Monday, 28 February 2022

Nation Revisited # 185 March 2022

Gordon Callow


Nick Griffin on Twitter 25 March 2021:

"A very belated appreciation of Gordon Callow, brave veteran of Union Movement, the NF and BNP, who I have only just heard died in January. Also known as Tom, together with his brother Brian (who later moved to Cumbria & campaigned with me for the EP) he was a stalwart patriot."

Tom died in January 2021 at a care home in Southend, Essex. I don't know his date of birth but he must have been in his eighties. His political activities covered a  lifetime. He was jailed together with John Bean in 1959 for his part in the St Pancras Town Hall Riot, and, over forty years later, he stood as a candidate for the BNP in the 2002 local election on the Isle of Dogs. He was a brave and determined patriot who never gave up the fight.

John Millican, the author of 'Mosley's Men in Black' writes:      "I only met him a couple of times, once at his home in Brick Lane. I think his parents were BU and he told me that they lived just around the corner from the Ilford BU offices."

May he rest in peace.

The Law Of The Jungle: Vic Sarson

Foreign and alien attitudes towards women and girls have been imported into Britain by the liberal establishment. Feminism, another manifestation of liberalism, has played a large part in this. The notion that a young female can walk about at night provocatively attired and going to venues containing lots of sexually aroused men expecting to be safe the whole of the time, and by right, is too absurd for words. There is no such thing as a 'human right'. If someone is big and strong enough to knock us down and take our possessions he has the natural right to do so. Might is Right after all. It has nothing to do with decency or morality it is the law of nature, of the swamp, of the jungle.

But man is a social animal evolved into societies where the individual is protected by law. Without organised society there would be no framework of laws. For the law to work for the benefit of us all requires individuals to understand and comply with it; such as modesty of dress and deportment  by unaccompanied women. Those that do not comply are an affront to us all. So many respectable women are paying the price as a consequence. According to the Office of National Statistics reports of rape in England and Wales in 2021 have risen by 8% to 61,158.

Remembering the Empire

Defenders of the British Empire point to the railways, schools, hospitals, courts of justice, police forces, and parliaments that we established around the world. Critics of the Empire remember the Irish famine, the concentration camps in South Africa, and the Bengal famine. The Empire was undoubtedly a force for progress, but it was also a ruthless capitalist enterprise.

Our museums and bank vaults are full of looted or dubiously acquired  treasures; Benin Bronzes, Elgin Marbles, Australian Aboriginal bones, and fabulous diamonds from India and South Africa.  And our war graves are full of British and colonial soldiers who died for the Empire.

In 1932 an Imperial Conference was held in Ottowa to set up a free trade agreement between Britain and the Dominions. This was unsuccessful because Britain wanted to supply all the manufactured goods in return for raw materials, but the Dominions wanted to develop their own industries. The Conference established the principle of 'Imperial Preference' but it never really got going. Nevertheless this failed policy is still the dream of the Brexit supporters.

The begining of the end came in 1942 when General Percival surrendered the British garrison at Singapore to the Japanese under General Yamashita. And the end came when our expeditionary force was ordered out of Suez by a furious American president in 1956.

We soldiered on with colonial wars in Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus and Aden but everyone knew that the game was up. We  achieved a famous victory in the Falklands in 1982 but it was too late to make any difference. 

In 1965 I embarked on a five year Commonwealth tour that convinced me that the White Dominions were going their separate ways. I concluded that we must maintain our historic links with the Anglosphere but our future lies in Europe. Today, we are a post-imperial power divorced from the Continent and stuck in the past. As Brexit unravels we will see the folly of our decision to go-it-alone, but we will not face reality until the post-war baby boomers have passed away. We were the last generation to live under the British Empire. I may not live to see us rejoin the EU, but I have no doubt that it will happen. Apart from the economic advantages, we are too close to  Europe in terms of history, geography and culture to stay outside.

The Yellow Peril

Chinese people started coming to the UK in the 19th century as refugees from the Opium War. 140,000 Chinese were recruited by the British government as labourers for the army in the First World War. After the war survivors from the Chinese Labour Corps were repatriated to China but an unknown number settled in the UK. In those politically incorrect days this migration was known as the 'Yellow Peril'.

We now have over 400,000 Chinese according to the 2011 census. This does not include Vietnamese, Koreans and related races. The British government expects 320,000 Hong Kongers to come here by 2026, but over 5 million are eligible under the British National (Overseas) visa scheme.

