NATIONALISM THROUGH APATHY

Flags filling the void.

by Francisco Albanese & Colin Liddell

Although the result of the elections for the European Parliament were controversial, it is ironic that the gains made by Eurosceptic and "far-right" parties were largely the result of the dysfunction and apathy caused by the EU's existence. An important question to ask is: Without that, where would Euronationalism be?

HOW THE BNP LOST TOUCH WITH BRITAIN

by Mark Collett

The big story of the European Elections has been the rise of the so called ‘far right’ across Europe. Several remarkable results saw the FN top the poll in France, the Freedom Party top the poll in Austria and the Danish People’s Party top the poll in Denmark. All of the aforementioned results are quite remarkable and all are illustrative of a larger, European-wide, anti-immigration and anti-EU sentiment.

In Britain the big story – and the big winner – was UKIP. UKIP topped the polls in nearly every region of the UK and shocked the establishment by coming first overall and ending up with 23 MEPs, making them the largest single party representing the UK in Brussels.

One of the big losers in the UK was obviously the British National Party (BNP). The BNP’s vote collapsed – they saw a drop of over 80% in raw numbers of votes. More shockingly, the BNP’s share of the vote in some regions actually fell beneath their 1999 share of the vote – essentially recording the worst ever results for the party in the European Elections.

THE DANISH PEOPLE'S PARTY - DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE

by Rune Lauritzen

The Danish People's Party made headlines when they received nearly 27% of the Danish vote in the recent European Paliament election. This (along with the wave of support for nationalist and/or eurosceptic parties) has got left-wingers from far and wide screeching. On Huffington Post's list of the '9 Scariest Parties Now In The European Parliament' the Danish People's Party made no. 5. This makes them even more scary than Jobbik (no. 7) but a little less scary than Golden Dawn (no. 3).

PODCAST 13: ELLIOT RODGER/ EU ELECTIONS/ NEW RIGHT vs. OLD RIGHT

Greg Johnson, the editor of Counter-Currents, joins Andy and Colin to talk about spree shooter Elliot Rodger and the recent EU elections, which showed major gains for nationalist and anti-EU political parties. 

Also under discussion is Greg's political philosophy outlined in his recent book, New Right vs. Old Right.

THE BROKEN WHIP OF OUR MASTERS

by Colin Liddell 

The recent European elections are not the way that civilizations are saved, and the promising results for a number of slightly more realistic parties may in fact be outliers before the anti-democratic system reasserts itself using its usual tricks. We have been here before. When the BNP threatened the political consensus in the UK a few years ago, there was a sudden clanking of gears and whirring of wheels as the Great Machine went into action to eradicate the threat, which was done by a variety of techniques:

• Racial swamping of the areas involved
• Intense canvassing and the establishment of a detailed voter database to allow tailored approaches to individual voters
• Comforting (and patronizing) noises about the need to understand "the concerns of ordinary voters"
• Cloaked threats about the consequences of voting BNP both at the community level and the individual level
• The promotion of "suitable" alternatives, which is essentially how UKIP got its big start
• Cultural immersion in anti-racism

The result of this is that while the fake nationalists of UKIP have done rather well this time, the UK actually lost the two real nationalist MEPs – Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons – that it had elected last time.

BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES

by Max Musson

In the local and European elections later this week, it is estimated that nationalist and patriotic parties in the UK will field a total of 2,570 candidates; 289 in the European elections; and 2,281 in local elections. In many of these elections, these candidates are standing unopposed by any other nationalist or patriotic candidates, but all too often, particularly in the European elections and also in local elections in wards that have traditionally produced much support for nationalist candidates, there are nationalist and patriotic candidates standing in opposition to each other, thereby making it inevitable that the nationalist and patriotic vote will be split, minimising the possibility of electoral success.

Furthermore, this deplorable situation is made all the more tragic when one considers that to all intents and purposes, their policy schedules and offerings to the public are almost identical in every case.

ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION

by Colin Liddell

In recent days Alternative Right has been working hard to highlight the deficiencies of our modern democracy.

Siryako Akda's ARE MASS MOVEMENTS OBSOLETE? contends that politics is going the way of warfare – i.e. something fought by special ops or guerrilla forces rather than the mass armies of the past. Mike Newland's MANCUR OLSON AND THE DECLINE OF NATIONS makes similar points, referring in particular to the way that strongly motivated minorities skew the system in their favour while the majority allows itself to be sidelined. William Solniger's IS ETHNIC REPLACEMENT 'UNDEMOCRATIC'? identifies the way that our nebulous egalitarianism works to disempower the majority – effectively rendering it silent – and thus allows its domination by these potent minorities