Issue 23, February 2007

Nation Revisited

An occasional email to friends. # 23, February 2007

The European Idea

Even amongst pro-Europeans the EU is regarded with suspicion. The Commission is seen as dictatorial and the relentless nonsense so beloved of the press, like straight bananas and a ban on stepladders has influenced even dedicated supporters of the project.

The veteran Mosley supporter Roger Clare writing in “European Action” summed up the feelings of many: “We wish to replace the circus in Brussels, not because Europe as an entity is bad for Britain…but because OUR Europe, a Europe of the Peoples, is the only true guarantee that the will of the people shall prevail.”

The recently formed Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty bloc in the Euro Parliament is comprised of so-called nationalists or right-wingers from seven European nations. Both terms are misleading; most of these parties have social programmes that would put our Labour Party to shame, so they are hardly right wing. They may call themselves nationalists but at least they are prepared to go to Brussels and fight for reform.

One of the ITS deputies Ashley Mote is a former member of UKIP, a strange party that believes in balancing exported Britons with imported Africans. UKIP leader Nigel Farage has launched a spiteful attack on the new group and promised to vote with the rest of the old gang in Brussels to kill them off.

At last there is bridge between the traditionalists who see the EU as an international conspiracy and the supporters of Europe a Nation who realize that the only way of preserving our race and nation is by uniting with our fellow Europeans.

The Euro-sceptics still dominate the nationalist fringe but there is a subtle yet discernable shift towards the concept of a “Europe of the nations.” This is the idea of a confederation of nation states. Fair enough, confederation is the basis of the Swiss constitution that recognizes the independence of each Canton. But Switzerland is nevertheless one united country despite having four languages. In fact it can be taken as a model of representative government and European unity that has given its citizens one of the highest standards of living in the world and centuries free from war and revolution.

The mass migration of Africans and Asians to Europe has made the debate between the federalists and the unionists just a matter of semantics. Almost every European country has been invaded by the teeming masses of the Third World. No country can hope to solve this problem on their own but by acting together they would have the political muscle and the negotiating power to solve the problem.

                                                                                                                                

Writing in the Evening Standard A.N. Wilson put the case: 

“There is only one policy which will work and that is the cruel, Spanish policy of repatriation. There is only one way that policy can be implemented and that is for this purpose, to regard Europe as a nation, with identical draconian measures, which overlook all the hard-luck stories, all the sad cases of African women having heart attacks in European hospitals, and simply stop an intrusion of humanity which our European hospitals, schools, housing, drains and transport systems simply cannot sustain.”

A.N. Wilson is not a member of a minority party; he is not a racist or a bigot but an award winning author and journalist who can see through the propaganda of the petty nationalists. Commenting on the success of the BNP in Barking he goes on: “ But these nationalists, like Le Pen in France, with their blind hatred of Europe will never solve the Europe-wide problem. Only when we have embraced Europe as a nation can we get to grips with the fundamental problem of our time.”

Now that Le Pen’s Front National has joined the ITS bloc it is hoped that they will accept that their problems are our problems. At the moment the British nationalists are still in splendid isolation but many of their members have family connections to the 761,000 Brits who live in Spain, the 291,000 who live in Ireland or the 200,000 in France (BBC). They have bought houses and businesses in France or Spain and get regular visits from their friends and relations in the UK. Many more Brits take their holidays in other European countries. The myth that we are as a nation anti-European is just not true.

Eurobarometer (the EU statistical survey) shows that the majority of educated British people support EU membership. In 2005 they responded to the following propositions: Being part of the EU increases opportunities for business - 78%. Being part of the EU means consumers in the UK benefit from the free market of goods resulting from the European Single Market – 63%. Being part of the EU means more opportunities to live, work and study in another country – 79%. In the same survey they listed their main concerns as - immigration, terrorism, crime and healthcare.

