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Originally Posted by British-Conservatism
The BNP's 18 years of National Socialism is what holds most people back from joining it seems.
A party that has changed it's ideology but not it's name.
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Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but I can't see that they have changed their core economic and national ideology. They are still distributist economically - a middle way between socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, and still believe in ethnic nationalism. They have gotten rid of core ideas such as Jewish conspiracy and holocaust denial, however. A change of name would be a good way of signifying that change - perhaps simply the national party or something similar, but I don't think there is an appreciation within the BNP of the value of cosmetic changes - look at the fact that they retain Collett, for example. In our day and age image is just as important as substance, and I personally find the BNP logo quite distasteful - it evokes (in me at least, though I'm not the only one I've heard this from) images of skinhead bother boys with doc martins - the flag should be unfurled in a proud way, not the background to letters, and certainly not used in a way to give those letters sharp edges! Little changes like this can make a big difference to a lot of people, but I think the BNP prefer to blame Searchlight and the media for their poor image. Yes, of course there is truth in this, but there are many self-inflicted wounds as well.