The Chinese are industrious and intelligent folk who are an asset to the UK, but do we really need another five million of them? We are already struggling to accomodate millions of Africans and Asians; we simply don't have the houses and facilities for them.

Our government looks on the Hong Kong immigrants as refugees because Beijing is integrating Hong Kong into China. But we cannot possibly take in everybody who is trying to escape from an authoritarian regime. 

The UN High Commission for Refugees estimates there are 50 million displaced people in the world. These poor souls are the victims of war, famine, oppression, and poverty. Their numbers are being swelled by climate change as oceans rise and deserts spread. We can help them with trade deals and foreign aid but we can't welcome them to our overcrowded island.

The 'Mother Bountiful' attitude of the British government is another case of imperial nostalgia. We sent missionaries and colonial administrators all over the world to preach the Gospel and fill the heads of the natives with nonsensical propaganda about the wealth and power of the Motherland. They can hardly be blamed for coming here to see it for themselves.

War in Europe

The war between Russia and Ukraine is a tragedy; a war between fellow Europeans that should not have happened. We hope and pray that the peace talks now in progress will succeed.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine were cut off from the Motherland. This has resulted in the current conflict.

President Vladimir Putin is vilified in the West as a dictator and an imperialist, but he was democratically elected and his support for the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine is only to be expected.

Under the Soviet Union it made no difference if the disputed regions were in Russia or Ukraine because they both belonged to the same political entity. On a smaller scale, it doesn't matter if Monmouth is in England or Wales, or if Berwick-on-Tweed is in Scotland or England, because they are all in the United Kingdom.

The regime of former comedian Volodymr Zelensky resulted from the coup of 2014 which deposed the elected president Viktor Yanukovych. Zelensky imposed the Language Law which promoted the Ukrainian language over the Russian language and reduced the Russian-speaking population to the status of second class citizens.

The West is sending military aid to Ukraine and waging economic warfare against Russia, but much of Europe is dependent on Russian gas from Nordstream 1, and the UK is the recipient of massive Russian investment. We had a similar performance in 2014 when Crimea was annexed by Russia, but realpolitik prevailed.

The Russian Federation is self-sufficient in food and has massive reserves of gas and oil. Despite sanctions, countries in need of fuel will continue to buy from Russia. The West will encourage the Saudis to increase production but they are unlikely to do so because it would reduce prices.  

We should remember that in WW11 the Russians defeated the largest invasion force in history. They are not likely to be beaten by the loss of Starbucks and McDonalds.

Sam Dickson

One quick point to add to your article on the failure of White nationalist, identity politics in the UK (and also in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand - the entire English-speaking world).

I believe two very important factors in the failure of English speaking societies to generate such policies are:

1) The illusion of victory in the world wars;

2) The (false) sense of continuity.

Other people have had to recognise the reality of defeat. Our people have not. They think they won two great victories in World Wars 1 and 11. They really didn't because neither war was in the best interest of our people but they don't see that. They just see "victory."

The other factor is the false sense of continuity. There has not been a revolution in Great Britain since 1689 when James 11 was toppled.

There has not been a revolution in the US since the war for independence 250 years ago (and it wasn't really a revolution but merely a war for independence).

The reality is that there have been huge and often negative changes in our governments.

Lincoln represented the death of the early American republic. The war with Spain in 1898 was a terrible departure from the sensible isolationist policy recommended by Washington. Wilson and Roosevelt all meant revolutionary change.

Likewise, in Britain the government today bears only superficial resemblance to to the government 150 years ago. But in all our countries the English-speaking people don't recognise these changes.

Superficially, there has been unbroken continuity. There is still a President in the White House, a House of Representatives, a Senate, a Supreme Court and various States in America.

There is still a monarch in Buckingham Palace, a House of Commons and a House of Lords in Great Britain.

A man who lived to the age of 100 in Berlin from 1900 to 2000 (and some people do live that long) lived under a monarchy, a socialist republic, the National Socialist racial state, the Communist "Democratic" Republic and a liberal democracy. Five different governments in one lifetime. No one in the English-speaking world has had that experience. 