UKIP did well in the Euro election, probably because the the Euro-sceptics were the only people interested in it, but they have failed to get an MP elected despite having plentiful funds and the almost universal support of the press. We will soon have the opportunity to send objective MEPs to join the ITS bloc in Brussels and fight for sensible reform instead of trying to wreck everything like the time-wasting reactionaries of UKIP. It is early days yet but by working together the ITS pioneers will develop team a spirit and comradeship that will carry them forward to unity. Setting aside the sad and unnecessary divisions between patriots will be a positive step in the right direction.

“European Action”

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Views on the News                                                                                                       

The ongoing police investigation into the fund-raising activities of the Labour Party has reopened the debate into the funding of political parties. There is a growing call for state funding to prevent big business from controlling the parties. Many countries have adopted this system but most of them have proportional representation and coalition governments. If this country brings in state funding it will be rigged in favour of the old gang and designed to kill off the minority parties. We have no tradition of fair play when it comes to politics; our first past the post system ensures the two party domination of parliament. The Liberal Democrats used to talk about election reform but Labour and the Tories will try to get state funding and keep the unfair electoral system. Labour can no longer rely on the trade unions to bankroll them. The unions are losing members faster than Labour and are being forced to merge to survive. The Tories still depend on big business but their move to the centre means that they can no longer guarantee tax breaks to their corporate friends

                                                                                                                                     

American casualties in Iraq may be very much higher than admitted. It has emerged that the Pentagon only count US nationals and not the young men from Central and South America who have enlisted in the US army in order to gain citizenship. Nor do they count wounded men who die away from the battlefield in hospital, or so-called “security guards” who are mercenaries fighting for the Coalition. Now Britain has joined the deception by claiming that 100 men have been killed in action when in fact the real toll is over 130. When helicopters are shot down the authorities claim that they have crashed and report the subsequent deaths as accidents rather than battlefield fatalities. Soldiers run over by tanks or trucks are also listed as accidents.

Steve Johnson writing in “Freedom” has described the advanced Eurofighter Typhoon as “militarily worthless.” The FAS Military Analysis Network has a rather higher opinion:  “Eurofighter’s air dominance supremacy and versatility as a multi-role combat aircraft is marked by its highly potent and comprehensive air-to-surface attack capability.” The Typhoon is in service with the air forces of Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK. Against fierce competition it has won a Saudi order worth $77 billion. Austria, Greece, Norway, Turkey and Japan are also interested. Steve Johnson wants to: “scrap the Eurofighter in favour of a new, up to date British designed and manufactured fighter.” According to FAS: “In the UK, over 6,000 jobs depend on the Eurofighter development phase and this is expected to rise to 14,000 at the peak of production.” The Japanese excel in high-tech engineering but they have opted to buy a ready made foreign aircraft rather than spending billions of dollars on a design and build project.

The United Kingdom Independence Party is to rebrand itself as the Independence Party and campaign on more than just the European issue. As Dave Cameron ditches core Tory principles UKIP hopes to capture the votes of the disgruntled. UKIP leader and ever-hopeful parliamentary candidate Nigel Farage says that the party stands for: “national independence, local independence and independence of the individual.” Sounds rather like Robinson Crusoe but even he had to share his desert island with Friday.

Political Reform                                                                                                          

Despite the fact that the main political parties in the UK have only half the members that they used to have they are spending more than ever. At the last general election all parties broke their previous spending records and constant appeals for funds dominate their literature and websites. As their votes go down their spending goes up and as more and more people ignore the polls the parties hire more researchers and advisors.

This obsession with money has led the Labour Party to court big business, traditionally the paymaster of the rival Tories. To make them acceptable to big business the Labour Party has dropped all of their socialist policies and even changed their name to New Labour, just to show that they have got nothing to do with the old working class movement.

The Tories have also tailored their image to appeal to the politically correct boardrooms of the City of London. They have dropped immigration control and law & order for free trade and open borders. They are no longer interested in the middle class with their tired old notions of patriotism and respectability. The modern Conservative Party of Dave Cameron stands for multi-ethnicity and youth culture.

