Over the past two years, Dr Matthew Goodwin has repeatedly warned the British hard left that there is significant potential support for a nationalistic political party like British Freedom.

Goodwin has been forced to shout his warning from the rooftops, because many on the far-left thought that the pro-British movement had been defeated during the 2010 General Election.

However, our more experienced opponents understand that the UK nationalist movement is cyclical in nature; it rises and falls every few decades, but it never completely disappears from view.

Whilst it is true that almost perennial factionalism – by the same old faces at the top – devastates our ability to field our true collective strength, the roots of our support remain perfectly unaffected.

It is this understanding which drives leftist political academics to constantly warn of our potential, especially when the turbulent global socio-political climate seems geared to feed our growth here in the UK.

Supporting Goodwin’s analysis, a recent article contained the following:

“Key to this will be something previously noted in Solidarity: the social base of the English Defence League – that is, those who are mobilised on the streets and those who ‘identify’ with its message – is composed mainly of young, unskilled workers. If the EDL can combine successfully with an organisation like the British Freedom Party, they may have a chance of developing the sort of support base enjoyed by the European populists.”

The British Freedom Party has been described as ‘the more sophisticated’ wing of UK nationalism, and has been identified as having the potential to gather support from across the classes – a major fear of our internationalist opponents.

Groups like the EDL/BFP in Britain, Marine Le Pen’s reformed NF in France and Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party in Holland promote a nationalist identity politics. They have structures, an existing base of support and a massive reserve of potential support that could be tipped in their direction by tumultuous political events.

From the very beginning, the British Freedom Party has acknowledged the successful party models offered by Geert Wilders and the fantastic Marine Le Pen.

Previous parties, through their traditional inability to capture broader support, possessed an electoral ceiling of around 5%, this, we believe, is unacceptable in a social climate that was aptly described as a ‘perfect storm’ for our movement.

It is up to us, as the latest standard-bearers of our cause, to mobilise the vast untapped support that is just waiting for the right party to call their political home.

In fact, our membership demographics already represent our broader appeal, the party is already equally at home in economically stagnant areas and relatively affluent middle-England.

We have done away with the cronyism & nepotism which restricted the huge human resources available to previous parties – if you can do the job, we want you.

The far-left mostly understands just what we’re trying to achieve, and if they didn’t think we could do it, they wouldn’t be screaming about it.

The ball, as they say, is in our court.

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