Nation Revisited
An occasional e-mail to friends, # 55, April 2009
Churchill
The British National Party is using the image of Sir
Winston Churchill in their Euro election campaign. They claim Churchill as
their champion but he was a strong advocate of United Europe who outlined his
vision for the future in a speech to Zurich University in September 1946.
I wish to speak to you today about the
tragedy of Europe. This noble continent, comprising on the whole the fairest
and the most cultivated regions of the earth, enjoying a temperate and equable
climate, is the home of the great parent races of the western world. It is the
fountain of Christian faith and Christian ethics. It is the origin of most of
the culture, the arts, philosophy and science both of ancient and modern time.
If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance, there
would be no limit to the happiness, to the prosperity and the glory which its
three or four hundred million people would enjoy. Yet it is from Europe that
have sprung that series of frightful nationalistic quarrels, originated by the
Teutonic nations in their rise to power, which we have seen in this twentieth
century and even in our own lifetime, wreck the peace and mar the prospects of
all mankind.
And what is the plight to which Europe has been
reduced? Some of the smaller States have indeed made a good recovery, but over
wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, care-worn and bewildered
human beings gape at the ruins of their cities and their homes, and scan the
dark horizons for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the
victors there is a babel of voices; among the vanquished the sullen silence of
despair. That is all that Europeans, grouped in so many ancient states and
nations, that is all that the Germanic races have got by tearing each other to
pieces and spreading havoc far and wide. Indeed but for the fact that the great
Republic across the Atlantic Ocean has at length realized that the ruin or
enslavement of Europe would involve their own fate as well, and has stretched
out hands of succour and of guidance, but for that the Dark Ages would have
returned in all their cruelty and squalor. Gentlemen, they may still return.
Yet all the while there is a remedy which, if it were
generally and spontaneously adopted by the great majority of people in many
lands, would as if by magic transform the whole scene, and would in a few years
make all Europe, or the greater part of it, as free and as happy as Switzerland
is today. What is this sovereign remedy? It is to recreate the European Family,
or as much of it as we can, and to provide it with a structure under which it
can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United
States of Europe. In this way only will hundreds of millions of toilers be able
to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living. The process
is simple. All that is needed is the resolve of hundreds of millions of man and
women to do right instead of wrong and to gain as their reward blessing instead
of cursing.
Churchill was an imperialist and a strong believer in
the Atlantic Alliance. Like most of his generation he thought that Europeans should
rule Africa and Asia.
He believed in the “European Family” and would not
have agreed with those who want to stand alone against the world. Churchill’s
call for a “United States of Europe” could not have been clearer. The
Euro-sceptics argue that he did not include Britain in his European vision but
in 1940 he had offered French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud Franco-British union.
This remarkable plan envisaged the complete merger of Britain and France into
one political entity. But the French Chief of State Marshal Philippe Petain
rebuffed it.
His opinions were sometimes contradictory; he
supported the creation of the state of Israel and he was generally sympathetic
to the Jews but he also believed in a Jewish conspiracy. In 1920 he wrote in
The Illustrated Sunday Herald:
“This movement amongst the Jews is not new. From the
days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky
(Russia), Bela Kuhn (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman
(United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization
and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of
envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing.”
These sentiments would not be welcome in the party
that has chosen him as a mascot but many of his views would have been
acceptable. In 1952 he asked a Cabinet meeting if “the Post Office was
employing large numbers of coloured workers. If so, there was some risk that
difficult social problems would be created.” And in 1955 he told Ian Gilmour
the editor of The Spectator: “I think that it (immigration) is the most
important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to
take any notice.”
Like many politicians before him Winston Churchill had
seen through the myths of liberal democracy. He was suspicious of international
finance and worried about mass migration. But he was very much part of the
Establishment and committed to its survival. He was certainly a gifted orator
an inspired leader during the Second World War but his Conservative Party was
controlled by big business and welcomed cheap labour. He has gone down in
history as the man who led Britain to victory but he presided over the postwar
influx of Commonwealth immigrants that he had the power to stop. He helped to
prevent a German invasion but allowed a Third World invasion that will prove to
be even more dangerous.
