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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