Nation Revisited # 107,
September 2013
website: http://nationrevisited.blogspot.co.uk
The Tories have got a similar problem. It was a
Conservative prime minister, Ted Heath, who took us into the Common Market in 1973,
but the right wing of the Tory Party has always been opposed to Europe. Dave
Cameron knows that there is no economic alternative to the EU but the rise of
Ukip has forced him to promise a referendum. He is trying to appease the
“bastard faction” without panicking the Confederation of British Industry. If
he gets it right he might win the next general election but if he gets it wrong
he will be thrown out of office.
Britain has kept her identity for 40 years in the EU but
an “independent” Britain would be swallowed up by America. The go-it-alone
option is a myth for a country that depends on imported food and oil. The real
choice is between Europe and the North American Free Trade Agreement. That was
Conrad Black’s policy when he owned The
Daily Telegraph and it was the
objective of the shadowy Atlantic Bridge movement which included Liam Fox,
William Hague and most of the Tory front bench. It was shut down by the Charity
Commission in 2011 but its malign influence lingers on.
The anti-EU campaign is the Tory Clause 4; a bitter
division within the party. They should remember that we had millions of
Afro-Asian immigrants long before we joined the EU. And that the US has got a
black president, a multi-racial immigration policy and a worldview based on
perpetual warfare. The idea of British independence is an illusion and the
prospect of American domination is a nightmare. The rise of European
consciousness is our only hope of salvation.
Parliamentary
DemocracyThe Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has recommended that MPs get a £10,000 pay rise on top of their existing £66,396. This would give them almost three times the average UK wage of £26,000. That’s an awful lot of money at a time budget cuts and pay freezes.
Since Prime Minister’s Question Time has been televised
we have seen the asinine behavior of some of our MPs. Senseless jeering and
cheering fills the chamber of the House of Commons as the Speaker tries to keep
order like a schoolteacher with a class of naughty children. Parliament is
proud of its ancient traditions but the behavior of some MPs is disgraceful.
The House of Lords is more sedate because most of them are asleep. The European
Parliament also needs reforming but it doesn’t have the same level of
hooliganism as Westminster.
As power is devolved to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast we
will not need 635 MPs to represent us. And with modern communications we could
slash the number of MPs. We need a smaller, more efficient parliament governed
by strict conditions of employment. Those who go missing without producing a
medical certificate should be sacked, and so should those who report for work
under the influence of drink or drugs. Jeering and booing should not be allowed
and the highest standards of civility should be maintained. Representing the
people should be a full time job and second jobs, consultancies and
directorships should not be allowed.
The practice of shuffling ministers between departments
is wasteful. They should have a background in their field of responsibility and
receive on the job training. The Minister of Defence should be an
ex-serviceman, the Minister of Health should be a medical man, and the Minister
of Education should have teaching qualifications - and so on. When Selwyn Lloyd
was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in 1951 he protested that
he: “had never been abroad, spoke no foreign languages and didn’t like foreigners.”
Winston Churchill replied: “Then you are just the man for the job.” Such perversity
might be amusing but it has no place in the modern world.
The House of Lords is a comfortable billet for 754 worn
out party donors and camp followers. It should be transformed into a Senate
charged with approving bills from the House of Commons and empowered to throw
out bad legislation. Senators should be drawn from all walks of life. They
should be British nationals with outstanding records of achievement. Their
number should be limited to 100 men and women appointed by IPSA; or a similar
independent body. Their pay and conditions should be the same as MPs, and their
conduct should be exemplary at all times.
The growing importance of the European Parliament, the
Scottish referendum on independence and the ongoing debate on House of Lords
reform will force us to re-examine our parliamentary system. Scandals involving
party funding, cash for questions, drunken brawls, sexual shenanigans and
fiddled expenses have destroyed the public’s faith in Parliament. And this has been exacerbated by undeserved
demands for more money. Guy Fawkes was in no doubt that Parliament was
irredeemably corrupt but with a determined effort it can be reformed. We should
give it one last chance before resorting to gunpowder.
