Issue 95, September 2012

Nation Revisited

# 95, September 2012 

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Thanks to Rufus of the News From Atlantis blog for organizing our new website. This will be updated as each copy of NR is issued; usually every month. This newsletter is opposed to both Finance Capitalism and Communism and stands for European solidarity. We reject racial and religious hatred, including Zionism, but we uphold the positive values of Western civilization.

 

The London Olympics 2012
 

The 2012 London Olympics were a great success. The USA and China were clear winners and the UK did well to come third. But if all the states of Europe had competed under one flag they would have dominated the games with 136 gold, 151 silver and 174 bronze medals. The £10 billion extravaganza was a celebration of global capitalism sponsored by MacDonald’s and Coca-Cola. But we shouldn’t forget the lessons of history. The 1936 Berlin Olympics were brilliantly choreographed by Joseph Goebbels and filmed by Leni Riefenstahl, but ten years later the National Socialist state had ceased to exist. And when Leonid Brezhnev hosted the 1980 Moscow Olympics the Red Army had just invaded Afghanistan. But ten years later Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to withdraw his forces and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Let’s hope that our war-mongering plutocracy suffers a similar fate.

 

Real and Present Danger
 

With the backing of the Murdoch press the retrograde wing of the Tory Party is growing stronger. They have already rejected reform of the House of Lords and they are demanding a referendum on Europe. If they win such a referendum they could force Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. 

This would only be a temporary setback on the road to European unity but it would mean a return to the days before 1973 when we joined the old Common Market. We would still have a stagnant economy, high unemployment and a national debt of £1.2 trillion, but we would be able to wave the Union Jack and sing Land of Hope and Glory to our heart’s content.

In an “independent” Britain there would be no hated foreigners poking their noses into our affairs; except for President Obama and his radiant Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. She is responsible for enforcing US foreign policy on the rest of the world including their insistence on open-door immigration.

There is no shortage of right-wing Tories like William Hague and Liam Fox willing to collaborate with her. The Tories like talking about immigration but they always obey American orders. Any attempt to limit Third World immigration - which is 60% of our intake – would be vetoed by Barack Obama whose father was Kenyan. At present Hilary Clinton is directing the destruction of Syria but she would soon turn her attention to the UK if we went against her.

 

The real and present danger to the UK is uncontrolled Third World immigration. It will make no difference if we are in or out of the EU if we are overrun by the surplus population of the world. William Hague and Liam Fox are obsessed with getting Britain out of the EU but race and culture are infinitely more important than political arrangements. In our long history we have been part of an informal Celtic confederation, a province of the Roman Empire, united with Denmark, ruled by the Normans and united with Wales, Scotland and Ireland. We have survives all of these regimes with our DNA intact. But we will not survive the Third World invasion unless we take immediate action.

Anything you say will be taken down, altered, and used in evidence.
 

The Not Guilty verdict for PC Simon Harwood accused of killing newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during a City of London demonstration will do little to restore public confidence. The police have been using increasing violence against political campaigners. The BNP Liverpool Mayoral candidate Mike Whitby was taken away in handcuffs by police who kicked down his door. The Liverpool Echo reported that he was suspected of forging signatures on his nomination papers. But electoral fraud is not a violent crime and there is no reason to think that he would abscond.  

 

When the police raided Colin Jordan’s North Yorkshire farmhouse in 1991 looking for literature liable to incite racial hatred they didn’t find any but a sharp-eyed CJ noticed that their search warrant was out-of-date. He sued them for violating his rights and accepted £10,000 in an out-of-court settlement.

 

The law is supposed to be independent but most courts serve the government of the day. Some judges served under the Weimar Republic, the Nazis and the East German dictatorship. They dealt impartially with enemies of the state be they Nazi agitators, “rootless cosmopolitans” or kids trying to climb over the Berlin Wall.

 

The police and the judiciary talk about democracy but their instinct is to serve the Establishment and that’s exactly what they do. When the German Army marched through Saint Helier the Jersey cops held up the traffic for them; just as they did in all the occupied countries.

Britain has finally admitted using torture and castration against Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya in the Fifties. They claim that the killing and torture of prisoners was authorized by the colonial administration. These crimes were committed just a few years after British officers had served on the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

The Israeli Defence Force is currently doing similar things to the Arabs in Palestine and they also claim to be acting within the law. All over the world vicious regimes are brutalizing innocent people under the pretext of law and order.

Jacques Offenbach got it right when he wrote Les Deux Gendarmes: 

We’re public guardians bold yet wary

And of ourselves we take good care

To risk our precious lives we’re chary

When danger threatens we’re not there

But when we see a harmless woman

Or little boys that do no harm

We run them in, we run them in

To show them we’re the beaux gendarme.

 

Commenting on the banning of a UM rally in Trafalgar Square Jeffrey Hamm took a more respectful line in Action of October 1961. He said: “Union Movement does not criticize the police. We know that they act on the orders of governments corruptly employing them (at the taxpayer’s expense) to pursue a political vendetta. The old gibe about “one law for the rich and another for the poor” has long ceased to be operative. As successive governments encouraged mass coloured immigration it was succeeded by “one law for the whites and one for the coloureds”; superseded again by “one law for Union Movement and another for its political opponents.” In the face of all such prejudice and injustice our position is clear and unchanging. We will keep the law until we can change it.”

Global Capitalism
 

The global capitalist system has given most of us a good living for many years but it has run out of gas and the good times are over. We built a social state on high taxation and borrowing but now our perpetually expanding economy has come to a standstill. In order to reduce our national debt we are expected to accept lower wages and pensions and stop spending money on defence, education, health, social security and all the things that we take for granted. But people will not willingly work for less or give up a comfortable life in exchange for poverty. They will only do these things if they are forced to.

Instead of trying to revive global capitalism we should produce our own cars and computers and let the Chinese develop their vast internal market. And instead of growing crops for European supermarkets the Africans should grow their own food. The present system depends on the buyer being able to afford the product. But we can’t reduce the cost of production because the farmers of Africa and the factory workers of China are working as cheap as possible. And we can’t give more money to Western consumers because they are taxed up to the eyeballs. The cheap labour system has run its course and must be replaced.

 

Individual nation states are too small to break away from global capitalism but the world has already divided itself into geopolitical entities. The European Union has been dogged by nationalism and undermined by rate fixing and short selling but it is still the world’s largest trading bloc. The Russian Federation stretches from the Baltic to the Pacific and is rich in natural resources. The North American Free Trade Agreement is established and the nations of East Asia are drawing together. These emerging economic blocs will transform international trade by breaking away from “free trade and open borders.”

