Arthur Kemp’s Blog

With only 34 results still outstanding, Britain faces its first “hung parliament” since 1974 and the next Government — if there is to be one and not a new election in a few month’s time — will be a coalition of at least two of the three big parties, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative.

Ironically, this provides the British National Party (which spectacularly more than tripled its vote from 2005, jumping from 192,746 to a healthy 536,223 in yesterday’s contest) with its best window of opportunity yet.

The kingmaker in any coalition will be the Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg. Their key demand for participation in a coalition is electoral reform, and in particular the abolition of the current “first-past-the-post” election system.

The reason why the Liberal Democrats oppose the first-past-the-post system is that it clearly puts smaller parties (which is what the Liberal Democrats are) are a hugely unfair disadvantage.

The figures tell the story: yesterday the Liberal Democrats won around 23 percent of the vote, but will end up with only 7 percent of the seats in Parliament.

The BNP, which polled close to a million votes in June 2009, and over half a million yesterday (despite only fighting half of all the available 650 seats), will end up with no seats at all.

In effect, the first-past-the-post system simply throws millions of votes onto the rubbish heap where they are ignored.

As a result, the Liberal Democrats have, in my personal opinion, correctly argued for the introduction of proportional representation (PR) in Britain.

Most European countries already have PR and it works perfectly well.

Under a PR system, if a party gets 10 percent of the votes, it gets 10 percent of the seats in Parliament. If it gets 32 percent of the vote, it gets 32 percent of the seats, and so on.

It is an obviously fairer way of allowing all votes cast in an election be reflected in Parliament.

In fact, a slightly amended system of PR is used in European Parliamentary elections, which allowed the BNP to win its two seats in that body in June 2009.

If the Liberal Democrats are involved in a coalition with either Labour or Conservatives, it is inevitable that they will set the demand for a PR system as one of the preconditions for their cooperation.

In fact, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has already made this demand in public – and both Labour and Conservatives have announced their willingness to consider it or at the very least hold a referendum on the topic.

What does this mean for the BNP?

Based on yesterday’s quite impressive vote totals (which imply that if the entire country had been covered with BNP candidates, the party’s vote would be well in excess of a million), the BNP would win in excess of 60 seats in Westminster overnight.

Some of the more perceptive Conservative journalists, such as Norman Tebbit, have already realised this as a possibility.

As the coalition negotiations begin, let those who might feel disappointed at the BNP’s failure to secure a parliamentary seat yesterday, reflect on what might happen in a short while.

The introduction of PR to Britain will dramatically change the face of British politics and propel the BNP into the mainstream political debate for once and for all.

And so the madness of South Africa continues.

Amidst all the flag waving, salutes, uniforms and bravado, Eugene Terre’Blanche was buried on his farm in a brick and concrete tomb designed to be vandalism resistant — but as the Sun newspaper so vividly revealed, even this tomb was built by black labourers.

Once again, the utter hypocrisy of Apartheid and white supremacism is exposed in a publicly humiliating way.

I can only shake my head.  Don’t the Afrikaners get it?

How can any white people expect to survive in a land where they are the tiny minority and use black people as virtual slave labour (Terre’Blanche paid his farm workers R300 — US $41 or £26  — per month) to do everything?

Terre’Blanche was killed in his bed. I wrote in my book, The Lie of Apartheid, that the definition of a white South African is “someone who would rather be murdered in his bed than make it.”

Afrikaners: The time for white supremacism is gone. You cannot hope to survive while you are so intrinsically entwined with black labour.

You used them for everything, even to murdering you and then digging your grave.

You cannot survive while every single thing you do, every enterprise, every interaction, every aspect of your lives, is determined by your reliance on black labour.

Because, whether you like it or not, black people also have rights, and they have claimed them.

You cannot think that you have a right to rule over black people — you do not.

I’ll say this again, maybe for the last time ever — if Afrikaners are going to survive, they must do two things:

1. Rid themselves of their reliance on black labour;

2. Congregate in an area where they are the majority, and where they do all the work: from road sweeping, rubbish collection and grave digging, to computer engineering and medicine.

Once they have established an area in which they are the majority, and in which they do all the work, then only will they have a fighting chance of survival.

They must do this now; before it is too late.

Stop all this stupid posturing, gun waving and empty threats. Everyone knows that it is meaningless.

If they don’t do that, they are all going to end up like Eugene Terre’Blanche. The only difference might be that the last few will not have their graves built by black labourers.

And if one more person tells me it can’t be done, well then, accept the inevitable.

It is with great bitterness that I received confirmation this evening that Eugene Terre’Blanche, leader of South Africa’s Afrikaner Weerstandbeweging (AWB) was murdered on his farm outside Ventersdorp today.

I knew Eugene Terre’Blanche well. He was possibly the greatest orator ever, and had the ability to capture an audience like no other I have ever seen.

Over the course of many conversations — including on the farm on which he was killed tonight, his family farm, I tried in vain to explain to him that his form of politics was a guarantee of death, not white Boer survival.

I tried to explain to him that his people’s use of black labour was the cause of their downfall. All is demographics, I told him.

For some reason, he failed to understand the link between demographics and political power.

He was one of those old fashioned white supremacists who believed that a white minority could rule over a black majority.

He truly believed that his people, the Boers, had been sent by God to look after black people in Africa, to show them the light of Christian civilisation.

The relationship between Afrikaners  – actually all whites in Southern Africa  – and blacks was and still is this bizarre mix of supremacism and patriarchalism.

I tried in vain to persuade Eugene that his use of black labourers on his farm and in his security business was contradictory to his demand for an Afrikaner homeland.

It is no consolation to be proven right. Eugene was murdered on his farm after getting into an argument with his black labourers.

I am horrified to be proven right once again.

I just hope that this latest incident proves to all those in South Africa who think that Apartheid was their salvation, that the whole concept was utterly flawed.

RIP, Eugene. I am sorry that you were wrong and I was right.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE AWB

It is with shock, dismay, frustration and the greatest of emotional pain that we were informed that our leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered on his farm Villanna (meaning “Home of Anna”) just outside Ventersdorp called around 17:00 this afternoon.

Details are sketchy, but from reports by people at the scene there was an argument with one of his black farm workers this afternoon. Later, while he was taking an afternoon nap, the farm worker, incited by others, entered his house and hacked him to death with a panga (chopping knife used for clearing bushes).

When police arrived they found our leader on his bed with mortal wounds to his upper body and head. He was declared dead at 7:00pm.

This news comes amidst reports of Julius Malema’s banned song which calls for freedom fighters of the ANC to “Kill the Boer”.

Our leader did not live permanently on the farm, but rather in Ventersdorp. He visits the farm regularly during the week and on weekends.

Eugene Ney Terre’Blance was born on January 31 1941 and was one of the founders of the Afrikaner Weerstadsbeweging. He dedicated the last decades to realising a dream of freedom for our Boer people and the concept of a Volkstaat, a free state where we could rule over ourselves.

We call on all our supporters, friends and members of the AWB to be calm for now as we mourn the passing of our leader.