I agree that Griffin's response is better than Gordon Brown's but still not good enough and it was full of contradiction. Not bad for a politician though.
It's the right thing to say..
Putting Britain first.
And he's not harming israel by saying "let them fight their battle"!
Infact, rabbi kahane never expected gentiles to say that their country and Israel are joined at the hip. (he took the position that he didn't want them to either! because israel should be a nation that dwells alone. And it's israel's feeling that it wants to please the nations that worsens the problem)
It's hard to expect a british nationalist to say he is joined with another country.. And he wouldn't want to play into the hands of those that might accuse him of being in the hands of the jews. His policy would do no harm to israel if implemented, and would be an improvement to what we have.
It's very nice when people speak emotively and say "we are with you israel", that's great.. But a nationalist has to be careful about saying that kind of thing in regards any other country. They may for a real European country, for ethnic reasons. Though I don't know that nick griffin talks much of ethno-nationalism it's very racial.
Perhaps another terrorist atrocity will flip the switch.
rabbi kahane was always in favour of being partners as in deals.
So against foreign aid, but in favour of , say, america pays Israel to develop weapons for them.
somebody did point out to me though that since 2001, since america went into afghanistan, and now iraq. They need Israel alot less. They are testing their weapons in combat situations, they have their own trained arabic translators. They have their own intelligence on what is going on in the arab world.
It's silly to think that britain and america because of a special relationship should follow each other into silly decisions , sharing them..
If that was why britain went into iraq (to bring peace!!) then I think that's problematic..But I think they were right to go in to remove saddam.. and now I think they are right to stay!
I used to think get rid of saddam and get out. Somebody wrote that they gain by fighting the enemy on enemy turf, so the enemy travels there to fight. That is likely.. And would be a good reason to stay. But an even better reason to stay in iraq and fight them there.. is because at the moment they are doing pretty well in iraq, and while there they are gaining valuable expertise in dealing with arabs and their terrorism.
people did think Oil.. But i'm not sure that being in iraq has helped oil prices!
Also, of course, an indian coming to britain wouldn't even be British, let alone English, and they would give priority to british born citizens. That sounds alright perhaps, but not really when you think of a great, completely anglicized work colleague that happened to come here from india 40 years ago. Being discriminated against because the "english" are given positive discrimination(What you americans call "affirmative action"). She speaks english just as well or better than the average Brit.
There is no committment to affirmative action for English, Scottish, Irish, Cornish and Welsh people on the part of the BNP although Mr Griffin has said that he would not rule it out as a possibility.
Personally I would be against affirmative action for native Britons, just as I am against this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Relations_Act_1976
The BNP is an ethno-nationalist party, if it were not, then it would be like the French Front National and that is not a good route to go down for a European nationalist party.
The FN have shrivelled away as Le Pen has become almost indistinguishable, in rhetoric, from Sarkozy, and still France is becoming more and more Islamified.
interesting, that race relations act by the british parliament .. that forbids discrimination based on race, colour, nationality..
going against it seems similar to jared of amren's concept of "free association".
What it means though, and this came out when Jared was interviewed by a that rude fellow doing the "The Young Turks" program.
It means that shops could deny entry to somebody based on colour, race, religion, e.t.c.
Now, I understand what athat is meant to do. Besides possibly protecting the shop. It is to make an unwanted group feel uncomfortable and thus get them to leave. It lets the people make that decision.
Given history, and even current times, I think that would disadvantage jews.
For one thing, I know that muslims would says Jews or Zionists cannot enter. Shops would become politicized.
What is nice about Britain is that it is fairly colour blind.. in that people have a right to go to any shop they want and be served. We don't have one law for one race and another law for another. There is justice there within the law.
Jewish life in britain would be completely dependent on the feeling towards jews which can change with the wind.
For years Jews in britain have watched the television anxiously when there is a program about jews or israel.. because that conversation translates into the wider world, it changes peoples' thoughts, it becomes discussion in the office, we have to keep our finger in the pulse. We know given jewish history, that our time in any country is limited. The only reason why we are fairly comfortable now is that the gentiles feel so guilty after the holocaust that they may even give us another few hundred years of relative peace in nicer parts of the diaspora. Or more time because a law like the racial discrimination act would prevent them from doing what they would want.