it's not only former Tories that I have upset this week. I have been reprimanded by some of our Sandwell BNP activists who are working hard in the Prince's End by-election where polling takes place today. They take me to task over Monday's blog which they say was much too downbeat on our chances of retaining the seat. "There's great support on the doorstep with voters seeking out our canvassers to pledge their votes for Karen", one told me while another believes that a 'famous victory' is on the cards.

Fingers-crossed then, and I shall try and stay up for the result which hopefully the excellent BNP Information Line - 0906 553 2245 - will report on around midnight.

Pretty grumpy blog again I'm afraid - put it down to this never-ending flu bug and Workington Reds poor recent form.