Governments supplement taxation by selling interest-bearing bonds to pension funds and investors at rates dictated by the market. Individual states are vulnerable to predatory rate fixing but “federal” bonds backed by the combined industrial might of Europe would be a solid investment. The EU has now taken the first steps toward fiscal union by establishing a mutual fund known as the EFSF.

But politicians should be careful what they say. Markets responded immediately when Mario Draghi, chief of the ECB, vowed to “do whatever it takes to defend the euro”. He was supported by Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. She had previously depressed the markets by saying: “no debt sharing in my lifetime.” Dave Cameron is always talking down the euro to impress his right-wingers but his negative comments damage the UK economy as well as the eurozone.

 

Britain cannot go on printing money indefinitely and those states being squeezed by the rating agencies cannot go on paying 7% interest. Europe and the rest of the world are in the grip of the worst recession since 1929. But every recession in history has been followed by an economic recovery. Despite the gloom and doom of the popular press this one will be no different.

 

Batman and Mosley
 

The historian Dominic Sandbrook wrote a double page Saturday Essay in the Daily Mail shortly after the Colorado cinema massacre. He linked the scenes of violence depicted in the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” with a new production of Shakespeare’s play “Timon of Athens” at the National Theatre, and public disorder resulting from the recession. Sandbrook is afraid that political unrest will lead to a revival of political extremism as it did in the Thirties. 

He recalls:  “Every week tens of millions of Americans tuned in to hear the crude rants of the Catholic “radio priest” Charles Coughlin, one of the most popular celebrities of the day, who claimed the Jews, Wall Street bankers and Bolshevik activists were plotting to undermine the American dream.”

The whole point of the article was to link the headline; “The Batman massacre was the work of a deranged mind. But I’d argue the film and a new play in London both warn how the West may be reverting to the dark days of the Thirties” – with a quarter page picture of Oswald Mosley inspecting his assembled Blackshirts in 1936. This “picture and caption” propaganda trick was pioneered by Joseph Goebbels.

 

When the Colorado shooting was announced we expected the assassin to be a far-right fanatic, like Anders Breivik or Tim McVeigh, but James Holmes turned out to be a non-political psychopath. Nevertheless Dominic Sandbrook still involved Mosley. The average Daily Mail reader will look at the picture and conclude that OM did the shooting. But Sandbrook failed to mention that the Daily Mail initially supported the BUF with their famous headline “Hurrah for The Blackshirts.”

In 2010 he wrote: “Britain’s empire stands out as a beacon of tolerance, decency and the rule of law… Nor did Britain countenance anything like the dreadful torture committed in French Algeria.” He should talk to some of the victims of imperialism including those interned under Defence Regulation 18B; or the castrated Kenyans who are currently suing the British government. The Mau Mau was a bloodthirsty enemy that showed no mercy but so was the British government. Britain was no worse than any other colonial power but she was never a “beacon of tolerance.”

 

The Colorado shooting was the work of a deranged young man with access to firearms. Similar atrocities have happened around the world. It had nothing to do with civil unrest and even less with a political movement that existed in Britain over 70 years ago. This story was a conflation of lies, innuendo, half-truths and inappropriate photos designed to grab the interest of the Daily Mail’s diminishing readership.

But we didn’t have to wait very long for a real far-right atrocity. Wade Michael Page a 40 year-old ex-soldier was shot dead by the police after opening fire on a Sikh temple. He killed six people and wounded three including a policeman. According to Fox news Page was a right wing extremists with a shaven head and a 9/11 tattoo. He probably thought that the Sikhs were Muslims.

 

Celebrating Diversity
 

Most of our readers are well informed and intelligent people who believe in social justice and European solidarity. They accept that global capitalism is controlled by the World Trade Organization and the central banks of the great powers. But there are others with more exotic ideas.

The conspiracy theorists believe that literally everything is controlled by a secret gang of plotters. They were originally supposed to be Jews and Freemasons but over the years they have been joined by communists and Muslims. The fact that these groups are mutually hostile is apparently part of their cunning plan. 

The head measurers are searching for racial purity. But history shows that humanity is made up of black, white and brown people that have been driven around the world by the forces of climate, hunger, disease, commerce and war since the dawn of time. Recognising our heritage is fine but obsessive subdivision is self-destructive.

 

The pagans want to dance naked around the rune stones in the pale northern sunlight of a cold winter’s morning. They have an idealized view of ancient times that does not include the overwhelming ignorance, endemic disease, grinding poverty, perpetual starvation, routine violence, insanitary conditions and early death that epitomized the good old days.

The Thatcherites are deluded Tories who have a false memory of life under the Iron Lady. The truth is that she did absolutely nothing about immigration and started the deregulation of the banks that led inevitably to the financial crisis of 2008.

 

The eurosceptics will only be happy when Britain quits the EU to be absorbed into the United States. They blame the EU for immigration, the loss of the Empire and the decline of manners and morals. And they reject economic arguments because they think that economics is a “left wing” thing that should be banned.

 

According to this paranoid nonsense “the liberal elite” are responsible for every terrorist attack, every run on the pound, and every job lost. People who are fed up with immigration have every right to vote BNP but the conspiracy freaks should get their heads examined. Mr Levy the tailor is actually too busy to take over the world, and so is Mr Patel at the corner shop. The local Masons meeting in the upstairs room at the Red Lion are doing no harm with their embroidered aprons and secret handshakes; and the last card-carrying communist died of incurable resentment and was buried by the Co-Op in 1999.

 

The world is run by the people that have always run it – those with the most money. Some of them are Jews and Freemasons but most of them are not. Revolutionary systems have been tried but they all revert to plutocracy in the end. We can build a better world by making education and medical care available to all. But we will never make all men equal.

 

Selective Compassion
 

Hilary Clinton is currently leading the gang of sanctimonious hypocrites who are crying about human rights in Syria. They have tried to sell the idea that the rebels are peaceful demonstrators but TV pictures of them fighting government forces with tanks and heavy machine guns indicate that they are well armed and funded. It’s a toss-up whether Hilary Clinton or William Hague is the biggest liar.

 

Both of them know very well that Israel has a worse human rights record than Syria. The UN estimates that 5 million Palestinians are being denied the right to return to their homeland. The Israelis are violating UN Resolution 242 by occupying Palestine and by stealing land and resources. But we have not heard a squeak out of the Anglo-American double act; they are too busy provoking violence in Syria to notice that Israel is a rogue nuclear state that threatens the peace of the world.

 

In the great days of the British Empire it was an established practice to appoint diplomats and administrators who knew nothing about world affairs. The Colonial Office distrusted academics and much preferred sportsmen. As a result the Sudan was known as a country of Blacks ruled by Blues. But the Americans value education and both William Hague and Hilary Clinton have got impressive qualifications. Their one-sided approach to the Middle East must therefore be a matter of selective compassion. The Voltaire news agency reports that up to 60,000 Libyans are fighting in Syria on the rebel side under Turkish officers. This is not a civil war but a proxy war supported by the US, financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and fought by mercenaries.

