Nation Revisited # 103, May 2013

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The UK Budget

This year the UK government plans to spend £120 billion more than it receives from all sources of revenue. In order to balance the books we would have to slash spending. That would mean closing hospitals, cancelling defence contracts, reducing benefits and sacking civil servants. But it would restore us to solvency.

In an ideal world we would have a popular government with a workable economic policy and the power to act. But that’s not going to happen any time soon so we must deal with what we’ve got. If we trimmed the budget by £120 billion there would probably be a general strike and mass civil unrest. If the government didn’t fall right away it would certainly be thrown out at the next election. The fact is that a democratic government cannot deal with the problem. An authoritarian government would be required but that’s not going to happen either.

So we blunder on, borrowing money or simply printing it. The world reacted with horror when the Cyprus government decided to steal bank deposits but the UK government has been doing it for years. By keeping interest rates at 0.5% when inflation is at 2.8% they are robbing us blind. And every time they issue another tranche of QE they drive down the value of the pound against the dollar which raises oil prices and makes us even poorer.

Chancellor George Osborne is tinkering with government spending to save a billion here or there but the £120 billion black hole remains. We all know that the crippling cost of social welfare is destroying our country. We borrow money to keep people on the dole because they refuse to take minimum wage jobs that are available. We then import workers from all over the world to do these jobs. Of course, the sick and disabled must be provided for but we have got to stop throwing money at able-bodied work dodgers, be they homegrown or imported.

Immigration didn’t cause all of our problems but it has aggravated them. The trouble is that our politicians are living in a world of fantasy in which the UK is a benevolent motherland dispensing justice and welcoming the huddled masses to her bosom. They are still living in the days of Empire when we could send a gunboat to blast the Fuzzy-Wuzzies into submission; and when missionaries and colonial officials in crisp khaki shorts spread British civilization amongst the heathens. But times have changed; the natives are now out-producing us and we are rapidly going broke.

Austerity

(There’s nothing new about austerity: this is from Nation No 4, March 1974)

Following an inconclusive election we have been warned to expect hard times for at least four or five years. Ted Heath failed to cut prices “at a stroke”; the economy is in crisis and we don’t have the money for such grandiose projects as Maplin Airport, or a network of super highways to link one traffic jam to another.

But austerity may bring some blessings. Concorde, the most expensive civil airplane ever built may have to be axed. No responsible government would allow such a dangerous and noisy aircraft to overfly its airspace at supersonic speed. Concorde will join Blue Streak, the Groundnut Scheme, and the distribution of gas masks as another example of spendthrift government. The Channel Tunnel is something else we can’t afford. The French will probably build it and put an evil-eyed pissoir attendant at Dover to charge us entry.

We offer a few more ways in which Britain could save money.

1) Link overseas aid (£300 million in 1973) to repatriation – if they want our money they must co-operate in the resettlement of their people.

2) Tax the really rich. The Tories are worried that high taxes will drive them abroad, but Messrs Hyams, Cohen, Rothschild, Sief and Sainsbury cannot take their property and their businesses with them.

3) Rethink the whole mess of state handouts; Arts Council grants to mediocre theatre groups; the futile race relations industry; improvement grants to millionaire landlords.

4) Abolish the Civil List. Most Britons support the monarchy – fair enough, but the Royals are some of the richest people in the world, why should we pay for them?

5) Quit the United Nations and all its bankrupt offshoots. So far the UN has given Eastern Europe to the Soviets, lost a war in Korea, started a war in the Congo and run away from trouble in the Middle East.

It’s no good Ted Heath or Harold Wilson telling the people to tighten their belts while they spend money as fast as they can issue it. Let austerity start at the top – it will filter down soon enough.

(The February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament. Oil prices quadrupled following the Yom Kippur War and the stock market collapsed. A second election in October was won by Harold Wilson by just three seats. But the economy continued to deteriorate and Britain had to bailed out by the International Monetary Fund in 1976 when the Natwest Bank threatened to default)

Every Revolution Started as a Conversation

The ultimate objective of any political party is to come to power but very few of them get anywhere near government and in modern times even the old-established parties have to form coalitions. The minor parties can distribute leaflets, sell newspapers, knock on doors, hold public meetings, host websites and forums, and stand in elections. They have no hope of getting elected but they can gain publicity, train their members, and raise funds. If they’ve got a serious message they will make converts and if they are persistent they will build up a core of voters. But anyone wanting to become an MP is advised to join one of the big parties.

