Nation Revisited # 183 January 2022

What's The Point?

Anyone looking at the election results of the British nationalist parties in the UK might ask "what's the point." In the 2019 UK general election the Conservatives got 43.6% of the poll, the Labour Party got 32.2%, the Liberal Democrats, got 11.5 %, the Scottish National Party, standing only in Scotland, got 3.9%, the Greens got 2.9%, and the British Nationalists came nowhere. 

For the benefit of overseas readers I should point out that British nationalist parties embrace the four nations of the United Kingdon, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, unlike the Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalist parties that are only concerned with their own countries.  

The first British nationalist party, the British Fascisti, was founded in 1923 by Miss Rotha Lintorn-Orman, almost a hundred years ago, but in all that time we have never had an MP elected to the Westminster parliament.

There are many reasons for this; lingering wartime propaganda, a first-past-the-post system that favours the big parties, unfair media coverage, big business backing of the old gang parties, and so on. But the real reason why we don't succeed in the UK is because the electorate are frightened of strong government in peacetime. They like flag waving and jingoism but they are are horrified by the prospect of identity cards or mass medication. There's an unfortunate streak of anarchy in the British people.

Oswald Mosley's post-war formation, Union Movement, made a bold start in 1948 with the promise of "Europe a Nation", but in 1963 their policy was effectively hijacked by the Tory Party when prime minister Harold Macmillan applied to join the European Economic Community. The Tory Party remained committed to Europe until Boris Johnson saw an opportunity to grab power in 2016.

The National Front staged spectactular marches throughout the country in the 1970s with a policy of stop immigration, start repatriation, and get Britain out of the Common Market. They fielded hundreds of parliamentary candidates, only to see the party collapse in the general election of 1979 when Margaret Thatcher said that she understood people's fears of being "swamped" by immigration.

The British National Party repeated the performance of the National Front twenty years later. This time they were eclipsed by Ukip, a one issue party supported by the popular press that campaigned to get Britain out of the European Union.  At its peak the BNP had scores of local councillors, a member of the London Assembly and two members of the EU Parliament, but it began to collapse in 2009 following leader Nick Griffin's disastrous appearance on the BBC TV program 'Question Time', and within two years it was all over.

Today, there are many little populist-nationalist parties, most of which are little more than a 'leader' and a website. None of them have the slightest chance of getting an MP elected, but people have got a right to their opinions and we need a proper political party to steer youngsters away from dangerous and illegal groups such as National Action.

A proper political party should be registered with the Electoral Commission, it should publish its accounts on time, and comply with the law. If laws are unjust they should be campaigned against, but they shouldn't be broken. And members should study history and economics instead of wasting their time on fantasy projects such as resurrecting the Empire or deporting ten percent of our population.

We are entering an economic recession as a result of the pandemic and the dislocation brought about by Brexit. This should benefit the Labour Party but the electorate turned against them because of the vicious media campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, and they are turning against the Tory Party because of Boris Johnson's clownish behaviour and dishonesty. This impasse could be the opportunity that we have long been waiting for.

Recovery

The Coronavirus pandemic has killed five million people worldwide and wrecked national economies. You may believe, as I do, that it's a natural virus, or you may think that it''s a plot by George Soros, Bill Gates, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and their alleged Satanic paedophile ring. But whatever the reason, in the words of the song we will have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down, and start all over again.

The Coronavirus pandemic had the same impact as a war. It took 20 years for the UK to recover from WW2, and it will probably take just as long to get over the current disaster. We were greatly helped by the American Marshall Plan after the last war but the US is unlikely to come to our aid this time.

They say that it's safer to be on a big ship in a storm but we disembarked from the European Union just as the first clap of thunder was heard. 

The mind-boggling sums of money borrowed by the government to combat the virus and protect the economy will have to be paid back. In Hindu mythology Rishi is a wise man, but our Chancellor Rishi Sunak is unwise to predict that taxes will soon come down. The recovery will spark inflation as wages rise to meet escalating food and fuel prices. This will come as a shock to a generation of mortgage payers that have never known inflation. And it will add to the cost of government borrowing. Far from coming down we can expect taxes to increase.

Not so long ago, in the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, they used to talk about shrinking the State and having less government, but we are now heading in the opposite direction. The wartime situation brought about by the pandemic has forced an increase in government. In order to borrow billions of pounds our government has grown in scope and power and the Conservative dream of individual responsibility has faded. We are entering uncharted waters.

Sam Dickson

Thanks Bill,

I am honoured to be quoted by you.

I especially liked the article on AK Chesterton. 

When I was at college (some 50+ years ago), I subscribed to the newsletter 'Candour'.

The article I remember best in it was entitled "This Man is Dangerous."

It was a review of a silly book purportedly exposing the Jews and the Illuminati by an author who may still be alive so I won't mention him because I don't wanr to get dragged into a fight with a nut. (Old English proverb: "Argue with a fool? Who is the greater fool?")

Chesterton quoted one nutty passage after another. He also noted the ludicrous factual, historical mistakes. The author had Marlborough in command of the British army at Waterloo for one such goofiness.

Chesterton concluded with a point that I have never forgotten.

Why is it that antisemites choose to embrace such goofy , baseless claims as the author of this book when it has to be admitted that there is a trove of indisputably true information to support their position?

I see this at work all the time. People uoting impossible "facts." Repeating long refuted claims. All the while ignoring the conclusive evidence that proves us right.

I still hope some day to get back to the UK before I die. (I'm 75.) If so, I hope we can have a personal meet-up.

I am going to Egypt with my much older brother who is well into his 80s. We are to go on a Nile cruise the first 10 days of December.  

Jared Taylor and his wife are going with the same tour group. 

The group itinerary calls for us to fly to London and change planes there to get the plane to Cairo.

Jared has been informed by the British "Mother of the Free" government that he is banned from the UK. They will not permit him so much as to change planes in the international terminal at the airport. He and his wife will have to fly through Frankfurt.

After some thought I wrote to the British Embassy by email a week  ago to ask if I am also on the banned list.

I'm still waiting to hear. My fear is that they may have found that I'm not on the list  and are looking into whether I aught to be.

Jared thinks that I made a mistake by asking but I could not afford the risk of being turned back in London and having my brother to have to go on unaccompanied. 

I hope that I am still allowed to visit the UK.

I will soon know.

