Issue 95, September 2012

Nation Revisited

# 95, September 2012 

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

 

The London Olympics 2012
 

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

 

Real and Present Danger
 

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

We’re public guardians bold yet wary

And of ourselves we take good care

To risk our precious lives we’re chary

When danger threatens we’re not there

But when we see a harmless woman

Or little boys that do no harm

We run them in, we run them in

To show them we’re the beaux gendarme.

 

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

Global Capitalism
 

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

 

Batman and Mosley
 

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

Celebrating Diversity
 

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Selective Compassion
 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

The National Health Service
 

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

 

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

 

Paul Barnes RIP
 

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

Social Issues by Paul Barnes
 

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

Issue 94, August 2012

Nation Revisited 

# 94, August 2012. 

 

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
 

George Osborne has reversed his policy on fuel prices. This follows his climb-down on takeaway food, mobile homes and charity donations. In fact there’s nothing much left of his budget. The government’s attempt to reduce public spending is on hold and our borrowing is up on last year. We are in the same position as Greece except that we can’t ask the European Financial Stability Facility for a bailout. The ratings agencies have been too busy screwing the eurozone to notice us conjuring another £50 bn of “quantitative easing” but if they take away our triple-A rating the cost of borrowing will rise and things will get even worse.

We desperately need to stop wasting money but our borders are still wide open. If newcomers have got their elderly parents with them we will provide them with a pension. If they’ve got three, four, five or more kids we will find them school places and family allowances. If they are sick or unable to work we will look after them and if they suffer the slightest insult or inconvenience we will compensate them. Dave Cameron has promised to stop Greeks from coming to Britain to escape their economic problems but Third World immigrants are welcome. He can say what he likes about Greeks because they are Europeans but if he pledged to keep out blacks or Asians he could be arrested under the infamous Race Relations Act.

If our economy continues to stagnate and our deficit continues to grow we will be forced to stop taking in people from all over the world. Successive governments imported cheap labour to undercut our wages. They never worried about the views of the British people or the disastrous effects that mass immigration had on our cities. But they will be forced to stop the influx when we run out of credit and have to go cap in hand to the IMF.

 

The governments of several European countries are being forced to limit immigration by the rise of populist parties; but we Brits are unlikely to go down that road. Our salvation will come through our impending bankruptcy. It may cost us our standard of living and destroy the welfare state but every cloud has a silver lining.

Many law-abiding immigrants have settled here successfully and made a contribution but others have send money home or put it overseas bank accounts ready for their departure. In the age of cheap travel and instant communications people are used to flying around the world and keeping in touch with friends and family. We would not have to use force to get rid of them; if we stopped their benefits there would be a mad rush to get out of the country. 

 

No doubt Hilary Clinton will lecture us on human rights but our static economy simply cannot sustain this level of Third World immigration. The UK population now stands at a record 63.1 million. If we need extra labour there is plenty available near at hand without importing people from all over the world.

Foreign Policy
 

I was recently accused, by a regular reader, of supporting Saudi Arabia. Nothing could be further from the truth. I believe in freedom of religion and I deplore attempts by Nick Griffin and the English Defence League to demonise Muslims. But that does not mean that I support the reactionary and oppressive regime in Riyadh.

 

I have always opposed British involvement in Arab affairs. I was against Tony Blair’s invasion of Iraq and Dave Cameron’s intervention in Libya. And I warned against being dragged into war in Syria and Iran. I am opposed to British military forces being used for foreign adventures and I refute the government’s propaganda for our presence in Afghanistan. Far from safeguarding British security our occupation of Helmand province endangers British soldiers in the field and encourages terrorist attacks at home. As I write we have just lost another three soldiers.

 

I support the United Nations Organization because it does valuable work in the fields of medicine and education. We need an international forum to discuss border disputes before they become wars. And it’s important that the world agrees on basic standards of civilization. We were right to support UN Resolution 242 calling for Israel to withdraw to her internationally recognized borders and that should be the basis of our Middle East policy.