Changes
Change is inevitable but the rate of change has been
overwhelming. Our old money changed in 1971 from pounds, shillings and pence to
decimal. We used to think that 80 degrees was hot but now we are sweltering at
40 degrees. We didn’t even notice that gallons of petrol had turned into litres
or that supermarket vegetables had gone from pounds to kilos, We were used to
having pubs in every district but now they are few and far between and are more
like restaurants than pubs. Cinemas have vanished along with dog racing tracks,
post offices and telephone boxes. Nearly everything that we took for granted
has been changed.
We have always had plenty of foreigners especially in
the great port cities of London, Bristol and Liverpool, but the influx of
millions upon millions of blacks and Asians has changed our population beyond
recognition.
With no reference points we are lost in a desert of
perpetual change. Everything familiar has gone to be replaced by alien things
that we neither want nor understand. The friendly local policeman who used to
know everyone in the area has been replaced by frightening paramilitaries armed
to the teeth and looking for trouble. We are spied on by CCTV cameras on ever
corner and monitored by our use of credit cards, pre-pay cards and mobile
phones. The state knows where everyone is but it doesn’t seem to care who is
coming into the country.
Our churches, newspapers and political parties all
observe political correctness and go along with every imposition. We have been
silenced by a system that screams “racism” if we dare to stand up for
ourselves.
The question is, just how much change can society take
before it has a nervous breakdown? Up to now the economy has been booming and
the Bill Clinton effect meant that people ignored everything but their life of
plenty. But now that the bubble has burst they are starting to notice that
their country has been turned into a gigantic refugee camp.
Families evolved into tribes and tribes into nations
out of necessity. When identity is lost the result is social upheaval and
general anarchy. The constraints of mutual respect and common allegiance are
the basis of civilization. The only way to keep a fundamentally dissimilar and
disunited population under control is by armed might. And the lesson of history
is that brutal dictatorships are neither progressive nor productive.
It is never to late to take action against injustice.
The deliberate importation of cheap labour must be stopped and reversed, and
the collective suicide of Britain must be prevented. What we have built by
thousands of years of effort must not be thrown away. Tradition is more than
ornamental; it’s the social DNA that tells us who we are and where we are
going.
Justifying
murder
At a remarkable press conference former IRA chief
Martin McGuinness joined with Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde and First Minister
Peter Robinson to condemn the campaign of violence by renegade IRA units.
Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams know that their jobs depend on the peace
process but to the hardliners they are Michael Collins figures that are targets
for assassination.
Most Irish people speak English but the Irish language
and culture is thriving on both sides of the border. The “Celtic Tiger” economy
may have run out of steam but it has created a generation of achievers. The
Belfast government ensures equality but the terrorists are fighting injustices
that no longer exist. Ironically Irish troops are serving all over the world as
UN peacekeepers and being shot at by locals who see them as foreign occupiers.
The British Army consists of English, Irish, Scottish
and Welsh regiments. Our major cities have significant Irish populations and
people of Irish descent are found in all walks of life. We are related peoples
who are inextricably linked.
British governments have been trying to disengage from
Ireland ever since 1918 when the Dublin-born lawyer Edward Carson threatened to
seize power. Neville Chamberlain almost succeeded in 1940 but Eamon de Valera
rejected his proposals.
It’s natural to be proud of ones country but when
nationalism is used to justify murder it becomes a “cruel and wicked religion”
that has no place in modern society. Jeffrey Hamm put things in perspective in
his column “Their World and Ours” in Action, July 1981.
From time to time we draw attention to
the flaws in the EEC, in grave danger of failure and collapse because it put
the cart before the horse, seeking to create a common market before a common
government.
A truly common market is of vital importance, with the
industries and agriculture of our continent dedicated to maximum production,
not for export but for consumption by our European peoples.
There is a vast market within Europe for all that
Europe can produce, and it should be insulated against the undercutting of Asia
and the communist bloc.
But Europe needs more, much more, than an economic
policy. It needs faith, a profound belief in the cause of European unity.
Europe needs a European government for its defence and
the leadership of its economy, with national governments for all internal
affairs, and regional administration for local matters and for the preservation
of the ancient languages and cultures of our continent.
Within that concept there is no clash between a
healthy nationalism and patriotism on the one hand, and a devotion to the
Europe of which our respective nations are a part.
The federal
concept
(This letter first appeared in European Action
in March 2009.
