Nation Revisted # 218, April 2025

Fascism 100 Years On

Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy in 1922 when he led thousands of black shirted ex-servicemen from WW1 in the March on Rome. He was appointed by King Victor Emmanuel 111 who feared a communist revolution.

Mussolini, Il Duce as he was known, was adored by most Italians, even when he ordered the invasion of Ethiopia in 1937, and Albania in 1939, but his close ties to Adolf Hitler cost him his dictatorship. 

Italian Fascism was not racist until Hitler persuaded Mussolini to introduce discriminatory legislation in 1938. This was aimed at the Jews. There were hardly any Blacks in the country but Italian soldiers were forbidden to have sex with local women when they invaded Ethiopia.

The Italian colonisation of Ethiopia seems outrageous today, but at the time Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, and Spain all had colonial empires in Africa, and Italy already possessed Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia.

Benito Mussolini is remembered for making the trains run on time, but he did so much more; he drained the Pontine Marshes to reclaim the land and wipe out water-born diseases, he started the Autostrada motorway network, he modernised industry and agriculture, and he instilled in the Italian people a sense of pride and unity.

He was murdered by Communist Partisans in 1945 together with his girlfriend Claretta Petacci, but his movement re-emerged after the Second World War and went through various incarnations until his spiritual heiress Georgia Meloni (pictured) came to power as the leader of Fratelli D'Italia in 2022; one hundred years after the birth of Fascism.

The Future of the Internet

Colin Todd, far right (where else?) with fellow nationalists at the Cenotaph.

I asked Colin Todd, the editor of 'Candour' why he persisted with a hard-copy publication when it would be so much easier to go online, like 'The Independent' newspaper.

Patriotic magazines face the double jeopardy of rising postal and print charges, and a total lack of advertising. The existing magazines advertise each other on a reciprocal basis but there is no paid advertising.

His reply surprised me. He said that our increasingly authoritarian government could shut us out of the Internet at any time. They have already started to interfere by making the service providers attach warning notices to our blogs. The next step could be a total ban.

It would be easier for the government to control the Internet than bringing prosecutions against individual publications, none of which actually promotes violence or racial hatred.

In order to educate the masses we must maintain our hard-copy magazines by taking out subscriptions and making donations. We cannot hope to compete with the mass media, but we can influence our readers. 

In the old days we used to sell our papers on street corners. In 1962 I was arrested in Croydon town centre for selling 'Candour' whilst wearing a Union Jack armband. An eager young copper marched me to the police station to be charged, presumably under the Public Order Act, but a wise old station sergeant ordered him to let me go.

In those days 'Candour' was a highly intellectual journal that was difficult to sell without being obstructed by the police. Today's version is easier to read but no less forthright. 

Street vending can be difficult and sometimes dangerous. Political meetings are a much better venue. When the London Forum held meetings there were always stalls selling books and publications.

Candour - www.candour.org.uk

League Sentinel - www.leaguestgeorge.org

Broadsword - www.britishmovementnorthern.org

Heritage and Destiny - www.heritageanddestiny.com

Britain, My Nation - 10 Washpool, Swindon SN5 3PN

Alan Whereat

I don't have pictures of Alan Whereat or Keith Goodall but here is a picture of Roy Robinson the deputy leader of the National Union of Fascists.

In a past issue I misnamed Alan Whereat as Denis Whereat, for which I apologise. I am indebted to the Vote UK Forum for the following information.

He was first mentioned in the Portsmouth Evening News in 1939 when he was bound over for twelve months for using obscene language when asked to move on by a policeman. He had been collecting signatures for a petition demanding better old age pensions. He was then 21 years-old.

During the Second World War local elections were suspended and candidates for office were chosen by the existing council. In 1944 he put his name forward for the vacant post of Alderman in Portsmouth but he was an unsuccessful. He was described as an Air Ministry storeman. 

In 1951 he had a letter published in the Bucks Herald claiming that the Labour Party were making false claims about unemployment.

In 1962 he was charged under the Public Order Act with wearing a black shirt, outside Brixton Town Hall. He was distributing election leaflets for Keith Goodall's National Union of Fascists, a short-lived breakaway from Oswald Mosley's Union Movement. He was described as a Lift Operator. When the case was dismissed for lack of evidence he gave a fascist salute to the judge..

