How does the BNP intend to control the nation's genes?

The BNP doesn't want you to know their real intentions but their number two, Tony Lecomber, has made them very clear.

What he calls ‘alien groups' will have to be removed. This can be done partly by repatriation. But this will not be enough. He plans a programme of ‘upbreeding' to remove genes associated with characteristics of these ‘alien' groups such as brown eye colour.

Sterilisation will be necessary to reduce the number of ‘people who sap the strength of society'. Their death rate could be increased ‘by the denial of medical aid to many who need it'. There could be the ‘deliberate creation of additional living hazards….to create a kind of net, preventing all but the best from passing through to maturity and procreation'. Other means for ‘upbreeding' include compulsory abortion and genetic engineering.

At the same time ‘the birthrate of the higher human types' will need to be accelerated. ‘…young females…(will need to be provided) with training suited to women's role in society.' This role will be the breeding of children.

He sees ‘the lower elements' within society as contributing to the nation's evolutionary decline. These include homeless people, criminals, the poor, ‘unemployables', ‘the feeble minded and the insane', ‘the idle and feckless' and other ‘misfits' and ‘human garbage' seen as ‘dead weight' which the nation cannot afford to carry.

‘…no nationalist should doubt the need for radical change both in our moral values and in how we make provision for the next generation.' People will have to be forced to adopt new cultural values to help the process of ‘racial improvement'.

Nazi Germany under Hitler adopted a programme to ‘purify' the Germanic race. This began with sterilisation and laws to prevent mixed marriages. It went on to the infamous German Euthanasia programme, in which over 300,000 disabled children and adults were killed, and eventually led to the Holocaust.

If we thought that this twisted thinking had gone forever we need to think again. The British National Party shows its intense preoccupation with eugenics in the books it recommends.

Lecomber's exposition, summarised above, comes from a 1989 essay in Spearhead, then an official BNP publication. The essay gives a superficial appearance of being erudite but when examined closely it turns out to be pseudoscientific nonsense. It is nothing more than a justification of neo-nazism based firmly in the Hitler tradition. There is a smattering of sound science to make it seem plausible for some readers.

The ideas summarised here will not be found in official BNP policy statements for public consumption. The BNP is trying to make itself respectable in order to gain votes in elections. It is therefore careful, in public, to distance itself from its Nazi roots.

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