Thursday 31 January 2013

Two cheers for Nick Griffin

From The Huffington Post:

The BNP leader also alleged the "United States" had offered him money "to concentrate only on Islam, they wanted us to drop our criticism of the banking system. I refused, in 2007, and all hell broke loose."

This seems perfectly plausible to me, the financial services sector is far and away the largest donor to political parties in the UK (Tories and UKIP being the main beneficiaries).

Labour still gets a lot of money from trade unions (it's mainly ex-Prime Ministers who get lots of money from banks), which is fair enough, seeing as originally The Labour Party was the political wing of the trade union movement. Where this has gone horribly wrong is the fact that trade unions nowadays are mainly for public sector workers.

Nick goes a bit off-piste here though:

Griffin used his speech to plea for other far-right splinter groups to rejoin the BNP as well as espousing his theories about the English Defence League, calling the group "a serious, systematic, hugely-funded effort by the Zionist, neo-con clique, to dominate nationalism, to use as a tool to encourage the white working class to go and fight their wars, and so when the banking collapse comes, people will be looking for blame in the wrong direction."

It's quite true that the "neo-con clique" do spend a lot of money on this sort of thing, but I'd be surprised if the EDL receives a penny of it.

8 comments:

James Higham said...

Never saw a rational analysis of Griffin before.

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, the man is clearly insane and beyond rational analysis, but even he has his lucid moments.

Lola said...

AFAIAC 'far right' is exactly the same as 'far left'. Nickie Boy's policies as as lefty as they are righty. More thought control by the commentariat.

Mark Wadsworth said...

L, yes, but I have never described the BNP as "far right".

Bayard said...

Lola, "Left wing" and "right wing" don't mean much these days, except in terms of voter base. The real spectrum lies between totalitarian and libertarian. As Mark has pointed out, all the main parties occupy the same position in the T-L spectrum and therefore, with minor differences, all pursue the same policies.

Lola said...

MW - no, I know that...and you didn;t. It was in the itallicised excerpt.
Bayard - Yup, I know that as well. That understanding fills my waking life and informs everything I do. That is exactly the battle lines. Trouble is Parliament doesn't do liberty and personal responsibility, on average, and certainly not for the proles...

Steven_L said...

I think the edl conspirqcy theory is more about state / supra state powers using social media to whip up a storm than throwing money at them.

I heard one that it was Iran doing it.

Bayard said...

"Trouble is Parliament doesn't do liberty and personal responsibility,"

Yup, they're well towards the totalitarian end of the spectrum.