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A Peak - The Politics

If peak oil is an issue surely it is best left for the energy experts to resolve and the BNP can concentrate on more immediate matters? Such a question is commonly heard at branch meetings and read in emails and letters sent into the web team and other office holders.

In response we need to be clear about some basic issues. The BNP is not going to achieve political power in Westminster or elsewhere, beyond perhaps a few town or district councils in the next 10-15 years. The current corrupt system will not allow the BNP to win anything more than a token presence in councils and perhaps one or two other elected chambers around the country. However the corrupt system is not going to manage to silence the growing number of Britons who are rightly concerned, fed up and disillusioned by the betrayal of our economy, our communities, our culture and our way of life.

That disillusionment sometimes turns to anger as we saw in the hauliers dispute back in 2000. With petrol prices due to rise yet again, and politicians working behind the scenes to stop the cost going over the psychological £4 a gallon mark, there will be much more manifestations of disillusionment and anger in the years to come. It will not just be hauliers and farmers, but legions of others; employees who are on short working weeks, self-employed tradesmen finding it hard to pay for their fuel, the mums who cannot get a doctor to call on their sick children, the young couples facing repossession of their houses because the cost of living is spiraling out of control. As oil prices rise, it will be millions who suffer, millions of ordinary people who are just trying to get on with their lives, millions of ordinary decent people will be forced into states of anxiety, depression, fear and anger.

The BNP is making peak oil a high profile issue for a number of reasons.

1. The press have portrayed the BNP membership as knuckle draggers, poorly educated, unsuccessful losers who blame minority groups such as blacks/asians/gays/communists (delete as appropriate) for their situation. The fact that our current Chairman, Nick Griffin received a degree from Cambridge University and that more than two-thirds of the Advisory Council have university degrees seems to have missed the assorted hacks, editors and broadcasters who rail against us. We are a party of clever, resourceful and deeply motivated and committed individuals.

We have to work harder than our political opponents to convey the reality that the BNP is made up of thoroughly decent Britons who have a great deal of combined grey matter, are highly resourceful, successful people in their own lives and that we can be trusted to generate some stunning policy ideas to regenerate this country and demonstrate responsible leadership on this and other issues.

2. We are the only political party making this an issue at the moment. We are leaders in this issue just as we have been the ones leading the debate on immigration and asylum. It is because the BNP exists and because the BNP has been seen to win votes from Labour because of our tough stand on immigration and asylum that Labour are now trying to be seen to be tough on asylum, even to the extent this month of ensuring the high profile deportations of distressed asylum seekers back to the murderous hands of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. When we were talking about immigration, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago we were ignored, pilloried and condemned. We still are polloried and condemned but not ignored. Immigration is high on the list of voters' concerns and the other parties are now playing "catch up" to the BNP.

3. We are not a single-issue party. While immigration and asylum are important issues, we have no desire to be seen only as the "anti-immigration" pressure group. The BNP has a serious mission to undertake - we have to secure political power in this country within the next 40 years otherwise there will not be a Britain. We must have policies that will work, policies that will cover every aspect of human activity and the complex society that we will be running. We need to find, recruit, train and assist spokesmen and women to develop, to refine and to disseminate these policies on health, education, energy, transport, governance, law and order as well as immigration, Europe, and defence.

4. When the BNP does win political power Peak Oil will not be something that we can postpone. It will be happening at the very time that we come to power. In fact it may well be an important catalyst that helps us to win political power because we are the ones talking about it now, the voters might not like us pointing out that the wolf is approaching the chicken coop but they will identify us as the ones who kept speaking about it back in 2005, bringing it to their awareness and understanding.

Voters take to new ideas, even radically new ideas when the system that they have trusted, worked with, admired and felt comfortable with falls apart. We are going to make a lot of noise about Peak Oil because it is yet another example of how the current political process has failed the people of this country, how the short-sightedness of most of our corrupt, incompetent and downright traitorous politicians is very shortly going to create one awful mess and we rightly identify those individuals, those systems, those institutions that have been responsible for that collapse.