In 1978 he stood as an independent candidate in the Lambeth Central by election under the incongruous slogan: "Homes, Employment, Anti-Racial Discrimination." He received 55 votes. He was then 60 years-old.

I remember Alan Whereat from the sixties when he used to parade around Brixton Market in his black shirt to the amusement of the stallholders. But  he was more than a figure of fun, he was a social reformer who wasn't afraid to speak his mind, a brave man of humble means who loved his country. If more of us followed his example we would have a truly representative government instead of the liars and cheats that currently rule over us.

Inflation: The threat to the pound in your pocket

(With inflation above the Bank of England's target this article from my duplicated newsletter 'Nation' # 8, July 1974 deserves a reprint).  

Monetary inflation has been with us for so long that most of us take it for granted. Prices rise and wages increase, which means that prices must go up to meet the higher wage bill, resulting in new wage demands to keep pace with prices, and so on and on.

What, one might ask, is wrong with that? If wages are constantly adjusted to keep abreast of prices stability must be maintained. The fact is that 'stability' is a myth. Inflation is a wildcat, not a controllable creature at all, but a menace that will destroy the economy and sink us into real poverty.

In Italy the fields are full of crops, the vines are heavy with grapes, and their industrial order books are healthy. Italian unit production costs are low and their exports are high. Machine tools, cars, trucks, aircraft, and domestic appliances pour out of Italian factories to feed the markets of the world; but despite all this productivity the Italian people face disaster as their economy begins to implode with hyperinflation.

What is hyperinflation? We quote from an article by Leith McGrindle in the Sunday Telegraph of June 9th 1974.

"There is no clear definition of what a hyperinflation is. There was a time when prices in the West during the 1950s were rising at a steady and not terribly damaging 2% or so a year - when a hyperinflation would have been considered a rising cost of living in excess of 10%. Anything in double figures.

Now that hyperinflation is with us in Britain at over 15% and in double figures in most industrialised and developed countries, we have tended to raise this limit to 20% or over.

In fact, however, a real hyperinflation is when inflation breeds faster and faster on itself. Prices multiply many, many times over a short number of years. The end, when it comes, produces the multi-million note (like the Mark in 1922-23 during the Weimar hyperinflation) and then a complete changing of the currency . The creation of a new Mark etc.

An inflation rate of 15% a year means that prices double in five years and would multiply by nearly 18,000 times over the three score years and ten of a child born today. A house built this year and sold for £15,000 would sell for over £250 million after 70 years.

Property has traditionally been a superb inflation hedge. Because people know this house prices tend to rise more sharply than anything else when an inflation gets going. Witness the last few years.

Moreover, when the hyperinflation finally goes 'pop' the house is still there but notes under the bed or in the wheelbarrow  are worthless.

All this is providing that in the course of ending the hyperinflation our house isn't razed go the ground by insurrectionists or confiscated by a revolutionary government."

This kind of language is something new from a democratic newspaper. We were warned by Douglas, Mosley, and Chesterton years ago that our economy is unscientific and bound to end in slump. Now 'respectable' economists are singing the same song. 

Britain and the rest of Europe urgently needs strong government with the power to act. Our present system of party mismanagement cannot and will not act to stop inflation. As soon as one party gets its programme going it gets thrown out by a discontented electorate, only to be replaced by another party with another theory that's also at the mercy of the mob. 

Sooner or later Britain will be governed by a strong regime. It's the task and responsibility of all of us who know the truth to see to it that the ascendants are patriots and not thinly disguised alien imperialists.

Protectionism

A Mosley's Union Movement flyer from the 1950s protesting against cheap Japanese imports.

When the economy slows down people start calling for protection against foreign imports. The USA is imposing protectionist tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China and threatening the EU and the UK. But those nations effected are bound to retaliate with tariffs of their own.

The USA thrived under a protectionist policy in the 19th and early 20th century, but the pattern of world trade has completely changed since then. The Asian nations have developed beyond expectations and shipping has been revolutionised by the invention of the sea container.

