Founded by three ex-BNP members, Patria want to bring back capital punishment, end immigration, prohibit the promotion of homosexuality and repeal the Human Rights Act.
Despite UKIP having to shout “I am not a racist, but …” at everyone, BNP membership going into decline, and the EDL carelessly losing its leader, the far-right , like the Terminator, keeps getting back up.
Patria (Latin for ‘homeland’) is a new nationalist group formed by three ex-BNP members in the urban metropolis of Chichester, West Sussex. One day I found their emotive campaign leaflet on my doormat entitled “Social engineering at its most pernicious”, which goes on to state that Britain is being colonised by “destitute hordes of ethnic aliens from the three corners of the world”. Blimey, I nearly choked on my muesli.
Seeing as they are self-proclaimed “nationalist patriots”, the policies set out in Patria’s manifesto are predictably hardline, but they are keen to differentiate themselves from other far-right groups. Like a scorned lover, they criticise the BNP’s “sheer stupidity” and for “other things too numerous to mention”, and UKIP for lacking transparency and “secretly continuing the race replacement of our people”. Which must be a secret even from UKIP themselves.
Now we have an excitable new kid on the block, and the new kid wants Britain’s destiny and government to be determined by its “indigenous” peoples. Seems straightforward enough except, technically, the British Isles doesn’t have an indigenous people. The first inhabitants came from Africa, whichever side of the evolution/creationism fence you sit on.
Their manifesto demands more police officers, specifically ones with penises (unclear why)
Surprisingly, this group of heterosexual white Christian males appear to be advocating that heterosexual white Christian males should get to wear the trousers, although not, presumably, trousers bought from Marks and Spencer, given that this stalwart of the British highstreet was started by Michael Marks, a Belarusian Jew. Probably what they really want is for everybody to go back and live at Downton Abbey, though this would be a squeeze, even without the destitute hordes.
In order to address the “hordes”, they want to end immigration, deport “illegal aliens”, and promote voluntary repatriation. Apparently “our people” (though it’s still unclear who they’re referring to here) are being institutionally discriminated against, and our services are under strain.
Their manifesto demands more police officers, specifically ones with penises (unclear why), to catch criminals to hang, and/or hit with twigs, because they also support corporal and capital punishment. Of course they do. They want the death penalty for murder and treason, which possibly includes anyone who says they don’t think that shade of salmon is very flattering on the Queen (whose family, incidentally, are not originally from Britain – their name being Saxe-Coburg-Gotha before they changed it to Windsor. And whose husband is Greek).
Whilst they’re at it, they also want to repeal the Human Rights Act, Race Relations Act and Equality Act, withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and abolish the Equality and Human Rights Commission. They intend to prohibit the commissioning of mosques and to ban halal and kosher butchery, along with the wearing of anything except, one assumes, a smart-casual jacket and chinos. Feeling that they may not have ostracised enough people however, they also wish to repeal the Civil Partnership Act and prohibit “the propagation of homosexuality as a socially and politically privileged orientation.”
Patria has complained that anyone with radical ideas is silenced, and yet when asked for an interview with Planet Ivy, they didn’t respond. I therefore attended a public meeting in advance of a recent local by-election. When asked to account for policies that seem racist or homophobic, the Patria candidate replied: “If your views are unpopular then you’re a witch! But what does the word racist mean? Or fascist? The people who bandy these words around behave the worst.” Patria apparently feel vilified for their unpopular views, yet proud of being the outcast. Their default response seemed to be the classic playground comeback, ‘No, you are!’ To be fair, they’re very busy people – evidenced by the fact they arrived 20 minutes late to the meeting. They do not have time to explain their policies.
Contrary and dogmatic, the party candidate vacillated entertainingly between simplistic proclamations, and disingenuous vagueness, seeming unable to rationalise an argument beyond hyperbole, citing climate change theories as “a load of hogwash” and the War on Terror as “completely bogus”. An interesting technique, though perhaps not the most successful given that they only managed to persuade three people to vote for them.
But as Sarah Conner discovered, even when you squash a cyborg assassin in a hydraulic press, it will still return in another form. And probably the same is true of far-right politics.
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