George's Travels

Many years ago I knew a man called George who claimed to have been abducted by space aliens. He was the father of my step-daughter's school friend. A civil servant who always wore a suit and kept his shoes polished. He was a respectable citizen who upheld the law and supported the Conservative Party. The only remarkable thing about him was his claim of interplanetary travel. According to his story he had been captured by a beam of light emited from a flying saucer. The aliens turned out to be Venusians. They treated him kindly and took him back to Venus where he was made welcome by the Venusian Emperor. Unfortunately, Venus was subject to frequent raids by Martians who came looking for slaves. And during such a raid George was captured by the Martians and taken to Mars. The Martians were as cruel as the Venusians were kind. They subjected him to all kinds of torture until he confessed to being a spy. He was sentenced to death and taken to the main square of the Martian capital city to be publicly executed. But his friends from Venus came to his rescue in the nick of time. He was beamed up by a Venusian flying saucer which delivered him safely back to Earth.

I asked George, as politely as possible, how long the whole experience had lasted. He said it was more than two years but the Venusians could control time, so his family and his employers never missed him. He added that the wounds inflicted by the Martians had all disppeared as a result of Venusian medical care.

I should have advised him to see a doctor but I didn't want to upset the girls. So I said nothing and listened to his outrageous story. And that is the enigma, how can an apparently normal man believe in such nonsense?

With the coming of the Internet space travellers now have their own websites, often shared with those who believe that the world has been taken over by lizards, and, most recently by the anti-vaccinators who think that the Coronavirus is a conspiracy by Bill Gates and his alleged Satanic Paedophile Ring.  It's wrong to mock the afflicted, but we shouldn't listen to their nonsense, or believe anything seen on social media without checking it. I once reported the death of David Myatt because it had been posted on Facebook, but David is alive and well. 

Any prescribed medication will have at least one critical website devoted to it. According to the conspiracy theorists 'Big Pharma' is trying to kill us all.

We live in the age of misinformation.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I see that the "Daily Mail" is comparing the likes of George Galloway, former Labour Party/Respect Party MP and leader of the Workers Party of Britain (W.P.B.) to "Lord Haw Haw", for continuing to broadcast on the Russian TV channel RT and Sputnik.

Every newspaper seems to be filled with images of Putin as another "Hitler", while "anti-fascists" like "Hope Not Hate" point to British "far-right" and "fascist" support for both sides in this tragic European civil war.

MIND BRITAIN'S BUSINESS - THE WAR ON WANT IS THE WAR WE WANT - PEACE NOW!

Anonymous said...

"Over the course of a few years, Zelensky — who is the first-ever Jewish president of Ukraine, a country with a long and complicated Jewish history — has quickly become one of the most consequential and prominent Jewish world leaders in recent decades. And given his nonpolitical roots (Ed: former career as a popular comedian), one of the unlikeliest.

Furthermore, questions about his Jewishness have exploded into the international consciousness: Has his Jewish background put him — or his fellow Ukrainian Jews — in more danger? Has it contributed to the conflict in any way? And why is Russian Vladimir Putin suggesting that he is a Nazi?

Zelensky was born in a Russian-speaking area of eastern Ukraine to Jewish parents, a mother who was an engineer and a father who is a computer scientist. His father’s father, Semyon, served in the Soviet Red Army during World War II; Semyon’s father and brothers were all murdered in the Holocaust.

“He survived World War II contributing to the victory over Nazism and hateful ideology. Two years after the war, his son was born. And his grandson was born 31 years after. Forty years later, his grandson became president. And today he stands before you,” Zelensky said in a speech during a January 2020 presidential trip to Israel, where he appeared with then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."

Jewish Telegraph Agency (25/2/2022)

Robert Edwards said...

It was said that the first casualty of war is the truth. Putin was referring to the extreme nationalists in Ukraine who were egged on by the Americans in 2014 to overthrow a democratically elected pro-Russian President. This was carried out using snipers and rioting thugs. These were the "Nazis" Putin refers to with a history of genocide going back to World War II.
These Ukrainian nationalists use Nazi-like symbols and want the extermination of Russian-speakers in Ukraine. Since 2014, they have been attempting to do this in the Donbass.
The Jew Zelensky does not condemn these so-called Nazis because he needs them but they don't need him. He would be wise to collaborate with Putin who wants "de-Nazification" in Ukraine.
I have just learned that Russia Today's license in the UK has been revoked. This is a tragedy for anyone wanting to listen to alternative voices and I am one of them. The BBC is hell-bent on giving a totally biased view of the conflict in Ukraine and so I avoid it whenever I can.
I look forward to the day when Russia with China form a completely new global financial system which would be independent of the American-dominated one which prevails today. No more sanctions or dirty politics. The principle should be co-operation and not competition. God bless Vladimir Putin.
(Unlike your other correspondents on here, I do not do "anonymous". Unless it is you Bill and all your Irish friends.)