Sam

Oversensitivity

The persecution of the Uyghars in China is universally condemned, and so is the mistreatment of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, but any mention of the miserable fate of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territoties prompts accusations of  antisemitism. This oversensitivity is partly to do with the  Hollocaust. The concentration camps were liberated 77 years ago but Christians still feel a collective guilt that makes them sympathetic to the Jews. This is particularly true of the Protestant nations but they don't get the same consideration in Latin America. This may cause a change in American foreign policy as immigrants from south of the Rio Grande continue to seek a better life. They have no feelings of guilt about the Hollocaust and would not be so ready to contribute billions of taxpayers' dollars to the Zionist state.

The Black Lives Matter movement is another case of oversensitivity. Anyone refusing to 'take the knee' is accused of racism, but people are fed up with being pushed around by extremists who attack the police and tear down our statues. There should be no place for racism in sport and there should  be no place for political posturing.

The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has been accused of racism because one of its members used the P word, When India was partitioned in 1948 they needed a name for the new Muslim state. They took the initial letters of the neighbouring states; Persia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and India to spell Paki, and added 'stan' which means country. There is nothing racist about it, but the P word is banned along with the N word and the highly offensive Y word. 

On the other hand, the once taboo C word can now be used, as well as the ubiquitous F word. Homosexuals used to be known by the Q word but they have now reclaimed it and wear it as a badge of honour. And the same thing is happening to the N word which some black people use to describe themselves. Perhaps the P word will undergoe the same rehabilitation?

For the record: I dislike racial hatred and petty nationalism, but we should not excuse war crimes and hooliganism because people have suffered in the past. We were all slaves at some point in history. 

Parliamentary Reform

                              

Parliament has been rocked by new corruption disclosures. Another MP has been caught taking bribes and a donation to the Tory Party of £3 million has been quoted as the price of a peerage. Nothing has changed since Hilaire Belloc and Cecil  Chesterton wrote 'The Party System' in 1911.

"The Sale of Legislative Power

The ordinary method of replenishing the Party Funds is by the sale of peerages, baronetcies, knighthoods, and other honours in return for subscriptions. This traffic is notorious. Everyone acquainted in the smallest degree with the inside of politics knows that there is a market for peerages in Downing Street, as he knows that there is a market for cabbages in Covent Garden; he could put his finger upon the very names of the men who have bought their “honours.” Yet the ordinary man is either ignorant of the truth or only darkly suspects it. And most of those who know about it are afraid to bring the facts to light by quoting names and instances, because the administration of our law of libel weighs the scales of justice heavily in favour of the rich, and because a particular case could only be proved if one were able to do – what one would not perhaps be allowed to do – to subpoena the party managers and demand that the party accounts should be brought into court."

The more or less open sale of peerages came to a head in 1925 when Maundy Gregory, who was David Lloyd George's broker, was charged under the Prevention of Abuses Act, but the practice continues to the present day.

We need sweeping parliamentary reform to weed out the bribe takers, and we need to trim down the whole operation. We don't need 650 members of the House of Commons when the US House of Representatives manages with 435. And we don't  need over 800 members of the House of Lords when the US Senate has just 100 members, in a country with almost five times our population.

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is blatantly unfair, The Liberal Democrats have only got 12 MPs but under a truly representative system they would have 39.

Our upper chamber, the House of Lords, what Jack Lelieve of the original BNP used to refer to as: "that once august establishment", is a total anarchronism. Lords are appointed by the ruling party for services rendered, instead of being elected by the people. Their number should be limited to 100 and they should all sit as independents.

The House of Commons should also be trimmed down to a managable size. MPs should make greater use of modern technology and electronic voting should replace the old-fashioned system that involves MPs shuffling into lobbies to be counted.

Parliamentary language is another relic of the past. All MPs are 'honourables', members of the Privy Council are 'right honourables', lawyers are 'learned members', and members of the armed forces are 'gallant members'. Tradition is all very well but we must move with the times.

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Nation Revisited # 182 December 2021

Britain Can Make It

Battersea Power Station was the largest brick-built building in the world when it was completed in 1955. It generated electricity from British coal delivered by Thames barges, while the nearby Nine Elms Gasworks turned the same abundant fuel into cooking gas.  Now, some of our electricity comes by cable from France, some of our gas comes from Norway by pipeline, some of it comes from the United States by tanker, and the former industrial site at Battersea is an unaffordable, upmarket apartment complex financed by a Malaysian oil company.

When Britain excelled at industrial production we were blessed with coal, iron and a clever workforce that soon adapted to the latest technology. We built ships and locomotives for export and turned raw materials into finished products. The airplane was invented in the US but we were not far behind and by the end of the First World War we had taken the lead. We invented the tank which revolutionised warfare and when the Second World War came our codebreakers at Bletchley Park built the world's first computer to crack the German Enigma cipher.

As the world economy developed we discovered that we could import certain manufactured goods, and agricultural products, cheaper from abroad. And so started the decline of British industry that eventually resulted in the desperate situation we find ourselves in today. As our great manufacturers declined they were bought up by overseas competitors and the jobs that sustained our population and the profits that enriched our exchequer were exported to countries like the United States and Japan.

We cannot put the clock back. We are, where we are but let it never be said that we can't do anything that we put our minds to. We have got world class universities that are turning out scientists and engineers, and a willing workforce that performs well enough for its foreign masters. All we lack is the self-confidence that once motivated us. 

Those of us who were born in the last days of Empire are proud of our country but the younger generation are less so, having been brainwashed by a twisted educational system. We must put them right without resorting to the petty nationalism of the popular press. We are a great nation but we are also part of the European family. The 'Daily Mail' argument that it's unpatriotic to support European unity doesn't make sense. An Englishman is proud of England even though we are united with Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland. In the same way we can be proud of Britain as an integral part of Europe.

Liberalism

In the last hundred years capital punishment and corporal punishment have been abolished, prison sentences have been reduced and attitudes to sex & drugs & rock & roll have changed. Many people who are worried about rising crime rates and antisocial behaviour blame Liberalism. Vic Sarson writes:

"The disease of 'Liberalism' took root in the aftermath of WW1. Feminism is one of many 'Liberal' manifestations; all sectional groups unbalance, distort and fragment society robbing it of cohesion and morale without which there can be no 'society'. Liberalism is an active evil rather than an innocent naivety which, combined with doctrinaire socialism has all but destroyed British society. So called democratic politicians pander to all sorts of notions and give credence to social evils such as encouraging junior school children to transgender. It would take an armed rebellion to strip these people out of their entrenched positions but even if the arms were available/obtainable would it be possible to raise and sustain such a force given the people material of today?