The party leaders are not worried about looking ridiculous. They are keen to be seen amongst teenagers, preferably non-white, and they have exchanged their old school ties for tee shirts and their highly polished shoes for trainers. They pretend to understand jive talk and even attempt patois when talking to British-born black kids who only speak English. They ride their bikes from gig to gig and greet their constituents with “all right.”

The parties have abandoned their class origins and lost their way in a fog of pretence; there is no appreciable difference between them and their leaders are interchangeable.

They promise anything to get elected and once in parliament they forget about the punters. They vote as directed regardless of any legal or moral considerations. As H.L. Mencken said: “Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods.”

Under a reformed system the government would be forced to respect the will of the people. All major decisions would be decided by referendum and all MPs subjected to a yearly general election. All voting would be electronic and instantaneous, and each vote cast would entitle the voter to a ticket in the state lottery and a chance to win a million pounds. This would encourage voting and force the parliamentary candidates to take an interest in public opinion.

Voting in parliament would be mandatory except on production of a medical certificate. MPs’ votes would be recorded and published so that the public would be able to see how they voted. Such a system would weed out the party careerists and keep them on their toes. It would also raise their stress levels and ensure a healthy turnover of candidates.

Those MPs who defied the will of the people would be sacked and those who did as they were told would keep their jobs so long as the people saw fit to hire them.

Jack Philby                                                                                                                   

Harry St John Bridger Philby also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah was born at St Johns, Sri Lanka in 1885. He was educated at Cambridge where he studied languages and was a friend of Jawaharial Nehru later prime minister of India.

He worked for the Indian Civil Service in Lahore from 1908 and became proficient in Urdu, Punjabi, Baluchi, Persian and Arabic. He was married in 1910 with his cousin Bernard Law Montgomery, later commander-in-chief of allied armies as his best man.

He was an expert ornithologist who named several birds. He was also an explorer, an orientalist and a British agent. His son Kim Philby was a double agent who eventually defected to the USSR.

In 1915 he was attached to the British Army in Iraq and took part in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. After the Iraqi revolution of 1920 he became Minister of Security in the British occupation government. He worked with TE Lawrence but did not share Lawrence’s enthusiasm for the Hashemites. Philby’s plan was for the total union of the Arabian peninsular under Ibn Saud. In 1925 he organized Ibn Saud’s coronation and became a confidant of the King and a trusted friend of the Arabs.

He converted to Islam in 1930 and traveled extensively all over Arabia. He represented the Saudis in their dealings with the oil companies and was instrumental in setting up Aramco. He also established an oil export route to Germany through Spain prior to the war and apparently negotiated with Adolf Eichmann.

He struck a deal with Chaim Weizman and David Ben-Gurion to admit Jewish immigrants to Palestine in return for twenty million pounds compensation to be paid to the Palestinians. The Zionist leaders accepted the deal but no money was ever paid.

Jack Philby stood for John Beckett’s British People’s Party, an offshoot of the BUF, in the Hythe by-election of 1939. He stood for: “protection of the small man against big business” and declared: “no cause whatever is worth the spilling of human blood.” He lost his deposit and a few months later he was interned under Defence Regulation18B but released after seven months to resume his work as a British agent.

After the war at the age of sixty he returned to Saudi Arabia and married a second wife, a sixteen year-old girl allegedly from the slave market at Taif. Ibn Saud died in 1953 and Philby did not get on with his successor King Saud. He was exiled to Lebanon where he lived with his son Kim who was a British intelligence officer under orders to spy on his father. It is thought that Kim tipped off the Soviets about the Suez invasion of 1956.

He was reconciled with the Saudi royal family in 1955 and returned to Riyadh but on a visit to his son in 1960, whilst lying in bed, he said; “God I’m bored” and died. He wrote numerous books on the history, culture and religion of the Middle East. He is buried in the Muslim cemetery in Beirut.

