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Inglorious Bastards

by Richard Spencer on October 22, 2009

Nick Griffin appeared on the BBC’s Question Time last night, prompting the inevitable hand wringing about “tolerating the intolerant” and the like across Britain. (Highlights from the evening can be seen here).

A friend of mine who knows lots of grassroots envelop-stuffers and cold-callers for the Labour party reported to me that his friends generally loathe Blair & Brown, their primary motivation for supporting them being the feeling that they’re standing tall against a potential BNP Machtergreifung of England and the European Union or something. Truly, if Nick Griffin didn’t exist, then the UK’s degenerate ruling class might have had to invent him. For the mainstream Left and Right seem to acquire much of their legitimacy from just not being him. 

This is not to say that the brunt of the BNP’s platform isn’t perfectly sensible and patriotic. I obviously have no qualms with the party’s central objective of restricting mass immigration and guarding the British people and culture (though its “aboriginal” requirement for party membership is awkward and unnecessary.) I think the party should be criticized mainly for resembling “old Labor” in sticking up for the National Health Service and making noises about major nationalizations and the like. In this line, I find the Ron Paul Revolutionairies (even if many of them are silly libertarians on the immigration issue) to represent something more dangerous to the Establishment in that they talk openly of eliminating whole bureaucracies and institutions, the Fed Money Machine being the most important of all. But of course, antagonism towards the BNP has nothing to do with socialized healthcare and everything to do with Western leaders’ obsession with stamping out even the faintest flickering of national-ethnic-racial identity among white people. 

I’ve often wondered why average Americans are so taken with the Brits. It’s almost as if one can recite the most conventional opinion imaginable, but do with a posh accident, and Americans start swooning as a Pavlovian response. We’ve imported a great many tedious prigs due to our weakness for long vowels. Clearly, people who think that England is one big episode of Masterpiece Theater have never travelled to the country. My impression is that England reproduces every American vulgarity—only more so. Thus while normally staid young people from the Midwest turn themselves into out-of-control fools for spring break, a great many Brits of all ages one up them while on “holidays” and act like buffoonish sluts the rest of the year, too. I’ve also read that social engineering and left-wing indoctrination in British schools is, if it’s possible, more intense than what we go through here in the States. I certainly sensed this when I heard the following question asked by an audience member on Question Time: 

Being that the the Second World War was fueled by the need to disarm racist and oppressive regimes, is it fair that the BNP has hijacked Churchill as its own?

One would think the PC line on Churchill would be that he was a Victorian Dinosaur: an open imperialist who bragged about mowing down future subjects in battle, an admirer of the Duce, and even the Führer for a time, who was so anti-progress that after the First World War, he pressed for an Allied invasion of Bolshevik territory. What is clear is that Churchill wanted war against Germany because he saw it as a rival, as a nation-state that threatened British power and world supremacy (or what was left of it.) The old bastard couldn’t have cared less about intolerance and racism. (And, of course, in order to disarm the Germans, he aligned Britain with a regime that was more oppressive than the Third Reich.) But it seems that in Cool Britannia an obviously reactionary figure like Churchill can be reconstructed into a force of multiculti tolerance (though, I’m sure, the time will come when Churchill, too, will need to be denounced and discarded as usable national hero.)

The British school system’s obsession with the Nazis reached a point that even the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority started to complain. When I was at grad school, I met a dumb woman who once taught at a British public school and told me that for a summer project, she had her students make evil “Nazi” advertising posters in which the ultimate form of beauty was light skin, blond hair, and blue eyes. It was, of course, drilled into the students how absolutely immoral and disgusting it would be to value these distinctive features of Northern Europeans. Only Nazi bogeymen would do that! Such stories indicate to me that we’ve reached some advanced stage of liberal nihilism in which no one is willing or able to affirm any left-wing value or commitment outside of the utmost necessity of crushing all wicked intolerant Nazis.         

At any rate, who could gainsay Nick Griffin when he said that if Churchill were alive today, he’d be on the side of the BNP? For, among reasons, “no other party would have him,

for what he said in the early days of mass immigration into this country, for the fact that “they’re only coming for our benefit system,” and for the fact that in his younger days he was extremely critical of the dangers of fundamentalist Islam, in a way that would now be described as Islamophobic.

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