 

The real power struggle is between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Americans are only interested in grabbing Iranian oil and Britain and France are just obeying orders. The bosses of the American oil and defence industries are looking forward to massive profits from a protracted war with Iran. They made fortunes out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya but they would really hit the jackpot in Iran. Of course they expect to lose soldiers, but they would mostly be poor whites and blacks from the South who would otherwise be unemployed and therefore of no economic value.

 

The so-called “merchants of death” pushed Europe into both world wars, but the population booms after both conflicts more than made up for the “collateral damage” sustained; and rising commodity prices brought massive profits. For most people war is disastrous but not for the profiteers. John Maynard Keynes was already a leading economist when he predicted events in his book: “The Economic Consequences of the Peace.” But governments infested with arms dealers and war profiteers ignored his advice and enforced the Treaty of Versailles. As a result Europe was plunged into another bloodbath.

 

Now another gang of greedy and immoral fixers and financiers are pushing for war with Iran. Dick Cheney and the neocons are just as greedy as Sir Basil Zaharoff who sold armaments to both sides during the Balkan Wars. These later day “merchants of death” have no national allegiances or moral compunctions. They camouflage their avarice with patriotic sentiments and talk about spreading democracy but in reality they are only interested in money.

The National Health Service
 

Americans cannot understand Britain’s devotion to the NHS. They think that everyone should pay their own medical bills and they are opposed to state-run health care. That would be fine in a booming economy but the world is currently in a recession and many people have no insurance or savings. A civilized society cannot let sick people suffer and die for want of money. It is the duty of the State to provide the necessities of life; work, food, shelter, education and medical care. Those who abuse the system and refuse to contribute must be weeded out but we cannot dismantle society because of an antisocial minority. It’s true that a social state attracts immigrants but few countries have seriously tried to keep them out. The USA and Europe have traditionally encouraged immigration as a source of cheap labour. 

 

European Socialists are opposed to globalism and usury but we strive for affordable housing, decent working conditions, free education and medical care. The private sector cannot provide universal medical care free at the point of issue.

 

Paul Barnes RIP
 

My oldest friend Paul Barnes has died aged 65. He was the son of pre-war Blackshirt Bill Barnes and the Godson of John Beckett. Paul was opposed to usury and uncontrolled immigration but he was not a bigot or a reactionary. The following article that he wrote for Nation in April 1974 gives some idea of the man and his politics. 

Social Issues by Paul Barnes
 

“Centrepoint Occupied by the People” ran the headline in The Sun; “The squatters consisted of a Bank Manager, Doctors, Architects” – all members of that elusive quantity “The People”. 

Thus we watched a major coup by the international left, well organized, well executed and guaranteed to receive maximum publicity with maximum public sympathy and approval. Sympathy and approval for whom; the ratepayers of Camden who have subsidized and suffered the dealings of Harry Hyams and company for so long? The young house buyer who has watched the cost of a basic essential – the need for housing – rise out of all proportion to his income? Or was it for Ron Bailey and his team of professional demonstrators, who far from caring for the problems of the indigenous population of Central London see it as a convenient bandwagon upon which they can expound the doctrines of the revolutionary left?

 

Surely if ever there was a cause célèbre for the radical right this was it; but where were we?

On the very night of the occupation some 3,000 of us marched through Central London protesting against the Common Market. To say that is not to suggest that the issues of the Market are not of desperate importance but to state that the social conditions of millions of our fellow Britons, and the struggle against the usurer, are of equal importance to the fight against the Council of Europe.

Any right thinking person must cringe when reading the Evening Standard headline: “Peter Hain to Lead The Fight Against The Motorways”, what does this invidious little school ma’am know of the misery of living next to the major motor routes through London, or once again, is the motivation behind community politics a convenient bandwagon from which to peddle international socialism?

 

The fight against non-European immigration is of national importance but the fight against the money-motivated road lobby and aviation lobby is of almost equal importance. I see little advantage in living in a racially desirable society in conditions of technological madness.

Who is better equipped to lead the fight against the destroyers disguised as progressives than those who love and understand their national heritage – the radical right? We must involve ourselves in social issues; it is the right who should lead the fight against alien usury in housing and the fight against technological destruction. Too long have the Marxists made the running in the field of social issues. We are involved in politics; why give the left all the good tunes?

Issue 93, July 2012

Nation Revisited 

# 93, July 2012. 

 

Fears and Expectations
 

In the vintage TV series Dad’s Army Private James Frazer played by John Laurie constantly warned his comrades, “We’re all doomed.” He came from the cold and windy Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides and his outlook was as bleak as his homeland. If Private Frazer was alive today he would probably be a member of one of the far-right parties. They are chronically pessimistic and believe that the country is dying, the white race is dying, and we’re all doomed.

 

This pessimism started years ago when we expected the Soviet Union to launch an attack on the West. A popular song of the time was “It’s Good News Week – someone dropped a bomb somewhere, contaminating the atmosphere and blackening the sky.” The nuclear threat has passed into history but we are now threatened with Afro-Asian inundation, global warming and sovereign debt. But instead of offering solutions to these problems the far-right likes to frighten everybody.

 

It hasn’t dawned on them that people are reluctant to vote for parties that promise nothing but death and destruction. If they offered even a glimmer of hope it might get them a few votes but that would mean dropping their apocalyptic message. They have been preaching gloom and doom for so long that they believe it themselves. And they have never understood the public’s adverse reaction to their histrionics.

A respectable pensioner who was once a member of John Tyndall’s para-military Spearhead formation tells a story from 1962. The Tyndall gang was fighting a mock battle in the Kentish countryside when a father and his son wandered by. The boy turned to his father and said, “Look dad, it’s those barmy blokes again.” The lad had perfectly grasped the situation. Fifty years later “Those barmy blokes” are still fighting amongst themselves and their image has hardly improved. 

The BNP that was founded by John Tyndall and modernised by Nick Griffin has been eclipsed by Ukip. They have captured the right-wing vote and with the help of the popular press they are trying to tear us away from Europe. They predict a rosy future for Britain once we quit the EU. But if their go-it-alone gamble fails our isolated country will be in more trouble than we are already. The pound is stable at the moment but if our economy shrinks and our deficit grows the rating agencies will force up the cost of borrowing and the quitters will discover that xenophobia and swaggering bravado are no substitutes for guaranteed markets. A medium sized country with over sixty million mouths to feed cannot survive on nostalgia. 

We need to be part of a sustainable economy with the means to feed and defend ourselves. Those wanting to leave the EU should remember how bad thing were before we joined it. 

