I was aware of the British National Party for quite a while before I joined. I think that this can be said for most members and for me it was a few years back. Even before joining I remember there was often talk of moles and other neer-do-wells within the party.
Generally speaking the various groups of people who would wish to join a political party for reasons other than to further its position in the political arena can be summed up as follows:
Red moles.
Members of left-wing organisations who join to gather information on the party and/or disrupt our activities wherever they can by telling pork pies, spreading malicious rumours and generally making themselves a bloody nuisance.
Do we have any of these at the moment? Almost certainly I believe. Who they are I neither know nor care for you see I follow a simple enough creed. I have nothing to hide and I remain positive for the party.
When I want someone to discuss ideas with I have a few, a very few in fact, select individuals who are members whom I can speak to in confidence. Should the time arise that I have any complaints I shall stick to the party hierarchy. Moles would find me very barren ground indeed. I have led a very quiet life and they would not glean party gossip from this source.
Moles pass on meeting times and the like but as we have nothing to hide and try very hard to get our message out there is no value in them keeping an eye on us action wise. we do not seek violent confrontation for example so they can hardly view spying upon us as necessary.
Where moles do prosper is in the spreading of rumours to cause disunity within a branch and thereby reduce its effectiveness in promoting Nationalism. Setting people against each other is a time served way of achieving this goal by setting ‘cliques’ of members against each other within branches destroying the said branches effectiveness that way. I have heard of examples of this in the past. If you think that this may be taking place tell your organiser or regional organiser and no-one else.
Spooks.
A term that I am using which I think that you will all understand to be describing operatives of our states own security service, MI5 for example.
Do they bother watching us? Of course they do. Let us face facts. They would not be doing their job properly if they did not. They probably have the odd bod who is a member as well as part of whatever else it is they are doing. Might even make a small part of an operatives ‘identity’. These people have to operate within society. Might as well use us as well as keeping an eye on us.
There is nothing about us that anyone can say would destabilise society. The government is doing that, we are trying to stabilise the country! We will never know who these people are so do not worry about it.
Loud-mouths.
I bet you have met one or two of these if you have been in the party any length of time. They put plenty of money over the bar, pop pennies into the collection, and make a lot of noise about Nationalism being the way forward, but they never quite get around to lifting their useless arseholes from the comfort of their own homes to do anything about it. Worse yet. They hardly ever listen to a speaker at meetings but remain convinced that they are an authority on every topic, especially with a beer or three inside them.
These are the lunatics who inadvertently damage the party image within the community. Thankfully few in number but a menace non-the-less.
Who pays any attention to a know all beer monster? No-one, but they will tar associates with the same brush and these people are rather loud and proud about having a British National Party membership card in their wallet.
There is precious little that we can do to change these people but for my own part I would like to see every single meeting held in a venue without a bar.
In some areas it may be that branches can only find space at pubs/clubs but I would encourage those groups to look around. I have been asked before, “but Martyn how many of these people do you think would come if there was no bar?” and I have answered “I do not know but if they are only here for the bar we can do without them anyway.” Harsh but true. I would rather speak to a slightly smaller crowd of dedicated people. I also find it rather annoying when I see busy bar all evening and a meagre collection total is announced.
False flag nationalists.
People who despise red moles and their malicious skulduggery as much as the rest of us do but have ulterior motives of their own.
These people purport to be Nationalists and share some ground with us but there may not be a party in the area that they feel they can join. They join the British National Party as a learning curve. How many organisers of other parties such as the English Democrats for example learnt how to ‘do’ an election in the British National Party? They join, they learn, they try to split the branch when they leave to join/form another party. These people may claim to despise the reds but to us they are every bit as bad.
I have given you a few thoughts of my own about some people without which the party would campaign (that is the purpose of a political party after all) much more effectively.
I would be interested to read your comments …
By BNP Councillor Martyn Findley
It was only a few short months ago that I stumbled across a blogger who had opened a blog called ‘Inside the BNP’. The blog recorded from the day he received his membership card till the day I ‘persuaded’ him to close it down, and several meetings in between. He had been taking a dictaphone to every meeting, ‘I’m trying to steer the conversation into areas they don’t like talking about, their mask is bound to slip at some point’. He never succeeded in recording anything dubious, but the intent was there. I know for a fact that If he went to a certain branch’s meetings he would have struck gold. – Ed
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