Plutocracy is destroying our country but we can fight back. We must remember that every revolution started as a conversation; and every party started as a discussion group. Mao said: “let one hundred flowers bloom.” He might not have meant it but it’s true nevertheless.

An anti-immigration party is unlikely to come to power in the UK but if it attracted enough votes it could influence government policy. Ukip are a bunch or unreformed Tory reactionaries emotionally stuck in the fifties but they are frightening the big parties into immigration controls. This goes against their instincts because the Labour Party believe in internationalism from a Marxist and Methodist standpoint, the Tories believe in it from a business perspective, and the Liberal Democrats are stricken with post-imperial guilt.  But whether immigrants are seen as socialist brothers, souls to be saved, or customers to be fleeced, they compete with our own people who are trying to earn a living in their own country.

Most politicians are unprincipled charlatans but they have a well-developed sense of survival and they will support any policy that keeps them in power. How many German MPs during the Nazi era really supported the regime; and how many just went along with it for the sake of a comfortable salary and all the trappings of office? Our gutless representatives are no different. They are currently spouting the multiracial mumbo-jumbo of liberal democracy but if it was necessary for their careers they would be saluting the Fuhrer and strutting around in jackboots.

So don’t despair; keep talking, keep writing and don’t believe anything that you read in the newspapers. The global capitalist system is breaking down because cheap goods and cheap labour are flooding markets that have run out of money. There will have to be a complete reorganization of trade, industry and migration based on sustainable production and consumption. This is not a matter of opinion but an economic imperative. As usual our lazy and misinformed politicians are behind the curve but the sovereign debt crisis will force them to wake up. When the banks run out of money and their paychecks stop arriving we will see some action.  

NR Five Questions   I asked our readers the following five questions; Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could direct government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to be remembered? Their replies have shown a very broad range of opinions from libertarian to authoritarian, from spiritual to agnostic, and from realistic to fantastic. I profoundly disagree with some of them. I sometimes despair of parliamentary democracy but I support free speech. Let all things be discussed.   John Bean, who writes the Nationalist Notebook column on the BDP website, restated his belief in European Confederation - issue 76. Robert Edwards, the editor of European Socialist Action, defended freedom of religion and opposed racial supremacism - issue 77. Bill Baillie, of Nation Revisited – that’s me – supported European unity and social justice - issue 78. Michael Woodbridge, who writes for the Civil Liberty website, acknowledged Divine Providence and described his philosophy as Racial Socialism – issue 96. Eddy Morrison, of the Nationalist Sentinel blog, outlined his commitment to White Nationalism and strong government - issue 97. Robert Best, who writes for several publications including the League Sentinel, emphasized spiritual awareness and European unity – issue 98. Arlette Baldacchino, of the Viva Malta website, combined a respect for tradition with her vision of Imperium Europa – issue 99. Alexander Morano, from North America, stressed the importance of European culture and the continuity of art and literature – issue 100. Rufus, of the News From Atlantis blog, promoted freedom and opposed globalism and materialism – issue 101.   We would like to hear from more of our readers – not just writers but anyone with something to say. Replies must comply with the law but they are not edited and the views expressed are entirely those of the respondent. Please e-mail your replies to nationrevisited@gmail.com    Five Questions Answered by EP Williamson

My name is Sid, joint founder and ex National Organiser of the BPP. I have a blog called The White Way Home. http://thewhitewayhome.blogspot.co.uk/

I'm a National Socialist, I believe that the Aryan race should be not only preserved, but revered as the greatest race on the planet. The lies told by the Jews after WW2 are easy to contest, German people do not deserve to be labeled as mass murderers. I believe that race mixing is diluting and polluting our great race, that is the true genocide, television has made it fashionable for young people to mix with Negroes, Pakistanis, and Jews. Teachers, social workers, and all other public sector workers are trained to brainwash our children and threaten us with prison, taking our children away etc. I am aware of at least two majority non white cities in England, Leicester and London. This is highly contagious and will one day destroy our nation beyond repair. We have a huge fight on our hands, but nobody is prepared to say anything let alone do anything. It is time to round up the sheeple and prepare them to defend our island.