I often wonder if we were again in a WW2 situation would we have the manpower to fight it?"

The French Revolution, which laid the social foundations of the modern world, sprung from Liberalism. It was founded on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity but it took a bloodbath to replace the Ancien Regime. Citizen Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety sent thousands of 'enemies of the people' to the guilotine but eventually it claimed him as well. The Sea-Green Incorruptible was not above the Law. 

There is always a danger of going too far. It was wrong to hang a man for stealing a sheep but it's also wrong to let a thief go unpunished. Something must be done to achieve a sense of balance. Successive governments have experimented with 'short sharp shocks' and longer prison sentences but none of them have got it right.

The problem of rising crime is made worst by drug taking. The police have decriminalised cannabis, without consulting parliament, and their efforts to control harder drugs are limited by lack of manpower and resources. Drugs permeate every level of society and our larger than life prime minister, Boris Johnson, displays all the symproms of cocaine addiction. According to Narcanon these include; euphoria, overconfidence, unusual excitement, aggressiveness, paranoia, poor judgement, delusions, and hallucinations. This may explain his attraction to Pepper Pig.

Boris Johnson's tough-talking home secretary Priti Patel is expected to tackle the drug problem, control immigration, reform the criminal justice system, and restore respect for Liberalism.

Keeping The Lights On

The news that the French oil company Total has discovered a major new gasfield in the Shetlands comes as an embarrasment to a government worried about climate change. Gas is less polluting than coal or oil when used to generate electricity, but not as clean as wind power or nuclear.

                  

Nuclear power claims to be the cheapest way to generate electricity but if you consider the cost of decommissioning, and the storage of radioactive waste, it becomes the dearest. And when  you make provision for nuclear accidents such as Chernoble or Fukushima, the cost in lives and treasure becomes unacceptable.

Wind power is clean and efficient but only when the wind is blowing. Britain is usually a windy country but we recently went three months with our turbines at a standstill.

At present the price of gas is high due to increased demand from Asia. Germany is negotiating a long term contract with Russia that guarantees future supplies. Britain could do the same if we were not waging economic war on Russia with sanctions over Russia's annexation of the Crimean penninsular, a Russian speaking province that has been part of Russia, or the Soviet Union, since 1783.

This hostility to Russia is part of Boris Johnson's jingoistic policy that sent our aircraft carrier 'Big Lizzie' to provoke the Chinese in the South China Sea. He is pretending that we are still a world power with a navy that rules the waves; a position we have not enjoyed since we sank the German battleship Bismarck in 1941. He would do better to concentrate on keeping the lights on. 

We are already connected to the European pipeline system and our domestic network serves the whole country, Gas is the only source of reliable and affordable power.

Of course, we are trying to clean up the atmosphere, but we must be realistic. The volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma is currently spewing out massive quantities of pollutants, and other volcanoes around the world, including those under the sea, are adding to the problem. We can't fight nature but by changing to electric cars and taking practical steps towards emission control we are doing our best to protect the environment.

The oceans are another cause for concern. Plastic waste that is almost indestructable is found in every ocean. It poisons fish and other sea creatures and finds its way, via the food chain, into our digestive systems. Steps are being taken to replace plastic packaging with cardboard that will rot away to nothing. Most of the packaging is unnecessary, there is no need for apples to be sold in plastic boxes.

Our planet Earth is a molten ball of lava with a cooling crust orbiting an uncontrolled nuclear reaction called the Sun. This  emits radiation of all types, including deadly X rays and Gamma rays, and it throws out solar flares that interfere with radio communications. We share our Solar System with greater and lesser planets and satellites that exert gravitational forces that lift our oceans up and down and cause earthquakes, We are also surrounded by millions of stars that influence our planetary progress through the Universe. Mankind's industrial activities are no doubt dangerous, and should be controlled, but we are not the masters of our own destiny.

John Bean  7 June 1927 - 9 November 2021

I encountered John Bean in 1959 when cycling through central London with my school friend Paul Barnes. JB was speaking from the plinth of Nelson's Column at a meeting of the National Labour Party. Thus began a friendship that was to last a lifetime. 

He was born in Carshalton, Surrey. He spent his teenage years studying, dodging German bombs, and waiting to be called up. The war ended before he was needed but he did his National Service in the Royal Navy. On leaving the navy he started work as an industrial chemist but later turned his hand to journalism. 

He was recruited to the Lewisham branch of Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement in 1951 by his lifelong friend Carl Harley. He left UM two years later but he took some of their policies with him. He didn’t go so far as “Europe a Nation” but he believed in a Confederation of Nation States. 

He joined the League of Empire Loyalists in 1954. They were a right-wing pressure group that was firmly against Communism and finance capitalism. In 1957 he founded the National Labour Party, which merged with Colin Jordan’s White Defence League in 1960 to become the British National Party. In 1962 Colin Jordan and John Tyndall broke away from the BNP to form the National Socialist Movement. Colin Jordan kept the Princedale Road HQ, and John Bean kept his paper Combat which ran from 1958 to 1968. The leaders of the NSM were locked up for organising a paramilitary formation called Spearhead. The reorganised BNP stood in local and parliamentary elections with John Bean receiving a record breaking 9.3% at Southall in the 1964 general election; a campaign that I am proud to have taken part in. 

In 1967 the League of Empire Loyalists joined with the British National Party and a faction of the Racial Preservation Society to form the National Front. At first John Tyndall was excluded but he was allowed to join a year later. This development together with the rejection of JB’s policies on European Confederation and Workers’ Partnership persuaded him to quit active politics. He did not return until 1999 when John Tyndall was ousted as leader of the contemporary BNP by Nick Griffin. He became editor of the BNP magazine Identity but fell out with Nick Griffin in 2010. He joined the British Democratic Party in 2013 and for many years he wrote a column for the BDP website called Nationalist Notebook. 

He wrote four books; Ten Miles from Anywhere, an account of life in rural Suffolk, Many Shades of Black, his political autobiography, Blood in the Square, a political novel, and The Trail of the Viking Finger, a historical novel. He also appeared on television; Timewatch in April 1995, Windrush in September 1997, and The Lost Race in March 1999. 

He should be remembered for his practical approach to politics which he described as the art of the possible. He rejected the shock tactics of Colin Jordan in favour of conventional campaigning, and he tried to bridge the gap between Oswald Mosley’s vision of “Europe a Nation” and the narrow nationalism of John Tyndall.