Issue 4, March 2006

Nation Revisited

March 2006, # 4

Despite the steady decline in British manufacturing the economy continues to thrive

We have become a service economy and make a living by selling things like banking, insurance and advice. The culture of workers pouring out of factory gates has almost gone. The industries that used to employ thousands of men and women have been outsourced to cheaper parts of the world. At present this system is working and most people have never had it so good, but a feeling persists that the whole thing is artificial and that it will fall apart. When we made ships there was something to see. Thousands of tonnes of steel in a shipyard was visible evidence of industry, but banking and insurance are invisible things. Nobody cheers when a loan is made as they did when a great ship slipped into the water.

As long as it lasts we will enjoy our high standard of living. We will put out of out minds the idea that we are dependent on others for our food and manufactured goods. We will accept that our electricity is generated from imported gas and oil and paid for out of what we earn by selling insurance or advertising. We will not mind that our armed forces are not capable of operating independently. Eventually we might forget that we were once a mighty industrial and military power.

The towns and villages of England grew up over hundreds of years as the population slowly increased and the economy developed. The location of these settlements was chosen carefully to take advantage of natural features. Villages were built near to water supplies and houses were built above the water table and with access to roads. Care was taken not to destroy good agricultural land and to maintain a balance between town and country. Now with an immigration-driven surge in population we are building new towns on flood plains and far away from available roads and reservoirs. Massive developments are being built with no clear plan for supplying them with water or coping with the additional sewage and refuse. Big settlements need adequate services. Lots of houses mean lots of roads, drains, power and all the requirements of modern living.

Local authorities must look at the overall plan before granting permission.

Pensions are seldom adequate to sustain people into old age. Successive governments have failed to make the necessary arrangements to look after a longer-living population.

Pensions are simply savings. The Chancellor should take savings out of taxation to encourage people to make provision for their retirement. The revenue lost to the Exchequer would be made up by the reduction in welfare benefits paid to needy pensioners.

By plundering savings set aside for pensions the government is going for short-term gain and trying to postpone the inevitable. This fast buck mentality motivates government policy on industrial planning, housing, immigration and pensions. They have no strategy for the future and think no further than the next election. The old gang politicians value their own fortunes ahead of posterity.

What The Papers Say                                                                                                   
 

A Recipe For Resentment: League Sentinel. Winter 2005/6.

Flooding a country with people from a different ethnic or cultural background is one certain way of generating resentment from the native population towards the newcomers. Giving them free housing, healthcare, food and other benefits only serves to exacerbate the situation. But when a government discriminates against its own people in favour of asylum seekers and other benefit claimants then trouble is sure to occur.

Such an example is that of the government benefits agency that made a mistake with its tax credit system and overpaid many claimants by a total of four billion pounds. In an effort to recover the money the agency have cut the benefit to British claimants who are the most vulnerable in our society. Single parents, and the elderly are facing reductions in their monthly income by up to ninety pounds a month. Yet the politicians have decided not to pursue foreigners who have been wrongly paid “as it would be too difficult”.

Coincidently, just after this decision became public, the Home Office reported that “race-hate” attacks had increased dramatically. Is it any wonder?

War in Iraq, Bombs in London, Riots in France: Final Conflict, Spring 2006.

There are a lot of terrible things happening. There is no doubt that at gut-instinct level many of these events are slowly turning people against immigration and multi-culturalism. Certainly the man-on-the-street is feeling equally uncomfortable about Muslims, wider immigration, government lies and the Neo-Con agenda.

As Nationalists we must always be able to see the news behind the news. The big question behind all this is who benefits?

Who created Al Qaeda, who really organized 9/11, who was behind the push for war?

The answers to these questions are already seeing the light of day. The trail leads back to the usual suspects. The upfront bogeyman, in this case militant Islam, is being promoted way beyond its means by a power desperate to use this huge terrorist agent provocateur to push its own agenda; even when those it seeks to bring down, like Iraq and Libya, are in fact secular Arab states on the hit list of the same militant Moslems.

