BNP Updates Language & Concepts Discipline Manual
The British National Party has completed an update to its “Language & Concepts Discipline Manual” which was the subject of some media attention last week, party chairman Nick Griffin has announced.
“The revision was necessary as the document in question was nearly six years old, and the party has matured considerably in that time,” Mr Griffin said.
The media in particular focussed on the reference to the ethnic definition of British people, which Mr Griffin defended as the right of an indigenous people to its own identity. “We don’t subscribe to the politically correct fiction that just because they happen to be born in Britain, a Pakistani is a Briton. They’re not; they remain of Pakistani stock,” Mr Griffin told the media.
“You can’t say that especially large numbers of people can come from the rest of the world and assume an English identity without denying the English their own identity, and I would say that’s wrong. In a very subtle way, it’s a sort of bloodless genocide.”
The manual has now been fully updated and revised as of April 2009, and addresses the issue in the following way: “The BNP defines British people in both civic and ethnic terms. Immigrants, and descendants of immigrants who have settled here from non-European countries, are British in the fullest civic sense of the word, and entitled to the rights of all British subjects. This includes all rights and duties (such as full protection under the law) and all other aspects of participatory society, such as national sports teams, military service, civic associations and the like.
“The BNP also defines British people in an ethnic sense, in that we are the descendants of the traditional peoples of England, Scotland, Wales and the island of Ireland.
“In the same way, an English person might be born in China of English parents and might have a Chinese passport, but would never be ethnically described as Chinese.
“This ethnic understanding of Britishness does not impinge upon the civic rights of British passport holders. It is merely an expression of the rights of an indigenous people to be recognised as such, and to have the right to remain as the majority population in their own nation.
“This right is accepted as normal by almost every other nation on earth, who also define their indigenous populations ethnically. Pakistan, for example, has a law of return which guarantees children of Pakistani immigrants the right to a Pakistani passport, no matter where in the world they may have been born.”
The manual also discusses how to deal with typical hostile questions. For example, the manual states: “Do not hesitate to repudiate bad aspects of the BNP’s past. It is pertinent to point out that all parties have some people who have said and done silly things.
“The important issue upon which to focus is what is being said and done now. People can and do change, and this has happened to the BNP as well. There is no comparison between the BNP of ten or fifteen years ago, in the same way that there is no comparison between the Labour or Conservative Parties of now and twenty years ago. All parties evolve, mature, and change, and we do not have to be on the defensive for things said and done twenty years ago which have no relevance to the modern BNP.”
Other suggestions on how to present the party’s image and policies properly include discussions under the following headings: “The BNP is not a ‘racist’ or ‘racial’ party; The BNP’s core principle is one of Britain and British people first, and we do not hesitate to announce this from all public platforms; The BNP campaigns in a totally lawful manner; Always remember that the BNP’s policies are basic common sense, and mainstream; The BNP is not ‘anti-European’; The BNP is not ‘anti-Polish’ or ‘anti-Eastern European’; When addressing a specific audience, arguments for our policies should always be couched in language calculated to be relevant to their interests; Racial and ethnic epithets and insults should never be used. Leave the crude ethnic jokes about Chinese cockle pickers to the Tories and others.”
The revised guide can be found by clicking here.
