Nation Revisited
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76, February 2011,
The
cult of victimhood
The far-right in the UK has won seats on local councils,
the London Assembly and the European Parliament. But their temporary success
now seems to be over and they are back to getting four of five percent. Their
progress is restricted by hostile media coverage and violent opposition. But
their greatest handicap is the public’s reaction to the cult of victimhood. One
look at their publications is enough to convey the paranoia that frames every
article. According to the far-right a secret gang of plotters are destroying
our country, our culture and our agriculture.
It’s obvious to most students of history that mass
migration from the Third World is a consequence of the global capitalist system
pioneered by the British Empire. And it’s just as obvious that our culture and
language are constantly being modified by international influences such as the
Internet, cheap air travel and satellite television.
There is considerable opposition to all of these
developments but people are reluctant to vote for a party with a persecution
complex. The victimhood mindset is palpably negative and pathetic. It does not
inspire confidence and it repels people who might otherwise be attracted. A
crying child invokes sympathy for a while but if it goes on crying it just
becomes annoying.
If the UK adopts proportional representation a far-right
party might attract enough votes to gain several MPs. But they will achieve
nothing by sulking. If they want to
influence events they should drop the cult of victimhood and stop whinging and
whining. And they should find a leader who looks normal and acts rationally.
Wearing self imposed gags and constantly snivelling is guaranteed to put people
off.
The
way things are
We must thank Hilaire Belloc for his poem ‘Epitaph on the
Politician Himself.’
Here richly, with ridiculous
display.
The politician’s corpse was
laid away.
While all of his acquaintances sneered
and slanged,
I
wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
Hilaire Belloc wanted to bring down capitalism by giving
every family a smallholding and a cow. But there is not enough land and there
are not enough cows. We cannot make high-tech televisions, computers and
aircraft with cottage industries. Modern society needs mass production and mass
markets. That’s the way things are. We can’t do away with capitalism but we can
control it with legislation.
Industry attracts labour like a magnet, and the cheaper
the labour the stronger the attraction. Passports and border controls were
introduced in the industrial age to stop people flooding across borders in
search of work. And they have been relaxed in modern times to recruit cheap
labour and hold down production costs. As the French writer Alain de Benoist
said: “Those who remain silent about capitalism should not complain about
immigration.”
The unrestricted importation of cheap labour by global
capitalism threatens our survival as a European nation. We are heading towards
a world population of nine billions and the prospect of famine, drought and
ecological disaster. Our only hope of survival is a total ban on non-European
immigration. The stable or declining populations of the European states are in
contrast to the escalating populations of Africa and Asia. They must be refused
entry or we will be overwhelmed.
The populist newspapers huff and puff about immigration
but they support ‘free trade and open borders’ as prescribed by Milton Friedman
the guru of globalism. They also preach national independence but that’s
impossible so long as we are members of NATO and bound by the rules of the
World Trade Organisation. Hollow jingoism will not save us from millions of
African and Asian refugees. The invasion has already started but there’s still
time to save ourselves. Italy and France are deporting illegal immigrants,
Germany’s Angela Merkel has spoken out against mass migration and the FRONTEX
border force is helping Greece to secure her borders. Despite years of
multiracial propaganda Europe is moving towards a common immigration policy.
The economic crisis has exposed the myth of ‘cheap’ immigrant labour - it’s not
so cheap when they are on the dole.
It has been difficult to coordinate a Europe-wide
campaign against immigration but the EU decision to adopt party lists, instead
of national lists, will help. Right-wing parties have formed alliances in the
European Parliament but they are always likely to fall out as they did when
Alessandra Mussolini wrecked the previous attempt by upsetting the Romanian contingent.
A Europe-wide party with sensible policies may seem ambitious but traditional
party loyalties are breaking down as shown by the low turnouts at elections and
the emergence of coalition governments.
Political parties become dictatorial when they have
comfortable majorities. When the landslide post-war Labour government started
slum clearance most people wanted a house with a garden. Instead they got
blocks of flats because that was what the planners wanted. Architects inspired
by social housing projects in Sweden strongly believed in communal living and
even wanted to scrap individual kitchens and provide canteens where all the
occupants would eat together. These misconceived follies are now being
demolished but it took half a century for architects and planners to realise
that they had got it horribly wrong.
The construction of tower blocks coincided with the start
of mass migration from the West Indies. And the same blinkered planners and
social scientists greeted the immigrants with open arms and predicted a
wonderful multiracial future for us all. Now both of their projects have come
together as black drug gangs shoot it out in the stairways of tower blocks in
Peckham and elsewhere. It’s no wonder that whites are moving out of ‘enriched’
areas. Our big cities have been turned into a dangerous patchwork of no-go
areas by failed experiments in social engineering.
