Pulling out of NATO and Removing UK Troops from Germany!

Comment on BNP Policies : BNP Defence Policy by David.

As a parent with pain the arse teenagers I like the concept of national service. Not sure I’d want it like it used to be with a significant period of national service, but I think having some kind of national service (something that builds discipline and maybe a bit of pride in themselves and their country) could help many young people.

With regards pulling out of NATO and removing our troops from Germany. If I recall correctly from research for my 15 year old son who has considered joining the army, around 50% of our troops serve in Germany at any one time. Germany is a major training area for our troops, so we’d need new training bases.

More importantly one of the benefits of being a member of a coalition like NATO is we are friends with it’s members and so less likely to ever have a serious conflict with one of them and so need less battle ready troops. In World War I on the Somme we lost almost 20,000 British troops in one day, with a further 30,000+ injured!

Do we really want to break close ties with countries like France and Germany when we look back at our history with them? As I see it right now we will never go to war against a European country, because of these close ties, but if we break from NATO and start looking inwards (as other BNP policies suggest) we leave ourselves open to conflict in the future.

I take it closing foreign bases also include US bases. They are our closest allies and without them we’d have not helped win WWII. As I see it (and I’ve studied World War 2 in some detail) we and the Russians held off the Axis powers by the skin of our teeth. When the Americans entered the war they brought in to play a decent amount of man power and an impressive number of war machines when they turned their civilian manufacturing industry to a war industry. Without the American’s World War 2 could have gone the other way!! We’d be nuts to not foster our ‘special’ relationship with them, even if occasionally it results in mistakes like Iraq.

We may live on an island, but do we really want to be an island among potential enemies who have little to gain by being our allies under a BNP government?

David