LESSONS FOR NATIONALISTS FROM THE BATLEY AND SPEN BY-ELECTION

For Britain candidate Anne-Marie Waters

by Daniel Barge

The most common mainstream media questions raised by the recent Batley and Spen by-election were namely: 

1. Would defeat in a Labour safe seat force Labour leader Keir Starmer to step down?
2. Would the Conservatives consolidate their hold on Brexit-supporting Northern working class voters?
3. Would Muslim-friendly leftie George Galloway benefit from Labour's over-strenuous attempts to promote LGBTQ+ and suppress phantom "anti-Semitism" in the party, and thus steal Labour's Mulsim vote?

In the event Labour's lesbian candidate managed to squeak home by a few hundred votes (joining the 45 other LGBTMPs in Westminster). This means that the question of Starmer resigning has been postponed for the time being. Meanwhile the second and third questions were answered "yes, a bit" and "yes, a lot."

Oh, yeh, and the polls were way off, putting Galloway on 6% when he actually ended up with around 22% of the vote.

But what about nationalist candidates? 

The sad fact is that there was no true nationalist candidate standing. Instead, there was a motley crew of civic nationalists, none of whom did well. Anne-Marie Waters of For Britain didn't even break into three figures. So, yes, civic nationalism failed big time.

Veteran British nationalist Mark Cotterill's analysis over at Heritage & Destiny is largely spot on, except for his final piece of advice that genuine nationalists should shack up with Nazitard elements like Mark Collett and Patriotic Alternative.

Cotterill's lessons for nationalists:

• Lunatic acts of political violence are a disaster for every wing of our movement, since even the most moderate civic nationalists are tarred by association in the minds of many potentially sympathetic voters. I’ve no doubt that many racially conscious folk cast their votes for Labour’s Kim Leadbeater because she is the sister of murdered MP Jo Cox.
• Outside Northern Ireland and some Scottish islands, very few Whites in the UK now define their politics in religious terms – and they regard those who do as a bit mad. No offence to those H&D readers who are religious believers and for whom this is the centre of their lives, but we should not fool ourselves about faith’s lack of electoral impact. Even racially conscious voters do not respond well to a campaign that is ‘over the top’ in shrill references to Islam. We can imply such things in sensibly worded racial nationalist leaflets, but hysterical ‘Islamophobia’ is not a vote-winner.
• George Galloway won most of the Muslim vote in Batley by campaigning on issues related to Palestine and Kashmir; but there is no equivalent bonus to be won among White voters by wrapping oneself in the Israeli flag. Aggressive Zionism is not a vote-winner among non-Jewish Britons, neither does it serve as an alibi for ‘racism’ as some former BNP veteran campaigners seem to believe.
• While Kim Leadbeater undoubtedly lost many Muslim votes because she is a lesbian (in addition to other factors depressing the Asian Labour vote), and Anne-Marie Waters perhaps lost a few socially conservative White voters for the same reason, homosexuality is no longer an issue for the vast majority of White voters, though the ‘trans’ nonsense is another matter.
• There continues to be no electoral benefit in campaigning against the government’s handling of the pandemic. Several parties focused on anti-lockdown policies all polled very poorly, especially the one for whom Covid-scepticism is its raison d’être, the Freedom Alliance whose candidate attracted only 100 votes (0.3%).
• Brexit’s electoral relevance is at last fading, and the Tory party’s hold over sections of the White working class is a lot weaker than many pundits have assumed. It’s Hartlepool (the ultra-Brexity constituency that fell to the Tories by a big majority two months ago) that’s the exceptional ‘outlier’; there are far more constituencies broadly similar to Batley & Spen, including neighbouring Dewsbury, presently held by the Tories.
• Kim Leadbeater won mainly due to White voters retaining (or returning to) traditional Labour loyalties. She lost most of the Muslim vote to George Galloway. In the probably unlikely event that Galloway can recruit high quality Muslim candidates to his new ‘Workers Party’, Labour might have difficulties in some other seats, but it’s more likely that they will just have problems turning out their Muslim voters after Keir Starmer’s shift of Labour policy away from hardline anti-Zionism. Most especially the modern left’s obsession with issues such as ‘trans rights’ will be a handicap in Muslim areas across Britain.
• The many and various consequences of multiracialism continue to provide rich electoral potential for racial nationalists, if and when we get our own act together. Many For Britain activists logically belong in the same party as British Democrats leader Dr Jim Lewthwaite and Patriotic Alternative leaders Mark Collett and Laura Towler, as well

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