Our politicians consistently make wrong decisions. We
fought colonial wars all over the world before handing over to the insurgents
and moving on to the next skirmish. We did it in Malaya. Kenya, Cyprus, Aden
and now we are doing it in Afghanistan. Prime Ministers from Winston Churchill
to Tony Blair have made stirring speeches about fighting terrorism before
giving in to them. Every disputed territory was supposed to be vital to British
interests but when we lost them it didn’t matter at all. The Falklands was
different because the population was British and the Argentines had invaded.
But that was the only war where we had a clear objective.
They have managed no better with the economy. Governments
borrow money until they run out of credit and then impose austerity budgets to
balance the books. Gordon Brown promised to end the stop-go syndrome but he
only delayed the Day of Reckoning by raiding pension funds and introducing new
taxes. When we eventually repay our national debt the challenge will be to live
within our means. When Oswald Mosley proposed spending our way out of the Great
Depression we were a major industrial power with a captive imperial market. And
when John Maynard Keynes went to America to negotiate a massive loan we were bankrupt
after nearly six years of war. None of those conditions apply today.
We also need to be more efficient. “The last government
commissioned a study of Britain’s infrastructure which placed us 24th
in quality and quantity in the world. Switzerland was first, followed by
Singapore, then Germany, France and Finland. We ranked 8th for telecoms, 18th
for electricity, 20th for our railways, 24th for roads
and 27th for aviation.” (Evening Standard 06-01-11)
In private industry failed managers are fired but
politicians get re-elected every five years and the party with the most seats
takes power. Then the failed ministers from the last government, or the one before
that, carry on making decisions dictated by the latest political fashion.
Politicians and football managers always seem to get another job regardless of
their past performance. This is supposed to be government by the people; in
fact it’s government by a gang of incompetent bunglers with heads full of sound
bites.
But nothing lasts forever. Modern communications and
freedom of information are making it harder to conceal parliamentary deceit and
stupidity. As cheating MPs are sent to prison, and living standards are driven
down, people will lose faith in the old parties and look for something new. The
days of flawed democracy are numbered.
Fair
play for all
To be fair we must avoid both negative and positive
discrimination. The police should not ignore crimes committed by ethnic
minorities because they are frightened of being accused of racism. The law must
be enforced without fear or favour.
And jobs should go to the best qualified without regard
to ethnic origin. So-called ‘affirmative action’ is unfair to whites,
patronising to blacks and bound to damage race-relations. Fire brigades, police
forces and other state employers discriminate against whites when they hire
non-whites to meet ethnic quotas. They should be prosecuted for practising
racial discrimination.
We should scrap blatantly racist organisations such as
the Black Police Association and the Indian Workers Party. The BNP was forced
to open its membership to all races but the rules must apply to everybody. If
it’s wrong for whites to exclude blacks and Asians it must be wrong for blacks
and Asians to exclude whites.
When the Cenotaph was established after the First World
War it was deliberately designed without religious of national symbolism. It
represents all those who fell for the British Empire without regard to service,
rank, race, sex or creed. It is regrettable that some groups find it necessary
to have their own remembrance services when the national service of remembrance
is for everyone.
It’s time to put an end to inverted racism and treat
everybody fairly. This requires effort from both communities, we should be
charitable to newcomers but they must assimilate into British society by
speaking English and respecting our laws and traditions. The twisted white
liberals who brought about this mess should face the fact that most people
prefer their own kind; not because they are ‘racists’ but because it’s human
nature to put your own family first; as Napoleon Bonaparte said: “If I were
black I would be for the blacks; being white I am for the whites.”
All of the political parties are now agreed on the need
to limit Third World immigration. Even the self-hating Labour Party now accepts
that our little islands are full up. We must stop all further non-European
immigration, send back illegal immigrants and convicted criminals and help
those who want to go home. But law-abiding immigrants who have successfully
settled here must have the same rights and responsibilities as the rest of us.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is a
state-sponsored organisation run by immigrants for their own benefit. At a time
when we are laying-off policemen and schoolteachers it’s a criminal waste of
money that should not be tolerated. Let’s sack the lot of them and rely on commonsense
when dealing with minorities. Trevor Phillips and his team of overpaid meddlers
should be trained to do something useful instead of persecuting people who do
not conform to ‘political correctness.’
This
is not the Thirties
The latest figures show that we are still in recession,
inflation is rising and some families are having a tough time. Fortunately
social security is available and we don’t have soup kitchens feeding the hungry
or wretched columns of unemployed men marching on London. Things could be
better but Britain still has the world’s sixth largest economy worth £250
billion per annum. And we are the third largest economy in Europe after Germany
and France.
