There’s never been a more fertile time for the development of real nationalism in Britain. The huge success of the grass-roots Raise the Colours operation both reflected and encouraged a feeling of desperation at the way the country is going and a collective determination to do something about it. Every Thursday brings a fresh clutch of local council by-elections, with Labour and Tory seats falling as often as not to Reform or the Watermelons. The sustained surge in support for Farage & Co. means that the ballot road remains completely blocked for ethnonationalists, but this should if anything be a ‘plus’ for the movement, since it now dissuades all but the most painfully naïve from throwing their money and effort down the electoral drain. The continued demonstrations against migrant hotels and the worst of the new migrant crimes confirm that the anger of the British people (and the Irish too, for that matter) is near boiling point. But the vast majority of those attending such protests are local people. Some of them are also attended by small groups of committed nationalists but, in general, most of the attendees at these very welcome events are either non-political normies or civic nationalists hoping to build their own organisations or to further wind up tensions in the hope of speeding the advent of the civil war which they are so sure is coming. So what, in this wonderfully fertile time, are genuine nationalists doing to push the Cause forward? The answer, compared to past times, is extraordinarily little. At no stage in the history of the BUF, Union Movement, National Front, British Movement, British National Party, etc did any of them have opportunities anything like as good or widespread as exist for nationalists today. This is not to support or equate all of those groups, or to say that they would necessarily have been relevant to the current times. It is just to point out that their leaders and activists would have given their eye-teeth and (generally stiff) right arms for the external circumstances and potential of Current Era Britain. What, then, are the real nationalists – or people who claim to be real nationalists – doing to advance the Cause? There are certainly a very significant number trying to do something. Indeed, educated, intelligent, artisan and middle-class teens and young men are more sympathetic to nationalist ideas – often in very radical ways – than at perhaps any previous time in modern British political history. It’s really very heartening and promising. Willing though many are, however, we must ask: Are they working in the best ways possible to help fulfil that promise? I believe that there are more ways than ever in which they could do so, and I will set out specific proposals here very shortly. But before we examine what should be done, it is useful to look at what is currently being done. Not least, to establish that there is easily enough energy, commitment, money and ability sloshing around at there to build something really worthwhile. We all know what the ‘Counter-Jihad’ crew are doing with their firehose injections of Zionist cash. We all know that Reform activists continue – despite the desperately poor electoral capabilities of Farage’s massively funded army of amateurs – to challenge and beat up the old parties. But I’m not writing about them; we’re interested not in populists, but in real nationalists. What are they doing?
Broadly speaking, we can divide their current efforts into four. First, the Ideas Men. These are the individuals and groups who are working primarily with podcasts and occasional real-life meetings to spread radical nationalist ideas among mainly young people. Every now and again they venture out and make contact with the public at asylum hotel demos or Remembrance Day parades. Generally, however, it’s a matter of building their own contact base and local groups, while spreading ideas. This is fair enough, or is as long as the ideas they spread have their radicalism tempered by common sense and British tradition. Those who constantly seek to maximise social media reach by shock tactics and flirting with extremism may be raking it in from monetised social media platforms, but they are also setting decent but impressionable youngsters on a collision course with life-wrecking repression. Even where this trap is avoided, though, there is a further problem. That is that there is very little. effort being made to touch nationalist ideas, activists and organisation down into the real lives of ordinary people.