President Donald Trump may find that it's not so easy to disrupt world trade. The immediate effect of his populist nationalist policy will be to increase the cost of living for American consumers. That will not be so popular.

If the USA imposes tariffs on British goods it would damage our our exports of cars and Scotch Whisky. And if we retaliate it will increase the price of Levi jeans, Coca Cola, and Harley Davidson motorcycles. It would be in nobody's interest.

The World Trade Organisation was set up in 1995 to avoid tariff wars. It has 166 member states. The Doha Round of 2001 is currently in force, but President Trump doesn't believe in international treaties and prefers to go it alone. He thinks that foreign countries are taking advantage of the USA. Time will tell if his paranoid policies are successful.

The Western World is going through a phase of nationalism similar to the 1930s. That ended in the Second World War but modern economies are so interwoven that it would be almost impossible to unravel them. The war between Russia and Ukraine is not confined to Eastern Europe, it has repercussions effecting many countries. Egypt used to rely on imported Ukrainian wheat, Germany is crippled by lack of Russian Gas, and India has become a major exporter of gas and oil from Russia.

But nothing lasts forever. Donald Trump is on his second term as President and his successor is unlikely to be so rigidly protectionist. The USA may be the world's major economy but China is catching up fast and the EU is a formidable trading bloc that cannot be bullied. Eventually the WTO will be consulted and we can wear our Levi jeans, drink Coca Cola and ride our Harley Davidson motorcycles, and the Americans can drive Land Rovers and enjoy their Scotch Whisky.

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Nation Revisited # 217, March 2025

The Special Relationship

President Donald Trump is back in the Whitehouse with a populist and protectionist agenda. We can't take seriously his ambition to annex Greenland and Canada, and we must be concerned with his love of tariffs. The United States is our second biggest market after the European Union. We are estranged from Europe because of Brexit so we need our $73,538 billion exports to the USA.

President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 25% tariff on some imports to protect American producers. This would damage sales of British made cars such as: Jaguar, Land Rover, and Rolls Royce, and it would also damage sales of Scotch whisky. After all, the US has General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Jack Daniels and Jim Beam, so why should they import cars and whisky?

The USA is a huge country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It's self-sufficient in food, energy, technology, and military might. If the rest of the world retaliated against tariffs by levelling tit-for-tat tariffs of their own, it wouldn't make much difference to the American economy.

Britain, on the other hand, imports half of its food and energy. We need international trade to feed our immigrant-swollen population, and to keep the lights on. The USA has the resources to manage on their own, but we do not.

Keir Starmer has to placate the 'Little Englanders' who distrust Europe but love America, because they speak English, and the pro-Europeans who love Europe because we are Europeans, but distrust America because they seek to dominate the world.

British politicians imagine that we have a 'Special Relationship' with America. It's true that our two nations have links of language, culture and history, but they count for nothing when it comes to trade. President Donald Trump's mother was Scottish but he is unlikely to think of her when he slaps 25% on Scotch whisky.

The only country with a special relationship with the USA is Israel. Britain and the rest of Europe are just convenient bases for America's armed forces.

NATO was established after WW2 to defend Europe against the Red Army. In response the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, but NATO was increased, thus proving that NATO's real objective is to protect American interests; not liberty and democracy as we were told, but McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The Russian Federation, which replaced the Soviet Union, is a Parliamentary Democracy with an independent judiciary, a written constitution and an elected president. The Western media accuses Russia of being a dictatorship under Vladimir Putin, but this is not true. At present Russia is engaged in a war with Ukraine over possession of Crimea and the Donbas region, butt apart from these Russian-speaking regions President Putin has no further territorial ambitions in Europe, as claimed by NATO.

Already the German economy has been devastated by the war in Ukraine. The gas pipeline from Russia to Germany was sabotaged almost certainly by NATO. If the Russians wanted to cut-off supplies to Germany they would simply turn off the tap.

The destruction of the European and Russian economies is an American objective designed to boost their exports. Russian gas and oil, BMW cars, and Airbus planes are serious obstacles to American imperialism.

