The ‘The BNP Is Britain’s Foremost Patriotic Party’ Myth

The Myth

“The BNP is Britain’s foremost patriotic party”

The Truth

The BNP has suggested handing Gibraltar over to Spain against the wishes of nearly 100% of it’s population to appease Spanish fascists.

BNP: Give Gibraltar back

By TOM NEWTON DUNN

Published: 30/11/2009
THE BNP would hand the key outpost of Gibraltar to Spain in an astonishing betrayal of its 30,000 British citizens.

The move would also deprive the UK of a naval base – defended bitterly for more than 300 years – of huge strategic importance.
Party leader Nick Griffin, elected as an MEP in June, made the offer at a fascist rally in Madrid last week to suck up to European extremists.
His bizarre reasoning is that it would help the Spanish combat radicals in nearby northern Africa.

Deceitful Griffin told fellow fanatics: “Taking into account the geographical situation of Gibraltar and the Muslim threat on its door, I would prefer to see a Spanish flag fly in Gibraltar before an Islamic one”. He added: “It would be much easier to sort it out if we had nationalist governments in Britain and Spain because it would then be an agreement between equals”.

The gaffe was exposed by James Bethell, founder of anti-BNP pressure group Nothing British.
Mr Bethell – favourite to be selected by the Tories to fight for the seat of Gosport, Hants – said: “Nick Griffin talks about protecting our national interest but he would surrender our sovereignty to Spanish fascists in a heartbeat”.
“The only flag that should be flying over the Rock is the Union Jack”.
A recent referendum on the island, off the southern tip of Spain, saw 99.64 per cent vote to remain British.
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Lee John Barnes chimed in.

“As for the issue of Gibraltar, there is no way a BNP government would ever surrender Gibraltar, especially to the current crop of sleazy Spanish socialists nor their sleazy Spanish Conservative Zionist counterparts.”
“Once a decent Spanish Nationalist government was elected, and one which the BNP had strong links too as part of a Pan-European Nationalist Movement, then if the choice came between surrendering Gibraltar to Islam or preserving Gibraltar by working with a Spanish government who would be prepared to fight and eradicate Islamic terrorists and pirates coming from North Africa and who are attacking ships, local people and land in the Mediterranean including Gibraltar, then of course we would work with our Spanish nationalist allies to defend Gibraltar, Spain and Europe from the Islamist menace.”
“The threat to Gibraltar is two fold – first from Islamic terrorists with British passports going to the island and using it as a base for terrorism and also from Islamic pirates coming from North Africa and attacking the Mediterranean coast, the same sort of piracy that once devastated the coasts of England and Ireland in the 18th century.”
So Barnes makes it sound as if given the choice between Gibraltar, a major naval base, being taken over by Muslim pirates or another Franco-style Spanish government, a virtual impossibility either way, the BNP would give Gibraltar to a fascist government. No matter how Barnes downplays it by saying, “work with our Spanish nationalist allies to defend Gibraltar”, Griffin said he’d, “prefer to see a Spanish flag fly in Gibraltar before an Islamic one”. So considering a total collapse of British naval power to the point that Gibraltar could be overrun by pirates is infinitesimally tiny, it sounds as if Griffin is exaggerating the threat in order to use Gibraltar as a bargaining tool with Spanish fascists. How it is patriotic to sell British citizens down the river to please a foreign government is anyone’s guess. Of course the BNP will bleat that 60 million British citizens have been sold down the river to the European Union, but nobody has stripped us of our nationality or totally removed our ability to govern ourselves. The BNP could hardly claim to be better than the other parties if on one hand they said they wished to leave the EU, but on the other handed over British territory to a fellow EU country. I think that justifying betraying Gibraltar on such hypocritical grounds would make you wonder what depths the BNP would stoop to. Giving the Channel Islands to Jean-Marie Le Pen?

© One Million United, 2009