Flying the flag at grass-roots anti-immigration demonstrations is a very good place to start, especially if the hardcore nationalist presence appears not as a tag-along extra, whose presence might only lead to convenient demonisation headlines in the media, but as an actual benefit. The Christian Nationalist Siol na hEireann in the Republic of Ireland are a good example of what can be done. Its activists frequently attend anti-immigration demos, handing out scores or even hundreds of Irish flags and placards. These turn what might otherwise appear to be a fairly disorganised crowd of ordinary people into a fervent and united-looking patriotic parade. I am told, in addition, that most of their demo props are handed back at the end of the event by the grateful locals, who happily take a party leaflet or newspaper in return. This process is helped enormously by the fact that Siol na hEireann, while ideologically the most distinctive and coherent nationalist group in Ireland, has from the very beginning made a sustained effort to present itself and its ideas as springing from the soil and soul of their own nation. It is, therefore, an avowedly Christian and Irish Republican organisation. The latter isn’t my taste, adhering as I always have to the loyalist tradition, but this approach means that MSM attempts to demonise the party - and by extension demonstrations at which it appears – miss the mark. Thus the hardcore nationalist ideas put across in the papers its people hand out at the same events can go into the hearts and minds of their previously non-political compatriots. It is all in marked contrast between the self-isolating ‘black block’ extremism and sub-Hitlerite posing on the fringes of the nationalist movement in Britain. That said, however effective attendance at such demonstrations may be, it doesn’t achieve that much if it is seen as an end in itself, rather than just a first step. It helps to wake up a slightly wider audience and recruit more people to carry on doing the same thing. This is political work, but it can’t really be described as ‘building a community’, Nor does it make any long-term difference to the movement’s effectiveness. Overall, though, it is obvious that someone has to do this first-step work. And, if awakened and radicalised members of the public, particularly young people are later on brought in and involved in doing things which are long-term constructive, then this initial groundwork is well worthwhile. When I set out my proposals for that constructive engagement with real communities, it will become clear that no organised group has yet got beyond this first stage on the British mainland.
Next, we come to the shrinking minority still obsessed with the parliamentary road, those still talking about, or actually, contesting Westminster elections. The NF and the BNP both poured vast amounts of effort and money into this. While some argued even then that this was a waste of resources, there were two crucial factors which justified the tactic at the time: The first was that, in those pre-Internet days, the TV party political broadcasts which we got for contesting certain numbers of seats – one broadcast for fifty seats, more for large numbers of additional ones – were immensely valuable in terms of recognition and recruitment. The same is true of the free Post Office delivery of election leaflets. We knew that some of them were dumped in skips by leftist or minority postmen, but enough got through to make each election an important recruiting drive. The second was that, back then, the demographics were so different that there was still time for the election of a nationalist government to turn things around and avoid disaster. While that was the case, we had a moral duty to give our people the chance to make that choice. It was with this in mind that I did a speaking tour of all the BNP’s main branches in 1997, warning them that we had no more than 25 years to win through the ballot box. After that, I told them, the combination of growth in ‘their’ numbers, the drop in ours, and the extra mixing that would take place, would make the electoral victory of a hardline, ethnonationalist party with a repatriation platform an impossibility. ConsistentMy post-2014 position – that it is now too late to avert (though not to late to prepare for and survive) disaster – is thus completely consistent with the one I held nearly thirty years ago . We’ve had the 25 years. We didn’t make it. Times up. The demographic situation is now at least as bad as expected. Hence, we now have to do very different things, on account of those changed circumstances. Sadly, there are still a few genuine nationalists, primarily some of my old BNP comrades, now in the British Democratic Party - and others who have convinced themselves that independent nationalist candidates may do better - who still believe in the parliamentary road. The last general election saw far fewer of these well-meaning saps than ever before, but there are some already raising money to launch another Electoral Charge of the Light-Headed Brigade next time around. Many more, for that matter, will stand for parties such as Advance, Reclaim, Restore and whoever else shares their belief that Reform will shortly implode (very unlikely) or will one day get elected and fail to deliver. This latter analysis is a racing cert, but that doesn’t for one moment explain why it makes any sense to throw away a fortune opposing Reform in the ballot box while Nigel & Co. are on a high. Very occasionally, the pitiful handful of votes the parties just to the ‘right’ of Reform will get will allow Labour or the Tories to hold on to a seat they would otherwise have lost to Farage. Everywhere they stand, however, they will lose their deposits. Since that’s been held at £500 per constituency since 1985, it’s nothing like the significant sum it was back then, but then you have to add the cost of the leaflets, a couple of billboards, at least one car-mounted speaker system, and other campaign extras. Even a basic campaign, just enough to get you noticed, has to cost at least £2,500. To do a half-serious job you need to spend £10,000 per seat, which is still a fraction of what the serious contenders will spend. However much you spend, it’s money down the drain. Despite this, Ben Habib and various other leaders on the borderline between populist and nationalist, will push their people to stand. Despite the fact that their organisations are backed by various multi-millionaires, they are very likely to insist that their local groups must raise the money by themselves. This will be done, quite possibly in hundreds of seats – and it will achieve nothing. Come the day after the election these decent, brave but foolish people will have been utterly humiliated. It’s a crying shame, particularly since – as we will see – there are so many things which would be a far better use for their money and commitment. Confused and ConfrontationalThird, we have the people who I will label ‘confrontationalists’ because, although they all like to dress in black and use Nazi slogans and salutes, they don’t like being called Nazis. Despite their posing, they still have enough sense to understand that it’s a demonisation smear which isolates them from all normal adult Brits. This begs the question as to why they still go in for such self-destructive nonsense, but that’s their problem rather than ours. The confrontationalists are small groups, many of young men, who are effectively following the already proven disastrous path of National Action. They gather together in small, semi-underground groups with the ‘optics’ of Antifa-style Black Block uniforms, with masks and sunglasses, banners with provocative slogans and neo-Nazi style logos, stiff right-arm salutes and chants which, if not overtly National Socialist, are invariably out of kilter even with the radicalised spirit of the time.
