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Over the last 50 years, the development of British nationalism has been one of diminishing returns. Every generation, the leading organisations became shadows of the ones before, and the goalposts shifted lower and lower. The struggle for National power gave way to a desire merely to win, at best, a few seats on a local council. And throughout this development, a kind of politics that pushed for national change found itself more and more marginalised and lingering in the political doldrums. This is precisely why a new approach is sorely needed, one which disregards the thinking of decades of failure, and recognises that everything that has ever happened in British nationalism, has led to the point that it finds itself in now. And if the point it finds itself in now is terrible, then the methods that led it there must, on the whole, be flawed.

 

The fixation of the ‘Ladder Strategy’

The prevalent logic in nationalist politics is that in order to achieve power, you start at the bottom ‘rung’ of the supposed ladder. You engage at a ‘grassroots’ level, targeting parish and local councils, and then, only with time, work up to greater things. This is a misunderstanding of the nature of the system. Local councils are not a stepping stone to parliamentary government, which MUST by necessity be the ultimate goal, since it is the only level at which issues like immigration, the economy and political reform can even be addressed. Local politics is a different area of operations entirely, and deals entirely with addressing localised, small-scale issues. The sort of issues that are ultimately just symptoms of larger – National - problems. The way in which parties like the Liberal Democrats and the Greens only achieve any sort of real success at local political level is illustrative of what happens when you fixate on localised politics. A nationalist party that fixates all of its resources into getting onto the ‘bottom rung’ of local politics will find, even after many years, that it is a ladder which doesn’t actually lead anywhere.

 

The difference between Tactical and Strategic victory

To understand why fixation on local-level politics is a trap, is to understand the difference between a tactical win, and a strategic one. Tactics win individual battles, like the battle for a particular seat or a particular postcode. Strategy wins wars, like the war to save a people from annihilation. The English might have won the battle of Agincourt or Crecy, but they lost the Hundred Years War. A town or village might win the battle to evict a migrant hotel, but the demographics will still turn against them in other ways regardless. The fixation on local-level politics as the ‘primary’ battle to be won, is to win battles without those battles meaning anything in the wider context.

 

The only battles worth winning are those which can be translated into strategic level victories. And the battles which do that are the ones which facilitate power at a national level, which means seats in the Westminster parliament.

 

Short-term and Long-term gain

When people campaign locally against issues that are caused at a national level, such as immigration, grooming gangs, etc, they have to ask themselves:

 

Do we want to be better off in the short-term or in the long-term

 

Because when people crusade against issues purely at a local level, without regard to any context, even though they improve their situation in the immediate term, their long-term prospects are actually worse. If, instead of putting your bin out by the kerb, you instead chose the more immediate option of throwing it over the garden fence, in the short-term you might be better off, but in the long-term the area will turn into landfill. Localist politics is short-term politics, and that's why it always results in a worse situation overall even though to begin with it harbours the illusion of success.

 

Comprehensive Policy

The Nationalist Agenda must be comprehensive and deal with end results. It cannot get bogged down in methods. This is why the Twenty Demands are the results we want to see for our national community. How to get there will be something that ebbs and flows like water throughout the struggle of the Party. It must recognise that issues like uncontrollable immigration, inflation, poverty, are merely symptoms of a deep-seated, systemic political problem, rather than the problems in and of themselves. Only through large-scale, irreversible systemic change will these twisted symptoms disappear.

 

Why the National Rebirth Party will succeed where others have failed

The NRP will succeed for three key reasons:

 

Firstly, because we are prepared to admit the failure of what has already come to pass, and therefore are not condemned to repeat it.

 

Secondly, because we recognise that victory is built upon sacrifice, and therefore that localised sacrifices will be necessary in order to achieve a strategic, national victory.

 

Thirdly, because we believe in our own ability to succeed. The single biggest reason why the goalposts of nationalism have moved so low and pitiful is not because of ignorance, but because, until now, those in positions of influence did not even believe themselves to be capable of succeeding. And if they did not believe in themselves, nobody else would believe in them either, and rightly so.

 

Our people already have the tools and the will to achieve their victory. Our task is to prove it.

 

By Alek Yerbury

 

Party Leader