In the Thirties state handouts were strictly
means-tested. The majority of men worked in manufacturing industry but many
married women stayed at home. Mines, shipyards, dockyards and factories
employed thousands of people. In Coventry, Dagenham and Luton almost the entire
population made cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles. In South Wales and
Yorkshire coalmining predominated. In Belfast and Glasgow it was shipbuilding
and in the North East it was steel making. When these industries slowed down
their employees and their dependants suffered real hardship.
But those days are gone. Most of our manufacturing industry
has been wiped out by cheap imports from Asia. Manufacturing employs only15% of
the workforce. The coal mining industry is almost finished and the docks in
London, Liverpool, Cardiff and Glasgow have been replaced by container ports
that employ very few men. Agriculture is
so mechanised that it only accounts for 2% of the workforce.
Today people are moving or selling things rather than
making them. The commuter routes into our big cities are packed every morning
with workers who generate most of Britain’s income. But there are very few
factories. The toiling masses are busy shuffling papers and sending e-mails.
The only manual workers are builders and engineers who provide the offices and
services for the paper shufflers.
The current downturn in the economy has increased
unemployment but the majority of the unemployed are regulars who have always
been out of work. Some of them can’t work because they are incapacitated by
drugs or alcohol. But many of them are able bodied people who have decided to
play the system rather than suffer the torment of getting up in the morning and
going to work.
During the boom it didn’t matter if 7.9% of the workforce
was idle because the rest of the workers would pay enough tax to cover them. But now we have run out of money and the
bone-idle are facing the terrible prospect of getting a job. They claim that
there’s no work available but millions of immigrants have found jobs in Britain.
There are jobs on offer but the pay is not much better than state benefit.
Under the present system there is no reason for our 2.5 million unemployed to
take low paid jobs when they can stay at home and wait for the postman to
deliver a cheque.
We got over the terrible recession of the Thirties by
having a world war. That is no longer an option but we can restructure our
economy by providing adequate training and education for our workforce. Some of
our kids are leaving school without the basic skills necessary to earn a
living. We need to revise our
educational system and get rid of bad teachers. Instead of churning out
graduates in media studies and sociology we should be training engineers and
scientists.
The old manufacturing industries will not come back but
we can specialise in the sophisticated industries that we are good at; things
like precision machine tools, optical equipment, electronics, pharmaceuticals,
aviation and banking. Since the credit crunch and the row over bonuses the
banking business has been in the dog house. But the City of London is the
world’s most important financial centre and banking and insurance are major
employers of labour and earners of capital.
The decline of heavy industry and the financial crisis
have been painful experiences but the economy will recover. There are genuine
unemployment black spots but new industries are being attracted to these areas
by national and local initiatives. We will come through this period of
austerity but we must ensure that we have a sensible and sustainable
immigration policy and that everybody who is capable is gainfully employed.
The
Telegraph gets it right
These
words were not written by a supporter of ‘Europe a Nation’ but by Peter Oborne
the chief political commentator of the eurosceptic Daily Telegraph. They are
meant to be a dire warning against the EU but they could have the opposite
effect.
Since the coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor
in 800AD, there have been numerous attempts to unify Europe. Philip II of
Spain, Louis XIV, Napoleon and Hitler all came tantalisingly close to success,
but all ultimately failed. Today a fifth attempt is under way through the
European Union.
Though not associated with a single great or powerful
man, the ultimate objective of the EU is otherwise more or less familiar to
students of European empires: no internal boundaries; a single currency; one
parliament; one central government; one army; one foreign policy and a single
political unit stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals.
The 27 nations that currently comprise the EU would merge
into one huge state, accounting for a population of some 500 million,
approximately one fifth of global wealth and an even higher percentage of the
world’s trade. Such a nation would take its place alongside the United States
and China as a superpower.
This project, in its way both noble and visionary, is
surprisingly close to realisation. Many people fail to grasp this point because
they have been distracted by the headlines on the financial pages signalling
daily woe and disaster for the eurozone countries.
But these setbacks were long ago foreseen by the
architects of the EU. Jacques Delors, the French politician who more than
anyone else was the architect of the single currency that is used today, is a
highly intelligent man. He was warned many times by critics such as Margaret
Thatcher that it was hopelessly premature to set up a monetary union without
full political unification. He knew very well there would be problems.
But Mr Delors saw these problems as opportunities – what
have been called “beneficial crises”. These economic crises, he believed, could
be exploited by the European governing class to expedite with extra urgency and
dynamism their over-riding project of integration, and the creation of a single
European state.