He was a likable, sociable and intelligent man with a good sense of humour. His main fault was that he mixed with the wrong people and was reluctant to dump them. He was a genuine patriot with a social conscience. He leaves behind his wife Marion, his son Chris, his daughter Carol and lots of grandchildren and great grandchildren.

We agreed about ninety percent of the time but we argued about the other ten percent for over half a century; first by letter and then by email. I shall miss him dearly.

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Nation Revisited # 181 November 2021

Conspiracy and Common Sense

I congratulate Colin Todd for Issue 877 of 'Candour' which features part one of Steve Smith's account of the 'Rights for Whites' campaign in East London. www.candour.org.uk

But why does a dedicated European like me promote a Brexit supporting magazine? Because I agree with much of what they say and I believe that economic reality wiil eventually dawn on them.

I also thank him for sending me a facsimile of 'London Tidings' from 1947. This was set up by Douglas Reed the author of many books including 'Insanity Fair'. An article entitled 'World Government: Fact and Fiction' by AK Chesterton (pictured), writing under the nom de plume Philip Faulconbridge, explains conspiracy theory. 

"Some students of affairs, ruminating upon the many strange happenings in the world, do not hesitate to attribute them to a virtually all-powerful secret world-government. They call this sinister body the "Kabal", but when asked to name its members, to give their addresses, and to state where they meet, and what resolutions they pass, they explain rather airily that they use the word only as a sort of convenient shorthand. Such over-simplifications are both unwise and dangerous. They are unwise because few people can be persuaded to believe them, and dangerous because those few who do believe them usually end up by becoming obsessed monomaniacs.

This is not to assert that international groups, wielding immense influence, and even on occasion immense power, have no existence. They certainly do exist. It is even true to say that they seem, from one generation to another, to pursue the same broad policies, and that these policies do more mischief to mankind than they do good. Such groups are not, however, a world-government. That, no doubt, is what they aspire to become, but as yet they are only international pressure-groups - powerful yes: all-powerful, certainly not."

The writer goes on to cover the post war situation; the dominance of Wall Street, the atom bomb, and the global machinations of Bernard Baruch who was the George Soros of his time. Since 1947, when this article was written,  we have seen the demise of the British Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the humiliation of the United States, and the spectacular rise of China. Was it all part of a diabolical plan or the natural course of events? 

Those who believe in the Great Conspiracy are not open to debate. They have seen the light while the rest of us are floundering in the dark. We study history and economics to understand the world around us but they claim to know exactly what's going on. I think that most of my readers have a foot in both camps.

Protests

The fanatics who are disrupting the motorways are an inconvenience to the public and an irritation to a government that's hosting the COP 26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

The right to protest is enshrined in UK law but the government only allows demonstrations when it suits them. If protesters seriously challenge government policy they will find themselves in jail. 

Members of the BUF, and other fascist parties, were detained without charge or trial in 1940 because they opposed the war. The government claimed that they were 'fifth columnists' who were a threat to security, but nobody believed it, not even Churchill. The ancient law of Habeas Corpus which guaranteed trial by a judge was suspended for the duration of the war. All this in a country that was fighting for 'freedom and democracy'.

On Saturday 22 February 2003 one of the largest marches ever seen in London took place in protest at the Iraq War. The police estimated 750,000, the organisers estimated 2 million, but the numbers didn't matter because Tony Blair simply ignored it. The 'Will of the People' meant nothing to a prime minister determined to earn his place in history. Power corrupts politicians and it also drives them mad.

Civil liberties are not as restricted in the UK as they are in some countries, but the idea that we are a perfect democracy is hypocritical nonsense.

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is blatantly unfair and our second chamber, the House of Lords, is unelected. The gap between rich and poor is growing and the trade unions have been undermined by zero contract employers who run the 'gig economy'. We have abandoned the European social model in favour of the American 'hire and fire' culture.

According to the Each Other website:

"The UK is one of the most economically unequal societies in the global North. Inequality affects all people within society regardless of their income. Inequality can harm an individual's physical and mental health, self-esteem, happiness, sense of trust and civic participation.

On average people in deprived neighbourhoods in the UK live seven years less than people in wealthier neighbourhoods. Unequal societies have less social mobility as people are not able to reach their full potential, and these societies also tend to have higher crime rates." 

We used to have middle class prime ministers like Ted Heath, Jim Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, and John Major. Whatever their defects they knew what it was to earn a living, but now we are ruled by parasites who have no idea how ordinary people live. Of course, not all Tories are as bad. Harold Macmillan was a Scottish aristocrat, but he fought in the trenches in the First World War and he understood the working class people of Stockton-on-Tees who voted for him. He was a One Nation Tory as opposed to the Johnson gang.  

Under Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson with his Cabinet of multi-millionaires this country is an unrepresentative plutocracy. You can protest against rising gas prices, higher taxation, immigration, and anything else, but the government with an 80 seat majority in Parliament is unlikely to listen.

Demonstrations only work if they are big enough. The Fascisti came to power in Italy in 1922 with the March on Rome, a mass movement that came to power of its own volition. And in 1934 Action Francaise paralysed Paris and brought down the Cartel des Gauches government by sheer weight of numbers. 

Frankly, we are not able to command such support, our only hope is that the Tories are so greedy and incompetant that they crash the economy and leave a bankrupt country to fend for itself. Then, perhaps, we can pick up the pieces and build a much fairer society.

Electric Cars

Petrol and diesel powered cars are being phased out to be replaced with electric vehicles. This will help to clean up the atmosphere and save the planet. But where will we get the electricity from?

We are committed to stop burning coal to generate electricity, which is a pity because we've got plenty of it. Biomass, gas and oil are almost as dirty as coal, hydroelectric power only contributes 2% to our national grid, wind turbines only work when the wind is blowing, and tidal and solar power are uneconomic That only leaves nuclear, but our nuclear power plants are too old to operate safely, and new ones would be prohibitively expensive, especially when we factor in decommissioning and accidental discharge of radiation.

Energy companies can only stay in business if they can make a profit. State-owned generating companies rely on government subsidies and tax breaks but there's a limit to what the taxpayers will stand for.   

We will probably never know the real cost of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, or the full extent of the polution released into the atmosphere. We can count the dead but we don't know how many people were poisoned with radiation, or how many babies will be born with genetic defects. It is not surprising that the Ukrainians and the Japanese have suspended nuclear power.