It's unfortunate that the noble principles of the Roman Republic, on which the United States was founded, have degenerated into the worst aspects of the Roman Empire.

Denis Pirie

Wikipedia describes Denis Pirie, who passed away in January this year,  as: " a veteran of the British far right." It's true that he served a prison sentence for belonging to Colin Jordan's paramilitary Spearhead formation, and he was the opening speaker at the 1962 NSM meeting in Trafalgar Square. but by 1968 his youthful exuberance gave way to maturity and he wrote an article in 'Combat' entitled 'Britain's Fraudulent Democracy'; a calm and sensible critique of our corrupt parliamentary system:

"Two classes of people would object to this basic progressive reform of our unwritten constitution. Firstly the old party politicians who would naturally resent any form of curtailment of their personal power. With the existence of a public referendum mechanism they could hardly continue their old games of promising  the electorate one thing and then breaking their promises with impunity.

The second type of objector is the self-styled "progressive" liberal. He objects for a different reason. He is perfectly satisfied with the status quo because he knows that in the establishment parties, his liberal friends in government are firmly entrenched in key positions. He knows full well that many of the measures his friends in government introduce  would never be accepted by the general public if their views had weight."

Denis Pirie's call for representative government is even more urgent today. Successive governments, both Tory and Labour, have eroded democracy and practically banned free speech. It's not members of the so-called far right that threaten our freedom but the professional liars and hypocrites of Westminster.

Sam Dickson

I engage in little debates in a chat forum called Quora.

Someone posted a question asking why Keir Starmer hates the UK and old people and gave his opinion that Starmer's attitudes emerged from some incident that took place early ion his career.

I concurred that Starmer hates his own people but suggested a different diagnosis.

Here is my comment.

Mr Lang: you are right  in your diagnosis that Starmer hates his country and his people but I humbly submit that the reason is not this incident but a much more deep seated psychological  defect.

Keir Starmer is an example of a psychological type we find all over Europe and in the European Diaspora in the US, Canada and Australia.

Starmer is an ethnomasochist. He hates his people and he derives a sick pleasure in seeing his people degraded and dispossessed.

This abnormal psychology of ethnomasochism is usually linked to a profound lack of loyalty to one's own people, language, ethnic group, race, religion and even family.

Such people are loners, self-promoters. They never connect. They  don't connect with the other boys on the Little League team. They don't connect with their classmates and colleagues in school  and college. They don't connect with the other workers in their firms. 

They certainly don't connect with their country.

In Starmer's case he has blithely cooperated with a foreign country in seizing control of the Labour Party and expelling Jeremy Corbyn.

He has done in fact the very thing that Trump was falsely accused of doing.

He has been a willing participant in foreign interference in his country's elections.

While as an ethnomasochist he hates his own country and revels in colonizing the UK with 3rd World settlers, he happily supports an ethnostate in the Middle East and its genocide in Gaza.

The government of Israel through one of its NGOs worked with Starmer to remove Jeremy Corbyn.

If you observe public life in your country, you will spot many such people. Ethnomasochist traitors to their people and their country, who usually display extreme self-righteousness and love to virtue-signal , letting everyone know how good they are, how much better they are than normal people who love their country, their ethnic group, their race etc.

Such people need to be identified, recognized for what they are and isolated by use of the good old Anglo-Saxon cold shoulder.  

Influencing People

Forty years ago I worked with a Russian man called Val Kowalski. He served in the Red Army during WW2 where he was captured by the Germans and eventually liberated by the British. He was allowed to come to Britain to deal with unexploded bombs and shells. He did this dangerous work for some years after the War.

He had two girlfriends; Olga, an intellectual Russian woman for conversation, and Francis, an attractive West Indian girl for sex.

Val was an avid reader and something of a philosopher. He believed that every human contact we make leaves an impression. It might be because we have written a book, published an article, because of a conversation, or even a chance encounter.

I was impressed by Val's wise words and have always remembered them. We may never know how we influence people but our thoughts and observations leave their mark, just like fingerprints or DNA traces.

It's not necessary to bore everyone with incessant propaganda, indeed that's likely to turn them off, but gentle and consistent persuasion can often change minds.