Call the ones pulling the strings what you want; Neo-Cons, Zionists, Freemasons; it seems that the more things change the more they stay the same.
 

Saving Our Identities:  European Action, Jan/Feb 2006.

The reason we declare a European political faith is that we value national identities as of right. Our enemies regard this as “racism” and want all expressions of regional patriotism to be outlawed. Never confuse us with the cosmopolitan culture-destroyers of the EU bureaucracy who have no regard for true national expression. European Action stands for the protection of all the peoples of Europe… their traditions, customs, history and above all, their right to ethnic solidarity. We are National Europeans opposed to globalist dominance of our continent. Europe for the Europeans.

John Beckett                                                                                                                   

John Beckett was born in Thurlwood, Cheshire in 1894; he died in 1964. After a state school education he started work as a shop assistant aged fifteen. He served in the British Army and was disabled in World War I. He founded the National Union of Ex-Servicemen to look after the wives and children of returned servicemen and the widows of the fallen. This charitable movement was later taken over by the British Legion.

He served as a member of Hackney Borough Council from 1919 to 1922 during which time he shared a flat with the future Prime Minister Clement Atlee.

He became the youngest Labour MP when he was returned for Gateshead in 1924.

In 1927 in a heated exchange with the Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin he called him a liar. For this breach of the rules he was suspended from Parliament.

In 1929 he was elected Labour MP for Peckham but by 1930 he was in trouble again for protesting against the government’s unemployment policy by stealing the mace and assaulting fellow MP James Maxton and a parliamentary attendant.

 

In 1934 John Beckett abandoned the Labour Party to join Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. He rose to become Director of Publications and editor of ‘Action.’

In 1937 the three leading BUF propagandists John Beckett, William Joyce and Angus Macnab broke away to found the National Socialist League. They were helped by another ex-blackshirt AK Chesterton. In 1939 William Joyce made his fateful decision to go to Germany; Angus Macnab closed down the NSL and John Becket founded the British People’s Party.  In 1940 he was interned under Defence Regulation 18B together with over a thousand other nationalists.  None of them were ever charged or tried and no appeal was possible. Many of them like Mosley and Beckett had served with distinction in the First World War.

Soon after his release from prison he reactivated the British People’s Party in 1945. This was a courageous venture in the immediate postwar era when his friend William Joyce and his contemporary John Amery were tried and executed. This was also the time of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal with a political climate of guilt by association and hysterical anti-fascist propaganda.

The British People’s Party faced organized violence from the militant 43 Group who were given vital support and intelligence by the Police and the Security Services.

John Beckett invited a gifted young Cambridge student called Colin Jordan to join the BPP National Council; but Jordan was already in contact with Arnold Leese the prewar leader of the Imperial Fascist League who founded his short-lived National Workers Party in 1948. The British People’s Party was wound up when their patron Hastings Russell the Duke of Bedford was killed in a mysterious shooting accident in 1953.

John Beckett’s old BUF comrade AK Chesterton invited him to join his new movement The League of Empire Loyalists in 1954, but after a lifetime of service to his country he decided to retire.

Europe for The Europeans – by Bill Baillie                                                                

This abridged article first appeared in ‘Action’ in August 1975. In the 31 years since it was written the European Union has grown much bigger but it has abandoned economic nationalism for world trade. The ethnic invasion has got even worse and the predicted inter-racial strife is happening all the time. But there are now encouraging signs that public opinion is at last turning against the liberal consensus. Nationalist parties are making gains throughout Europe against the multicultural agenda.

Political union will solve divided Europe’s economic problems. A self-contained economy will outlaw the speculation that has caused steep rises in world prices under the present system. Sweated imports from the East will be excluded and the massive bargaining power of 300 million European customers will ensure fair prices for imports that might still be required. But Europe will still be doomed to collapse and failure unless the growing problem of non-European immigration is tackled. There are now millions of African, Asian and Caribbean migrants in Britain, France, Germany, Holland and other European countries.