WE MUST SECURE THE EXISTENCE OF OUR PEOPLE AND A FUTURE FOR WHITE CHILDREN.

If I could direct govt policies I would start by installing strict custom and immigration centres at every entry port. Non whites arriving from overseas will be refused entry. I would then offer all non whites residing here money to emigrate to anywhere they choose with the exception of Germany or USA. Once that phase is over I would start denying benefits to all non whites, I'd ban all Mosques and synagogues, and the practices of both Halal and Kosher slaughter would become a hanging offence. Once that phase is over, I presume that there will be significantly less non whites here. It would then be time to round them up. Other nations would be asked if they would take them, like Brazil did many years ago. The remaining non whites will be sent to the nations who agreed to take them. By then we would have an almost completely White Great Britain, but there would be a lack of people to do the jobs left by the non whites that had left. I believe that there are many expats living abroad because of the garbage they were being forced to live among here. I would create a new govt agency specifically for the purpose of encouraging those expats, as well as other Whites from Europe to come here and help us to create a renaissance of a great Great Britain.

I'm obviously proud of my five children, they are my greatest achievements. In politics I'm proud to have organised, chaired, and spoke at many nationalist meetings. I will always remember my first meeting, I had to organise, chair, and make my first speech. The late great John Tyndall was one of my guest speakers; it was his last meeting as we so sadly lost him nine days later. I have also stood with the very best White Nationalists, drastically outnumbered and defied the odds against homosexuals (Brighton pride 2007 five of NF demonstrating against three hundred thousand homosexuals), Redhill Surrey (Four of us with flags and banners everywhere, demonstrating against a march of five thousand Muslims, who had decided to march through Redhill on Easter Sunday. I'm also proud that I decided to take a step back from politics for a couple of years to get my mental health sorted out, because for a long time I was in a very bad place. Now I'm sleeping better, I don't drink anywhere near as much, and take better care of myself.

I have a lot of regrets, things I wouldn't put on the Internet. All of the stupid, even dangerous things I've done, the stupid mistakes I have made, are a direct result of my mental health, the meds I was on then, and on top of all that copious amounts of alcohol.

I would like to be remembered as a great father, that is how all my children think of me now, and that is the most important thing in the world to me. If I was to be remembered for political reasons, I would like to be remembered as a man who stood up for his beliefs and tried to educate the ignorant masses with both words and actions.

The Menace of Global Capitalism

 (From John Bean’s former website February 2003 retrieved by Wayback Machine

http://web.archive.org/web/20030217050702/http://www.johnbeanstalk.co.uk/

We of the Radical Right are supporters of the small businessman and free enterprise. Nevertheless, we can have sympathy, if not empathy, with certain aspects of the left's militant campaign against global capitalism, even if we draw the line at attempt to do a 'twin-towers' job on the London Stock Exchange or other worldwide finance houses. Finance should serve the business of the country: not control it.

In this 21st century finance has set its horizons far beyond the nation state: it is now controlling the global market and the interests of individual nations are very much secondary to that objective, whether it is Britain or Brazil. As one British manufacturing base after another has been closed down and manufacture increasingly transported eastwards to "take advantage of cheaper labour costs", New Labour - with support from the other PODs (Parties of Decadence) - has told us in Britain that the jobs are being replaced by jobs in the service industry. Mark you, there is not much room here for ex-miners, shipbuilders and steelworkers, as most of the new jobs are for women. Perhaps the largest growth sector in the service industry is the call centre. Until about eighteen months ago we were told that it would soon be employing one in five in the UK.

However, we hear little of that nowadays as one call centre after another is either closed or reduced in size as these jobs are switched to S.E. Asia, mainly India. To date more than 60,000 British jobs (including banking and accountancy jobs) have been subject to the great Indian takeaway, with a further 7,000 going from Norwich Union in October(2004), making a total of 14,000 from this company alone. These global capitalist companies are, of course, exploiting the Indian and other Asian workers who are paid one tenth of the salary that their British counterparts need. Those of us who have worked in India know that there are countless thousands of Indians who have a good command of English. But what an accent! It takes a fortnight to crack the code.