The mass media is the strongest influence on public opinion but we can still get our message across without owning newspapers and television channels. A conversation with a fellow passenger on a bus, or with a fellow drinker in the local pub, can be just as rewarding as a column in the Daily Mail.

It's therefore important to express your opinions. Don't hide your light under a bushel. Don't be afraid to love your country. Patriotism has been practically banned under the Liberal Consensus, but with the rise of Donald Trump and Georgia Meloni (pictured) it's back in fashion.

Georgia leads Fratelli D'Italia, a nationalist movement sprung from Fascism. The Italians have been subjected to over eighty years of anti-Fascist propaganda, from the usual suspects, but undaunted, she has won the hearts of her people by clearly stating her position: "I am Georgia, I am Italian, I am European, and I am Christian."

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Nation Revisited # 216, February 2025

A Lifetime of Nationalism

Nick Griffin the expelled leader of the British National Party

This year marks my 80th birthday (February 2) and 64 years involved in nationalist politics. I joined the League of Empire Loyalists when I was 16 but, at the same time, I attended Union Movement meetings at Earls Court, Bethnal Green, Brixton, Kensington Town Hall, and Trafalgar Square. I was also attracted to John Bean's original British National Party which stood for a Confederation of European States; although John Bean always opposed the European Common Market which he believed to be a step toward World Government.

I never took 'parties' very seriously, it was the cause that interested me. This ecumenical approach was discouraged by the leaders of the various parties, but  nearly all of them had been in Union Movement or the LEL. And the same applied to the small band of followers whose faces were to be seen at the various street corner meetings that we held in those days.

There was little difference between the LEL and the BNP, so it was not surprising when they merged together in 1967 to become the National Front.

Colin Jordan and John Tyndall broke away from the BNP in 1962 to found the National Socialist Movement. This was an  authoritarian party that denied the Holocaust and glorified the Third Reich. It fell apart when its leaders were imprisoned, but for a short while they dressed up as Stormtroopers and played war games.

Veteran nationalist Alan Wells recalls: The NSM hired a room above a pub in Kent. The regulars at the pub were alarmed when thumping noises were heard and the lights started flickering. It turned out that the 'Spearhead' detachment were marching around the room upstairs.

Following a contest between Colin Jordan and John Tyndall for the hand of Francoise Dior, an attractive French heiress, John Tyndall, the defeated suitor, broke away from the NSM to form the Greater Britain Movement. The National Front eventually absorbed the GBM, but they refused to admit Colin Jordan who, therefore, founded British Movement, which, after many setbacks, is still going.

In 1965 I went to South Africa, and then to Australia, and finally New Zealand. I had always been pro-European and my Commonwealth tour convinced me that a revival of the British Empire was not going to happen, so I joined Union Movement which promoted Oswald Mosley's vision of 'Europe a Nation'.

UM was eclipsed by the National Front, largely due to Martin Webster's organisational skills. He staged impressive marches and rallies throughout the country that made the NF a household name. Unfortunately the party was infested with government agents who instigated many splits before John Tyndall left to found another incarnation of the British National Part

A much diminished NF is still going under the leadership of Tony Martin.

The new BNP plodded along under John Tyndall but when Nick Griffin took over, it won scores of seats on local councils, two members of the European Parliament, and  one seat on the London Assembly. But it all fell apart in 2014 when Nick Griffin, was expelled for alleged financial irregularities. Today the BNP still exists but it's politically inactive.

Half a dozen little parties emerged from the wreckage of the BNP. None of them has a charismatic leader, like Oswald Mosley, a brilliant orator who was forever damned by his association with Adolf Hitler before the Second World War. Mosley never advocated the destruction of the Jews, but the mass media linked him to the gas chambers and ruined his career as a politician. Considering the sheer weight of hostile propaganda, and the proximity to the war, it was remarkable that Oswald Mosley, standing for Union Movement, achieved 8.1 % in North Kensington in the 1959 general election.