White Vanguard -current being groomed to be the next National Action. This too will not end well.They might think it looks ‘edgy’, and it may indeed help them recruit a few more 16-year-olds. But they are setting themselves up to be arrested, persecuted, banned and imprisoned. This isn’t a possibility, it’s an inevitability; the provocateurs egging them on and sharing their Telegram posts know exactly what they are doing and where it ends, because they’ve done it before. When I warned people in National Action when it was first started, that was where they were heading, they all denied it with great indignation. “We’re going to be fine. Get out of the way, old man. Watch how the young lions do it”. They were duly crushed. A very significant number of them - given their only total number was only a couple of hundred - went to prison. An extremely high casualty rate, with nothing achieved at all achieved. Those jailed for that futile madness will in various ways be marked and diminished for life. Those who escaped prison are now effectively deprived of their right to work with their fellow Brits in any sort of collective venture, however positive it may be. They are toxic, damaged goods, because their involvement in any sort of patriotic group leaves it open to the accusation that it is a ‘continuity organisation’ and hence also liable to be banned. Or their past may be overlooked, so that they are able to get back involved, only to find themselves blackmailed by the police to become informers. The fourth group, very, very visible in nationalist politics, are the ones who use social media to rake in cash by monetising Migrant Crime Porn, angry slogans and impossible demands. It came out recently that a very significant number of anti-immigration, pro-British social media accounts are actually run from places like Pakistan and Bangladesh. These complete grifters aren’t even white. But most of them are, and they’re all on the same grift. Some post from abroad, living as expats everywhere from Spain to Thailand. They fund their lifetsyles peddling rage and doom porn, endlessly telling us what everyone paying attention already knows – the elites’ precious multicult is a bloody, unjust, unstable disaster. Whenever there’s another disgusting attack, murder or some crime by any sort of immigrant, they jump in with posts designed to get maximum traction. Views and reposts make money.