 Many Shades of Black

John Bean’s biography Many Shades of Black charts his political involvement from Mosley’s Union Movement in 1950 to the contemporary BNP in 1999. It covers the rise and fall of the National Front and warns of the dangers of fragmentation. It’s now available from Ostara Publications at £12.95 plus postage. http://marchofthetitans.com/many-shades-of-black-by-john-bean/

Margaret Thatcher

Most of the things that Margaret Thatcher is famous for would have happened anyway. The coalmining industry was wiped out by competition from cheap gas and the motor industry collapsed because our cars were unsellable. The Unions that depended on these industries died with them. She sold off the council houses but that was a mixed blessing and we can thank our armed forces for winning the Falklands War. She bravely defied the IRA by addressing the Tory Conference at Brighton hours after the Grand Hotel bombing. But she will be remembered for the disastrous poll tax; an attempt to collect local taxes that was bitterly resisted.

She is credited with bringing down the Berlin Wall but when Germany was struggling to be reunited in 1989-90 she tried to perpetuate the oppressive East German regime and solicited the help of Francois Mitterrand and Mikhail Gorbachev. Helmet Kohl states in his memoirs that she told them; “We beat the Germans twice, and now they’re back.” She fawned over Ronald Reagan and the Atlantic Alliance but resisted every move towards German and European unity. She was a Churchillian Conservative who looked to America and was deeply suspicious of Europe.

Dave Cameron has the same petty-nationalistic mentality and he will probably go the same way as the blessed Margaret Thatcher if his poll ratings continue to fall. The Tories treat their leaders with the same brutal contempt as their foxhounds. As good capitalists they know how to deal with the sick and the lame and they do not burden themselves with guilt. They gave Maggie a splendid send off at St Paul’s Cathedral but they couldn’t wait to get rid of her when she was alive.

The current hysteria against the European Union will pass. In the 1975 referendum Margaret Thatcher campaigned enthusiastically for the UK to stay in the Common Market. In those days only the National Front and the Communist Party were opposed to Europe. The popular press, with the exception of the Daily Express, supported our membership and the overwhelming yes vote in the referendum was a foregone conclusion.

It is beginning to dawn on the great British public that our economy is linked to the rest of the world and that the recession will last until America and Japan recover. They have also started to question the dire warnings that the EU is about to collapse. It has survived scares in Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus and potential disasters in Italy and Spain. The euro has maintained its parity with the dollar and continues to be the second most traded currency in the world.

Maggie’s apologists argue that she didn’t understand the concept of the European Union in 1975. Apparently, the shopkeeper’s daughter thought that the Common Market was a grander version of the Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce.  

Eclipsed by Ukip

The far-right parties share the same objectives and the same conspiratorial mindset but they are divided by personalities and stuck with policies that were set in stone when the National Front was founded in 1967; stop immigration, start repatriation and get Britain out of Europe.  

The NF still have no representation after 46 years of campaigning. At their peak they had 20,000 members but they collapsed after the 1979 general election and have never recovered. In the 2010 general election their 17 candidates averaged 634 votes.

The British National Party has been fighting elections for over 30 years. In the 2010 general election their 338 candidates averaged 1,667 votes. They once boasted 14,000 members and scores of local councilors but those days are gone. Their leader Nick Griffin is a MEP for the North West.

The British Democratic Party is led by Kevin Scott. Andrew Brons was elected for the BNP as MEP for Yorkshire and Humber but now represents the BDP. Their policies are similar to the BNP but they claim that their party structure is more democratic.

All of them have been eclipsed by the UK Independence Party. Dave Cameron calls them: “a party of fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists,” and Ken Clarke dismisses them as “clowns” but they have captured the populist vote and hope to make an electoral breakthrough in 2015.

To achieve this they must to do better than their ill-fated predecessors. The billionaire financier James Goldsmith spent £20 million backing the Referendum Party in the 1997 general election. He put up 546 candidates and attracted 810,000 votes but failed to win a single seat and only averaged 2.6%.

