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As you chaps may have noticed when reading my blog in the past few months I am a patriot. British first, English second and all that jazz. Feel that immigration is a case of a broken system screwing over the legit people coming to earn an honest wage and pay their taxes and favour the scum who traffic women and kids into a life of sex slavery and indentured servitude. In essence a classic one nation tory.
There are those however who are perhaps more radical than I. More English than British, more exclusive than inclusive and more rabid when it comes to the usual Daily Mail “you couldn’t make it up” bilge that infests the political climate in Britain today. Many of these people have had thoughts or have indeed voted for the far right British National Party thinking that in an uncertain world where the current established parties just can’t cut it we need radical change at the top and that the BNP are just the people to do it.
I always take the time to tell these people how wrong they are. I’ve always had suspicions that there is nothing British about the BNP for all their professed support for Britishness and standing up for Britain and Britain for the Britons and all that crap deep down they are the same toxic racist band of no hopers that the National Front were decades ago.
One thing you always see however was their table thumping support for the British forces and veterans and how they were “backing our lads” past and present. Surely that’s one cast iron part about the BNP that one could not quibble with?
Well imagine my surprise and horror to discover that prominent BNP man Adam Walker is in Japan this week to visit a grand conference of far right parties across the world. You could call it the Davos of the Far Right complete with all the halocaust denial and racism one could muster.
So far, so depressing but the worst was yet to come. Saturday began with a visit to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine where many of Japan’s war dead are enshrined. To be fair the shrine itself was consecrated before the Second World War and includes war dead from as far back as the 19th century but after the Second World War several million dead were enshrined including several A-Class war criminals such as Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
Many of these rather unsavoury chaps were guilty of running a ruthless war machine which caused genocide and misery across Asia including the Nanjing massacare and most present in many British and Commonwealth POW’s minds the systematic starvation and torture of POWs in Burma, Singapore and elsewhere.
The forced labour, beatings, murders and mal-treatment of British & Commonwealth POWs was an accepted policy of the Japanese Imperial Army at the time and thus was tacitly accepted at the very top. These war criminals knew what their commanders were doing and did nothing to stop them.
So my question for Mr Walker is this: if you are so patriotic and if you are so enthusiastic in your support for British veterans and servicemen as you claim then why are you at that shrine bending over for these war criminals whose hands are soaked with the blood of so many dead POWs?
Why are you giving respect to those who were so barbaric in their treatment of the very veterans you claim to represent?
This hypocrisy is a discrace. How dare they abuse the images of our grandfathers used in their campaign material in such a cynical way only then to give them the finger as they go on a jolly to visit the very criminals who made their lives hell. There is nothing British about the BNP and they should be ashamed of themselves.
EDIT: And on the cusp of the 65th anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) of all things! A cursory glance at the BNP’s website mentions nothing about either VJ day, the 14th “forgotten” Army or any of the trials, horrors or nightmares that they suffered. It does have a picture of Winston Churchill though which is a bit hilarious considering his thoughts on Facism.
The fact that this clown flies to Japan and visits a shrine packed full of war criminals ankle deep in the blood of British servicemen shows just how little respect the BNP has for those who have put their lives on the line for Britain on a daily basis now and in the past.