The march of time has left few of us to carry the banner of European Socialism. The Friends of Mosley organisation, of which I am proud to belong, meets twice a year to reminisce about the old days and complain about the present state of the country.  We are no longer the idealistic young men who fought the Reds on the streets, but we maintain an informative website: oswaldmosley.com 

During all this time I have met many outstanding people, and more than a few cranks and misfits. Conspiracy theories have always been with us but they seem to be gaining ground amongst nationalists. I believe them to be an escape from reality; a false religion that claims to explain everything when the obvious answer is usually the right one; JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, 9/11 was the work of Arab terrorists, and Covid was a naturally occurring viral pandemic. 

Some of the ideas of the so-called far-right are too extreme to be taken seriously, but a healthy democracy should make room for all shades of opinion, including nationalism.

In the 102 years since Miss Rotha Lintorn-Orman founded the British Fascists we have not had a single MP elected to the Westminster Parliament.

Oswald Mosley's pre-war movement, the British Union of Fascists, held mass meetings and marches which so frightened the Establishment that they used Defence Regulation 18B to shut them down.

In the 1970s the National Front boasted thousands of members, until they were fatally undermined in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher said that she understood people's fear of being "swamped" by immigration.  

The British National Party under Nick Griffin started to look like a viable political paerty, but, following a disastrous and embarrassing appearance on the BBC Question Time program the party disintegrated.

Was my lifetime in nationalist politics a waste of time? Jeffrey Hamm, the effective leader of Union Movement in its last years, was asked the same question by John Pitman in a 1976 BBC 'Tonight' interview. He replied in his autobiography 'Action Replay'.

"But what are they really asking me to do? To give up what I know to be right because it is difficult, or to take up something that I know to be wrong because it is easier."

Jeffrey Hamm never lived to see the rise of nationalist parties all over the world. People are sick and tired of being ripped off by big business and lied to by politicians. Their cheap labour racket  has flooded Europe and North America with Third World immigrants. But, as I often say, nothing lasts forever. If President Donald Trump keeps his promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants, Europe, including the UK, will follow.

The Truth Will Out

Elon Musk the South African born tech billionaire, has called for the prosecution of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the former head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Keir Starmer, and all those local councillors, police, and social workers complicit in the Grooming Gangs cover up.

This scandal is at last being acknowledged by politicians of all parties, and by the mass media that helped to supress the story because the men involved in the sexual exploitation of schoolgirls were nearly all Pakistanis and the girls involved were nearly all white British.

This deliberate suppression of the truth has done nothing to improve race relations in the UK. Rather, it has played into the hands of extremists. Most people of Pakistani origin in the UK are decent law-abiding workers, but those Pakistanis who drugged and raped schoolgirls are criminals who should be deported.

Politicians blame the European Court of Human Rights for this situation, but the British government has always been able to deport criminals and undesirables. English Law is all about precedents and interpretations; further confused and obstructed by unprincipled lawyers who pocket millions of pounds of taxpayer's money in legal aid.

This has resulted in a demand to abolish the ECHR, an independent court which was set up under the auspices of the  European Declaration of Human Rights. It's a tempting idea, but it's a dangerous policy to abolish courts because we don't agree with their verdicts; and it's extremely unlikely that the ECHR would go against a ruling of the British Supreme Court. 

The Grooming Gangs were protected by cowardly authorities steeped in liberal propaganda and scared of being accused of 'racism'.

Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, was wrong about Brexit, which has turned out to be a disaster, but he is right about sacking and prosecuting those involved in a shameful coverup.

Politicians are often right about one thing and wrong about another. Nigel Farage is right about immigration, but he is wrong about Europe. Donald Trump is right about the Ukraine war but wrong about Israel. What we need is a man with a practical mind who is not stunted by dogma or emotion. Unfortunately, at 80 years of age I am too old for the job.

Tommy Robinson

Elon Musk has called for Tommy Robinson to be released from prison. The usual suspects point out that TR is serving time for contempt of court, not because of his opinions. This is hair-splitting to say the least. He wouldn't be in prison at all if we had freedom of speech in this country.

The mass media have labelled him a fascist and and a racist but he is neither. The English Defence League, which he founded, flies the Israeli flag at their gatherings, and it welcomes black members. TR is an old-fashioned nationalist who campaigns against Muslim immigration.