Those “nationalists” who subscribe to European
Action have already embraced the concept of federalism. They are loyal to a
union of four distinct nations with different languages and traditions. But
there are Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and even English nationalists that
want to break up the United Kingdom.
Since the recession it’s even harder to take these
people seriously. The SNP was shocked when their celebrated banks ran out of
money. Their leader Alex Salmond described an “arc of prosperity” spanning
Scotland, Ireland and Iceland. But now Iceland is broke and Ireland is feeling
the effects of the recession.
The Flemish separatists were also proud of their
financial institutions. The Flanders based Fortis consortium was seen as the
future national bank of an independent Flanders. Now the governments of
Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg have had to rescue Fortis.
The worldwide recession has uncovered scams like the
Bernie Madoff affair and the ridiculous Icelandic banking boom that turned a
tiny Atlantic island into a global financial power. A nation with nothing but
fish and sagas suddenly started taking deposits from greedy but naïve investors
who believed forecasts that were always too good to be true.
The credit crunch has revealed the vulnerability of
small nations. The UK was forced to bailout the banks and let the pound slide.
There has been talk of Britain adopting the Euro but William Hague, the
baseball-capped Euro-sceptic who led the Tories to a landslide defeat in 2001,
has vowed that we will never join the single currency.
Even the most blinkered isolationists must accept that
we have not been militarily independent since we desperately accepted American
help in 1917. We have not been financially independent since we tied the pound
to the dollar at Bretton Woods in 1944. And we have not fed ourselves since the
eighteenth century. We have long depended on the economic benefits of union,
first with the British Isles, then with the British Empire and lately with
America.
But the British Empire has passed into history and
America is going the same way. We must
extend the federal concept to Europe. We are related to the continental nations
just as we are to Scotland, Ireland and Wales. It is illogical for the
descendent of Iberians, Celts, Romans, Anglo –Saxons, Normans and Vikings to be
anti-European. The current regime in Brussels is not set in stone; it is just a
government that can be removed by the vote of the people.
The reality of power
The established
political parties in the United Kingdom used to represent class interests. The
Conservative Party stood for the landed aristocracy, the Liberal Party – now
the Liberal Democrats – stood for reform and wanted to help the middle class.
The Labour Party was a working class movement funded by the trade unions and
devoted to socialist principles. The Scottish and Welsh nationalists were only
interested in their own backyards and the Northern Irish were divided by
national allegiance. Of course there were some Tories with a social conscience
and there were a lot of Labour Party supporters who hated atheistic communism.
This system
survived two world wars and half a dozen recessions but now the political
parties have met in the middle; the Tory Party supports the National Health
Service and pension reform and the Labour Party has promised tougher
immigration laws and talks about “British jobs for British workers.” Both major
parties depend on corporate funding and both have suffered a massive decline in
membership.
Britain has
fallen into a two or three term political cycle. We change governments every
twelve years regardless of performance. Our prime ministers follow orders from
big business so doesn’t matter if they are Labour or Tory.
From time to
time protest movements catch the imagination of the electorate.
British Union’s
popularity peaked in the peace campaign of 1939 when Mosley addressed the
largest indoor meeting ever held in Britain.
But the government put him and his supporters behind bars and plunged
Britain into a fratricidal and ruinous European conflict.
The Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament boasted 100,000 members in the 1960s and their annual Aldermaston
march stretched for miles. But fifty years later we still rely on American
missiles to deliver our “independent” nuclear warheads.
In the October
1974 general election the National Front poled an impressive 113,000 votes but
Margaret Thatcher undermined their 1979 campaign when she said that she
understood people’s fears of being swamped by immigration.
The Countryside
Alliance came from nowhere to stage one of the biggest demonstrations ever seen
in London. In 1997 they paraded nearly half a million supporters thought the
streets of the capital. But this great upsurge of protest has apparently come
to nothing.
In the 2004
Euro election the UK Independence Party made a spectacular breakthrough when
they got 12 MEPs elected with 16.8% of the poll. They benefited from the
publicity surrounding Robert Kiroy-Silk and the backing of the popular press.
But a year later the only managed 2.38% in the general election and in the
coming Euro election they could be wiped out.
Radical parties
can change things but only when conditions are right. The British economy is
collapsing but the government is still in control. When they start locking up
dissidents we will know that they are getting rattled. But all the time that
people are allowed to organize and have their say we can be sure that they are
wasting their time.