These people have been cruelly exploited as cheap labour without regard for their long-term welfare or that of the native Europeans. Already the inevitable tensions of this multiracial situation have resulted in violence and death. Only the warped theoreticians of the race relations industry would deny that the assimilation of these immigrants is impossible. Britons and other Europeans who have been victims of large-scale immigration know that this policy is socially destructive and bound to end in disaster.

The apologetic politicians of the old parties claim that there are too many here to reverse the flood, but there are plenty of recent historical precedents for mass repatriation.

Thirteen million refugees were taken in by West Germany after the last world war.

More than half a million Asians have been exchanged by India, Pakistan and Bangladesh after their mutual conflict. Over a million pieds noirs were repatriated to France after her withdrawal from Algeria. Nearly one million Portuguese have flown home from Africa, and as I write are arriving in Lisbon at the rate of two thousand a day.

Israel has become the homeland of over three million Jews from Europe and the Arab states. This has been hailed as an historic achievement and Russia is universally condemned for limiting emigration. If it is considered a very good thing that millions of Jews should go to Israel the same standard must apply to the repatriation of Europe’s immigrants. This is both possible and essential now that they are unwanted in a Europe facing unemployment and depression.

Europe has the technological and financial capacity to launch a great programme of repatriation, coupled with aid to the developing nations that would benefit from the return of their skilled workers. If this is not done they will remain as an unwanted alien minority and we shall experience the same inter-racial strife that now threatens to tear the United States apart.

Views on The News                                                                                                 

The trial of Nick Griffin and Mark Collett of the BNP for inciting racial hatred went against the government so they are trying them again. In Austria the State is appealing against the sentence of 67 year old David Irving for questioning the holocaust because they think that three years is too lenient. In Germany the show-trials of Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf are under way. In Belgium Daniel Feret the leader of the Front National and his assistant George-Pierre Tonnalier are on trial for writing ‘racist’ propaganda. All over Europe the so-called democratic regimes are using legislation to crush dissent. The irony of the situation could hardly be sweeter, people are being thrown into prison to defend civil rights and silenced to protect freedom of speech.

The Americans and their camp followers have destroyed Iraq with indiscriminate bombing and have killed unknown numbers of civilians in the cause of democracy.

In order to depose a dictator they have destroyed waterways, pumping stations, power plants, roads, bridges, airports, hospitals, schools, orphanages and old people’s homes.

To bring freedom to the Iraqis they have tortured, raped and brutalized them. It is no accident that these atrocities have been filmed and shown around the world. The message is that the New World Order must be obeyed.

This system of democracy that is so important to the West is all about repression.

Freedom of expression is achieved by spying on communications and the will of the people is guaranteed by buying electoral success with millions of dollars. Racial equality is enforced with positive discrimination and cheap labour immigration is glorified as ethnic diversity. This circus of deceit operates in an atmosphere of breathtaking hypocrisy. The super-capitalists control the governments, resources, industrial output and manpower of most of the world. They have the commercial power to organize wars, invasions, revolutions and assassinations. Their real motive is profit but they disguise this with democracy, progress and all sorts of good intentions.

Iran has emerged from fifty years of American interference. First the nationalist regime of Mohammed Mossadegh was overturned by the Central Intelligence Agency with Operation Ajax in 1953. This installed the pro-American Shah Pahlavi who was deposed in 1979 by the Ayotollah Khomeini revolution. From 1980 until 1988 the country was at war with the American-sponsored Iraqis. A war that cost both sides 1 million lives and $1.9 trillion. Now Iran once more has a popular government under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But America will not rest until Iran’s vast mineral wealth is back under their control. Iran has not initiated a war against a neighbouring state since the 16^th Century but she is still demonized by the West. We are told that Iran’s nuclear programme cannot be allowed. China, Pakistan, India, Russia, North Korea and Israel are tolerated but Iran must be stopped. America does not explain why the military dictatorship of General Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan is preferable to the freely elected government of President Ahmadinejad in Iran.

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