Party Flag/ Emblem

As the designer of the party symbol and flag I thought it best to properly explain its significance and why I chose to design it the way I did. Though the symbol is clearly a modern adaptation of the BUF’s ‘action within unity’ symbol, this image in no way represents the BUF to us as an organisation or is a rebirth of that movement though us in anyway. We used a similar image because of what it represented to them ‘action within unity’ this expression properly represent the fundamentals and ideals of our movement also, in that sense, and that sense alone. It must be understood that no other emblem could have be chosen which truly represents our feeling of ‘action within unity’. Our flag represents the political emblem of the Integralist Party otherwise known to us as 'the lighting and the sun' in the party colours green and white. Green was chosen as the primary party colour because its classical association with all that is natural. Nature represents both our affirmation of the nation as the natural outcome of evolutionary fact, and it’s symbolism of growth, stability, and husbandry. It is a contrast to the sprawling metropolis of liberalism, a reversion against the degradation of the modern world to a time of husbandry and balance on our green and pleasant land. White, the secondary colour was chosen because it is the only colour to appear on all the flags of the union. It is the symbolism however that is significant, the colours may be reversed or may not be there at all, i.e. when the party symbol is in black and white.

Our symbol ‘the lightning and the sun’ is represented with a lightning bolt running through a sphere or sun (as its name implies), and though the banner here is the official motif, the symbolism is what is important and may be drawn or interpreted in different ways if needed. While we are a political party, our policies are derived from our unique understanding of society, history, civilization and the needs of the individual. It is on the foundations of Integralist ideology we are categorically resolved to make our politics, objective politics reasoned from the supreme insight Integralists maintain. To put it simply the lightning and the sun is meant to represent the synthesis and equilibrium of two systems of value, dependant on each other or mutual prosperity. At face value this is the marriage of action and organisation, power and growth, ect, one cannot exist without the other, but really it is more complicated than that.

The lightning (this is not a Sig Rune) represents the affirmation of Dionysian values; will, energy, power, action, and limitless human creativity. Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, madness and ecstasy, referred to as ‘the liberator’ as he symbolised the sparks of power and passion in human life. Synonymous with Greek theatre, Greek civilization itself was made great by the excellence of its philosophers and heroes, its ‘thinkers and doers’ numbering just a few million in a few city states, which was unsurpassed by even the roman empire in its creativity. The Dionysian affirmation was an expression used by Friedrich Nietzsche, a professor of philology (ancient Greek studies) to describe the ‘ubermensch’ or ‘superman’. This new man of master morality is very much like the model citizen Integralism wishes to create; men of character in command of their own moral faculties, who look positively on the challenges life brings as a means of improving ones self as the basis of achieving a dignified and gratifying existence. What is required to make great men however is the ‘means’, Nietzsche lived in a time of pioneering European civilization which however restrictive to human creativity by modern standards was a model of stability and progress. Contrary to what many of his modern proponents believe, Nietzsche understood (but perhaps did not fully realise) the importance of this. Nietzsche looked on at the close of 19th century Europe emerging from the shackles of Christian medievalism towards an innovative future. To Nietzsche, advances in the arts such as Wagner operas were to be the beginning of a new Dionysian era in European history.

So why is Nietzsche important to us and how does this all fit in to our ideals? Well the entire goal of Nietzsche’s philosophy was the overcoming the transitional phase of Nihilism. The consequence of shrugging off an old and flawed value system is that the world, life, morality does not have the value we thought it had, the initial result, nihilism; the rejection of value itself. When that great generation of Europeans destined to embark on a brave new world were slaughtered in mindless destruction of the Second World War, systems of value made a retreat and its greatest proponent, fascism, became scorned and hated. The result of this was that the Europeans never made that great leap, a fear of anti capitalism and the ascent of cultural Marxism and commercial postmodernism brought in an age of nihilism. What has come to typify the values of modern Britain is that it has no system of value; all cultural ideals are regarded as possessing the same intrinsic worth. In a bitter twist of fate the only system off value in function is what the cold machinations of market economics and the political class deem to be marketable. Further investigation reveals the flaw of a solely Dionysian affirmation; in the current climate artists, writers, broadcasters, ect are provided with all the personal freedom they could possibly need, yet continue to produce work which would be laughed out of the most absurd era’s of Britain’s past. For the Dionysian affirmation to succeed requires the means to succeed, opportunity to better ones self and a tradition to draw from.

Enter the ‘sun’ In Integralist symbolism or the apollonian affirmation. Apollo; the Greco-Roman god of the sun and the arts, represents the body of human civilization. To us as Integralists, it represents the affirmation of the nation as an integral part of human development. All people, even the most absurd postmodern types abides by this practice by virtue of being born and raised, raised to speak a language and take on the character of 3000 years of European civilization. In The apollonian affirmation is then characterised by complete abnegation of the individual to the nation and in doing so become better positioned to better ones self with a millennia of culture, art, philosophy, and science. The ‘sun’ represents British civilization itself, and combining these apollonian values with the Dionysian value system of will to power will maximise the potential of the two. The individual benefits by being given limitless opportunity to make himself great, in turn the individual will benefit civilization by adding to its tradition the greatest of human potential, providing future generations with a richer tradition to work in and expand.

The Dionysian-Apollonian affirmation was chosen to represent the symbol of the Integralist party for several reasons; it evokes a historical understanding to the birth of classical European civilization itself. The Dionysian-Apollonian philosophy also forms the deepest existential bedrock in our political philosophy; the symbol is there to remind us of our own existence and our historic mission. Most of all however the Dionysian-Apollonian affirmation was chosen because it represents the visible process of what Integralism is; progress through a median. Integralism seeks to strengthen bonds between groups of the same nation, to form a common understanding between workers and management, young and old, black and white, so that we may at last progress. Like The values of Dionysus and Apollo we must work in common cause with mutual respect for one another, in order that we may all achieve our full potential.

Deputy Party Leader
Benjamin Noyles