The
parliamentary system perpetuates the old gang parties that support big
business. The way that Barrack Obama and Gordon Brown have poured billions of
pounds and dollars into the banks shows who is really in charge. Banks, oil
companies and mass retailers dominate commercial activity and control
governments. People think that they are influencing events by voting but the
real decisions are made in corporate boardrooms.
International
big business is totally ruthless and committed to maximum profit for minimum
outlay. If they can make products cheaper overseas they will shut down British
factories and transfer the entire operation. And if they chose to stay in
Britain they can always import cheap labour from all over the world. If
politicians criticize their actions they will use their power to silence them.
Capitalism has
been global since the British and Dutch East India Companies dominated world
trade in the 18th century. The great corporations cannot be confined
to one country or one market. Boeing or Airbus could not survive within
national borders but the idea of making aircraft on a small scale is a
nonstarter. Electronics companies like Microsoft or Sony cannot operate as
cottage industries, and oil companies like Shell, BP, Exxon and Total have
budgets that dwarf nation states.
Parties that
are owned and controlled by them will never challenge the power of the
international giants. It would take a determined government to control international
capitalism. Such a government can only come from a reformist movement that
understands supply and demand. Protest
movements are a necessary part of the political process but the protesters must
understand the reality of power. Big business will not be frightened off by
slogans or impressed by empty-headed jingoism.
Capitalism is
not an ideology it’s the way that human society has always been organized.
Everybody sells something even if it’s only their labour or advice. Attempts at
overriding the profit motive have not been successful. The Russians wasted 70
years trying to make communism work before abandoning the whole experiment. We
will never do away with capitalism but we can legislate to protect employees
against exploitation and markets against manipulation. We must regulate the
banks and elect representatives who are not controlled by them. If we fail the
cycle of boom and bust will be perpetuated.
Troy Southgate
– from his Facebook page
I support Islamic freedom fighters abroad 100%, but these people are total hypocrites and are using Islam to further their own political ends within the UK. This is a case of British colonialists being confronted by Pakistani colonialists, perhaps they should swap places and be done with it.
I will also add
that the strategy of the BNP, by focusing on Islam far more than the ethnicity
of the immigrants themselves, for purely opportunistic reasons, of course, is
just as counter-productive. Surely a highly vociferous group of Pakistani
nationalists - I refuse to categorise them in a purely religious context - is
conducive to racial separatism? In other words, whilst the Establishment is ultimately
seeking to 'Anglicise' these communities and ensure that their future offspring
immerse themselves in the profane trappings of Western consumerism, which has
happened in the case of those Black immigrants who arrived here in the 1950s
and their descendants. I prefer the Pakistanis to retain their unique
diversity. I'm sure most people in the BNP would agree with that, but sadly
they are helping the Establishment achieve its objectives and this 'do as the
Romans do' approach will inevitably result in the assimilation of English and
Pakistani nationalists alike.
Newspapers like
the Daily Mail are at the forefront of this nefarious strategy and those who
read it need to wake up. Rather than act as a mouthpiece for those who oppose
multi-racialism and its consequences, political correctness and all the rest of
it, the people who shape the opinions of those on the Right are deliberately
inciting anti-Muslim hysteria in order to help usher in new laws that will
affect everyone. When the time comes for people to give this corrupt
Establishment one last shove into the historical abyss, it is then that many
people will realise how foolish they have been in calling for tougher measures
against 'terrorism', 'fundamentalism' and 'extremism'. In reality, these are
the clandestine mainstays of Western democracy and, instead, are used against
those of us who can see through all the lies and distortions.
The 'homecoming' marches are simply a lame excuse to try to whip
up support for a cause that the vast majority of people in the British Isles
simply have no time for. Public attitudes certainly haven't changed since two
million took to the streets before the start of the second Gulf War, in fact
the opposition has grown considerably. Maybe it's time people stopped buying
tabloid arse-wipe like the Daily Mail and tut-tutting about 'dole scroungers'
absorbing their taxes over breakfast and waking up to the fact that the
country's huge national debt is a result of decades of militarism on behalf of
Imperial Zion. Their taxes are used to line the pockets of the capitalist filth
who make a profit from war itself. Nothing changes, the Rothschild tradition is
alive and kicking.
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