At present Ukip has the support of the popular press and Nigel Farage is almost a permanent fixture on Question Time. They did very well in the Euro elections and look like winning council seats all over the country. But election campaigns cost a fortune and Nigel Farage will need the backing of his friends in the City of London. He has been talking to Rupert Murdoch and the American supporters of Ron Paul but he will struggle to compete with the big parties. In 2010 the Tories spent £16.7 million, Labour £8 million and the Lib Dems £4.8 million.

The traditional far-right parties accuse Ukip of diverting support from “genuine nationalists.” It’s difficult to imagine the genial Nigel Farage as a state agent but in the delusional world of political make-belief almost anything is possible. The “genuine nationalists” are already predicting that a future referendum will be rigged and warning that Dave Cameron and the Tories are secret EU supporters.

 

 

 

 

 

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Well Done Everybody

The low turnout at recent UK elections showed how disinterested people are in democracy. The voters know that their opinions are ignored and that voting is a complete waste of time. And given the choice of parties available one can hardly blame them for staying at home.

The Labour Party has benefited from the unpopularity of the government but the industrial working class that sustained them is shrinking fast. The heavy industries have gone to Asia and their once powerful trade unions have lost their clout.

The Liberal Democrats have got some intelligent policies but they have been damaged by their coalition with the Tories and are undermined by the mass circulation newspapers, Sky TV and Channel 5 for being pro-European.

Ukip are doing well but if Britain quits the European Union they will lose their raison d’être. They are therefore trying to become a Poujadist movement by calling for tax reform and immigration controls.

The BNP intend to make good a budget deficit of £126 billion by withholding £6 billion from the EU and £8 billion in foreign aid (2012 figures). But even a financial genius like Nick Griffin can’t make 6 + 8 = 126. This is no doubt a mathematical conspiracy by Marxists, state agents, traitors and Searchlight spies.

The Green Party is making progress in middle class areas like Brighton but they are not likely to appeal to a wider constituency. The Respect Party is more or less limited to immigrant areas and the various far-left parties are hopelessly divided.

Given a choice of parties in the pockets of big business it’s no wonder that a ballot box was recently returned in Monmouth with not a single vote cast. Elections are being decided on turnouts of 25% or less. The Old Gang is crying crocodile tears over the decline of parliamentary democracy but more and more people are refusing to take part in head counting. The real winners of last year’s elections were the apathy party; the majority of men and women who refused to put illiterate crosses on ballot papers to give a gang of ungrateful chancers £65,738 a year plus expenses. Well done to everybody that stayed away from the polls. Emma Goldman was right when she said: “if voting changed anything they would abolish it.”

The Rise of Ukip

People have got very short memories. The Labour Party won all their by elections despite being responsible for ruining the economy and flooding the country with immigrants. They have only been out of power for two years but people have already forgotten how bad things were under Gordon Brown. The public’s response to Croydon town centre being burned down by rioting black mobs was to re-elect the Labour Party that brought most of them to the UK.

But the big surprise was the rise of Ukip. They have become a rightwing populist party that has eclipsed the BNP. They have captured the anti-Euro vote and they now seek to grab the anti-immigration vote. While their far-right rivals have been arguing amongst themselves Ukip have come up with a simple non-racist five year ban on immigration that is legal as well as popular.

They came second in a string of by elections but their prospects are still as limited as their horizons. The Tories could blow them away by calling a referendum on Europe but the more likely scenario is that Dave Cameron will do a deal with Alex Salmond. He will drop his insistence on a yes/no Scottish referendum to offer the SNP “devo max” – total autonomy within a federal UK in return for scrapping the Scottish MPs at Westminster and ensuring a Tory majority in an English parliament.

Despite Brian Leveson’s conclusion that the popular press is impartial it’s clear that Ukip is promoted by the mass media and could easily be destroyed by them. Nigel Farage enjoys favourable publicity at the moment but if Dave Cameron did a deal with the media barons to save them from regulation the inanely grinning face of the great patriot would disappear from our screens and newspapers.

Like all political parties Ukip is comprised of human beings who enjoy all the usual vices. There’s almost bound to be a sex scandal or a financial impropriety waiting to be exposed by our “fearless press.” These things are part of the human condition and it seems that politicians are particularly vulnerable to temptation.

