In politics, like in everything else in life, we take account of the past, we take stock of the mistakes made and we move on. Unfortunately this is something that the so called left is unwilling or incapable of doing.

It is remarkable how some sectors of the so called left live very much in the past using what our ancestors did to blame those of us who had little or nothing to do with the events they constantly refer to. World War II and the Slavery Trade are two of their favourite subjects.

I was born in 1957, and therefore any rational person would understand that having been born in 1957 I couldn’t possibly have any connection with either of the two subjects. World War II ended officially in 1946 and Slavery was abolished quite a long time before 1957.

Only the loonies of the so called left could possibly use such arguments, but then again it does not surprise me given many of the their actions in today’s politics. Many of them still live in the 1800s and have not realized that we are in 2008 and that the World has changed.

When you see what is happening in places like Zimbabwe and others, the so called left would be well advised to concentrate on these realities and open their eyes. The violence in Africa is black against black and this is absolutely self-evident. Many cases of violence in British cities are also black against black. And, oh, surprise, most of those who are actually denouncing such violence and trying to protect the victims of crime are mostly non-black, while people like Thabo Mbeki are trying to hide under the carpet the atrocities commited by people like Robert Mugabe, using the called ‘quiet diplomacy’. What does ’quiet diplomacy’ mean? It means ‘let’s not talk about it and let’s hope people will forget about it’.

Africa has still a lot to learn from Old Europe and one of the things Africa has not learned is how to care more for human life. You have people like Morgan Tsevangirai having to quit the electoral campaign because his supporters are being tortured and killed by Robert Mugabe.

World War II and the Slavery Trade are long gone, so let’s concentrate on what is happening today in 2008 and what do you see? The so called left is supporting those who exploit workers. The so called left – regardless of their public show of dissent – is supporting illegal wars by keeping in power a government responsible of illegal wars. And whom is the so called left attacking? They are attacking those who are denouncing the abuses. They are attacking us because we are standing up to stop the abuses.   

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David Davis’s fight for fundamental freedoms and the support shown by Tony Benn against detention without trial shows very clearly what the British National Party has been saying all along: the Labour government is travelling on a slippery road leading to dictatorship by getting rid of basic tenets and by increasingly intruding in peoples’ private lives.

I feel extremely proud of being a member of the British National Party and for all those who oppose us or criticize us we have a message. We play by the rules and we stick to democratic principles and rest assured that regardless of not been considered a mainstream political party we have been setting the agenda. 

For the Labour Party supporting democracy is a stunt and a political party that asks for elections is a political party ‘in disarray’. The Labour Party promised on its manifesto a Referendum on Europe that they have not delivered and have been giving all sort of excuses about it. Now, you hear that people in the Republic of Ireland were given the chance to have a say regarding the so called Lisbon Treaty, but the Labour government does not think that we the British people have the right to have a say.

When it comes to civil rights, when it comes to decide about the most fundamental matters, the Labour government does not give a damn about citizens rights. So the so called defenders of Human Rights do not want to hear what people are saying very loudly on the streets.

So the Labour government said, after the recent electoral debacle, that they were going to listen. They are not listening at all and this is why they have been losing and losing all over the country.

The Labour Party supports the idea of not allowing a member of the British National Party to be part of the public administration and of public services and even goes to the extreme of supporting Kangaroo tribunals to allow trade unions to throw out BNP members.

Of this kind of events I have personal experience. I was there. I heard every word and explanation when a fellow party member – John Walker – tried to challege an unfair decision. He was expelled by his trade union and the decision was supported by a Kangaroo tribunal simply because he is a member of the British National Party.

Now, the same people that support the Labour goverment that produced what David Davis called ’a monstrosity’ are behind the initiative regarding the extension of detention without trial that could be used for political purposes. We have seen local authorities using terror laws to intrude in peoples’ privacy so we can imagine what else could be done with the said laws.

What we are seeing today are the remnants of a bygone era and of another world. National Security is being used as a justification for everything, even as a justification to get rid of civil rights and individual rights.

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