As part of the continuing restructuring of the BNP in Scotland I am pleased to announce that this blog will be replaced by a brand new BNP scottish web-site, this is a work very much in progress which is being designed and run by our new Scottish office Publicity officer, who joins the recently appointed security officer and Education officer.
Bea, our new contact in the west of scotland, will be submitting regular articles for publication one which is reprinted here. Final proposals for the reorganisation of BNP Scotland are being discussed at the moment and when finalised will be announced on the new web-site, exciting times indeed!!
Nationalism and Nostalgia
Is there something essentially incorrect about being a nationalist? It means that you love your country. When the said country you love commences to become unrecognisable, however, and what went before in that country appears to be a better place then than it is now, nostalgia for how we once were becomes inseparable from nationalism. Nationalism and nostalgia are both highly unfashionable in Britain’s politically correct climate today, so much so in fact, that any expression of such values are ridiculed, demonised, and worse still, can turn you into a fugitive of the law. This is a consequence of post- modern relativism; a malevolent set of guidelines insisting all cultures and creeds should be viewed as being equally as worthy as each other regardless of location or context. Here’s the catch though, the indigenous society is required to embrace it, endorse it, and give way to it, all at it’s own expense. Relativism is rewriting history in our schools, threatening to replace democracy with theocracy, and constantly elevating the minority above the majority whilst simultaneously instilling a sense of shame to be British into the native population.
Nostalgia, we are led to believe, implies romanticizing the past. You are not permitted to do such a thing these days for fear of being labelled ‘naff’, or even racist. Yet many are the instances when the media seems to acknowledge a need within the public domain for wistful reminiscence. In order perhaps to boost viewing numbers. Take the new drama ‘Larkrise to Candleford’ for instance. Where are the blacks, Asians, Somalis, and illegal immigrants? This series is unadulterated nostalgia for a time long gone. Could the BBC be accused of promoting double standards by producing a program such as this on one hand, whilst at the same time their news desks continually fail to report escalating incidents of black on white racism ? A quick trawl each day on the Internet through the local rags will demonstrate this claim to be accurate. www.uktabloid.co.uk-Main%20.News.html is a particularly comprehensive source of information. Have a look and follow the links.
Can nationalism exist independently of nostalgia or vice versa? I don’t think it’s possible because as a technique for living within and through history nationalism requires a particular understanding of the correlation between the present and the past. Nostalgia is important and necessary, especially now as our government over the last ten years has attempted wipe the black (oops sorry!) chalk board clean. For a nation to live and thrive it must celebrate it’s past not denounce it as shameful. We must recognise that those who lived in ‘other days’ whose traditions, political beliefs, and even verbal communication may at first glance appear unfamiliar were members of the same community…that ‘they’ were in fact us… the Scottish, English, Welsh, and Irish. Our islands, our people, our heritage.
Bea, our new contact in the west of scotland, will be submitting regular articles for publication one which is reprinted here. Final proposals for the reorganisation of BNP Scotland are being discussed at the moment and when finalised will be announced on the new web-site, exciting times indeed!!
Nationalism and Nostalgia
Is there something essentially incorrect about being a nationalist? It means that you love your country. When the said country you love commences to become unrecognisable, however, and what went before in that country appears to be a better place then than it is now, nostalgia for how we once were becomes inseparable from nationalism. Nationalism and nostalgia are both highly unfashionable in Britain’s politically correct climate today, so much so in fact, that any expression of such values are ridiculed, demonised, and worse still, can turn you into a fugitive of the law. This is a consequence of post- modern relativism; a malevolent set of guidelines insisting all cultures and creeds should be viewed as being equally as worthy as each other regardless of location or context. Here’s the catch though, the indigenous society is required to embrace it, endorse it, and give way to it, all at it’s own expense. Relativism is rewriting history in our schools, threatening to replace democracy with theocracy, and constantly elevating the minority above the majority whilst simultaneously instilling a sense of shame to be British into the native population.
Nostalgia, we are led to believe, implies romanticizing the past. You are not permitted to do such a thing these days for fear of being labelled ‘naff’, or even racist. Yet many are the instances when the media seems to acknowledge a need within the public domain for wistful reminiscence. In order perhaps to boost viewing numbers. Take the new drama ‘Larkrise to Candleford’ for instance. Where are the blacks, Asians, Somalis, and illegal immigrants? This series is unadulterated nostalgia for a time long gone. Could the BBC be accused of promoting double standards by producing a program such as this on one hand, whilst at the same time their news desks continually fail to report escalating incidents of black on white racism ? A quick trawl each day on the Internet through the local rags will demonstrate this claim to be accurate. www.uktabloid.co.uk-Main%20.News.html is a particularly comprehensive source of information. Have a look and follow the links.
Can nationalism exist independently of nostalgia or vice versa? I don’t think it’s possible because as a technique for living within and through history nationalism requires a particular understanding of the correlation between the present and the past. Nostalgia is important and necessary, especially now as our government over the last ten years has attempted wipe the black (oops sorry!) chalk board clean. For a nation to live and thrive it must celebrate it’s past not denounce it as shameful. We must recognise that those who lived in ‘other days’ whose traditions, political beliefs, and even verbal communication may at first glance appear unfamiliar were members of the same community…that ‘they’ were in fact us… the Scottish, English, Welsh, and Irish. Our islands, our people, our heritage.
