Nation Revisited # 194 December 2022

Hurrah for the Blackshirts

The 'Daily Mail' has been obsessed with Fascism since January 1934 when Lord Rothermere published an article headlined "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" in praise of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. His support was withdrawn when J Lyons & Co, the McDonald's of its day, threatened to stop advertising. Now, nearly 90 years later, the Daily Mail is still covering fascist activities.

Andy Weatherhead, an independent councillor for Folkestone and Hythe has been thrown out of the Tory Party for having once belonged to the New British Union. He regrets his involvement with the NBU which he says he joined in a spirit of inquiry. Tory Chairman Nadhim Zahawi accused the NBU of being racist and antisemitic, but this is not true. They may be nostalgic and theatrical but they are not racists. In their policy statement they say:

Immigration into Britain will be strictly controlled and those immigrants who are work-shy, involved in crime, anti-social behaviour and support for terrorism will be deported in double-quick time. We have no wish to persecute those of whatever race or religion who are law-abiding, hard-working and who contribute to Britain's economy. Regaining control of our borders will reduce racism and violence and so restore "Britain for the British", "British jobs for British Workers" and "British houses for British People." 

It's unfair to pick on Andy Weatherhead when countless Labour councillors and MPs have extreme left-wing backgrounds. He should be judged on his performance as a councillor.

Another NBU member in the news is 67-year-old Clive Jones, a retired maths and physics teacher, who claims to have fathered 140 children by artificial insemination. Jones admits to being a proud fascist but denies being a racist. The 'Daily Mail' is worried that his political opinions may be passed on to his children; a misguided view held by Arnold Leese who thought that politics were influenced by ethnic origins. They also fail to distinguish between Fascism, which extols culture, and National Socialism, which is based on Race. 

Opinions: Originally published in Heritage and Destiny May-June 2020

The Channel 4 television series on the death of Diana Spencer has revived interest in conspiracy theories. She died in a car crash and there's no evidence of foul play, but that doesn't stop imaginative tongues from wagging. 

There are as many opinions as there are people but they tend to fall into recognised catagories. People who support the status quo are called conservatives, those who want to change the System are called revolutionaries, and those who want to tear down society and start again are called anarchists.

But there's another group that seems to be growing. They don't know what they want but they are convinced that nothing is what it seems and that there's a hidden plan behind everything. These are the conspiracy theorists who think that 9/11 was a put-up job, and that every assassination was done by somebody other than the acknowledged assassin. Some of these theories are ingeniously tailored to fit perfectly into a jigsaw of intrigue.

Their favourite fantasy involves the CIA, Lee Harvey Oswald, JF Kennedy and Jack Ruby. This story is fascinating because Kennedy was a liberal, a Catholic and a serial adulterer, Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist, or at least an ex-communist, and Jack Ruby was a gangster and a Jew. All the elements of a good plot; sex, politics, religion and organised crime, all in one package.

There are people who don't believe the Americans got to the Moon in 1969. They think that the Moon landing was an elaborate hoax designed to fool the Russians. And there are others who are convinced that no Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. There's no limit to the fantastic nonsense that people believe in, and there's no point in trying to reason with them.

When British troops entered the gates of Belsen in 1945 they found thousands of dead and dying people. Our soldiers were not politicians engaged in propaganda and they had no reason to lie about what they had seen. There is no doubt that great numbers of people died in the camps during the war, but the Holocaust deniers are as unreasonable as the Zionists who try to justify their brutal ill-treatment of the Arabs by constantly reminding us of Jewish suffering during the war. The truth is that the 'master race' theory and the 'chosen people' myth are very similar ideas based on racial supremacy and the denial of human rights.

The far-right thinks that non-Europeans were brought here to undermine the white race. That's certainly one of the consequences of immigration but they were originally brought here to provide cheap labour for our booming postwar industries. Our greedy and shortsighted politicians never considered the long term effects of mass migration. As a result we are critically short of housing, school places, and hospital beds. If they had been working to a grand design they might have done a better job.

There are undoubtedly some deceptions. The invasion of Iraq was based on a pack of lies, and so is the campaign against Iran. But most politicians are too stupid for hidden agendas, too cowardly for intrigue, and too selfish for ideology. Most of them just follow the party line.

The Great Replacement

When British servicemen came home from WW2 our population soared, but we were still short of labour. This shortage of workers was met by immigration, first from the West Indies, and then from Africa and Asia. This importation of Afro-Asians, combined with our low birth rate, is known as The Great Replacement. 