Steve Laws, fed-poster, monetising misery and Letter to Santa sloganisingNow, all these crimes and injustices against our people are disgraceful and should be condemned. The System’s efforts to deny, cover up or minimise them should be exposed. But doing so in the most extreme and “racist” terms possible tends only to make opposition to mass immigration look violent, dangerous and full of hate. More measured posts have value when put out by people and organisations which actually do things in real life. Such publicity efforts from time to time attract new recruits, who can then be involved in their work. Incisive but sensible social media posts are the 21st century equivalent of stickers and leaflets – perfectly legitimate recruitment tools. But most of those who post their outrage and empty “Mass Deportations NOW” slogans are not involved in any sort of organisation. Take a closer look at them – do they ever put their hands in their pockets and shell out some of the money they rake in for anything useful? I have already explained how, without the ability to take and retain state power, “Remigration” is an impossible dream and therefore a dangerous distraction from hard reality. Siren calls for Remigration have become, to paraphrase Marx, the opiate of the anti-immigration people. All sorts of people have called me all sorts of names for pointing this out, the most common accusation being that it is “defeatist” to point out that remigration is never going to be delivered, either by populists in government or nationalists in opposition. Forget such childish fantasies. The real world choice is not between remigration or becoming a minority in our own homeland, it’s what kind of minority we are going to be. A powerless, abused and persecuted minority, or a powerful, confident and respected minority? If you’re willing to accept the former, then you can help to make it happen either by doing nothing at all, or by wasting the next 20 years shouting empty slogans and pretending that some White Knight in shining armour is going to come to our rescue. The grifters selling these fantasies on podcasts and postys are not only dishonest and greedy, they are also cowards. Sorry to be so blunt, but our people treally don’t have the time for their Deportations Now snake oil. There is nothing more cowardly than refusal to face up to the truth. A Very Fertile Time for NationalismThe great shame of all this is that the ordinary people of Britain - the oft-despised ‘normies’ – are actually already awake and on various paths to full-on ‘radicalisation’. They are looking for ideas and explanations and for ways forward. This is an enormous opportunity for the nationalist movement - and it is being missed. There’s no need to panic about this, the process is still in the early stages, and it will run for years to come. We needn’t beat ourselves up over the fact that opportunities have been missed because there will be more and greater opportunities, in the near, medium and longer term future. But unless we start to organise to take advantage of those opportunities, time will carry on slipping past. The countdown to minority status in our own homelands is ticking away. We cannot afford to waste time, whether that’s by doing nothing or - equally foolish - by doing things that achieve nothing. The slogan grifters invariably present the white minority date as the ultimate Black Pill, the moment in time after which we’re all automatically doomed. Overnight, they say or imply, we will lurch from being in a position to wave a magic remigration wand, to being cold climate Boers, waiting helplessly to be butchered in our beds. It is, of course, Black Pill defeatist nonsense. The multicult future is a nightmare, we were indeed “Never Asked”, I and many others were putting out leaflets and putting up stickers warning about it more than fifty years ago. The broken society to which elite treason and Boomer stupidity and cowardice have condemned us is indeed ugly and dangerous.
1970s sticker. I have no idea how many thousands of these I brought and put up as a teenager. Most of them were about immigration, often demanding “Repatriation”. Did demanding it make it happen? “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”.But our people are not going to be genocided. They are going to be the largest minority in Balkanised states where everyone is a minority. If we fail to organise to jostle with the other minorities, to secure our rights and a decent share, and to deter any who would do us harm, then our people will indeed be brutalised and gradually diminished to vanishing point. If we organise, if we choose to make our own destiny, that will not happen. But it does get harder and harder with every year wasted powerlessly imploring the Powers That Be to listen to us and to change direction. We are going to be a minority, however much we wish for a political and demographic miracle, that cannot now be avoided. It is completely beyond our capability to change. But we will decide – through our wasted time or our effective action, what sort of minority we will be. That is why we must set to the work of turning our people into a well organised, confident and, whenever necessary, militant minority. Now, we know about human nature. We know that many people – especially when asked to do something unfamiliar and outside their comfort zone - have an unfortunate tendency to find that, well, they’re already doing something else. They don’t need to change direction, or to do more, or it would cost money to do things and they really can’t raise the money. All different excuses for the same failings – either doing nothing or doing things which don’t produce any real progress, like the four primary nationalist activities we examined earlier. Before going on to propose a range of genuinely useful initiatives for the future, let us therefore consider briefly the question of resources, of time and money. All of the initiatives I am going to propose can be carried out with roughly the same amount of commitment – and rather less risk – by the activists of nationalist organisations such as the NF or British National Party, and their equivalents in other countries. There’s no point us considering what the Counter-Jihadists or the Slogan Grifters ‘do’. Turning out once every six months to chant “oh, Tommy, Tommy” isn’t activism, it’s feel-good entertainment.