 

Economic Myths
 

Keynesians believe in spending their way out of recession but followers of Milton Friedman do not. Both systems were tried in the 1930s when Britain went for austerity and Germany went for reconstruction and rearmament. The experiments were interrupted by the outbreak of war but Adolf Hitler was credited with curing the German inflation that saw people going shopping with wheelbarrows full of banknotes.

 

In fact the hyperinflation of 1922-23 ended when Chancellor Gustav Stresemann used a massive loan from a consortium led by JP Morgan to recapitalize the Reichsbank and stabilize the currency. This was so successful that by 1925 the government had a surplus and the currency was restored to its 1914 value of 4.2 to the dollar. It was the global crash of 1929 that derailed the Weimar boom and propelled Hitler to power, not the terrible inflation of six years earlier. The National Socialist economy was initially backed by international capitalists like Warburg, WA Harriman and Sir Henri Deterding. Germany had been off the Gold Standard since 1914. Hitler appointed the mysterious figure of Hjamar Schacht as President of the Reichsbank and entrusted the economy to the industrial giants; Thyssen, Krupp, IG Farben and Siemens. The Fuhrer suspended reparations and reformed the banking and trading system but at the outbreak of WW2 Germany had a non-Versailles national debt of RM40 billion – a lot of money in 1939.

Another myth is that the British Empire was brought down by international finance. Britain fought WW1 on borrowed money and by 1929 we were broke. Oswald Mosley wanted to create jobs with public works projects but Ramsay MacDonald refused to borrow any more money. During WW2 the whole country was employed on the war effort. But after the war Britain was bankrupt again and John Maynard Keynes was sent to America to accept a massive loan on condition that the pound was tied to the dollar. That kept us going until the Nixon Shock of 1971 when the pound was untied from the dollar and immediately sank. Our situation was already desperate when the price of oil rocketed in 1973 and the London Stock Exchange lost 45% of its value. We were bailed out by the IMF and lived to fight another day.

We keep hearing about the sovereign debt crisis but Europe has the commercial and political power to renegotiate loans and reach agreement with the international bankers. The eurozone has massive gold and foreign exchange reserves and so have the non-euro states, the EFTA states and Switzerland. The reunification of Germany shows what can be done with targeted investment. East Germany was ruined by years of inefficient communist rule but has now been transformed. A European government with the power to act could use its vast resources to restore all of her member states to prosperity. In alliance with Russia we can create a self-sufficient economy that breaks the stranglehold of international finance. But first we must think and act like Europeans and rise above the divisive tribalism of the popular press. Unity is strength.

 

The luck of the Irish
 

According to an article posted on the UKIP website the sovereign debt crisis has been deliberately engineered to bring about fiscal union. They think that German reluctance to take the lead is a cunning plan to distract us from their real objective - the creation of a United States of Europe with a federal government. That might seem like a perfectly reasonable proposition to most people but Ukippers think that it’s a diabolical plot by unreformed Nazis to enslave us in a Fourth Reich.  

 

The Irish people have voted to accept the fiscal compact against the advice of Gerry Adams who dreams of an independent Ireland with little girls dancing on the village green in their white socks. Ukip doesn’t operate in Ireland but the local eurosceptics are represented by Sinn Fein; an unholy alliance of psychopaths and traditionalists who miss the rare old times when Guinness came in barrels and was delivered by horse and cart. Fortunately Ukip haven’t got an armed wing but their pernicious nationalism is just as dangerous.

We lost our military independence in 1917 when we welcomed American troops to Europe. We lost our economic independence in 1931 when we abandoned the Gold Standard. We lost our international credibility in 1942 when we surrendered to the Japanese at Singapore. We lost our political independence when we signed the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944. And all of these developments were confirmed when we were ordered out of Suez in 1956. In less than 40 years we went from being a great global empire to being an average European country.

It’s no wonder that people seek the reassurance offered by Ukip and the right-wing of the Tory Party. Dave Cameron promises to “protect” us from Europe and derides the idea of Europatriotism. He is the prime minister of the United Kingdom - a federation of four nations - but he cannot understand the concept of extended patriotism. 

 

The result of the Irish referendum would probably be reversed in the UK where the media is hostile to all things European. The great British public voted for the Blair/Brown circus three general elections in a row because Rupert Murdoch told them to. And given the chance they would do his bidding on Europe. But leaving the EU will not solve our problems. Our staggering national debt of £1.2 trillion is rising. The economy is static and attempts to revive it have been undone by punitive taxation. The coalition government has failed to stop immigration – mostly from South Asia. And the Bank of Scotland has hinted that they might need another bailout. None of these problems are caused by the EU. We are crying out for leadership and direction but all that we are offered is jingoistic bluster. The government needs to drastically reduce public spending and leave people with enough money to live on. We are not a global power and its time we stopped pretending to be one; let’s start by sacking William Hague.

                     Another Warmonger
 

William Hague is a proven failure who led his party to humiliating defeat in the 2001 general election. He was quickly dumped as leader of the Conservative Party but he has been recycled as Foreign Secretary. This job enables him to strut around the world threatening countries that are not sufficiently subservient to America. He was instrumental in the bloody removal of Colonel Gaddafi of Libya. Britain sided with rebels that committed unspeakable atrocities throughout the Libyan civil war including sticking a bayonet up the rectum of the old dictator before they killed him.

 

He is now seeking to repeat the performance with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The West has encouraged wars and revolutions in the Middle East by arming rebel groups and providing them with air cover, money and military intelligence. William Hague tries to justify our criminal intervention with torrents of hypocritical propaganda that would have impressed the late Dr Joseph Goebbels. As he condemns the Syrian government for fighting al-Qaeda the neighbouring state of Israel is killing and mistreating Palestinians at will. But he ignores Zionist atrocities because he is member of the Conservative Friends of Israel.

 

Critics of the Americans often accuse them of pursuing selfish foreign policy objectives. But they don’t seem to know what they are doing or who the good guys are. They fought the Korean War to a stalemate; deposed the elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran, lost the Vietnam War, got thrown out of Somalia, destroyed Iraq, and they are currently fighting an unwinnable war in Afghanistan.

 

None of these adventures did much for America. Communism has morphed into capitalism; except for the weird hereditary regime in North Korea that’s on its last legs. The Shah of Iran – the Light of the Aryans - was deposed in 1979. America stole billions of barrels oil from Iraq but the invasion probably cost them just as much; Cruise missiles cost a million dollars apiece and the US Army was reported to be firing them like artillery shells. And they never expected the Afghan campaign to drag on for a decade and spread to Pakistan.

