Militants Holding Ballot Papers

We don't need the white British people to like us or become nationalists themselves, we just need them to vote for us.  At the same time, a vacillating tone with the public is not required.  We can make our case without compromising, or being seen to compromise, our beliefs and principles.

Sinn Fein/IRA provide one possible model.  The Irish Republicans succeeded through brutal realism: they pursued their community for votes, but they also inflicted disciplinary violence on their own community, not just IRA members but ordinary Irish Catholics.  The reality of the Armalite and the ballot box was a neo-Maoist interior war within Irish Catholic strongholds, in which the IRA took control of communal bodies and institutions through a mixture of politicking and terror, often the two methods merging and interacting.  As a result, the IRA was able to get away with community anarchism and violence for many years. They had, variously, the backing, silence and acquiescence of ordinary people, winning the support of some through votes, terrorising others.  Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland were, arguably, the biggest victims of IRA violence.

We do not propose to victimise our own community.  Instead of the 'Armalite in one hand and the ballot paper in the other', we call for a more subtle form of militancy.  To identify what that should be, we need to isolate what the IRA's campaign provided to its own community.  We think it was leadership.  People need direction in their lives, something to work and aim for, and some overarching social order.  

Joe Owens provides a large part of the answer and it is recommended that all British Nationalists should watch his videos.  However, we take a slightly different tack.  It's a difference in style and emphasis.  Owens wants to be liked by the public and believes in appealing to the ‘civic and community soft underbelly’, even to LGBT people and non-whites, if that will achieve the aim of power.  We don't care if the public like us or not, and we don't intend to simply say nice things in the hope of not offending anybody.  Vacillation does not earn respect, and even when it results in victories, these tend to be Pyrrhic because the game has been won by compromising and lowering your platform to the lowest common denominator.  Rather, we think the public will vote for us if we offer them something: leadership, direction and competency.  This in turn requires a small core of militants who believe in an Idea, a Cause, expressed in a unifying thesis or credo, and propagated through an appeal to emotion, intellect or a combination thereof.