BNP Infighting
It is always nice to have a bit of good news on a Friday morning, so I was very pleased to read that the infighting within the BNP has led to a high-profile sacking:
The infighting inside the BNP has taken a new turn with news that Richard Barnbrook has been sacked as the party organiser in Barking & Dagenham. He is being blamed for the party's defeat in east London but in truth he's been targeted because of his close association to Eddy Butler who is challenging Nick Griffin for the party leadership.Excellent stuff - long may it continue. Let's hope that this party of knuckle-dragging racists tears itself apart. Of course, I don't expect the end of the BNP to mean the end of racism in Britain, but if that party does manage to spontaneously combust under the weight of its failure and the egos within it then that can only be a good thing. If only because it might help to provoke the main parties to rethink their policies on immigration and make them more about coming up with a meaningful immigration system, rather than just trying to outflank the BNP on this issue.
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 9:49 am
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The more ideological a party the more prone it is to internal conflict. The less ideological the average party member is the easier it is for them to find common ground in pursuit of some greater goal, whether that is the advancement of the things they agree on or merely the victory of their party. The more ideological they are the harder it is for them to find any common ground at all and the more likely it is that they will interpret disagreement as treason.
So the default position of any highly ideological political movement, be it left, right or whatever, is to be consumed with internal conflicts.
There are two things that can temporarily arrest this natural tendency. Firstly, a charismatic leader may create a cult of personality that overrides the rivalries between the different factions in the party. Secondly, the party may have a run of electoral success, in which case each faction will assume that it is all down to them.
But the BNP has neither, so it has reverted to its default position of vicious infighting.
Splitters!
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