Nation Revisited # 161 March 2020

A United Front For Europe

The Roots of Radicalism website has posted a fascinating article by the veteran nationalist Ted Budden from 'Vanguard' magazine 1990. http://rootsofradicalism.com

Ted Budden is mainly remembered for his satirical writing. He was against the Common Market for all the usual reasons, but he was one of the first to question the National Front's policy of trying to revive the British Empire. He also noted the Third World population explosion and the rise of China as a world power. His political acumen no doubt stemmed from his youthful membership of the BUF.

Today the National Front is a shadow of its former self but its insular policies are now Government policy. The Tory Party has been hijacked by extremists and Britain has formally left the EU. We are now in Limbo and we will finally leave at the end of the year. 

But who knows what the future holds? The Tories have kept their election promise by introducing yet another Immigration Act, but it remains to be seen if this is a genuine measure or just another cosmetic exercise. There have been a dozen Immigration Acts since 1948 but none of them have worked.  

Ted's article concludes:

Charles de Gaulle's vision of a united Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals may well come to pass eventually. It may need to be unified, as in the days of old, in the face of the threat offered by the exploding populations of the non-White world and the burgeoning economic and military power of the East against which the Russian Empire was once a bulwark but soon may no longer be. Europe may offer the impetus to racial nationalism that it so badly needs. A racial nationalist policy for Europe is one that many may well consider sound, rational and, above all, credible.

Are we forever to continue muttering impotently on the fringe or will we strive to achieve a newer, bolder vision?

The Will of the People

Britain has been a democracy since the Great Reform Act of 1832. We elect Members of Parliament to represent us but they belong to political parties and follow the party line which is enforced by threats and intimidation. The Will of the People is therefore the Will of the Party. 

The last general election has left much of the North and the Midlands in the hands of the Tory Party. Traditional Labour voters were persuaded by the mass media to vote Tory when all of their instincts were against it. Such is the power of the press that only Liverpool, where 'The Sun' newspaper is not sold, resisted the propaganda. The Scousers turned against 'The Sun' following its shameful misreporting of the Hillsborough football disaster of 1989.

We now have a Tory government with a massive majority of eighty seats. Working people have elected a government that is likely to dismantle the Welfare State and drag us back to the workhouse. The Tories resisted almost every social improvement from retirement pensions to the National Health Service. If we had never had the trade unions we would still have children working in factories and families living in hovels. But the confused voters of the post-industrial areas have cast their votes for the mill owners and landlords who oppressed them for centuries.

Some unfortunate countries are ruled by force and kept in check by vicious policemen, but the Tories have refined the system to the point where the voters do not need to be threatened - they simply obey.

Boris "fuck business" Johnson is now installed as an elected dictator who is determined to turn the clock back. He wants to return to the days of Empire when the workers knew their place and foreigners feared British bayonets. He is a deluded despot who will destroy this country if he is not stopped. We hope that he will be brought down by unforeseen events because we cannot rely on the Will of the People. 

A letter to the Newport County Times from Milton Ellis

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are both cracking down on free speech.

Trump has signed an executive order that empowers the US education department to penalise college campuses by withholding federal funds from those who are deemed to be tolerating anti-Semitism by allowing debate critical of Israel.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's new government is to pass legislation banning public bodies from imposing their own boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions (BDS) campaigning against foreign countries, including Israel on the grounds that these 'undermine' community cohesion.

While public bodies should not be pursuing their own foreign policy there has been no public approval regarding the foreign policies of successive UK governments - see Iraq war - and no 'coherent approach' or 'community cohesion' regarding this.

Also, this at a time when the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Futou Bensouda has recently said that she would launch a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories.

The Conservatives have promised to champion the rule of law, human rights, free trade, anti-corruption and a rules based international system - all of which Israel refuses to comply with.

The Conservatives are tying themselves up in knots and contradicting themselves, due to the fact that the top people in the party, Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Savid Javid and Michael Gove are member of the Israeli lobby's Conservative Friends of Israel. Donald Trump is under pressure from the Israeli lobby also, and we have seen this in his removal of the American Embassy to Jerusalem and his recognition of the Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel - he has no right to grant one nation's territory to another. We have also seen the influence of the Zionist lobby in the Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitism row.

Much of this anti-Semitism guff is just a ploy to justify suppression of legitimate concerns about the fate of the Palestinians and the investigation of war crimes.  

Regulation 18B - Britain's Taste of Stalinism
(From 'Action' October 1992)

Britain declared war on Germany on September 3rd, 1939, entering the fight as one of the leading nations of Europe and coming out of it a second-class power, America's dependent for years to come. The days of the British Empire were numbered. But we had to fight for democracy, protested Mr Chamberlain who declared war. His party won the last pre-war general election in 1935 on a peace policy, but changed to a war policy in 1939 without any attempt to consult the people. So much for the Tory idea of democracy. So much for the British voter.

Mr Chamberlain was also the Chancellor in 1932 who had cut the nation's defences to the bone, putting Britain's very life at risk. By 1939 he had swung right round but his rearmament was so inept and muddled that British troops were sent to war short of almost every modern weapon. The result was defeat at Dunkirk. On all counts Chamberlain was unfit to run a tripe shop. 

Mosley's stand was very different. Unlike Chamberlain he had seen the horrors of war at first hand, and he went into politics in 1918 to spare the next generation another bloodbath. When this was threatened late in the 1930s he opposed it root and branch, especially as it was a war in no real British interest. "Mind Britain's Business" said Mosley. "Keep out of foreign quarrels."

But he was also a realist. The dangerous 1930s demanded a Britain that could look after herself. From British Union's first day he called for the full defence of these islands and the Empire, but to stay out of quarrels on the other side of Europe which were no concern of ours.

