The British National Party has become the political force around which all the other parties revolve because it alone addresses the issues which the other parties are too afraid to address, said BNP leader Nick Griffin.

Delivering his closing address at the end of the highly successful Red, White and Blue family festival in Denby, Derbyshire, Mr Griffin told the nearly 2,000 people who attended the gathering that the BNP’s message “is on everyone’s lips and minds.

“We have become the pole around which the other parties revolve, whether it’s British jobs for British workers or tests for immigrants,” Mr Griffin said.

“It is, of course, all rhetoric at present,” he said, referring to the other parties. “It seems as if the test for immigrants is that they must be able to first speak English so that they can claim their benefits out of our tax money in that language,” he said to laughter and applause from the crowd.

“We talk about the issues about which everyone is worried. This is why the liberal elite attack us so relentlessly. We keep them awake at night, and soon we are going to give them even more reason to be scared.”

Mr Griffin said that the recent Euro elections had proven that it was possible for nationalism to get people elected to a seriously important political office.

“Other nationalist parties in Europe which have done that have achieved this by selling out,” Mr Griffin continued. “The BNP has achieved this without selling out. We are a party which is true to its roots, its people, the past, the present and the future.

“We are not afraid to tell the truth. We are not going to trim [our message] or where we want to be just because it is populist or convenient. We tell it like it is because it is true,” he said to further applause.

The BNP leader charted how the party had grown in the ten years since the first RWB festival. Since then, the party has grown into a household name and has become a “heroic icon for millions of British people, even those who are not going to vote for us yet,” he said.

Mr Griffin also praised the organisers of the military veteran’s parade, which he described as one of the most important innovations at this year’s RWB. “Pete Molloy, Rob Walker and others have created something tremendous here,” he said.

“When people see this parade, which brought a tear to everyone’s eye, it will transform the popular perception of this party. Symbolically, this is one of the most important steps forward this party has ever made,” he continued and urged other party members to follow Mr Molloy’s example in coming up with similar initiatives.

He also attacked the “horrible little collection of jumped up bureaucrats, ex-Marxist student crackpots and corrupt greedy corporate politicians” who have done so much damage to Britain.

The BNP was, he said, much more than just a political party. It was a school for “our nation to give our people back a sense of their own proud identity and a vehicle for them to stand up in a sensible constitutional way to fight for good when they see evil.”

Mr Griffin dismissed recent attempts by Trevor Phillips, who he described as a “little tin pot Marxist monster”, to try and destroy the BNP’s right to represent the indigenous people of Britain.

“A nation is a people united by common ancestry,” he said. “A nation is not comprised of people who, as soon as they can draw benefits in English, become British. They are not British, and never can be.

“While those guests who our liberal elite have allowed into this country will enjoy all the rights as citizens of this country, they do not have the right to call themselves British or English. In fact, they do not claim it.

“They know perfectly well that they are proud of their Afro-Caribbean roots. They are proud of being Pakistani or Sikh or whatever, and good for them. We have no quarrel with that as long as they don’t interfere with our right to be proud to be British, to be proud to be ourselves,” Mr Griffin said to a standing ovation.

The RWB’s full programme included speeches by visiting foreign guests Marc Abramson from the Swedish National Democrats and Roberto Fiore, leader of Forza Nuova from Italy.

Festival goers were able to enjoy a wide variety of regional stalls, speeches, the now traditional regional tug-of-war competition, and a balloon race amongst other activities. Children were catered for with a huge playground, monster slide and a four wheeler race track.

The ban on caravans meant that the tent field bloomed with the largest number of campers ever. Hotels and surrounding B&Bs were fully booked out for the weekend.

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