 

Where America goes their lickspittle allies follow. Creatures like William Hague who is salivating at the prospect of attacking Iran. At Nuremburg the Nazi leaders were found guilty and executed for “waging aggressive war.” According to UN law the only justification for war is in defence. But none of the latest wars have been defensive – they have all been in pursuit of American foreign policy. Tony Blair should be brought before the International Court of Justice for his part in the Iraq War. He lied to Parliament about “weapons of mass destruction” and made war on a practically defenceless country weakened by ten years of sanctions. Tony Blair the war criminal should certainly be in the dock with the unspeakable William Hague beside him. 

 

Wanted – A Sensible Party
 

The people of the UK have a variety of political parties to choose from but they are all lacking in commonsense. The Tory Party is dominated by anti-Europeans; not just   anti-federalists but fully fledged Europe haters. The prime minister and most of his cabinet are eurosceptics and pro-European MPs are under threat of deselection. The reactionary “bastard” faction that helped to destroy John Major’s government in 1997 are still undermining the Tory Party and they are they are prepared to bring down the coalition government just to get their own way.

 

The Labour Party went mad just after the last war when they decided to turn Britain black. They brought in the 1948 Nationality Act to bring in millions of black and brown people and they have succeeded in swamping most of our major cities. The Tories watched this experiment with detachment because they have got nothing against Third World immigrants; it’s just Europeans that they hate.

 

The Liberal Democrats are fairly harmless but they are obliged to support either the Labour or Tory Party. At the moment they are propping up the Tories.

 

The Green Party is led by the attractive and intelligent Caroline Lucas MP. She is committed to noble causes but most of them are unaffordable. Pippa Bartolotti of the Welsh Green Party is an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian cause.

 

The Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties point to Norway as an example of a successful independent country with a small population but they forget to mention the oil. Alex Salmond used to talk glowingly about Ireland and Iceland being “an arc of prosperity in the North” but since they ran out of money he has kept his mouth shut. And the near collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland has been another setback.

 

Outside of Parliament we have the lunatic-left and the reactionary-right. Ukip, the BNP and the National Front want to quit the EU and nationalize the banks. The various left-wing parties agree with them. Apart from the matter of immigration the extremes of left and right share the same tortured view of a world.

We desperately need a party that embraces Europe and has sensible plans for the future. But we don’t need one that believes in conspiracies and fantasizes about Britain abandoning Europe to lead a resurrected Commonwealth. Under our “democratic” system millions of pounds are required to fund a political party. The Tories are backed by big business and the Labour Party by the trade unions. The other parties depend on their members to support them. This structure favours the old gang parties and makes it very difficult for minor parties to gain representation. But the Greens and Respect have shown that it can be done. Please step forward a charismatic and fearless billionaire who loves his country and is not stuck in the past. 

 

Tony Hancock
 

(John Tyndall’s report in Spearhead is reprinted as a tribute to Tony Hancock, founder of the Historical Review Press, who died 11 June 2012.)

 

An historic day – Thursday, 5^th September 2002 and the scene is Leeds Crown Court No Four. Tony Hancock, printer of the pamphlet Merrie England, written by veteran nationalist Colin Jordan, is cleared of all charges under Britain’s infamous ‘race’ laws. This is a tremendous victory for the cause in the United Kingdom.

 

The vindictive system – despite the fact that Colin Jordan was never tried or convicted for producing the pamphlet – was determined to have its pound of flesh. So the totally innocent Tony Hancock, who only printed it, was hauled into court; his only crime, printing, which is his business. They dressed-up this gross attack on individual freedom by charging him with ‘aiding and abetting’ Colin Jordan in producing a pamphlet calculated (or ‘likely’ to cause) racial hatred.

Mr Hancock’s barrister, Adrian Davies, brilliantly defended him. Witnesses brought by the prosecution were left-wing Labour MPs – who, needless to say, expressed their ‘outrage’ at receiving the pamphlet Merrie England. They were joined by David Michael Whine, a leading light in the Board of Deputies of British Jews. His evidence was effectively demolished by defence counsel. Whine had a hard job explaining his definition of who and what constitutes a Jewish person, and the whole charade of race laws was shown as the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ piece of legislation that it is.

 

The twists and turns of the prosecution case and the statements of the witnesses in court were mind-boggling in the efforts to prove ‘racial hatred’. The judge, who seemed impartial and fair throughout the trial, when giving his summing-up to the jury stated very forcefully that the whole area of race legislation was particularly difficult. He stated that if the jury thought that if the defendant had the right to express his opinion in the light of a decent society being able to tolerate’ extreme’ views, they should acquit him. The judge also stressed that the right of freedom of speech was reinforced by European human rights legislation, now part of British law.

 

The learned Judge was right. Not only is the race legislation unjust, it is ridiculous. The race acts and public order acts laws governing race are forever being amended and strengthened and leave very little scope for rational and sensible debate on the extremely important issues of race and immigration, and of course on issues concerning the Jewish community and its power. Tony Hancock was tried by twelve true Britons who exercised their common sense above the vagaries and iniquities of unjust legislation and brought out a verdict of “Not Guilty”! The day was a great victory for white nationalism and our freedom. Tony Hancock should be saluted for his firm stand and unflinching courage in winning through against all the system could throw at him!

The Leveson Inquiry

The anti-federalists are absolutely right when they say that political and economic union can only be achieved by the sacrifice of national sovereignty. They are also right when they say that the institutions of the EU are unelected. But nationality does not depend on political arrangements and the will of the people is not necessarily the wisest option. In the UK public opinion is formed by the mass media and its controllers are committed to the Atlantic Alliance and deeply suspicious of Europe.

John Major’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry was clear enough. Rupert Murdoch demanded that the Tories change their policy on Europe before the 1997 general election and warned them that if they didn’t The Sun would put Tony Blair in power. But despite this revelation the anti-federalist lobby, led by Rupert Murdoch, still criticizes the EU for being undemocratic. 

 

Democracy has long been corrupted by big business. One hundred years ago Lloyd George’s Liberal government was rocked by the Marconi Scandal involving insider trading by Sir Rufus Isaacs and Herbert Samuel. This was revealed by Cecil Chesterton’s distributist newspaper New Witness.  During both world wars press magnate Lord Beaverbrook served as a government minister. And when Rupert Murdoch switched his support to Dave Cameron’s money-grubbing Tories they groveled to the master of misinformation just as Tony Blair’s New Labour had done before them.

 

We like to boast about our parliamentary system but its deputies fiddle their expenses, its parties are financed by tax exiles, its leaders make millions out of book deals and speaking tours and its image is promoted by the advertising industry. Compared to our MPs the appointed bureaucrats of Brussels are not so bad.

