White Nationalism Ethnic Nationalism needs to be changed updated BNP are no longer white nationalists in fact they haven t been for over 10 years since Nick Griffin modernised the party from 1999 Please see the main Ethnic nationalism page Source which confirm the BNP are no longer white nationalists Searchlight UAF articles Mainstream newspapers e g Guardian Politics books The BNP website itself BNP offical manifestos etc BBC interviews Nick Griffin s 2009 book from the ethnic nationalism page British National Party under Nick Griffin has modernised from white nationalism to a more moderate ethno nationalism supporting British indigenism Under Nick Griffin the British National Party espouses ethno nationalism based on concern for the well being of the English Scottish Welsh and Irish ethnic nations that compose the United Kingdom see Indigenism The BNP Language Concepts Discipline Manual BNP Policy Research updated April 2009 states that the British National Party is ethno nationalist and not a racial white nationalist party The main BNP website also proclaims that their ideology is ethnic nationalism as do many articles posted on their website This distinction between racial and ethnic nationalism is also clarified in Folk and Nation Underpinning the Ethnostate a 26 page booklet by Nick Griffin and Arthur Kemp Ostara Publications 2nd ed 2009 The work contains the following chapters which concern the ethnic nationalist as opposed to racial stance of the party Ethnic Nationalism A Definition Central Tenets of Ethno Nationalism Underlying Concepts of Ethno Nationalism The Implications of Ethno Nationalism The Practical Application of Ethno Nationalism Attacks on Ethno Nationalism and How to Argue the Case for Ethno Nationalism However before Nick Griffin modernised the party to ethnic nationalism the BNP were explicitly racial white nationalists Goodbye racial nationalism hello ethno nationalism Mainstream newspapers such as The Guardian in Britain have also noted of the BNP s change under Griffin from racial nationalism to ethnic nationalism The Guardian Friday 22 December 2006 The modern British National Party under Nick Griffin however reject racial nationalism and strongly oppose immigration from whites such as Eastern Europeans to Britain Global encyclopaedia of political geography M A Chaudhary Gautam Chaudhary Global Vision Publishing 2009 p 243 for example notes Conversely white nationalism in Europe normally indicates a racial variant of an existing ethnic nationalism For example the British National Party opposes large scale immigration of Russians and Poles even though they are white