Modern petrol and diesel engines are clean and efficient, and the latest fuels emit far less polution. If we fail to generate enough power to charge the batteries of millions of cars we may have to reprieve the internal combustion engine.

Or we could subsidise public transport and do away with private cars. We would still have buses, taxis, ambulances, fire engines, police cars, and delivery vehicles. But young mothers would not be able to drive their kids to school in their land cruisers, and fathers could not show off their latest model in the golf club car park. It would cost the jobs of thousands of car workers, mechanics and dealers, and it would limit our freedom of movement; such is the price of progress.

Democracy

When Eddy Morrison was in charge of the National Front he used to reprint some of my articles from Nation Revisited. The following piece was posted on the NF website in April 2009.

The concept of democracy is universally supported. People trust doctors, dentists, motor mechanics and airline pilots with their lives, and bank managers and financial advisors with their savings. They are happy to trust the experts, except when it comes to government. Then they put their trust in elected amateurs. This is based on the idea that a multitude knows better than an individual. There is no basis for this belief but it's entrenched in popular culture and one of the tenets of political correctness.

If opinions were arrived at by careful deliberation democracy might be a fair system of government. But the trouble is that opinions are created by the mass media. The parties that get elected and the laws that are passed are decided by radio, television and newspapers, not by people thinking for themselves. Democracy is therefore an instrument of power controlled by big business and operated by the mass media.

Nobody voted for the wars of the last hundred years. We fought the First World War in a frenzy of patriotism. Hundreds of thousands of men volunteered to be slaughtered in the mud of Flanders or the burning sands of Arabia. By the Second World War the jingoism had died down but still men went to their deaths willingly.

Then followed a string of colonial wars as the Empire fell apart. Britain fought in Malaya, Kenya, Aden, Cyprus and the Falklands, and as part of the United Nations in Korea. Recently we have supported the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. But not one of these wars was voted on by the people, in every case it was the government that decided to go to war.

Every war was fought for commercial reasons that had nothing whatsoever to do with Belgian neutrality or Polish independence. We fought the First World War to steal Middle East oil from the Turks and the Second World War to stop Germany from bypassing the banks by trading manufactured goods for raw materials. Nearly all subsequent conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan, were really about natural resources. America's ultimate aim is to control all the gas and oil between Egypt and China.

And just as big business sent us to war they also decided to change the population of our country without consulting us. So they introduced the British Nationality Act and imported millions of Third World immigrants to undercut wages and drive down expectations. Then they rushed through laws to stop any criticism of their actions. And at every stage, in every war and throughout half a century of mass migration the people have gone to the polls to endorse their own destruction. They have voted for the very parties that took us to war and turned our country into a dumping ground for the surplus population of the world.

From time to time protest movements have arisen that have fought for Britain. Some of them have become mass movements but the power of the State has been used without mercy to detain people without trial, or charge them with newly invented crimes.

Our task must be to educate the masses, to wean them off the existing 'democratic' system and make them aware that there are alternatives. Our 650 elected MPs and 800 appointed members of the House of Lords are divided into parties but they all serve the same masters. 

We are being decieved by charlatans. Nothing is more sickening than the false patriotism of the capitalists. They send us to war with drums beating and flags flying but they couldn't care less who wins the war so long as they are making profits. Big business is international and has been for hundreds of years. The great corporations do not recognise countries or races; they exploit mankind without regard to race, creed or colour.

Communism and Fascism came and went without destroying the capitalist system. They tried to build mighty states with their own resources but they never escaped from international finance. Today, the Internet is changing everything, it's no longer possible to control information and keep people in a state of ignorance. Revolutionary philosophies may yet come together with climate change and demographics to finally bury debt and usury.

We must read, write and communicate. The State can close down dissenting movements but ideas cannot be destroyed. The present system relies on media control and political corruption but it cannot survive in the age of Information Technology. The people now know too much to be treated with contempt by elected representatives who are mainly interested in taking bribes and fiddling their expenses.

We must develop a modern system of government that is not controlled by bankers and racketeers. The financial crisis shows that capitalists are only vulnerable human beings who make mistakes. They can be beaten.

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Nation Revisited # 180 October 2021

Why the Tories and Labour love the Asian invasion: Edmund Morrison. White Nationalist Letter, April 2020

Veteran patriot Eddy Morrison died last year but through the wonder of the Internet his words live on. I only met Eddy once, at a New Right meeting about ten years ago, but I exchanged e-mails with him for many years. I didn't always agree with him but I admired his tenacity.

The Indian invasion of Britain took place in two significant waves; though tens of thousands are still pouring in, often illegaly. The first was in the late 40s and 50s when non-Whites were recruited directly from India by successive governments to fill the national shortage that resulted from the Second World War. What labour shortage? Millions of ex-servicemen came home to no job!

These non-Europeans mainly settled in the Midlands and North West of England, working in foundries and textile manufacturing. They were heavily involved in building Britain's anti-racist and trade union movements in the 50s and 60s, drawing on lessons learned from anti-colonial struggles back home to organise their communities in Britain. In other words they were anti-British agitators who wanted Indian independence and when they got it they headed for Britain!

To this day these communities are disproportionately working class and Labour voting. In more and more parliamentary constituences if you don't control the Asian vote you aren't going to get elected!

The second wave of Indian invaders to Britain were the so-called 'twice migrants' who arrived from East Africa in the 60s and 70s, having been expelled or encouraged to leave by the newly independent regimes in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The families of our Chancellor, Home Secretary, and Attorney General are part of this latter group

So how and why have their descendants become so prominent on the Tory frontbenches? The answer begins in 1895 with the creation of the British East Africa Protectorate. British officials envisioned the Protectorate, which occupied roughly the same area as modern day Kenya, as the 'America of the Hindu', a settler colonial project to be led by Indians on behalf of the British. In the early 20th Century, thousands of Indians, mostly Goans, Gujaratis and Punjabis, were imported into East Africa as subcolonial agents of civilisation. They were recruited to work in colonial administration and serve in the colonial police and army, to keep the 'native peoples' in order. At the same time more than 30,000 indentured labourers were brought over from India to build the Kenya-Uganda railway.

Many of these labourers chose to settle in the Protectorate after the railway was completed. They were soon joined by many other Indian subjects who moved freely to the Protectorate in search of economic prosperity. Functioning as a subordinate ruling class, Indians in East Africa enjoyed success in business, finance and the professions throughout the colonial period, and gained significant control over the economy. By the time Kenya won its independence in 1963, Indians , who accounted for less than 3% of the population, owned more than two thirds of the country's private non-agricultural assets!

