"THE LAZINESS AND COWARDICE OF BRITISH NATIONALISTS"

Martin Webster

by Daniel Barge

This is Martin Webster. He is sometimes described as a "British Nationalist," more often as a "veteran British nationalist." He's quite smart and a good talker. No, it's not because he's gay. But, on second thoughts, maybe it is. Anyway, he's not stuck for an answer. He can tell you all about British nationalism, especially the National Front, with which he was deeply involved, and he even has plausible sounding theories about why British nationalism in general failed, which, Brexit aside, it more or less did. 

On a recent podcast with Richard Spencer's friend, Ed Dutton, he was quite clear what the problem with British nationalism was. Here's the key passage when he put it all in a small beautiful nutshell: 

"If you want to know some of the reasons why the party petered out. We weren't up for it. There weren't enough clever, hard-working people willing to devote themselves wholly to it. There were too many people -- good, honest, decent, honest people -- but all they wanted to do was be entertained. They wanted to come to an annual General Meeting rally and to a Remembrance Day rally and be roused by hearing various platform speakers speaking. Then they feel that they’d done something for the cause. They’d done nothing! Were they running a local branch? No, no, no, no, no, no. 'My wife wouldn't allow that' of 'My husband wouldn't allow that,' 'I don't think it would go down with my job, oh, no, no, no.' So you had a small number of people, mostly middle class and working class, suddenly coming together out of nowhere to try and found a political party to take on the establishment. Talk about David and Goliath. It's easy to talk about how the National Front failed. I don't think it did completely. I think it planted the germs of racial nationalism about the country in many places, and that crop will grow. But the main reason for the failure of the nationalist movement, not just [The National Front] is the laziness and cowardice of ordinary British people who call themselves patriots but are not prepared to endanger themselves to do something about it."

There, did you get it? It's that simple: Brit nationalists just didn't want it enough. Plus none of the country's elites showed up -- just some dreary working class and middle class people whose wives (or husbands) wouldn't allow them to get too involved. 

It had absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Webster's earlier involvement with the National Socialist Movement (NSM), an actual Nazi Party that used to worship Hitler, and whose members dressed up in cute uniforms like this:

The two gentlemen above are Colin Jordan and John Tyndall, both close associates of Mr. Webster, who may or may not have been present on that occasion. Tyndall later went on to lead the BNP.

More lovely snaps of the NSM are available here.

The NSM also put up lovely "well-intended" posters like this:

Note the "ancient Hindu symbol" on the poster and Mr. Webster and Mr Tyndall in the foreground. 

Yes, why couldn't Britain's elites tie their wagon to this particular star? Why couldn't British nationalists show more commitment to "the movement" than they did to their jobs and families? But of course, thanks to Mr. Webster, we know the reason. It was because of laziness and cowardice. 

Right?