It’s time to take a good look at parliamentary democracy. The modern world needs managers and technicians more than well-dressed actors with capped teeth. And we need to plan for the future instead of stumbling drunkenly from one election to another. Government by amateurs has not been a success and our first-past-the-post system is unfair and inefficient. We would not expect an untrained worker to run a giant corporation and we should not expect an inexperienced young man to make a good prime minister just because he enjoyed an expensive education. 

 

The Leveson report is awaited but it’s obvious that the power of the press has been abused and most people trust their unelected dentists and bank managers more than their elected politicians. The established political parties recruit political advisors from the media and use their contacts to leak information. And the powerful press barons use their money and influence to advance policies. We are therefore governed by the press and the political parties are nothing but whores for hire. That is the hallowed democratic system that we seek to impose on others by force.

 

I didn’t get where I am today…
 

In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs, CJ the former head of Sunshine Desserts continues to give advice even though he is reduced to poverty. He still gives little speeches that begin: “I didn’t get where I am today.” The idea of a failed boss giving financial advice is funny but that’s exactly what Dave Cameron has been doing. He presides over a country with a flatlining economy and a rising national debt of £1.2 trillion but that doesn’t stop him from lecturing Angela Merkel who is one of the world’s most successful leaders.

Dave Cameron is urging the eurozone to move towards fiscal union. Unfortunately the founders of the EU did not have a brilliant man like Alexander Hamilton to insist on a strong central government when the union was set up. George Washington and his fellow revolutionaries wanted self-government for the original thirteen American colonies but Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), the son of a French mother and a Scottish father founded the Federalist Party because he saw the vital importance of a strong federal government with a central bank. He was killed in a duel but the USA can thank him for their political and economic union. If it wasn’t for their visionary Secretary of the Treasury the state of California and several other cash-strapped states would now be in the same position as Greece.

 

The Greeks have been through a period of chaos but they have elected Antonis Samaris leader of the pro-European New Democracy Party. They have done everything possible to reduce their deficit and install a viable government. The Germans are influenced by a nationalistic press and a racial memory of rampant inflation but they know that their prosperity depends on a European Union with a single market and a common currency. It’s in their own interest to cooperate with the new French government of Francois Hollande to manage the sovereign debt crisis that also affects the UK, Japan and the USA.

The nations of Europe will unite but the UK will probably remain outside for the foreseeable future. It took us two hundred years to adopt the Gregorian calendar and about the same time to accept decimalization and metrication. We have got used to the ‘new money’ but some people still cling to the past. They buy petrol in litres and potatoes in kilos because they have to but they consult conversion tables to find out if the weather is hot or cold. The British people have become cautious conservatives but this hasn’t always been the case. In earlier times we overcame obstacles, pioneered new technology and grew rich as a result. But a series of wars and recessions has left us shell-shocked and frightened to try anything new. We lack the confidence to fully embrace the European project. If we dropped our pointless hostility and stopped reading neurotic newspapers our neighbours might welcome our prime minister’s advice instead of finding it amusing.

Issue 91, May 2012

Nation Revisited                                        

May 2012, # 91 

 

A Dismal Science
 

The ICM/Guardian poll of October 2011 shows 40% in favour of our membership of the EU and 49% against.  But only a minority vote for UKIP or the far-right parties that want to break away from Europe.  Many of those who claim to be eurosceptic have accepted the necessity of the European Union and will not risk their jobs and mortgages by voting to go it alone.

 

Some withdrawalists have started to think outside of the box of insular nationalism that was set in stone when the National Front was founded in 1967. But most of them remain firmly stuck in the past. They are convinced that the sovereign debt crisis is a European problem, even though it affects Japan and the USA.

In the unlikely event of a far-right government coming to power in the UK there would be an immediate flight of capital out of the country resulting in the collapse of the pound. The rest of the world would react to their protective tariffs by imposing trade restrictions that would leave us struggling for food and oil. Their dream of deporting millions of immigrants would be unaffordable. And their plan to resurrect the Commonwealth would be dismissed by hard-headed Australian, New Zealand and Canadian businessmen committed to trade deals with Asia and the USA.

Murray Rothbard was a so-called free-market economist but he was right when he said: “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of economic ignorance.”

 

Bradford West
 

The Labour Party imported millions of immigrants in the hope that they would vote Labour.  But George Galloway has shown for the second time that this is not necessarily so. He won Bethnal Green and Bow with Bengali support and he won Bradford West thanks to the Pakistanis. The Zionist businessmen who back the established parties will not be pleased to see George Galloway back in Westminster. He is a fearless opponent of war and exploitation who will not be shut up by the powerful Friends of Israel. He is accused of “playing the race card.” But, as he points out, he is a Scottish Catholic; it was the Labour Party who put up a Pakistani Muslim candidate to exploit the immigrant vote.

 

George Galloway’s landslide victory overshadowed the rest of the results but at the bottom of the poll, just ahead of the Loony Party, we find UKIP and the National Democrats. They were never going to win in a constituency that’s 37% Asian but BNP candidate Paul Cromie managed to save his deposit in the same area with 6.9% in 2005. There are still plenty of disgruntled whites in Bradford but UKIP only managed 3.3% and the National Democrats got just over 1%. These figures show that last year’s riots and the austerity budget have not helped the far-right.

There is a desperate need to stop non-European immigration and start repatriation. But the public must be persuaded that such objectives are achievable. We must present them with coherent policies based on self-sufficiency within a restructured Europe. People know that an isolated Britain would struggle to survive and could not mount a massive programme of resettlement.

Bob Mellish
 

In NR #88 we remembered the handful of Tory MPs who dared to make a stand against uncontrolled immigration. A reader has pointed out that Bob Mellish the patriotic Labour Party MP for Bermondsey was an early campaigner against Commonwealth immigration as well as a convinced European.

 

He was born into a large working class Catholic family in Deptford in 1913. He started the war as a sapper and ended it as a major in the Royal Engineers fighting the Japanese in the South East Asia. He was elected to parliament in 1946. 

He argued in the House of Commons, and in the Daily Express, that the Malawi Asians expelled by Hastings Banda in 1976 should not be admitted to the UK:

 

 “We cannot go on like this. I do not care what those on this side of the House, or the Opposition side or anywhere else, say. Problems at local level will become worse and worse for our own people unless something is done. All hon. Members know that people come to their surgeries describing the most distressing conditions – terrifying conditions. People born and bred in their own constituencies have been on the housing waiting list for as long as six years. But on the points system, one must give immigrants preference. People cannot come here just because they have a British passport – full stop.”

“I am not a racist but I am not a humbug. This tiny island of ours is not much more than a dot on the map and the time has come to face the situation. It won’t go away. We’re bulging with more than a million unemployed, there’s a shortage of housing, and every family in the land, just about, is battling to maintain standards. My views are not really different than Labour’s policy over the years. We instituted the voucher system of entry control. I am opposed to the floodgates being opened so that everyone can come crowding in, much as I sympathise with people who need help.