Striking
a Balance
“Dictators lose any sense of balance as they pursue their
obsessive ambition into a world of unreality.” Benito Mussolini
Libertarians warn of the dangers of the surveillance
state and whistle blowers reveal the extent of spying. But governments blame
terrorism for the need to snoop on our telephone conversations and e-mails. The
trouble is that they are both right. If governments are not restrained by an
independent judiciary they become dictatorial, and if terrorists are not
apprehended we suffer further atrocities. The trick is to strike a balance.
Every state has the right to control its borders and
implement immigration policies. The UK has made little or no effort over the
years to control immigration. We had customs and immigration officers at
airports and ferry terminals but everybody knew that hundreds of thousands of
illegal immigrants were entering the country. From time to time the police
would round up a few illegals but they were usually released without charge.
Big business needed workers and the cheaper the better. The Establishment
parties pretended to be concerned but they effectively turned a blind eye to
the influx.
All the time that the economy was booming nobody worried
about immigration. The whites had the money to buy houses far away from the
inner city ghettoes. And the government was collecting sufficient tax revenue
to keep millions of people on the dole. But in 2008 the banks suffered a Minsky
moment and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer. This was just after we
admitted a million East Europeans who immediately found work, mostly in
construction and agriculture. Because Poles and Lithuanians are white our
newspapers were allowed to object to them. Blacks and Asians have been pouring
in for the last half century but our gutless newspapers said nothing for fear
of prosecution under the Race Act. Now populist movements like Ukip are
demanding a total ban on immigration. We have gone from one extreme to another
without achieving a sense of balance. The fact is that with an ageing
population we may need immigrants in the future but we should choose them from
kindred nations that can be easily assimilated.
And it’s the same with
economics. The Labour Party believes in spending money to promote full
employment and provide decent public services. The Tories, on the other hand,
spend less but leave the taxpayers with more money in their pockets. We all love the National Health Service. It’s
one of the finest things this country ever did. But it must be managed like any
other industry. There’s no limit to the money we could spend on the health
service. We could forget about education, defence, transport and all our other
commitments and spend our entire national income on the NHS. Once again, a
sense of balance is needed.
Defence is another department in danger of running away
with our money. The government expects the Trident update to cost £20 billion
but Greenpeace puts it at £100 billion. The Tories want to spend the money but their
Liberal Democrat coalition partners are looking for a cheaper option.
Every aspect of politics requires a sense of balance.
When politicians lose it we end up with a Margaret Thatcher or a Gordon Brown;
fanatics who pursued their doctrinaire policies to the bitter end.
In
the name of Tradition
The Traditional
Britain Group recently gained publicity by inviting Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg to
address them. They describe themselves as traditional conservatives but many of
the traditions they cherish serve no useful purpose. We will not save our race
and nation by wallowing in the past; and certainly not be listening to Tory
MPs.The Amish and the Orthodox Jews have become trapped in the 18th century as far as their clothes are concerned. They think that God likes black hats so they will not wear anything else. That’s what happens when tradition takes over. Apparently sane people start flapping around in gowns like a superfluity of demented nuns.
The Church and the Law are noble institutions but they
can save our souls and empty our bank accounts without resorting to fancy dress.
The splendid regalia of the Archbishop of Canterbury may have impressed
medieval peasants but today it looks ridiculous. And a courtroom with its judge
and lawyers in powdered wigs could be straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan’s
opera “Trial by Jury.”
At the State Opening of Parliament an MP is held hostage
by the Crown against the Queen’s safe return. This dates back to the Civil War
but it’s no way to run a modern industrial nation. Presumably, if Parliament
refused to let her go the unfortunate hostage’s head would be chopped off and
impaled on the railings of Buckingham Palace?Some traditions have served us well and are worth keeping but many of them are instant traditions invented by Victorian PR gurus to promote the British Royal Family.
Joseph Goebbels performed much the same service for Adolf
Hitler. The Germans enjoyed the brilliant choreography of the Nazi era; the
flags, banners, drums and flaming torches. But the present generation is
managing very well without them. They have given up goose stepping across
borders and are enthusiastically making BMWs and generating a trillion dollar
surplus without so much as a “Sieg Heil” to keep them going. These industrious
and irrepressible people have achieved all of the Fuhrer’s economic objectives
without firing a shot.
