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Today, a newspaper article appeared in the Daily Mail which highlighted the way that 20,000 asylum seekers are being moved out of hotels and into private rented homes, to the detriment and objection of those already living in those towns and cities. This situation is a perfect example of precisely why the National Rebirth Party must NOT make the mistake of attacking national issues (like immigration, the economy, and public services) from a localised approach.

 

The Trap of Constituency and 'Local' Politics

 

The prevailing thought in British nationalism since the 1990s has been to seek to acheive political goals by starting at the smallest, most local level, and then progress to the national level. This is exemplied in the way that local council seats have been treated as a priority over all other electoral campaigning, and the way that nationalist political organisations have increasingly deserted the large towns and cities across Britain.

 

By doing this, British nationalism has fallen into the trap of constituency politics, whereby you end up fighting the Westminster government whilst simultaneously fighting every other constituency or local authority. 

 

At a localised level, it is not possible to achieve any kind of major victory on issues like immigration, because it isn't within the power of one single locality to impact immigration policy. What you CAN achieve, is a localised victory in which the problem is moved out of one locality and into another. And this has happened, time and time again, for decades. The newspaper article of today is another example of it happening. Asylum seekers whose presence is unwanted are moved out of hotels (to the benefit of the nearby residents), and into other towns and cities (to the detriment of those residents). The problem is passed around between each locality, each trying to argue why the other should burden the problem. 

 

And all the while this happens, the problem continues to get worse. Because all the time that these localised parties, groups or campaigns spend fighting each other, is time they are prevented from spending addressing the actual problem. 

 

The bitter truth that must be faced, is that even with all the best intentions in the world, the approach of bottom-up localism is not just ineffective at remedying nationwide problems, it actually makes those problems WORSE in most circumstances, by unintentionally encouraging the kind of self-interested behaviour that has led to those problems existing to begin with.

 

The National Rebirth Party totally and utterly rejects the kind of racialised Toryism that has taken root in large swathes of British nationalism. The Party recognises only one community - the National Community - and every other community large or small, exists only as an element of that single whole. There is no such thing as a 'local victory', there is only victory or defeat for our entire people. There is no selfishness, only solidarity. 

 

This is the way that it must be for our Party, because this is the way that it must be for our people.

 

By Alek Yerbury

 

Party Leader