This transformation was avoided by the Ottoman Empire. They imported African slaves on a massive scale, but they castrated the males and killed any babies born to black women.

China's population is fast declining. Their One Child policy was abandoned years ago but Chinese women have come to enjoy their middle class lifestyle.

The Russians are facing the same population decline but they are trying to boost their birth rate by offering tax breaks and benefits to young couples.

When Ireland was dominated by the Catholic Church contaception was banned and parish priests encouraged young couples to have children. But those days are gone and Ireland is now as infertile as the rest of Europe.

It seems that people respond to poverty by worshiping God and having more children and they respond to prosperity by forsaking worship and having less children. 

One reason is that children in the poorest countries provide food and shelter for their parents instead of dumping them in old people's homes as we do in the affluent West.

Young white women could be persuaded to have more babies if they were given proper support; social housing, day nurseries, generous child benefits, maternity leave etc.

Immigration control requires international agreement. Brexit has shown that we lack the economic, military, logistic, and political power to do it on our own.

Some people think that mass migration doesn't matter: after all we are all God's children. That's true, an established nation with an ancient culture should be able to assimilate lots of different people. But there must come a point when the sheer volume of aliens overwhelms the native population. We have now reached that point.

   

Sanctions

The sanctions imposed on Russia by the West have resulted in an energy crisis that threatens to sink our economy. Economic warfare has always been self-destructive. When Oswald Mosley wrote 'Mosley: Right or Wrong' in 1961 South Africa was the target, now it's Russia but the message is just the same:

"To organise a boycott of a country's goods is to impose a blockade, and a blockade is an act of war. It is therefore very likely at some point to produce a shooting war. Nothing is more likely in the end to promote violence and bloodshed. Yet it is the professional pacifists who are often the prime movers in the boycott business.

Apart altogether from the morality of trying to change a country's political system from outside by force, who are the first victims to suffer from the results? The first victims are inevitably those whom the boycott is supposed to help, the weakest members of the community thus attacked. If the boycott of South Africa succeeded, the people who would suffer most would be the poorest blacks, who would lose their employment and could not much be assisted by an impoverished economy. The Union government could carry on indefinitely on a siege economy and those in the weakest position would suffer. So would the interests of peace.

We had the same sort of thing on an even greater scale in the thirties. Then a previous leader of the Labour Party appeared with the Chief Rabbi to demand a boycott of German goods in order to help Jews who were having a bad time in Germany. It cannot be denied that some Jews were so suffering. But equally it cannot be denied that such agitations contributed to the outbreak of war, because to the extent they were effective they were liable to produce a determination in the government so attacked to break out from isolation and blockade at any risk and any cost. And none will claim that the subsequent war did the Jews in Germany any good. On the contrary, they suffered terribly.

The lesson of it all is surely this: if you want to help people in another country. the last way to go about it is to promote boycott, blockade and other methods which lead to violence and even war. The Jews who were killed during the war might have been alive today if that problem had been solved, among others, by a constructive policy of European unity which found the space and means for all to live in peace and plenty."

 

Five Questions Answered # 19 Jeff Wallder

I 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 be remembered?

Replies have been received from: John Bean, Robert Edwards, Bill Baillie, Michael Woodbridge, Eddy Morrison, Robert Best, Arlette Baldacchino, Alexander Morana, Rufus, Pete Williamson, Claire Khaw, Jane Edwards, Vic Sarson, Jez Turner, Michael Walsh, Seth Tryssen, Ahmed, Nick Maybury, and Jeff Wallder.

Who are you?

My grandfather's father lived in the Rookery, the biggest slum in Britain, that covered the area around Covent Garden from the Strand to New Oxford Street. Open sewers ran down every street and crime, bad housing and disease were endemic.

My grandfather moved west to Soho where my father was born. My father moved west to Chelsea where I was born in the middle of WW2. We never went hungry but we weren't posh: in my young day there was still a healthy working class population in Chelsea. All gone now. The flat where we paid ten shillings a week rent now sells for £2 million to the super rich who, shall we say, did not grow up in Chelsea.

On Sunday evenings I used to listen to my father and uncles discussing politics: I listened spell-bound to their unusual combination of nationalism and liberalism. I gathered uncle Don had been a fascist before the war.

What do you believe in?

