Frontman
Sir: As a National Front candidate in the general election, perhaps you will permit me to reply to Mr Wheatcroft's article about the NF Mast Word', 19 May).
Mr Wheatcroft has got it all wrong: the NF did not 'go away'. In fact, we are quite encouraged that so many people voted for us in spite of a concerted attempt to discredit us, to misrepresent our policies, to erect a wall of silence around our manifesto, to allocate us a minimal amount of time on TV and radio, to prevent us using public meeting places, and to subject our candidates and party workers to insults, threats and even physical violence. The New Statesman article to which Mr Wheatcroft refers demonstrates the potential popularity of NF policies. That is why the establishment politicians and their lackeys in the media seek to discredit us and ensure that our policies get no publicity. They know full well that if all our policies were as well known as our policy on immigration, we would have an NF government today.
The arguments used by the other parties during the election were as superficial as their policies were moribund. They indicated, all too clearly, that the Establishment parties are only prepared to tinker with the symptoms of our national decline, rather than eradicate its causes. The great moral issues were hardly touched upon in their manifestoes. Instead, they pandered to purely materialistic instincts in a wild scramble for votes, rather than appealing to the nobler ideals and sentiments which alone make a nation great.
As it is, the attempts to thwart the renascent patriotism spearheaded by the NF have dismally failed, as has been proved by the enormous number of applications for membership which we have received.
I can assure Mr Wheatcroft that the NF will be back, fighting the next election with even greater enthusiasm and determination.
R. G. W. Rickcord Chairman, North Bucks National Front, 38 Tiffany Close, Bletchley
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