On the 50^th anniversary of VJ Day Roy Jenkins expressed regret at the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Bob Mellish said: “While on board we heard that the war was over. I have never prayed so hard nor been as grateful for anything as I was for that atom bomb. It was the finest thing that ever happened that we should have dropped it on those villains. When we reached Port Swettenham the ramifications would have been unbelievable. Thousands of lives would have been lost and, at the time, I thanked God for the atom bomb.”

 

He was one of the last of the decent Labour Party that stood for the British working class. He was hounded out of his constituency by the Militant Tendency. They tried to install Peter Tatchell as the local MP in 1983 but he was soundly rejected by the people of Bermondsey who returned the Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes. 
 

Bob Mellish spent his remaining years in the House of Lords and died in 1998. 

 

We Don’t Need Cheap Labour
 

The majority of the UK electorate wants to stop Third World immigration but they are frightened of being called “racists.” They are influenced by newspapers, radio and television stations that have always championed immigration.  It was only the sudden arrival of a million Poles that caused papers like the Daily Mail to call a halt. If they had been black or brown the popular press would not have dared to risk prosecution under the Race Relations Act.

 

Those of us who believe in “Europe a Nation” have little in common with parties like the BNP; except for the need to control immigration and start repatriation. Mosley dismissed any similarity between Union Movement and the far-right parties but most of them were founded by his former supporters. Their protectionist policies are the same as the pre-war BUF and so are their slogans; “Britain for the British” and “British jobs for British Workers” came from the pre-war Mosley movement, as did the “Old Gang” and the “Money Power.”

The Bradford West result was disappointing but the BNP only averaged 6.2 when they won two seats in the Euro parliament, and in the last general election their national average was 1.9%. These figures reflect the twin obstacles of white flight and defeatism. Those who can afford to have moved away from “enriched” areas and no longer see immigration as a problem. And those who are too poor to escape have given up the struggle. The influx is slowing down because we don’t need cheap labour. We are still in recession, unemployment is unacceptably high and wages are static. Even the political class admits that the last thing we need is more immigrants. Their open-door immigration policy has been a disaster. Some immigrants have successfully assimilated but most of them cling to their own cultures and refuse to integrate. We will have to re-dress half a century of misgovernment.

Traitors
 

According to the BNP website George Galloway is a traitor. An unsigned posting headed “The Islamist Curse on Britain’s Streets” says: “The pro-Islamist traitor George Galloway has gone native, surrounding himself with Muslim thugs…” They believe that anyone sympathetic to their perceived enemy is a traitor. If America or Israel attacks Iran the British government will take the same view and opponents of the war will be treated as Fifth Columnists. It happened before in 1940 when Oswald Mosley and his supporters were detained without charge or trial under Defence Regulation 18B.

Our most famous traitor was Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up King James 1. Kids still chant: “Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.” And after 400 years we haven’t forgotten it. Guy Fawkes was certainly guilty. He tried to kill the Protestant King James and replace him with a Catholic. He didn’t hate his country; he wanted to save it from what he considered to be a heretical religion. In his own mind he was a patriot who served God and country.

William Joyce and John Amery were hanged for assisting the enemy in time of war. Joyce broadcast Nazi propaganda on German radio and Amery tried to recruit British POWs to fight on the Russian Front. Both men accepted their fate and went to their deaths bravely. They put their ideology above their obligation to a plutocratic state engaged in a fratricidal war. The keeper of the Queen’s art collection Anthony Blunt spent most of his life spying for the Soviet Union but he died peacefully in his bed. It seems that treason, like beauty, is in the eye of beholder.

 

John Amery stated his case in 1942.

“Only what you do and how you act can be the determining factor to decide whether, betrayed, we intend to react and take our place in the lines of civilization, or whether we are a race played out, who accept foreign interference, foreign control, and who go forward to the loss of all we possess, because we have neither the courage nor the desire to preserve our heritage.” 

On the morning of his execution William Joyce wrote to his friend Angus Macnab.

 

“I am now so far moved away from all earthly things that the remaining minutes of my life seem like tenants who have not paid their rent. Thank you for your devotion to me and above all for your prayers. More I will not write save to say that when we meet again, we shall regret nothing that has happened now.”

 

Are these the words of traitors? Rebecca West had no doubt when she wrote “The Meaning of Treason” but Mary Kenny was not so sure in her book “Germany Calling.”

 

Gloom & Doom
 

According to the far-right our way of life is being destroyed by the rise of Islam and the survival of the white race is threatened by the black and brown birthrate. Global warming is turning our countryside into a desert; atmospheric pollution is choking us and rising sea levels are drowning us. If we escape al-Qaeda and step carefully over the black babies, wear anti-biological warfare suits and respirators and stay on high ground we might survive long enough to be blown to bits by an Israeli nuclear strike. As William Butler Yates wrote: “Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold.”

 

In fact we are recovering from the banking crisis of 2008. Austerity is biting but we have gone through recessions before and we know that we will survive. The UK is still 85% white and at long last the government has started to control immigration. The unemployable underclass still has to be fed and housed but at least we are now aware of it. For years welfare dependency was ignored but now even the liberals accept that something must be done. We still have a crippling national debt but the coalition government is trying to reduce borrowing and spending. The IT revolution continues to change the world. Advances in medical science are wiping out diseases. Unemployment is too high but most of our workers have got a job. The expectation of life is increasing and the infant mortality rate is falling.

The far-right’s alarming predictions all came to nothing. We didn’t have a war with the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation is now a parliamentary democracy with a market economy. We didn’t lose our identity when we joined the EU. We have not been bitten by rabid dogs running through the Channel Tunnel. We were not inundated with unemployed Italians. And we have not had German troops goose-stepping through England’s green and pleasant land.
 

We are occupied by 9,382 American servicemen but they don’t seem to worry about that. 

They are convinced that the UK has been hijacked by an unholy alliance of capitalists, communists and Muslims. In the real world these groups have little or nothing in common but in the tortured imagination of the far-right they are part of a vast conspiracy to destroy the white race in general and Britain in particular. This is more or less the same plot outlined in the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” but since the death of John Tyndall, and Nick Griffin’s historic rapprochement with Israel, the Jews have been replaced by the Muslims. The following posting is by “British Bulldog” on the official BNP website shows the extent of their paranoia: 

 

“Absolutely wonderful to see the British National Party coming together and sending out a message of real hope to the indigenous people of Britain and show that there IS a real alternative to the treasonable traitors of the Multicultural Marxist Lib/Lab/Con/BBC establishment cabal of criminals that have wrecked OUR country for so many decades.” 

