Mark Collett on the BNP – “Well, I had two sort of notable roles. The first was that I was leader of the young BNP, which was my first role in the party, and that was something that, again, no young man should be ever put in charge of leading other young men! Any Youth Movement needs to be run by somebody who is much older than 30. It needs to be run by somebody, you know. You can’t have a Scouting Movement where, you know, the Scouts control the other Scouts. There has to be an Adult in Charge and there should have definitely been adults in charge of the BNP Youth Movement. So that was something which I would definitely Change. But my second role was Head of Publicity, which was far more suited to sort of a young and talented man, I’m not trying to be big headed, but I was Very Good at Design, that’s my Job, I’m a Designer. And I designed the party’s election material. And that was part of many Winning Campaigns. I designed the election material for the 2008 victory in London at the JLA. Well, we got a JLA member elected. I designed the winning material in 2006 when we got all the councillors elected in Barking and Dagenham. I designed all the material in 2009, and that was another Massive Year for the British National Party because we got two MEP elected. And doing that was something I’m still Very Proud of to this day because we had 56 Councillors. We had one county councillor. We had Hundreds of Parish Councillors. And on top of that, we had one member of the JLA and two MEP. It was the Most Successful any genuine Nationalist party has ever been. And I want to say that Success was down to a very Dedicated Team of people when people look back at that. It’s always very easy to try and say, well, it was one man or this guy made it all happen. That’s not true. Success on that level only comes about due to a team of very talented people. If you’ve got a small, genuine outsider party that doesn’t have any positive media coverage, that isn’t built up by anyone, that is constantly Knocked Down, the only way a small outsider party without any positive media coverage can Exist and come to Prosper is because of a real talented team of people. And the BNP had Forty and a half Thousand Members and our Activists were absolutely Committed. I mean, I used to I know people who they would leaflet for five, six, seven, eight hours a day. People would take their, you know, a week’s holiday before Elections. You know, instead of going away with the family, they would just go out and Leaflet, you know, eight hours plus a day to make sure that they got a BNP candidate elected in their local area. Our people are absolutely committed. And it was a real Herculean Task, but we did it. And it’s still a a major source of Sadness for me to this day that the BNP collapsed in the way that it did.”
020. Future of Nationalism and Patriotic Alternative Part 9