Although in most ways a lunatic, Idi Amin expelled all the Uganda Asians as he quite rightly saw they were running his country!

When this group of Indians arrived in Britain (very few of them went back to India) many brought with them the considerable wealth they had accured, along with a hostility towards Black Africans. Others brought with them the benefits of English-language education. These advantages virtually guaranteed the economic success of East African Indians in Britain, especially in the retail business of Margaret Thatcher's 'enterprise economy', for which they soon became known. Rishi Sunak's pharmacist mother and Priti Patel's newsagent-owning parents were typical of their generation.

The Conservative leadership of the time identified this demographic as potential voters. From the 80s onwards the Tories began to court an imagined 'Indian Community' limited to East African Indians who had settled around London. Successful British Indians were held up as evidence of what could be achieved under a free-market Conservative government. In 1988 Thatcher welcomed the new Indian High Commissioner to Britain with the following words: "We so much welcome the resourceful Indian community here in Britain. You have brought the virtues of family, of hard work, and of resolve to make a better life... you are displaying splendid qualities of enterprise and initiative, which benefit not just you and your families but the Indian community and indeed the nation as a whole."

This is the woman who lied to the British White electorate at the 1979 general election and helped wipe out what would have been a huge vote for the National Front. The Tories have always been liars and Thatcher, whilst busily smashing the White working class mining industry, praised the Asians.

Fast foreward to 2010, and the Conservatives held 30% of the British Indian vote. After 30 years of Thatcherite ideology, British Indians were the most pro-Conservative ethnic minority, after the Jewish community. After decades of gradual advance this number soared to 40% in 2017. In the 2019 election, as the Conservatives chased a realignment towards White Northern voters based on fake 'racist' scaremongering, support in constituencies with high Indian populations increased substantially again. At every point this has included members of both groups of Indian migrants. Now, British Indians make up 15% of the Tory Cabinet. The Tories have now managed to extend their appeal beyond the 'two time' migrants by finding common cause in a project of Islamophobia. Supported by the Indian government and its far-right ruling party, the BJP, the Conservatives have exploited a sharp rise in Hindu nationalism within the British Indian community to play off Hindu and Muslim communities against each other.

The Conservative campaign in Harrow East, a marginal constituency in which 25% of the voters are of Indian origin, provided the clearest example of this. The constituency's Conservative MP Bob Blackman, whose Twitter background photo shows him smiling next to Prime Minister Modi, saw fit to retweet a post by the far-right commentator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (alias Tommy Robinson) that highlighted Muslim violence against Hindus. He stated that he had done this in error, but along with others in the Conservative Party, he has encouraged the portrayal of Labour as anti-Hindu and pro-Muslim, citing Labour's percieved support for the Kasmiri struggle for self-determination as evidence. In the 2019 election his majority increased by more than 6,000 votes, and he was sworn into parliament on the Bhagavad Gita! Another gifted liar!

As the Tories, Labour and the rest of the Westminster vermin struggle into their saris and kaftans the White voters of Britain's wishes are completely ignored! Only a policy of repatriation backed by a sensible and humane plan can restore our country back to its righful owners; we the British people!

Being born in a country may change your passport; it doesnt change your race. Cliff Richard isn't ever described as an Asian even though he was born in India.

We need to see a sensible and responsible Asian community in Britain who know that their skills, money and knowledge are urgently needed in Pakistan and India. But the Government wouldn't back such a 'Back to Asia' movement led by Asians.

A stamp on a passport can magically wipe out 100,000 years of racial evolution. Napoleon called us 'a nation of shopkeepers', I wonder what he would call us now?

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded in 1949 to protect North America and Western Europe from the Soviet Union. The founding states were; The USA, Canada, the UK, Norway, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Iceland, Portugal, and Italy. Turkey and Greece were admited in 1952 in reward for their gallant participation in the Korean War. Germany joined in 1955, Spain was admited in 1982 after the death of General Franco. Poland and Hungary joined in 1999 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia joined in 2004. Croatia and Albania joined in 2009 and North Macedonia in 2020.

The original purpose of NATO no longer applies because the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. It has been replaced by the Russian Federation which has no territorial ambition in Europe, with the possible exception of the Russian-speaking Donbas region of Ukraine. 

When NATO invaded Afghanistan and Iraq the enemy was distinctly anti-Communist. The Taliban had fought the Soviet Union for ten years and Sadaam Hussein was an Arab Nationalist who had destroyed the Communist Party in Iraq. 

The question must therefore be asked, what is NATO for? Attempts to turn it into a European defence force have so far come to nothing. But if  America continues the isolationist policies started by Donald Trump this could change. America contributes the most to NATO, so the European states would have to increase their efforts to sustain the Alliance. The position of Canada would have to be decided.

No European state can match America militarily but the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, each have armies averaging 80,000, not counting reservists. They are already co-ordinated under NATO. If they pooled their resources we would have an army of 400,000, more than enough to deter any aggressor.

America shelters Europe under her nuclear umbrella but Britain and France possess their own nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. Even without Trident and the Vanguard fleet we would still have our Astute class submarines that could be armed with nuclear-capable cruise missiles.

NATO made sense in 1949 when the threat of a Soviet invasion of Europe was real, but it's difficult to justify the cost to the American taxpayer. Future wars will almost certainly be fought outside our continent, where they should be the resposibility of the United Nations.

 

Is Putin A Sociopath? - Sam Dickson

Colleagues:

I get notices from an outfit called "Quora." They pose questions, give answers and invite comments. The one today inquired as to whether Putin was a sociopath. The answer was that yes, he probably is a sociopath. I'm pasting my comments below. I don't know how long it will be up. Sam

Comment:

This is really dumb. "Psychoanalysis" of someone you have never met based on what the hostile news media says about him. If Putin were a sociopath, he would not be taking controversial positions defending Russia and its people. He'd be a "go-along-get-along" type... along the lines of Angela Merkal. Or Biden. He would engage in gimmicks and posturing like the "insurection" hearings of the "Russia Investigations."

He would be sure to get in line with Maxine Waters like 219 Democrats in the Congress did when they refused unanimously to condemn Waters. Waters addressed a Black Lives Matter mob at the courthouse in Minneapolis as the jury in the George Floyd  case were a couple of days from beginning their deliberations. She threatened that if the jury didn't convict the cop, Blacks would riot all over America.