I don't like living in a community made up of large numbers of people from different cultures. But the one piece of advice my father gave that I always remember is: "There are good and bad in all races and you can't condemn the good along with the bad". That probably saved me going down some dark and dangerous paths.

My epiphany came at the age of 15 when I found a book in Chelsea Library titled 'Mosley - The Facts'. It consisted of writings and speeches made by Oswald Mosley, the more I read the more I liked. From then I began attending every Mosley meeting and march in London.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

I was present at the big one in 1962 when following a hugely successful Mosley meeting the front of the march was entering Parliament Square while the back of the march was just leaving Trafalgar Square. The Reds who wanted a Soviet Britain stood on the sides of Whitehall and spat at us. It was the proudest moment of my life.

But the size of the march put the wind up the enemy who used mob, money and media to block our advance.

If you could direct government policy, what would you do?

Mosley said there was no future for a small country that had lost its empire living on past glories. As an alternative he advocated Europe One Nation, not only the union of Europe but the European dominions overseas. In secret meetings with Juan Peron, three times elected President of Argentina, he even planned for South American countries of European descent to become part of his European superpower.

Mosley rejected both global capitalism and orthodox socialism based on state ownership and proposed a form of social syndicalism where all companies over a certain size would be owned corporately by the employees who worked for them and all profits would go to them alone.

Mosley also taught that 'diversity' meant division when what we needed was unity.

I believe in what he advocated then and with modern finesse continue to believe in it now as a policy to light the forward march of humankind.

How would you like to be remembered?

What would I like to be remembered for? To be remembered would be enough.

Mosley had brains, he had guts and an infinite charm. The world will not see his like again for many a long year.

Jeff Wallder (Union Movement + Friends of Mosley)

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Nation Revisited # 150 April 2019

April is the Cruellest Month.

The great American poet TS Elliot (pictured) began his epic poem, "The Waste Land" with the words "April is the cruellest month"; further on he states, "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down". Unfortunately, only Greg Johnson knows what Elliot was talking about.

This April will be cruel for those who were looking forward to Britain leaving the European Union. But having waited 46 years to 'get our country back', another two months is not so bad.

The Brexiteers are obsessed with the idea of nationality, but we Britons are Europeans by blood and culture. If we leave the EU we will probably rejoin in a few year's time. It's not a perfect institution but it's a step in the right direction - towards European unity.


Ten Points for Action

In 1973 Action Party (Union Movement) published its manifesto "Ten Points For Action".

1. Action to Build Houses

We want Action to solve the housing problem. It should be taken out of the hands of local authorities and entrusted to Government leadership, with powers to mass produce houses and flats like an "operation of war", turning out homes as arms and munitions were mass-produced in time of war.

2. Stop The Land and Rent Rackets

Give the Government powers to acquire land at pre-boom prices and to finance housing by low-interest charges on all non-essential and luxury buildings. Such action would bring down house prices and rents and at last provide good but cheap housing for all.

3. Stop Immigration - Start Repatriation

We want Action to ease the pressure on housing and other social problems (like the reintroduction of diseases unknown in Britain for hundreds of years) by stopping all further immigration and by repatriating all post-war immigrants to good jobs and conditions  in their homelands to which prosperity has been restored by using the surplus wealth and production of united Europe. But Britain could make a start now before the complete union of Europe is achieved.

Remember that we have been advocating this policy since 1952, long before any of those now saying the same sort of thing - without the means to carry it out.

4. A Choice in Education and Health

We want Action to build good schools, colleges, universities and hospitals, just as we would mass produce houses and flats. Parents should have a choice of schools for their children. We should not be taxed to provide those health services we will never use (maternity benefits for confirmed bachelors!) but free to pay in proportion to our requirements.

5. Free Speech - Law and Order

We want Action to ensure freedom of speech for everyone, guaranteed by the Government, which has a duty to maintain law and order in the State and to take effective action against mob violence, which today denies freedom of expression to any views of which its agitators disapprove. Let us maintain local police forces with their local knowledge and experience but let us supplement them with a highly-trained, well-equipped, mobile national police force, to put down organised crime and to maintain public order.

We would ensure freedom of the Press for both newspapers and the public. Any man who felt himself misrepresented in the Press should be guaranteed (by law) equal space to reply in the newspaper concerned. This would free the public of the expense of seeking justice through costly libel action and free the newspapers from the legal blackmail of a threatened libel action by some unscrupulous racketeer.