His rhetoric finds willing listeners amongst the general public who remember the Pakistani rape gangs and terrorist atrocities. This is unfair because there are plenty of white paedophiles and not all terrorists are Muslims; the Stern Gang was Jewish and the IRA. were Catholics.

The UK is still a Christian country despite poor leadership of the Church of England, falling Church attendances, and a constant barrage of atheistic propaganda by the mass media. Britons who never go to Church or read the Bible are nevertheless Christians by culture and tradition. 

As such, we are appalled by some Muslin practices, such as mutilating little girls, or covering women's faces, but most of us accept Muslims just as we accept Jews, as long as they obey our laws and make an effort to integrate into British society.

Tommy Robinson may be hated by the Liberal Consensus but the majority of British people agree with him.

We should not apologise for having the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Slavery was a sad chapter in history, but we Europeans were not the only ones guilty of exploitation. All civilisations used forced labour, and human beings are still being bought and sold in the slave markets of Mauretania and Libya..

Never forget that it was the Royal Navy that stopped the Atlantic slave trade in the 19th century. We are blamed for taking part in slavery but seldom credited with stopping it. 

Tommy Robinson is the proud father of three children who loves his country, as every Briton should. He may be a rascal but he is entitled to his opinion and he deserves to be heard.

Censorship

Some readers have complained about having to sign in to access my blogs. This is Google's response to the government's policy of censorship, There is nothing that I can do about it. I could switch to another platform but most of them impose similar conditions.

Free speech in the UK is being eroded day by day. Russian Television has been banned and Al Jazeera is under threat. Any broadcaster or journalist who criticises Plutocracy is liable to be prosecuted under so-called anti terrorist legislation.

Our overcrowded prisons hold scores of dissidents, mostly young men who spoke out against the Third World invasion.

Under the latest directive from Westminster tech companies can be held responsible for the views of their customers. And having your website overseas is no protection against prosecution, just ask Simon Shepperd who based his website in the USA. He served four prison sentences, one in the Netherlands and three in the UK. On one occasion he fled to the USA to claim political asylum but he was promptly deported.

The hypocrisy of our rulers is truly staggering. They condemn Russia and China for being less than perfect democracies while British patriots are sentenced to long prison sentences just for expressing an opinion.

The situation looks grim but developments in the USA may yet save us from intellectual strangulation. Elon Musk has bought the social media platform Twitter, renamed it X, and vowed to guarantee free speech. He is a personal friend of Donald Trump and a true champion of democracy, not the false democracy of the Old Gang but genuine freedom.

Denis Pirie 1940-2025

We have lost another old comrade. Denis Pirie died in Brighton Hospital aged 85 on 19th January 2025. May he rest in peace

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"We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people."

 

 

 

 

Nation Revisited # 215 , January 2025

 f'm Back for the New Year

Nation Revisited # 214 July 2023

A History of Borrowing

Britain had always borrowed money to fight foreign wars. In the old days we didn't use the money for social services because they didn't exist. Parishes tried to look after the destitute but there was no nation provision for the poor..

We really cottoned on to borrowing during the Napoleonic Wars when an obliging Nathan Rothschild, a German bullion dealer, lent the British Government the money to finance Wellington's army, and made a killing on the London Stock Exchange by betting on the result using insider information.

Incidentally, I met Nathan's descendant, Evelyn Rothschild, during the building of the Queen's stand at Epsom Racecourse. He was the Secretary of the Jockey Club which owned the site. He was a tall, elegant man of aristocratic bearing. A tribute to the power of assimilation. 

The Rothschild experience established a pattern that endures to this day. We borrowed the money for the Crimean War, the South African War, the First World War, and the Second World War. By 1945 we had 3,000,000 men under arms but poverty was widespread, our industries were in ruins and out transportation system had suffered heavily from the bombing. 

When I was a boy, just after the war, our local shop operated an informal credit system. Mother would give me a shopping list and tell me to tell Mrs Brown the grocer that she would pay her at the end of the week.

Working class people never had bank accounts in those days. They used to get paid in cash  and if someone got a cheque he would get a publican to change it for a small fee.