Five
Questions Answered by Jane Edwards
We asked our readers the
following five questions. Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could direct
government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you
regret? How would you like to be remembered?
So far we have had replies from John Bean of the British
Democrats # 76, Robert Edwards of European Action # 77, Bill Baillie of Nation
Revisited # 78, Michael Woodbrige of Western Springs # 96, Eddy Morrison of the
Nationalist Sentinel 97, Robert Best of the League of St George # 98, Arlette
Baldacchino of Viva Malta # 99, Alex Morana from North America # 100, Rufus of
News from Atlantis # 101, Pete Williamson of The White Way Home # 103, Claire
Khaw of Voice of Reason 106.I am a middle-aged divorcee living with a 19-year-old son in Leicestershire. My former husband was hard-working Polish, but his nationality had nothing to do with our marriage break up.
Until the start of this century I had always voted Labour
and in fact at one time was a convinced Socialist. Probably the main reason why
I held this view was that Labour had always seemed to recognise women’s rights
more than the Conservatives and although the Liberal Democrats paid lip-service
to this view, it was lost in the general mish-mash of opinions that they held
as a party.
Having first had no objections to immigrants who came to
this country to carry out useful work and were no more involved in crime than
the average native-born Briton, like many, my views began to change in the
Blair years, when I realised that in Leicester, like London and Birmingham the
original Brits and other Europeans were becoming a minority.
I looked at BNP literature and its website but its
leadership in general did not – and still doesn’t – appear to be genuine to me.
However, I agreed with much of what John Bean said in his articles he wrote for
them, particularly as he was more European-minded than Griffin and company.
Obviously, this meant that I was not attracted to the insular Toryism of UKIP.
I corresponded with John Bean – but have never met him as
yet – and he drew my attention to Nation
Revisited and your support for the views of Sir Oswald Mosley. Reading some
of Mosley’s life story and policies was certainly an eye-opener and from the
image of him being a thug of the nobility, as the media would have us believe,
I found he was a man of great intellect. Being a feminist, I was impressed by
photos and reports of the importance of the women’s section of the British
Union and the intelligence of his wife, Lady Diana Mosley.
If I could direct government policy I would apply the
British Democratic Party’s belief that all further mass immigration should be
halted and illegal immigrants deported as they had broken the law to get here.
Secondly, although the present EU regime is too Marxist orientated in its
practice, I would strengthen inter-European ties for the simple reason that
there is no alternative for a white future.
I am most proud of the fact that my son has reached 19,
actually has a reasonable job without going to University, and rejects drugs.
I would like to be remembered as somebody who realised
before it was too late that we have been lied to time and again by the old
party system. If the ‘wicked’ Oswald Mosley once used that expression, so what.
European Socialist Action – www.europeanaction.com
The
front page of European Socialist Action
No 47 demands a Nuremburg Trial for the Americans. Robert Edwards lists some of
the crimes committed by NATO forces around the world in pursuit world
domination. And he offers an explanation for their permanent hostility.
On page three Robert Edwards looks at the origins of the
left-right labels applied to politics. They have never been fit for purpose but
since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the coming together of the Old Gang
parties they are now meaningless. He also dismisses the notion that
“nationalism” is necessarily anti-communist and points out that Stalin fought
the Great Patriotic War as a nationalist crusade. He quotes from Stalin’s Marxism and the National Question:
“The
right of self-determination means that only the nation itself has the right to
determine its destiny, that no one has the right to forcibly interfere in the
life of thenation, to violate its habits and customs, to repress its language or curtail its rights.”
John Roberts describes his return to the Elbe after
thirty years and marvels at the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche after the wanton
destruction of Dresden in 1945. He mentions the similarity between the local
Saxon people and the English and describes a German woman who, he said: “could
have been my Mother.”
Scott Ullah looks at the environmental damage caused by
unrestrained capitalism and calls for a united European approach to
conservation.
A lively letters page rounds off an interesting and
informative newspaper. ESA carries on its masthead the words: “We are
performing the role of those who prepare.” And its mission statement begins:
“No less than the creation of a European Nation State in the spirit of
brotherhood and European kinship. That this Europe a Nation be embraced by all
Europeans and to supersede and replace the EU and all such arrangements.”