None of this bothered a single Democrat in the House. It would be different, of course, if the mob had been White, the rabble rousers had been in the Klan and the defendant had been Black or Jewish. Then it would have been like the Leo Frank case way back when in Atlanta. All 219 Democrats would be looking for photo ops to posture about how horrible it was.

If you're looking for sociopaths, look for them in Congress, the White House and among the judges in the courts. Look there. Republicans too. Don't think they are any better. But Putin? No. Putin cares about his people. The hallmark of a psychopath is that he does not connect with anybody else. He doesn't connect with his family. He doesn't connect with other kids on his Little League team. He doesnt connect with his fraternity brothers. He doesn't connect with his region. He dosen't connect with his race. He doesn't connect with his country. He's looking after number one! In short: he's the perfect "woke" White liberal. That's where you find your sociopaths. 

Letters to the Editor

From Bernard Franklin - theflameuk.com 

The Labour, Conservative, Liberal and Communist Parties all have similar nation-wrecking policies. They are led by Zionists, bankers, Freemasons and Fabians all a similar agenda. Spread the word we need to get rid of of the political parties and elect constituency candidates, chosen for their honesty, knowledge and ability.

Since 1980 houses and blocks of flats have been built all over the country from Northumberland on the Scottish border to London. The White British population is smaller now than it was in the 1960s so they are not needed. They are being built to get us White British outnumbered and outvoted by Blacks, Pakistanis, Chinese and others. More recently Chinese have been building them. China and Israel have recently linked up to try and control the world. 

Nation Revisited: You are right about the need for political reform. Hilaire Belloc and Cecil Chesterton wrote in 'The Party System':

We have just attempted a sketch of representative government as it ought to be, and the English people long believed that they had got, if not quite that, at least a decent approximation to it.  It was their boast that without bloodshed or violent severance with the past they had as much of the reality of self-government as the most perfectly planned Republic could have. In what degree this was ever true will form the matter of discussion later. But undoubtedly it was widely believed. Most Englishmen until very lately, if told that they were not self-governing, would have laughed in your face.

But now a dim suspicion has begun to arise in the minds of a least a section of the people that this historic optimism is not quite as true as it looks, that the electors do not as a fact control the Government, that something alien has intervened between electors and elected, between legislature and Executive, something that deflects the workings of representative institutions. That thing is the Party System. 

Those words were written in 1911 but they are just as true today. The party system serves big business, not the people. Our elected representatives should take their orders from their constituents, not from the party bosses. And they shouldn't be 'whipped' or face deselection for departing from the 'Party Line'. 

Gordon Strange 13 July 1950 - 3 September 2021

Our old friend Gordon Strange has died of Cancer at his Ramsgate home. Gordon was a long time member of the British National Party. He served in the Royal Fusiliers and worked for many years as a London bus driver. He was opposed to the EU but he regularly attended Friends of Mosley reunions. May he rest in peace.

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Nation Revisited # 179 September 2021

Lambeth's Shame 

An independent inquiry is investigating three decades of child abuse in Lambeth Childrens' Homes. The lunatic-left council of Red Ted Knight that was in power for much of this time was accused of fraud and corruption but this is the first time that this particular horror has been uncovered. The inquiry lists more than 700 offences involving mostly black children. The offences were committed against a background of chaos while the Council championed various left-wing causes. Ted Knight was disqualified from being a councillor in 1986 and he died last year. Lambeth Council has been trying to clean up its act in recent years. Its latest report states:

"Fraud and corruption poses a significant risk to Lambeth Council, as is the case with every other large organisation. During the three financial years commencing 1 April 2016, fraud to the value of £10.5 million has been identified by the counter fraud officers in the Council. Whilst this is a significant amount of money, it is accepted that the true figure of loss to fraudulent activity will be much higher. The National Crime Agency estimates the total cost of fraud in the UK to be £190 billion, with the public sector accounting for £40 billion of the losses."

Vic Sarson writes:

I worked for the old London County Council for a brief period sixty years ago and saw how corrupt it was at all levels. Lambeth Council was in character identical to the LCC. In Lambeth, as in Southwark, there are plans to demolish a number of housing estates and disperse residence from their homes and neighbourhoods. There are strong opposition campaigns on the estates but the councillors and the same party responsible for it were re-elected at last election.

People are like sheep. They vote for a party label regardless of who or what is wearing it. Democracy - so called -  is based on the false and absurd premise that ignorance multiplied by X number equals wisdom. A bad system to be sure but one generally preferred to any other. Political parties are just another form of organised gang.

In the 1940s and 50s the Labour and Conservative Parties had huge memberships and could, to an extent, be seen to be representative of the broad mass of the population, but today they are a mere shadow of what they were. And so it is that a tiny and unrepresentative minority now dominates the politics of the country. They set the political agenda in accordance with their own desires and prejudices. The desires and real agenda, and interest, of the people are ignored. By definition none of this is democratic.

Today, much of the Tory Party are spivs (men typically characterized by flashy dress, who make a living by disreputable dealings) especially those on the front bench. The Labour Party despises ordinary working people as if they were dirt beneath their shoes. The Liberal-Democrats are all things to all men, usually combining the worst elements of the other two. 

A political party after all is the embodiment of prejudice - and nothing more!

The Link

Many of the young men in prison for political offences deserve to be locked up for promoting violence against minorities and politicians they disagree with. Our respect for the British Justice is diminished by show trials such as that of Oliver Bel. They were determined to get Oliver because he is not your average skinhead nationalist. He is a Cambridge graduate in maths and physics who questioned the Holocaust. He was also found to be in possession of a book called 'The Anarchist Cookbook' which is sold by Amazon. For these 'crimes' he is now serving what amounts to a four year sentence. 

There is a world of difference between violent hooligans and respectable students like Oliver Bel. The various nationalist groups have not done enough to warn young people of the dangers of breaking the law. The National Front is trying to address the problem. Here is their report on the 2019 National Front AGM:

"Former NF chairman and former MEP Andrew Brons, as guest speaker, cautioned us that the Establishment in its desperation to hold on to its illegitimate power will get increasingly vicious. Andrew said  it is our duty to maintain our racial-nationalist principles: never to sell out to civic-multi-racial-nationalism, but equally never to break the law; but to tread carefully the narrow patriotic path, ignoring the blandishments and the traps of criminally intended agent provocateurs. Always keep it legal was Andrew's much appreciated contribution to our AGM." 