 

The London Mayoral Election
 

The BNP’s candidate for the London Mayoral Election is their press officer Carlos Cortiglia. He was born in Uruguay and came to this country in 1989. There have been xenophobic comments from the usual suspects and the question is not if easy going Londoners will vote for him but if his alleged supporters will. He performs very well on television and answers questions with clarity and intelligence. A welcome change from some of the tongue-tied candidates we have seen in the past. 

 

Carlos is not the only candidate with exotic connections. Boris Johnson, the sitting Conservative Party Mayor of London, is the great-grandson of Ali Kemal a liberal Turkish politician who was stoned to death by a nationalist mob in 1922 during the Turkish War of Independence. His unfortunate family history has not deterred Boris from a career in politics. He is tipped to be re-elected.

The Labour candidate Ken Livingstone was twice Mayor before Boris. His election telecast featured a multiethnic cast of actors urging him to fight for London. Ken is reported to have burst into tears when it was screened; the rest of just threw up. It may have increased his popularity with the ethnic minorities but it will probably have the opposite effect amongst the white British population. 

 

Brian Paddick the Liberal Democrat candidate was formerly Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police; a background that inspires little confidence amongst the victims of crime in the capital. 

 

The UKIP candidate Lawrence Webb is calling for stronger measures on law and order and tighter immigration controls. He is also worried that proposed EU legislation might restrict the financiers of the City of London.

The Green Party candidate Jenny Jones thinks that road charging is the only way to control London’s traffic. This will not please the motorists but she obviously puts honesty ahead of popularity.

 

Siobhan Benita is an independent candidate with intelligent policies and high-profile supporters including Sir Gus O’Donnell.  She was formerly a senior civil servant who resigned over the government’s health reforms.

The media are accused of treating the minority candidates unfairly by giving prominence to the established parties. All the candidates are focusing on local issues but Londoners will probably vote the same way as the rest of the country. Immigration and Law and Order are important but the big issue will be the economy and the key voting areas will be the leafy suburbs rather than the inner city. Ken Livingstone will get the immigrant vote but Boris Johnson can depend on the Tory commuters. 

 

The Mad Scribbler
 

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tried to wreck Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential election campaign by dishing the dirt on the Whitewater scandal. But his timely intervention on behalf of the Republican candidate failed and Bill Clinton was elected with a decisive majority. He got 43%, George HW Bush got 37.4% and Ross Perot got 18.9%.  Following extensive enquiries by the American authorities Bill and Hilary Clinton were cleared of any wrongdoing.

 

He tried again to upset the American judicial system with his 1997 book “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.” He claimed that the Oklahoma City bombing was a failed operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But his “evidence” was consigned to the FBI’s bulging conspiracy files. The mass-murderer Timothy McVeigh was convicted and executed for the worst terrorist attack in American history prior to 9/11. He was a US military veteran who belonged to a right-wing militia movement.  An American spokesman dismissed Ambrose Evans-Pritchard as “a pain in the ass,” and the Washington Post dubbed him “the mad scribbler.”

Having outworn his welcome in the USA he turned his attention to Europe. He predicted that the euro would collapse soon after its introduction in 2001. But more than a decade later the euro is still going strong and he is still hoping for an economic catastrophe. He led the screaming for Greece to be thrown out of the eurozone and coined the phrase “Club Med” to introduce a racist element into the discussion. But when the European Central Bank guaranteed the Greek deficit he immediately turned on Spain and is now predicting her downfall.

 

The Daily Telegraph boasts that it sells 180,089 more copies than The Times but it is still losing circulation. It sold 690,445 copies in 2009 but is now selling 686,679. The Barclay twins must have noticed that their newspaper is failing. The much derided euro will probably last longer than their strangely shortsighted International Business Editor.

If he does get fired BNP leader Nick Griffin could do with an editor for his party newspaper The Voice of Freedom. It’s not as reactionary as the Daily Telegraph but it’s just as boring. A conspiracy freak with an irrational hatred of the European Union might be the ideal choice.

Journalists have every right to push their own opinions. But there is a difference between reasoned argument and demented fantasy. The federal government of the USA is not engaged in a war against the people. And the leaders of the European states are not trying to wipe out all things British. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is not just a harmless crank obsessed with the EU. His negative reporting has done a lot of damage to the European economies including the UK. Every time he talks down the euro he helps to put another Briton out of work.

 

Historical Context
 

AN Wilson in his modern history “Our Times” remembers the 1950s.

Churchill told the cabinet that “the continuing increase in the number of coloured people coming to this country and their presence here would sooner or later come to be resented by large sections of the British people.

 

The blatant racism of the old war hero shocks a later generation. For this reason, it is convenient for historians to suggest that it was only “extremists”, such as Sir Oswald Mosley, who thought in this way. (Mosley tried to revive his old fascist thugs of pre-war days and stood for Notting Hill in the 1959 election.) It was in Notting Hill, where many blacks had settled, that the race riots had occurred in 1958. It is easy, and correct, to see Mosley as inflammatory. Less easy for the imagination to absorb is the fact that when it came to his views on black people, the leader of the British fascists had views that were commonplace for a white man of his generation. They were shared by Sir Winston Churchill. They were shared by the hero of El Alemein General Montgomery (1887-1976). 

After the war Clement Atlee as Prime Minister sent Monty to Africa to provide a confidential report on the suitability of giving the Africans self-government. It was a shock for the liberal-minded Clem to be told by Monty, after a two-month fact finding-tour, that “the African is a complete savage and is quite incapable of developing the country himself.” He recommended making the whole of sub-Saharan Africa into a British-controlled bulwark against communism, to be aligned with South Africa. His advice was only to come to light in 1999, and a fellow peer, Lord Chalfont, commented that “his reputation is irredeemably damaged.” 

 

It’s difficult to put history into perspective. Half a century ago racism was normal and race mixing was frowned on. But times change and we change with them; at least superficially. We would not use the same language today but few would disagree with Churchill and Mosley’s sentiments. And Monty’s assessment of Africa has stood the test of time. Black Africa has generally gone backwards since the white man laid down his burden. South Africa still has enough whites to maintain a modern economy but Zimbabwe is only kept going by the Chinese. Most of sub-Saharan Africa is constantly at war, totally corrupt and living at subsistence level.

 

The liberal regimes of the late 20^th century were a reaction to the regimentation of two world wars. They gave us the social state but they saddled us with an unbearable burden of debt. The current mood is a reaction to the near collapse of the banking system.  All over the world people are returning to tradition values. The Arabs are turning to Islam and the Europeans are flirting with nationalism. The Global capitalist crisis has provoked a reaction that threatens to sweep away liberal democracy. Churchill, Mosley and Monty do not seem so old-fashioned after all.