The
Meaning of an Enemy
First published in serial format in Combat magazine, the writings of Andrew Fountaine, the National
Front’s first parliamentary candidate and later deputy leader, detail the
causes of Europe’s slide into World War 11 and the effects on post-war Britain.
This book discusses the origins of World Wars 1 and 11,
the rise of Nazi Germany, a highly critical evaluation of Winston Churchill
(who, Fountaine points out started the terror bombing of civilians), the
destruction of the British Empire, the effect of Christianity on modern
society, and Third World immigration into Britain. This is an incisive
overview, written in the no-holds barred style for which Fountaine became
famous. With an introduction by Combat
editor John Bean, and an appendix by Bill Baillie “Ten Years of Combat.”
Andrew Fountaine (1918-1997) was the son of Vice Admiral
Charles Fountaine who had been naval ADC to King George V. He fought on
Franco’s side during the Spanish Civil War against the Communists and served as
a naval Lieutenant-Commander in the Pacific during World War 11.
Fountaine was also leader of two 1960s-era groups, the
National Labour Party and the (then) British National Party. In 1979 he split
with Tyndall and unsuccessfully challenged him for the leadership of the NF.
Defeated, he formed the short-lived NF Constitutional Movement, later called
the National Party. Within a short time, Fountaine became disillusioned with
the in-fighting in British nationalist politics, and in 1981 retired to farm on
his property near Swaffham.
The Meaning
of an Enemy by Andrew Fountaine is available from Ostara
Publications at £7.45 plus postage: www.ostarapublication.com
Views
on the News
The crackdown on illegal immigrants was reported but it
will be interesting to see how many are actually deported. Doreen Lawrence
thinks that it’s a racist campaign but pictures published so far show white
people being detained. It looks like a cynical propaganda stunt to persuade the
punters not to vote for Ukip because everything is under control. They used the
same tactics against the National Front in 1979.
Nobody wants to see drilling rigs and pipelines all over
the countryside but shale gas will be exploited and the environment will be
protected from the effects of fracking by existing rules governing gas
production and distribution. When gas was made from coal we had tips, gasworks
and gasholders, often in the centre of town. They were unsightly but they
provided employment and power for over a hundred years.
Our newspapers have suffered a 25% fall in circulation
since 2007. If this continues some of them are bound to cease publication. The Sun is fighting back with a website
subscription linked to Sky Broadcasting. But there are too many newspapers
chasing too few readers. This is a shame for those who earn their living from
newspapers but it can only be good news for the nation. Our newspapers are
mendacious rags totally subservient to the Money Power. We would be better off
without them.The Metropolitan Police have paid an undisclosed sum to the widow of Ian Tomlinson, a non-political bystander who was “accidently” killed by PC Simon Harwood at the London G20 demonstration in 2009. The police have accepted full responsibility but refuse to tell the taxpayers how much of their money they are paying out. We welcome their apology but their secrecy shows that they have not abandoned their culture of impunity.
Critics of foreign aid will be outraged by Britain’s
support for Nigeria’s space programme, and the theft of £480,000 by the Somali
terror group al-Shabaab. In 2012 UK foreign aid was behind Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium, but ahead of Spain, Switzerland, Austria,
Germany, Italy and France. We gave 0.48% of GDP but have now raised it to 0.7%.
This might seem over generous at a time of austerity but most foreign aid is
tied to trade deals. It also provides a bargaining chip when it comes to
repatriating economic refugees.
Ukip chief executive Will Gilpin has given up trying to
organize Ukip which he describes as “a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs.” His
resignation follows the “bongo bongo” outburst by Godfrey Bloom, Stuart Wheeler’s
dismissal of women in the boardroom, and Dean Perks’ support for cutting off
the hands of thieves. All of this went down well with Nigel Farage who has
decided to take direct control of the party. He leads a gang of populists who
will say anything to please the mob. Cato the Elder ended ever speech with the
words “Carthago delende est”; Nigel Farage ends his speeches with “Get Britain
out of Europe.”