{"id":13132,"date":"2009-06-16T19:52:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2014-01-05T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:17:45","slug":"racist-rants-of-elected-bnp-man-andrew-brons-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/06\/16\/racist-rants-of-elected-bnp-man-andrew-brons-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"RACIST RANTS OF ELECTED BNP MAN, ANDREW BRONS, REVEALED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Doward<\/span>, <\/span>home affairs editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Observer<\/span>,\t Sunday 14 June 2009<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yorkshire MEP Andrew Brons drew up some of the National Front’s most inflammatory policies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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British National party MEP Andrew Brons. Photograph: BNP\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the British National party\u2019s first MEPs\u2019 attempts to play down his past links to the extreme right as \u201csilly\u201d teenage posturing are today exposed as a sham after it emerged that for many years he played a crucial role in shaping the National Front\u2019s most overtly racist policies.<\/p>\n

In 1983, when he was in his late twenties, Andrew Brons edited the National Front\u2019s general election manifesto that called for a global apartheid to prevent the \u201cextinction\u201d of whites everywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Let Britain Live! manifesto was prepared by the party\u2019s policy department, chaired by Brons. It outlined a series of hugely controversial positions, crystallised in one of its opening statements: \u201cThe National Front rejects the whole concept of multiracialism. We recognise inherent racial differences in Man. The races of Man are profoundly unequal in their characteristics, potential and abilities.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The manifesto claimed the\u00a0UK<\/span> had been \u201cswamped\u201d by \u201cracially incompatible Afro-Asians\u201d and that \u201cBlack muggings of White people, especially elderly ladies, occurs regularly\u201d.<\/p>\n

It continued: \u201cThe eruptions in Bristol in 1980 and Brixton in 1981 were just two examples of the \u2018cultural enrichment\u2019 promised to us by the multiracialists.\u201d And it claimed: \u201cWe believe the gradual dismantlement of the Apartheid system over the last 17 years to be retrograde \u2026 The alternative to Apartheid, multiracialism, envisages an extinction of the White man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brons was also an enthusiastic contributor in the 1970s and 1980s to Spearhead, a far-right magazine considered so extreme even the\u00a0BNP<\/span><\/span> tried to distance itself from it. In two lengthy polemics for the magazine, Brons outlined the supposed importance of nationalism and interpreted genetic studies to suggest Europeans had a \u201cgreater cognitive ability\u201d than non-whites. <\/span><\/strong>He attacked the influence of \u201cpeople of Jewish ethnic origin\u201d and peddled the myth that a number of predominantly Zionist organisations were controlling the world.<\/p>\n

The now retired college lecturer wrote: \u201cOne ethnic, national and religious group whose power and influence has undoubtedly increased has been the Jews. It can be no mere coincidence that the number of people of Jewish ethnic origin to be found in internationalist and multiracialist schools of thought and organisations of action is out of all proportion to their numbers in the population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brons, who was elected as the BNP MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber this month, has tried to distance himself from his National Front days. \u201cPeople do silly things when they are 17,\u201d<\/strong> he said recently. \u201cPeter Mandelson was once a member of the Young Communist League but we don\u2019t continue to call him a communist.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But his critics say his relationship with the National Front was more than a youthful dalliance and question the extent to which he has left his past behind. A 1980 edition of National Front\u00a0News, the party newspaper, carried an article about Brons saying he was prepared to go to jail for his beliefs.<\/strong> It noted that Brons refused a \u201cNegro reporter permission to attend two National Front ticket-only meetings\u201d<\/span> <\/strong>and explains that Brons, then 29, has \u201ccampaigned against Coloured Immigration since he was a teenager\u201d – suggesting his extremist views have been a feature as much of his adult as his teenage life.<\/p>\n

Brons seized the NF chairmanship in 1980 when John Tyndall quit to form the BNP. In 1984 Brons was convicted of using insulting behaviour towards an ethnic-minority police officer and left the party, citing family problems.<\/p>\n

At the National Front, Brons was a close ally of Richard Verrall, the author of the Holocaust-denial tract Did Six Million Really Die?<\/span>, who was vice-chairman. <\/strong>In 1981, while Brons was chairman, the NF endorsed We are National Front, a pamphlet carrying an introduction from Verrall. It had photographs of Brons and Verrall as well as a picture of a gorilla and a black man stating: \u201cThese two creatures look the same, don\u2019t they?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anti-racism and Jewish support groups yesterday described Brons\u2019s failure to condemn his past activities as disturbing. \u201cFrom a young man until well into his middle age, Andrew Brons was very much involved in a series of viciously antisemitic and racist far-right movements,\u201d said a spokesman for the Community Security Trust, which monitors attacks on the <\/strong>UK<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s Jewish community. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe he has undergone a serious conversion since then.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Searchlight, the anti-fascist organisation, said Brons was influential in shaping the NF and it was important that those voting for him should be aware of his past views. \u201cThe fact that Brons is an intellectual fascist and bigot rather than an ignorant fascist and bigot cuts little ice,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> a spokesman said. \u201cWe are unimpressed by his claims that his prejudice was a result of youthful exuberance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attempts to contact Brons through the BNP were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0www.guardian.co.uk<\/span>,\u00a0June 14th, 2009<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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