Likewise, spending hours every day looking for the viral meme opportunity which will reach enough punters to hit the target to keep the monetisation cash coming in. It’s not activism, it’s a little business for the goy slop content providers, and conscience-salving for the lazy or cowardly who Like or repost it. “I’ve reposted a meme saying that all groomers should be deported. That’s my bit done for the day, so now I can spend the evening watching my team’s overpaid foreigners try to beat the other team’s overpaid foreigners”. None of them think of it like that, of course, but it’s how it is. The other two current forms of ‘activists’ are, however, a different matter, because they do at least actually do something which can be classified as ‘activism’. Let’s consider the Confrontationalists first. To be honest quite a few of these also confine their effort to social media posts, scrolling through the Telegram echo chamber or watching the same talking heads discuss the same issues for another three hours for the benefit of the same audience. But, to be fair, some do move on to IRL meet-ups. Local social gatherings, ultra-daring forays to put up a couple of dozen stickers, a banner drop or a summer camp. As it happens, these activities are generally as far as they go. Apart from the fact that we didn’t have the Internet, us old hands did all of them back in the seventies, The problem is that they either go no further, or where they tend to go next. Those which go no further are self-evidently pretty pointless, but some of those which do are very much worse. Because their favoured Telegram channels of podcasts are littered with tempting rabbit holes: Neo-Nazis and CIA-sponsored Azovites. Worst of all, the hints of paganism and black sun occultism which are gateways to full-blown Satanism, with rape, paedophilia, fantasies of human sacrifice and the murder of homeless veterans at the sulphurous dark bottom.
Ryan Fleming, National Action activist and Satanist author. Jailed for sexually abusing a handicapped boy, and then again for paedophile grooming of a young girl. It’s what these people do!Most of those who get to the start of this slippery slope will never actually get all the way down, because long before they end up fighting as NATO globohomo mercenaries or LARPing Clockwork Orange in underpasses, they get grassed up by one of the agent provocateurs who’ve been pushing them to extremism. Their houses are raided, they’re devices seized, and the next thing they know is that they’re sentenced to four or five years for Public Order offences and malicious communications This is the point at which all those juvenile Hollywood Nazi posings and declarations of racist hatred really backfire. Once a group of youngsters are caught with this sort of material, even straightforward and entirely innocent group trips to the gym become – in the hands of the prosecution barrister, ‘evidence’ of organising a paramilitary group for political purposes. That adds several more years to the prison sentence, when the neo-Nazi stuff has already lost them any potential sympathy from a jury, or given one of David Lammy’s future judge-only courts the excuse needed to throw the book at them. Put it all together and let’s say that these betrayed, frustrated and angry young men end up with four-year sentences, which is entirely realistic for such ‘offenders’. That means serving two years. What a terrible waste! Just imagine how much constructive work a group of highly motivated young men could do in two years! – and still have time to enjoy their freedom. In that time some of them could even find themselves their future wives, or even have their first sons and daughters. Given that we’re in a demographic war of survival, wouldn’t that be better than deliberately provoking the Powers That Be, isolating themselves in a sort of quasi-political cult, spending two of the best years of their lives in prison and coming out as marked, organisationally toxic men? At present, fortunately, the Confrontationalists are very much in the minority, but add the time they’re going to throw away to that wasted by the other tendencies which contribute to the general impotence of the nationalist movement. All of a sudden, it should be obvious that we have the manpower and the time to achieve many really worthwhile things – if people would only get serious and pull their fingers out. The same is true for money. Not just the £2,500 minimum that various ‘parliamentary road’ groups will throw away in each constituency at the next general elections, but also the money that many of the others do not raise at present. What do I mean by this? The groups who do little other than discuss ideas on line, and the cowardly migrant porn grifters have another thing in common other than their lack of constructive work: They also habitually avoid giving their followers constructive targets which would involve them raising money and using it to acquire real life assets which would advance the movement’s capabilities. This is partly because many of them haven’t a clue what to do, but it’s also because people being encouraged to raise money for concrete projects are much less inclined to pay to ask questions on podcasts or buy someone a coffee. And that’s not what they want at all. The good news is that this means that the nationalist movement does have the capacity to raise the funds needed to start doing the things that need to be done. The question is, “what is to be done?” And, now we’ve gone through all the problems, the first of the concrete answers will be given in the next part of this series. I promise! Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale is a reader-supported publication on Substack. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. |