But it might not take a juicy scandal to bury Ukip: they are killing themselves with constant repetition. They have been predicting the demise of the EU and the collapse of the euro for donkey’s years but both are still going strong. If you want to know who will win an election it’s best to look at the bookmakers’ odds. And if you want to know the viability of a currency look at China’s foreign reserves. Tony Gallagher, the desperately depressing editor of the declining Daily Telegraph, is convinced that the euro is doomed but the cheerful new Chinese leader Xi Jinping can’t get enough of them. The EU is the world’s largest trading bloc and the euro is the second most traded currency after the dollar. You can either listen to the last gasp of a dying newspaper or follow the example of the world’s fastest growing economy.  

The press is still powerful but fifty years ago it was all-powerful. Malcolm X is hardly remembered today but he was one of the first popular leaders to challenge the stranglehold of the press barons. In 1964 he said:

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role; it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press”…

“If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

Too Late For Justice

In 1988 Ronald Reagan agreed to compensate Japanese Americans detained without trial during World War 2. This cost the American taxpayer $1.6 billion. Inspired by this act of redemption former BUF member John Charnley wrote to Chris Pattern at the Home Office to demand a pardon for his wartime imprisonment under Defence Regulation 18B. Charnley invoked the Petition of Human Rights 1628 which states that: “No free man may be imprisoned other than by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” Chris Pattern is a good man in many ways but his answer was a classic legal cop-out. He replied:

“It would seem that whilst Mr Charnley was detained under the law as it then stood, but not convicted of any offence there is therefore, no offence that can be pardoned. There is no power by which the Home Secretary can effect or, as it were, ‘wipe out’ the fact that he was detained under the exceptional powers of detention in the Defence Regulations. I am afraid I can only confirm that there is no action which the Home Secretary could now properly take.”

The recent publication of Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain (Portobello Books) details some of the atrocities committed against victims of 18B and prisoners of war under chief interrogator Robin ‘Tin Eye’ Stephens. He was exonerated at his subsequent court martial but as more wartime documents are released the truth about this dark chapter in our history will be revealed. Even David Blair in the Establishment mouthpiece the Daily Telegraph admitted:

“The Attlee government covered up these horrors and Stephens walked free after a flawed trial.”

Nellie Driver was a courageous BUF organizer who was imprisoned without charge or trial under Defence Regulation 18B. Together with over a thousand others she was detained simply for opposing Winston Churchill’s war. She further defied the forces of ‘democracy’ by writing the following haunting poem:

Within these walls confined at night

I often heard them cry
Although my woes were far from light
My own eyes were not dry,
It seemed that justice came that way
And haughtily passed by.

(Nellie Driver – The Ballad of Holloway Gaol)

Sixty-eight years after the war there are probably no survivors of 18B. It’s too late for them to be pardoned or compensated. 18B was not a legitimate security measure. A thousand unarmed and untrained men and women would have been no use to an invading German Army comprised of 9 infantry divisions and 2 airborne divisions. 18B was a vindictive act of political persecution by the fanatical warmongers Winston Churchill and Herbert Morrison. Following the Battle of Britain Adolf Hitler cancelled Operation Sea Lion because he couldn’t beat the RAF or the Royal Navy. The excuse of detaining alleged “fifth columnists” made no sense after November 1940 but many of them were held captive until 1945. Innocent men and women whose only crime was to disagree with Winston Churchill and stand up for their rights: the very principles that the war was supposed to be about.

The Roots of European Union

Opponents of the European Union accuse it of being a “Marxist-inspired” organization designed to enslave the world under a global dictatorship. But the father of the EU, Robert Schuman, was no Marxist, he was a devout Catholic who devoted his life to public service and the cause of European unity.

Speaking at Strasbourg in May 1949 he outlined his vision:

“We are carrying out a great experiment, the fulfillment of the same recurrent dream that for ten centuries has revisited the people of Europe: creating between them an organization putting an end to war and guaranteeing an eternal peace. The Roman church of the Middle Ages failed finally in its attempts that were inspired by humane and human preoccupations. Another idea, that of a world empire constituted under the auspices of German emperors was less disinterested; it already relied on the unacceptable pretentions of a ‘Fuhrertum’ (domination by dictatorship) whose ‘charms’ we have all experienced.