Thanks to Chamberlain meddling in Germany's quarrel with Poland, however, we found ourselves at war. There was only one thing to do then, and Mosley did it. Two days before the war began he instructed all members called up for the Services to obey their orders in all circumstances. As Andrew Roberts has written, "Many Blackshirts served Britain with distinction in the war."

Meanwhile Mosley said that he would exercise the right of every Englishman to campaign for an honourable negotiated peace. Many of them had done exactly the same for the past 200 years. And his campaign gathered such popular support that the government became alarmed.

The war was not popular. HG Wells wrote in his book "New World Order", began after the outbreak of the war: "The British crowd is a sullen crowd. The world has not seen it in such a bad temper for a century and a half. And let there be no mistake about it, it is far less in a temper with the Germans than with its own rulers." What could the rulers do against the British crowd?

Mosley was selected to act as an example to the crowd when the war was going very badly. On May 22nd 1940 a special measure was rushed through Parliament. Habeus Corpus which had guarded the Englishman against unjust imprisonment since the reign of Charles the Second was suspended. Regulation 18B replaced it, and Mosley was arrested the following day under a measure he had not even heard of. Lady Mosley and 800 members of British Union followed him to prison, where they experienced the evil principle of retrospective law, a violation of British justice.

Retrospective law means that you could do something quite legal one day, but on the next day the very same thing was made quite illegal. Under 18B you could be imprisoned without charge or trial. Trial by jury, the Englishman's right, was abolished. There was no legal appeal against 18B. Anyone could be jailed whom the Home Secretary decided must be jailed. He need not give any reason for locking you up. This destroyed British freedom and justice, but government leaders could, and did, make interminable speeches that they were fighting for freedom and justice.

Churchill himself, whose government brought in 18B in 1940, soon had serious doubts about it, and in 1943 went as far as to inform British Union's old enemy Herbert Morrison, who was then glorying in his power as Home Secretary: "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and to deny him judgement by his peers for an indefinite period is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments." Nothing could be more abhorrent to democracy, he added, but as we have seen, British politicians had had no time for democracy since Chamberlain's government, elected on a peace platform, in 1935, went to war in 1939 without a new mandate from the voters.

18B was a piece of totalitarianism which might have been taken from Stalin's orders for The Gulag. Very appropriately, the war ended with Stalinism triumphant. As Major General Fuller wrote: "The western frontier of Russia has been advanced from the Pripet Marshes to the Thuringerwald, a distance of 750 miles, and as in the days of Charlemagne the Slavs stand on the Elbe. A thousand years of European history have been rolled back." Indeed all Western Europe then faced the danger of going inside one vast 18B prison behind an Iron Curtain stretching along its Atlantic coasts.

Thus Mosley's thinking advanced from fascism to provide a new rallying ground against this danger. He wrote soon after the war: "The anguish of our age will not have been in vain if now is born the Idea that shall carry men beyond what is known as democracy, and beyond fascism. From the flames which end an epoch rise the Idea of the Future" - Europe a Nation. It has yet to come.

Qualified Voting

The Tory landslide general election victory has revived calls for qualified voting. Some voters could not find the UK on a map of the world. And few of them could tell you about our population, economy, or history. They read newspapers like 'The Sun' or 'The Daily Mail', and they watch 'reality' TV programs featuring half naked actors fornicating in the jungle. But these halfwits are fully entitled to cast their votes and decide our future. 

Until the Sixties qualified voting was used in Rhodesia and the Southern States of America to exclude the uneducated.  In the UK only lunatics and members of the House of Lords are denied the vote but the mentally-deficient are encouraged to do so.

A friend of mine was canvassing for the Tory Party during a general election when he called on a man who said that he was voting for the National Front, to "get rid of the Blacks." When he told the man that the NF were not standing in his constituency, he replied, "in that case I will vote Labour." This is the level of ignorance that drives our parliamentary system.

People are entitled to their opinions but the present system has saddled us with Boris Johnson, a mendacious bully surrounded by sycophants, and Priti Patel, who could be the first Home Secretary to deport herself.

A School Leaving Certificate should be awarded to all students capable of reading, writing and arithmetic, which would qualify them to vote in elections. 

Carl Harley RIP

Carl Harley died on 22nd February 2020 at his home in Highgate. He would have been 90 years-old on 26th June. He was a member of the Mosley Book Club and joined Union Movement on its foundation in 1948.

Correspondence between Alexander Raven-Thomson and Oswald Mosley cover his appointment as Youth Leader of the Lewisham Branch. Mosley records that Carl was on the revolutionary wing of the Party.

In 'Many Shades of Black' John Bean tells the story of the Communist Party march through Dalston, East London, in 1951, that was disrupted by a smoke bomb attack. Now that he is safe from prosecution we can reveal that it was Carl who pushed the buggy containing the infernal device.

During his time as Youth Leader of the Lewisham Branch of Union Movement he recruited John Bean, who he followed into various nationalist movements. He will be sadly missed by his comrades all over the world.

My tribute to Carl Harley was published in 'European Outlook' # 34, October 2016.   
https://europeanoutlook.blogspot.com/2016/09/european-outlook-34-october-2016.html 

Dave Charlwood RIP - from John Millican

I have just heard of the recent death of Dave Charlwood an old Union Movement comrade. In the mid-60's he was the UM contact in Brighton, later he became an active member of the National Front , and in later years BNP organiser for Brighton. The owner of a decorating business, one of his claims to fame was being the drummer in a pop group that appeared on Top of the Pops. Condolences to his wife Jan and their two daughters.

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