6. Capital Punishment

The death penalty should be restored to the statute book, to be used sparingly in the case of premeditated murder. The Court of Appeal should have a solemn duty to recommend a reprieve if in any doubt. The sentence should be carried out not by hanging but by a quick and painless injection, or by some other humane method.

7. Action in Europe

To put these policies into practice Britain must advance beyond the concept of a so-called united Europe and Common Market to which the Conservative Party has at last been converted and which the Labour Party still opposes. We must advance quickly to 'Europe a Nation', which we have advocated since 1948. We stand for a union of all Europe. our former white Dominions and southern Africa, a great "third force" in the world, independent of both America and Russia.

This "third force" should have a central government for its defence, the economy, finance and scientific development, with power to raise wages and control prices as production increases for a guaranteed market, insulated against unfair competition from the rest of the world.

We need a European army, equipped with the most modern weapons, to defend our continent against attack from any quarter. This should be financed on a European budget instead of each small country straining its economy to finance its own defence. 

8. National and Regional Governments

There should be independent national and regional governments for each European country and the main regions. This would enable England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and other European countries and regions to have their own parliaments for internal affairs and for the preservation of their national and regional cultures.

9. The Irish Problem

The ultimate solution to the Irish problem is the union of that country within a united Europe. But the bloodshed must first be brought to an end by a free vote on a county basis in each of the Six Counties and a subsequent rearrangement of the border. The bulk of the Catholic population in the North would then be ruled (as is their wish) from Dublin, with a lessening of present tensions, the IRA would lose its bases in the North and the British  Army would have a much shorter border to patrol against infiltration from the South. In this improved situation, agreement could more easily be reached on the eventual union of Ireland, with the rights of the then Protestant minority protected and guaranteed by European government. 

10. Government of National Union

We stand for a government of national union and effective action, drawn from the whole nation; from the professions and the trade unions, arts and science, the law, and the armed forces. Government elected by the whole people alone should govern. It should have power to lead the economy, raising wages and controlling prices as science increased production. Then we will have cooperation instead of conflict in industry.

We want Action to halt the 'brain drain' and to arouse a new spirit of national service in our British people, by relating all reward directly to skill, effort, initiative and responsibility. There should be "great reward for great service", crowned by higher pensions drawn from the wealth of the new economic system, as the reward in old age for those who had loyally served the nation throughout their lives.

Nearly fifty years later, many of these problems and their solutions remain the same, but some things have changed. The mass repatriation of immigrants is no longer possible because there are far too many of them; the old Dominions have found new markets; peace has been established in Ireland by the Good Friday Agreement; taxation has been modernised, and the Brexit fiasco has shown that a Government of National Unity is more relevant than ever. Oswald Mosley died in 1980 and the last issue of his newspaper 'Action' was issued in 1992. But his books are still in print and the ideology of Union Movement is propagated by the Friends of Mosley website: www.oswaldmosley.com 

Science to the Rescue

We are trashing our environment at such a rate that some scientists think that it's already too late to save the planet. The latest warning concerns the insects on which we rely to fertilise our crops. Most of the world's leaders now accept that something has to be done but the leader of the so-called Free World, Donald Trump, is reopening coal mines and drilling for gas and oil. He wants the coalminer's votes and he doesn't care about the consequences of pollution.

President Donald Trump will not be around when our planet is turned into a desert. But our children and our children's children will inherit seas full of plastic waste and land contaminated with chemicals. Trump will not be president forever. He may win the next election with his tax cuts and promises to stop immigration, but the founders of the United States had the good sense to limit a president to two terms.

Politicians have never been much good.  It has always been the scientists and engineers who have saved us in times of trouble. Politicians did nothing about the unsanitary conditions that existed in the nineteenth century. Contaminated water spread diseases until the great engineer Joseph  Bazalgette (pictured) provided clean water and efficient sewage.

It was scientists, not politicians, who gave us the Industrial Revolution, improved agricultural output and discovered modern medicines including antibiotics. And it was engineers who built the railways, conquered the oceans and the skies and eventually got us to the Moon. This resulted in pollution but it wasn't until the Fifties that governments have started to protect the environment.

If our World is to be saved it will be by scientists, not politicians. In fact, we may even develop computers that will consign parliaments to the scrapheap. Government by algorithm may seem far-fetched but it couldn't be worse than the shambles of Westminster. Computer programs driven by data are not prejudiced, they are not lazy, they cannot be bribed, and they always do their best. 