Audacious minds, such as Dante, Erasmus, Abbé de St Pierre, Rousseau, Kant and Proudhon, had created in the abstract the framework for systems that were both ingenious and generous. The title of one of these systems became the synonym of all that is inspirational: Utopia, itself a work of genius, written by Thomas Moore, the Chancellor of Henry VIII, King of England.

The European spirit signifies being conscious of belonging to a cultural family and to have a willingness to serve that community in the spirit of total mutuality, without any hidden motives of hegemony or the selfish exploitation of others. The 19^th century saw feudal ideas being opposed and, with the rise of a national spirit, and nationalities asserting themselves. Our century, that has witnessed the catastrophes resulting in the unending clash of nationalities, must attempt and succeed in reconciling nations in a supranational association. This will safeguard the diversities and aspirations of each nation while coordinating them in the same manner as the regions are coordinated within the unity of the nation.”

If the Marxists wanted to bring about world government they should have infiltrated the British Empire. It was worldwide, contained all the races and resources of humanity and was controlled by a central authority. But far from encouraging the British Empire they worked hard to destroy it. Ramon Mercander killed off the Marxist plan for world government when he buried an ice axe in the head of Leon Trotsky in August 1940. His employer, Joseph Stalin, believed in “socialism in one country” – just like his ally of the time Adolf Hitler. Far from being a Marxist conception the European Union is the culmination of two millennia of cultural development; a political and ultimately a spiritual union with the potential to of feed, defend and preserve our civilization.

It’s a funny old world

We have all heard outlandish theories that are supposed to explain what is really happening in the world. They are usually based on the idea of a deliberate conspiracy and they are so popular that they have their own magazines and websites. The first rule of conspiracy theory is that nothing is what it seems to be. Plane crashes are never the result of mechanical failure or pilot error but always due to sabotage. And assassinations are never the work of a lone psychopath but always organized by a team of professionals working for one of more of the intelligence agencies.

These ideas become entrenched over the years, and when somebody disagrees with them they are looked upon as a heretic. The Kennedy assassination has been described as the mother of all conspiracy theories. The Warren Commission was thoroughly conducted but more than forty years later a Fox News poll showed that 66% of Americans thought that there had been a conspiracy while 74% thought that there had been a cover-up.

One of the persistent fallacies is that everyone is Jewish. This accusation is made against; Churchill, Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, Ataturk, Rupert Murdoch, the old Queen Mother and Tony Blair. But people are not necessarily Jewish just because we don’t like them. On the other hand Ferdinand Lassalle the father of German National Socialism was a Jew; and so was Harold Soref who was a standard bearer at Mosley’s great prewar Earls Court rally and one of the first Tory MPs to defy Central Office by opposing non-European immigration into the UK.

Paranoia is contagious and a good conspiracy theory can go viral. Seemingly rational human beings who hold down regular jobs and read the Daily Mail suddenly start believing that George W Bush organized 9/11; that the Moon landing was staged in Arizona and that Elvis is working in Starbucks. Official enquiries do nothing to disabuse them because they believe that government ministers and high court judges are all part of the conspiracy.

Conspiracy buffs believe that almost every prominent person who has died in recent years was bumped off. They were therefore unfazed when British intelligence officers were killed in the helicopter crash of 1994, and when the Polish president Lech Kaczynski was killed in the air crash in 2010. The trouble is that governments do knock off their opponents from time to time and intelligence agencies are often staffed by criminals and lunatics. We should also remember that Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Hitler’s chief of military intelligence, was a British agent, and that the Cambridge Five;  Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean. Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross were senior British civil servants and KGB spies. As Margaret Thatcher said when she fell from power: “It’s a funny old world.”

There is no Alternative

After two years of coalition government Britain’s economy is still in trouble. Unemployment and inflation are stable but we are still spending much more than we collect in taxes. We currently have a massive deficit of £126 billion.

The government can tinker with taxation and raid pension funds but it has no control over the cost of imported oil, gas and food. At the same time our exports are undercut by Chinese and Indian goods made by workers earning a fraction of our wages. Businesses cannot expand because the state-subsidized banks are still undercapitalized: since the financial crisis of 2008 lending rules have been tightened and credit is effectively frozen.