Michael Woodbridge (pictured) runs 'The Link' which campaigns for political prisoners. In the July-August edition of the nationalist magazine 'Heritage and Destiny' he wrote:

"Nowadays it's occasionally argued that young hot-headed racial-nationalists bring their cause into disrepute by providing the globalist nexus with what Sir Oswald Mosley once described as a living caricature of our movement. However, it is to be hoped that the sheer iniquity of the Oliver Bel trial and his continued torment will expose to all and sundry where the real moral weakness in our society lies."

Michael can be contacted on 01490 440 418 tarkatheotterwestwardho@hotmail.com

Jews in the Third Reich

Since I was accused of naivety for accepting the Holocaust I have looked into the subject of the Jews in Germany during WW2. There is no doubt that they were persecuted by the Nazis, starting with Crystal Night in 1938, nevertheless many of them fought for the Fatherland. Cambridge University researcher Bryan Rigg, in his book 'Hitler's Jewish Soldiers' (available from Amazon), claims that up to 150,000 Jews served in the armed forces of the Third Reich, including two Field Marshals. 

Erich von Manstein was one of Hitler's favourite generals. He was raised by Prussian aristocrats but his biological father was Eduard von Lewinski who was probably of Jewish ancestry, according to the respected historian Antony Beevor.

Erhard Milch was a Luftwaffe Field Marshall. His father was a Jewish pharmacist called Anton Milch. The SS investigated both generals but their reports were never published. Herman Goering intervened in the case of Milch by declaring that he would decide who was a Jew and who was an Aryan.

While Erich von Manstein directed operations on the Russian Front and Erhard Milch was trying to bomb Britain into submission, the Jewish Hospital in Berlin functioned normally. The 'Jewish News' reported 13th December 2020:

"In 1945 the Russians entered the city, when they opened the doors of the Jewish Hospital in Berlin, they were shocked to find 800 Jews who had survived the Holocaust within the walls of the hospital. How was it possible? The hospital was the only Jewish organisation to operate during the Nazi period. Why?"

Adolf Hitler must have known about about the heritage of his generals and the existence of the Jewish Hospital in Berlin. A lifetime after the Second World War we think we know all about it, but some questions remain unanswered.

A few years ago Ken Livingstone, then a prominent Labour politician, got himself into trouble by pointing out that Ze'ev Jabotinsky (pictured), a Zionist leader, held talks with the Nazis on Jewish emigration to Palestine. This might seem strange but both parties wanted to get the Jews out of Europe. How different things might have been if their talks had been successful.

Labour Shortage

We are short of truck drivers, nurses, policemen, fruit pickers and construction workers. The Brexiteers refuse to believe that we need workers from mainland Europe. They argue that we could fill these vacancies by paying higher wages. But farmers can't pay more for pickers without pricing themselves out of the market, and the same goes for all the other  jobs. Thousands of workers from the EU have gone home since Brexit, but the underlying cause of our labour shortages is our declining birth rate. Since 1950 our birth rate has dropped dramatically. If we want to avoid immigration we must have more babies and an educational system to train the truck drivers, nurses and doctors of the future.

The birth rate has dropped all over the West because women use contraception in order to pursue careers. The government should halt this trend by providing tax breaks, cheap mortgages, and nursery facilities to encourage them to have children. Such measures have already been introduced in Russia and Hungary.

The UK has relied on imported labour for many years. We hired Irish labourers to build the canals and the railways that made the Industrial Revolution possible; we brought in West Indians to drive London's buses in the Fifties; we welcomed the Asians from East Africa in the Seventies, especially the doctors; and we couldn't get enough Poles in the last twenty years. I worked with them in the Construction Industry and I found them to be conservative, religious, and hard working.

The Tory answer is to encourage mass migration from Asia and Africa. Boris Johnson and his gang of piratical free traders have already had talks with Third World leaders in the hope of getting trade deals in exchange for their workers.

How ironic that immigration was one of the driving forces behind Brexit. Nigel Farage was upset to hear people speaking Polish on a commuter train, but he is presumably happy to hear his fellow passengers speaking Yoruba, Hindi or Cantonese.

The damage done to the British economy by our Brexit-supporting  newspapers is starting to be felt. The Guardian, The Mirror, and The Financial Times, which have small circulations, supported our membership of the EU, but the mass circulation Tory papers, particularly The Daily Mail and The Sun, used mendacious propaganda to achieve their 2% winning margin in the referendum. The false threat of 70 million Turkish immigrants was just one of their lurid fantasies. 

To overcome our labour shortage we will have to breed a new generation of home-grown workers, and invest in automation, but for the present we must rely on immigration. We must therefore decide what sort of immigrants we want. We can either choose Europeans who share our race and culture, or Asians and Africans. This is not what people expected when they voted to 'get our country back'.

Afghanistan

Nation Revisited # 3, February 2006 predicted that the Allied invasion of Afghanistan would be a disaster:

"The Americans cheered when Taliban Mujahideen lynched President Najibullah in Aryana Square in Kabul in 1996. Washington saw the Taliban as good anti-communists and friends of the West. They backed them with arms and training just as they backed Saddam Hussein against the Iranian revolutionaries. Now Britain is sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan to help fight a civil war that has cost over 1,600 lives in the past year. The American-installed regime of Hamid Karzai has proven its capitalist credentials by doubling opium production and flooding Britain with drugs. This has turned into another American foreign policy disaster."

We should have learned from history. The three British-Afghan Wars of 1849, 1880 and 1919 ultimately ended in Afghan independence. Rudyard Kipling wrote:

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut off what remains, just roll on your rifle and blow out your brains, and go to your God like a soldier." 

The Russians did no better. They occupied Afghanistan from 1979 until 1989 but their costly adventure helped to bring down the Soviet Union.

America and her NATO allies invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime sheltering Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorists held responsible for the 9/11 attacks. He was eventually killed by US Navy Seals in neighbouring Pakistan in 2011.

We have now pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban have taken over. We lost thousands of soldiers and spent billions of dollars trying to make the Afghan National Army into an efficient fighting force, only to see it surrender to the Taliban. The ANA were understandardly reluctant to fight for a totally corrupt regime after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country in a helicopter stuffed with banknotes.

Britain intervened in the Middle East and we also took part in the NATO offensive against Yugoslavia in 1989, but that was a European problem and therefore within our remit. Since our foreign policy follows the United States we can only hope that Washington has learned its lesson. Osama Bin Laden's assassination in Pakistan could have been achieved without an invasion of Afghanistan.

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