People borrowed because they had no choice. Britain was bankrupt after six years of war  and taxes were even higher than they are today. Not that they effected the working class who didn't earn enough money tom pay taxes. It was the upper class that lost their stately homes and the middle class, the backbone of the nation, that were taxed the most.

The post-war Labour government launched a massive house building program, started the National Health Service and built a British Atomic Bomb, all on borrowed money

Britain scuttled out of India and Palestine as soon as possible because our once-mighty empire had become an intolerable drain on resources.

In 1950 the Korean War broke out and the government was forced to reduce NHS dental care to save money.

All of the African colonies were agitating for independence and the British Government soon lost interest in trying to protect white settlers, first Kenya was abandoned to black rule, then Rhodesia, and finally South Africa.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a race traitor of the first order but he kept us out of the Vietnam War. Nevertheless, we fought a series of ultimately pointless and financially crippling colonial wars in Malaya, Aden, Cyprus and Kenya. When we completely ran out of money Chancellor Denis Healey was forced to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund for a loan.

The discovery of oil and gas in the North Sea saved us in the 1970s. We were able to survive the 'Nixon Shock' that tore up the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that tied the pound to the dollar.

The pound promptly started to sink until Margaret Thatcher linked it to the Deutschmark, but she did it at the wrong rate and we were thrown out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Today, we are not at war but we are pouring money and missiles into Ukraine and  behaving like an imperial power. We are still giving foreign aid to India, a nuclear power with a thriving economy and an impressive space program..

Governments of all colours have slashed public spending but defence, and defence procurement, continues to cost untold billions. We now have two of the world's largest aircraft carriers, with very few planes fly off them, and we are currently renewing the Trident missile system that will never be used.. Of course, it's nice to have big ships that show the flag all over the world, but the money would be better spent on schools and hospitals.

Such showing off is part of the Imperial Mentality that clings to grand notions of sovereignty and independence.. The myth of our independence was exposed when Liz Truss's expansionist budget was soundly rejected by the bond market. We have almost reached the end of our credit limit and future governments will have to curb their addiction to borrowing.

Elections

Britain, France and the United States are all having elections. The American election is undoubtedly the most important because Washington rules the European Union and the United Kingdom. As I write the choice is between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, but 'Sleepy Joe' is obviously suffering from dementia and he may be replaced as the presidential candidate, even at this late stage.

Donald Trump is a swindler, a sex pest and a liar, but he is not a warmonger and he doesn't seek to perpetuate the anti-Russian line. 

In France Marine le Pen's National Rally has increased its vote and gained a majority in the French National Assembly., but President Macron will probably stay in power due to the complexity of the French electoral system. Madam le Pen has dropped her opposition to the EU and the Euro, like her counterpart in Italy, Georgia Meloni, she will adapt her 'fascism' to suit reality.

The UK approaches election day with barely controlled indifference. After 14 years of Tory rule the country is sick of one cock-up after another. We have gone through a financial crisis, a pandemic, a war in Europe, and Liz Truss's kamikaze budget but the biggest blow to our economy was Brexit. There is now a reported majority in favour of re-joining the EU, but only the minority Liberal Democrats and the Greens are supportive. The Tories are in the grip of the lunatic right and  the Labour Party id frightened of its so-called Red Wall. 

The Tories have a deceitful immigration policy that concentrates on stopping 40,000 so-called  illegal immigrants whilst welcoming over a million legals. Labour also have an unannounced plan that's thought to include a visa scheme and a general amnesty for those already here.

According to the opinion polls, a Labour landslide victory is predicted. The Tories will  be decimated, the Liberal Democrats will improve their performance, and the newly-formed Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage,  will suffer the same fat as Ukip, lots of votes but very few seats under first-past-the-post.

And when the counting is done and new bottoms occupy the seats of power, nothing much will have changed. The widening gap between rich and poor will probably get bigger, non-Europeans will continue to pour into Europe and North America, and war veterans will still be sleeping in doorways.

The demographic crisis effecting all three countries is very real. We need selective immigration to maintain our services, but uncontrolled and indiscriminate immigration will destroy us, unless we take urgent and co-ordinated steps to stem the tide.

Nation Revisited

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