An understanding of this background is essential for
anyone wishing to come to terms with yesterday’s speech in the City of London
by the French prime minister Francoise Fillon. Most of the guests listening to
Mr Fillon would surely have expected at the very least a substantial measure of
alarm and contrition in the wake of the devastating setbacks for eurozone
countries such as Greece and Ireland over recent months.
Yet there was no sign of retreat, or even judicious
contemplation. Mr Fillon could hardly have been more bullish, upbeat or
confident. “Europe is at a historic turning point,” declared the unchastened
French premier. “The real question right now is whether to keep building on
this adventure, or whether we leave it at that.”
His answer could not have been clearer: “We are going to
move towards greater integration.” That means a deepening of the common social
and economic regime which already binds Europe – as well as one potent extra
element. Governments are to be stripped of their ability to tax and spend
according to the democratic demands of their own voters. Instead (though Mr
Fillon did not explain this), their budgets will be set for them by a greatly
empowered common European government in Brussels. (Peter Oborne, The Daily
Telegraph 18-01-11)
Peter
Oborne grasps the point that that a single currency requires a single
government. Small countries like Greece and Ireland pretended to be sovereign
states by issuing their own national bonds. But they are no more independent than
we are. Only a state that can feed and defend itself can claim to be sovereign.
The
Daily Telegraph argues that we should not adopt the euro because we need to be
in charge of our economy. But foreign exchange dealers decide the value of the
pound and the Bank of England’s interest rate depends on commodity price
inflation that we cannot control. We are not operating in isolation but in the
international market. We cannot control the price of oil, coffee or anything
else that we import. We are at the mercy of the world trade system in or out of
the EU. The emerging European superpower that Peter Oborne describes will be a
very different matter. It will be the master of its own destiny.
His case against the European
Union is not based on economics; it’s founded on a sentimental attachment to a
failed parliamentary system and a nostalgic vision of independence that is no
longer attainable.
Nation
Revisited Interview
I asked people who support the concept of European unity
the following questions. First up is John Bean the former editor of the BNP
magazine Identity.
Who are you?
John Bean, long-term Nationalist. First active in
Mosley’s Union Movement 1951, then most other nationalist movements since then,
excluding those specifically calling for a resurrection of National Socialism.
Currently still a member of the BNP – unless I have been expelled since
preparing this report.
What
do you believe in?
I do not support the narrow nationalism which exists
within UKIP and is a view held by a number of BNP members. In the days of the
National Labour Party, which I founded in 1958, I warned in our paper Combat and at indoor and outdoor
meetings that “the White World was under attack”. In the NLP and the first BNP
and in articles I wrote for the National Front during the early 70s, I called
for a “Third Force” between the United States – the base of world finance
capitalism – and the Soviet Communist Empire, which then extended into half of
Europe. That Third force would consist of a Confederation of all European
States, plus those nations of the old Commonwealth who wished to join, which
was a possibility in the 60s and early 70s but less likely today.
A European Confederation is of course, quite distinct
from the present European Union which I have vigorously opposed. The reasons
for my opposition are centred on the fact that its founders and virtually all
present-day executives (including the non-Marxists) are globalists by belief
and Europeans only by birth. The EU weltanschauung (world outlook) is that
federal Europe is but a stepping stone to World Government. Hence we see that
their respect for European culture – with its variants and individuality which
is part of the European psyche – and Mosley’s “Europe a Nation” is almost
completely overshadowed by their concern for the welfare and expansion of the
populations of Africa and Moslem Inner Asia, both of whom are currently
colonising Europe.
If
you could direct government policy what would you do?
If I could direct government policy, let us assume that I
would only be allowed to do this in two areas. Internally, I would stop
immediately all non-European immigration, except for a few hundred genuine
refugees. Externally, all support would be given to those British MEPs to work
with those sympathetic to a European Confederation. There are already many from Hungary, Italy, Austria and the
Baltic States who are fellow Confederates and the indications are that Marine
Le Pen of the Front National is sympathetic. Thus I would not necessarily call
for our immediate withdrawal from the EU. We may have to do so eventually.
What
are you proud of and what do you regret?
I am proud of the fact that I was the painter’s assistant
when the first “Keep Brixton White” slogan (later to become “Keep Britain
White”) appeared on a wall in 1951. If more orthodox politicians, such as Enoch
Powell 17 years later, had also expressed more concern in those days then those
original slogans would have had more effect.
I regret that I was once associated with Colin Jordan and
that I did not withdraw my support for Nick Griffin earlier.
How
would you like to be remembered?
I would like to be remembered as somebody who helped to
keep the flame of nationalism and white world solidarity alive.
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