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'Nigel Copsey sets the BNP in historical and the contemporary European context...this is a timely book, and essential reading for anyone involved in combatting the BNP...It also has a clear message for the New Labour strategists who insist that radical hysteria over immigration can be pandered to just like any other issue.' - Richard McNeill Douglas, Red Pepper
'This book is essential reading for the journalists of Britain's quality press and media who cover the BNP, and for all academics concerned with the ways in which illiberal forces of ethnocentrism are able to adaptto and be hosted withincontemporary liberal political and civic space'. - Roger Griffin, Patterns of Prejudice
'Copsey provides a detailed study of the British National Party from its origins in 1982 under John Tyndall to its attempt to modernise under Nick Griffin from 1999'. - Sage Race Relations Abstracts
'This book is essential reading for the journalists of Britain's quality press and media who cover the BNP, and for all academics concerned with the ways in which illiberal forces of ethnocentrism are able to adaptto and be hosted withincontemporary liberal political and civic space'. - Roger Griffin, Patterns of Prejudice
'Copsey provides a detailed study of the British National Party from its origins in 1982 under John Tyndall to its attempt to modernise under Nick Griffin from 1999'. - Sage Race Relations Abstracts
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No other political party in the history of Britain's fascist tradition has been as successful at the ballot box as today's British National Party (BNP). It has won increasing success at local elections and now threatens to follow the wider European trend and break through into the national arena of mainstream politics. Contemporary British Fascism offers the first in-depth study of the BNP and its quest for social and political legitimacy. Founded in 1982 and led by John Tyndall until 1999, the 'old' BNP is thoroughly investigated. Nigel Copsey then moves on to discuss Nick Griffin's 'modernization' strategy as well as the factors behind the party's recent electoral success. In the final chapter, the subject is placed in its wider European context. This is a thought-provoking book that serves as a wake-up call for those who take the party's growing respectability at face value.
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15 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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This is as far as I know the only book on the market that seriously deals with the rise of the British National Party. This book examines the variety of extreme nationalism that has existed in Britain post-war. In dealing with this subject the author also touches on unusual topics such as distributism as well as commenting on the impact on mainstream politics by these politic parties use of issues such as asylum seekers. This book is unlikely to be read by many people because of the price if nothing else. However anyone serious about modern politics cannot afford to be without a copy.
5 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Not sure how many brief histories of the BNP there are in print - if few, then there is some utility in this volume, which is rather more lucid than a couple of the reviews. I would NOT call it "insightful" though, given that it seems to have been written for an audience of terribly earnest goldfish or well-spoken types who live with a cordon sanitaire between themselves and those whom they glibly summarise according to criteria of which the Economist would surely approve.
4 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very controversial book in terms of its context and the intent to which there seems to be a deep nationalistic passion and a strong feeling of patriotism. The issues which have been taken into account relative to the context has to be primarily immigration and the issue of asylum seekers. The psychology of immigration and asylum seekers over the british public has to be a deep feeling of nationalist patriotic one. Thus the psychology of being an asylum seeker 'illeagle' in legitamate ocupation over a land, property, anything else which is identified with britishness and any european matter must be an issue taken considerable amount in trying to get the logic and the sense of rights taken these into action. I think with new elements of artistic and material creation and invention we can think about the prospect for future development of how citizenship should be rectified hence be given a legitimate stance over asylum seekers basically taking over british society thus british jobs and british marketability gradually in time.
I think asylum seekers should be taken into context when mentioned seriously enough to become a top debate in british society. The overall seriousness and considering the idea of what it could be like to think about the gradual taking over a society through mass immigration must be enhanced and judged objectively.
I think asylum seekers should be taken into context when mentioned seriously enough to become a top debate in british society. The overall seriousness and considering the idea of what it could be like to think about the gradual taking over a society through mass immigration must be enhanced and judged objectively.
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