The Things They Say

British prime ministers are great liars. Harold Wilson devalued the pound but said that it would not effect "the pound in your pocket". He knew perfectly well that it would directly effect everyone but his calm, pipe smoking image was reassuring. Margaret Thatcher said that she understood peoples fears of being "swamped" by immigration. Tony Blair warned us of "weapons of mass destruction". And Theresa May starts every statement with the words "let me make this very clear, before deliberately confusing us.

Another trick is to damn us with faint praise. Before criticising the National Health Service, Nigel Farage paid tribute to the dedication of the medical staff. He would probably like to privatize the entire service but he dare not say so.

The Good Friday Agreement is another source of mendacity. Most people are thankful that peace has reigned for twenty years but there is a twisted minority that hates the Irish. They say that they want no borders in Ireland but given the chance, they would bring back border posts, guard dogs, and armed soldiers patrolling the streets. 

Immigration is another subject that turns men and women into liars. When they say that they value the contribution made by immigrants, they really mean that they would like to round them up and throw them out of the country. But such a statement would never be made.

They have twisted the truth so much that nobody knows what they are talking about. Dedicated racists masquerade as liberals and lifelong pro-Europeans, like Theresa May, pretend to be Brexiteers. If they were selling soap powder instead of policies they would be charged under the Trade Description Act. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover politicians.

In South America, in the good old days, they used to shoot lying politicians at regular intervals. This kept them on their toes until the next revolution. We are far too enlightened to follow their example but we must find a way of getting our representatives to tell the truth.

Opinions

Every month I invite those wishing to get off my mailing list to reply with the word 'delete'. This is a requirement of the Data Protection Act, So far, less than 10% have asked to be deleted. I thank the 90% who are interested in my opinions. 

Those who unsubscribe usually object to my allegedly liberal views. I am opposed to non-European immigration, but I am not obsessed by Race and I reject the Jewish conspiracy theory. The Deleted are usually patriots who have been radicalised by writers such as AK Chesterton (pictured). The following paragraph is from an essay he wrote for the British Union Journal in 1936 entitled "The Apotheosis of the Jew".

"It is now that the Jew stands on the verge of world domination. Accepted by society in its decadence he is able to move among highly placed people and pull political strings for the international financiers; in return, he can conspire with his fellow radicals all over the world to pull financial strings for the politicians. So long as his essential "Jewishness" is concealed there is no mischief which he cannot encompass by the subtle exercise of his power; no market he cannot 'rig', no government he cannot crash, no foreign relationship he cannot foul, and with skill and patience no war he cannot engineer. The whole world stretches before him as his promised land."  

AK Chesterton was right about the Jews being powerful in the USA and Europe but they hardly figure in Asia. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian and Indian businessmen are as greedy as their Western counterparts, but none of them is Jewish.

AK would have appreciated the story about the two Jews who were passing a Church. A large notice said: "Convert to Christianity and get £100. Abe went into the Church leaving Saul outside. When he returned, Saul asked him if he had converted. He said "yes, I am now a baptised Christian. "So what about the £100". "Money, money, money", said Abe, "that's all you Jews think about."

Of course, there are some readers that I don't want. Brenton Tarrant, the Australian terrorists who killed fifty worshippers in New Zealand, is not a White Nationalist hero, he is a psychopathic killer and a suspected Mossad agent.

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Alan Welfare RIP

Alan Welfare, a Former Union Movement member and lifelong Mosley supporter, died of a stroke at Weston-Super-Mare on February 28th. Here he is seen, in the background, at another funeral. He will be sadly missed by his comrades.

Jeff Wallder writes

Alan joined the Movement as a teenager in the 1960s and was an active member. He was always good company, great sense of humour and a gentleman. He did his best to prevent the decline of the country he loved and remained loyal to Mosley and to Europe until the very end. To him, we extend the full arm salute.

Terry Wilson writes

Alan was a dear friend and former neighbour who helped rejuvenate the League of St George. He had a great sense of humour and was loyal to Mosley, UM, the LSG and the vision of Europe a Nation. At demos when the reds shouted at him "Nazi", he would calmly reply: "I am not a Nazi, I am a Fascist." A true and loyal comrade. Our thoughts go out to Debbie, Tristan and Mikela.

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