Attempts to levy VAT on takeaway food and holiday homes have met with massive opposition. The Labour Party want to tax the rich and the Tories want to cut benefits to the poor. But there are not enough people at either end of the social spectrum to balance the books. Most people are not rich or poor; they are the struggling middle class that are trying to pay their mortgages and hang on to their jobs. The government might trim £10 billion off the welfare budget and squeeze another £10 billion in taxation but they will still have a massive budget deficit. The only solution is to stop spending so much money. This would not necessarily result in a reduction in services. Crime has actually gone down since police budgets were cut.

Our armed forces should be structured for self-defence and we should expand the Anglo-French Defence Treaty to include the rest of the EU. But the biggest drain on our resources is the upkeep of those who have never worked and are determined not to. Not the genuine unemployed who are looking for work, or the sick or disabled who are unable to, but those home-grown and imported parasites who are content to live on handouts. A drastic revision of welfare payments would start a stampede to get out of the country. The airlines would do a roaring trade flying home foreign scroungers and our native work-dodgers would find a job if the alternative was starvation. This may sound harsh but if we do not reduce spending and borrowing the pound will depreciate and the Welfare State will collapse.

NR Five Questions answered by Arlette Baldacchino

We asked our readers five questions; Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could direct government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to me remembered?

So far we have had replies from John Bean, Robert Edwards, me (Bill Baillie), Michael Woodbridge, Eddy Morrison and Robert Best. Here is Arlette Baldacchino of the Viva Malta website. http://www.vivamalta.org/

We are still looking for replies, not just from writers and ‘intellectuals’ but from anyone with something to say, Please send your replies to:  nationrevisited@gmail.com

Who are you?

My name is Arlette Baldacchino and I am one of 5 siblings born to a Scottish-Maltese father and a German-Maltese mother, making me as European as I am Mediterranean. I live in Malta, a small island in the Mediterranean where culture and tradition, together with strong family values are the foundations on which we build our future. As time went by, I started to realize that the same beliefs that shaped my life were changing, and as a mother I knew that the legacy I inherited from my ancestors was completely different to that which we are passing on to the next generation.

What do you believe in?

I believe that I have the right to Be.

To be serene in my environment; to be proud of my achievements and to strive for more, seeking within to find the strength we didn’t even know existed.

I believe in securing a future for our children, one that is not merely as noble as that of our forefathers, but better. A future anchored in tradition and improved with the advancement of science and technology.

I have the greatest respect for Mother Nature, for the earth and the cosmos, and I draw strength from the power of elements: the full moon, a roaring fire, and the waves crashing onto the shore in a splendid display of raw energy.

Politically I believe that the future is beyond left and right and that if we are to preserve our birthright we must put aside petty differences and seek what unites us. We must learn from the mistakes of the past, and close ranks to work together for a future that unites all people from a European background wherever they are, from Ireland to Vladivostok and beyond.

If you could direct government policy what would you do?

I would secure our borders and put an immediate end to all non-European immigration. This would be followed by a repatriation programme to send all foreigners back to their homelands.

Just as important would be a complete overhaul of the educational system and a similar exercise in mass media. Our children are growing up in a world that burdens them with guilt for the perceived sins of their forefathers coupled with an admiration for anything foreign and “exotic”. This is wrong and damaging, and if we really want to implement change, we must start with our children for it is these youngsters who will direct government policy eventually.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

I am proud of the fact that I act on my beliefs. In 2005 I co-founded a website and forum to raise awareness of the problems I have highlighted above. We also use this website to offer an alternative source of news and educational articles that the mainstream media does not cover, or worse, hides.

I am a proud activist and mother, and I practice what I preach, whether political, cultural or spiritual. I am a committed animal lover, a vegetarian and I am also teetotal.

I have very few regrets, mostly because when I am wrong I apologies and learn from my errors.

How would you like to be remembered?

I suffer no delusions and know that I am loved and hated in equal measure, so I will be remembered exactly as I am living. However with those I care for, I would like to be remembered as one who offered a safe haven; a sacred spot where souls meet to rest and nest, safe in the knowledge that their secrets are kept and their vulnerabilities respected. I am a loyal and brutally honest woman, and for all that it’s worth, that is how I will be remembered.