Long gone are the days when up to 4,000 patriots would march with the National Front to the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London in the 1970s. Even in the mid-1980s the NF could turn out close to 2,000 in London, and the BNP 300 in York – on the same day!
Nowadays, it’s a much more low-key affair and nationalists tend to attend their local Cenotaphs and lay wreaths alongside ex-servicemen’s groups and local big-wigs, organised by the British Legion.
Yesterday, in a very damp and rainy Preston, a group of local nationalists led by H&D editor Mark Cotterill and assistant editor Peter Rushton, joined several hundred local people, including many ex-servicemen at Preston’s grand Cenotaph, next to the market square in the city centre for the Remembrance Sunday service. Mark was in the last group to go up to the Cenotaph – along with three ex servicemen – and proudly laid H&D‘s wreath, much to the horror of Preston’s Labour MP and LGBT+ Council leader!
The card on the H&D wreath read – “In memory of Tommy Atkins, and all the Lancashire lads, who gave their lives to keep England free from foreign invaders. Lest we forget. From the editor and staff at Heritage and Destiny magazine”.
The H&D group later retired to the local Spoons for a few pints with dozens of ex-servicemen and squaddies, including some from the local TA unit. It’s interesting how many ex-servicemen still support us and what we are doing. While in conversation with some them, they told us – almost to a man – that at the last General Election they voted Reform UK.
H&D subscribers in Warwickshire, who publish their own newsletter – The Supplement – attended the service at the Memorial Park Cenotaph in Bedworth, where long standing nationalist George Jones (who goes way back to days when Colin Jordan ran the British Movement in Coventry) laid a wreath on behalf of The Supplement.
In Ulster H&D subscribers attended the service at the Orange memorial in Brownlow House, Lurgan, County Armagh, before going on to Lurgan Cenotaph where one of them laid a wreath.
At Cenotaphs across the land nationalists from many different groups including Patriotic Alternative (who seem to have had the largest number of activities), the National Front, the Homeland Party, British Democratic Party and British Movement laid wreaths to remember the fallen.
After their traditional march to the Cenotaph in London, National Front activists also paid tribute to our great comrade John Jones, who died earlier this year aged 81. John was a stalwart nationalist who could always be relied on to support activities, and his friends and comrades will always miss his presence at events such as this.
And in a demonstration that European nationalists see Remembrance weekend not as an occasion for chauvinist nostalgia, but as an event that should renew our determination to build nations fit for Europeans to live in, senior Homeland Party activists travelled to Warsaw and attended the Polish Independence March.