Britain is an arms producing nation and our defence industry is a massive employer of labour and a major taxpayer. In May of this year (2012) BAE signed a £1.9 bn deal with the Saudis for the sale of Hawk jet trainers. There is no shortage of such aircraft. The Saudis could have gone to the US, Russia, China or France but they chose to buy British. I support this deal because I want British plane makers to be employed; not because I like Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz or his medieval regime.

 

If Britain gave a positive lead in foreign policy our fellow Europeans might follow. But we cling to the Atlantic Alliance and France and Germany follow suit. The upheaval in the Arab world has ousted regimes that relied on American bribery. This must worry Israel. They knew where they were with the old dictators but they are not so sure about the Muslim Brotherhood. But whatever happens we should stick to diplomacy and not get involved in trade boycotts or military expeditions. The Americans appointed themselves policeman to the world; we should let them get on with it.

Public Opinion
 

The voice of the people is supposed to be the voice of God but it’s more likely to be the voice of big business speaking through the media of press and broadcasting. Public opinion is not a spontaneous thing it is the result of editorial direction by the bosses of newspapers and television stations. As I write Syria is in the news and most people would say that the civil war raging in that country is an attempt by the oppressed people to throw off a mad dictator. 

Many of the people holding this opinion know nothing about Syria. They could not tell you where it is situated, or what the population is, or anything about its history and culture. But they are perfectly sure that the rebels are right because they are supported by the West and that Bashir al-Assad is wrong because he is supported by Russia. This is not the result of any process of reasoning but simply because Rupert Murdoch says so.

 

Britain’s enemies are frequently mad. Napoleon was mad and so were Kaiser Bill and Adolf Hitler. They all went in for carpet-chewing and foaming at the mouth. And they were all driven by world domination and unmentionable sexual appetites. Fortunately we had sane, rational and happily married leaders like the Duke of Wellington, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. All of them pinnacles of Christian charity and humility. And now that we are threatened by the mad and evil Bashir al-Assad we have the heroic figure of William Hague to protect us. Proof, if any were needed, that God is indeed an Englishman. 

But Syria is not the only mystery to the great British public. Economics has got them completely flummoxed. They think that the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers were all down to the euro. And most of the misinformed readers of the popular press have absolutely no idea that the USA, Japan and the UK are as broke as Greece. When Dave Cameron makes his vainglorious pronouncements at European conferences the rest of the delegates fall about laughing; it’s only our newspapers that take him seriously. A prime minister who presides over a national debt of £1.2 trillion and the creation of £375 bn in “funny money” is hailed as another Francis Drake who will save us from the EU Armada.

The government is influenced by the media and their policies are decided in the boardrooms of international corporations. The popular press baffle their simple-minded readers with faux-patriotism. They support the Atlantic Alliance but never miss an opportunity to knock the EU. They blame it for immigration but we had millions of Third World immigrants long before we joined the Common Market in 1973. Enoch Powell made his “Rivers of Blood” speech way back in 1967. We have taken in an estimated million Poles since 2004 but they are industrious Europeans who are easily assimilated. The real and present danger is the continued influx of Afro-Asians who do not come from Europe but from the Commonwealth.

The Flame That Never Dies
 

Ideas, like matter, cannot be destroyed. For almost a century patriotic Britons have been fighting to build a political system based on social justice and opposed to atheistic communism. Mosley and the BUF made an impact in the 1930s but the most destructive war in human history put paid to their efforts. Mosley tried again after the war with Union Movement but people were enjoying the post-war boom and didn’t want to hear that we were about to go bust. Union Movement was wound up following the death of Oswald Mosley and his principle officers but it had already achieved its main objective when the UK joined the Common Market in 1973.

The fight against usury and Third World immigration was taken up by the National Front but they were against the Common Market and proposed a union of Britain with the White Dominions. The NF grew steadily until 1979 when Margaret Thatcher destroyed them by saying that she understood people’s fears of “being swamped” by immigration. They regrouped as the British National Party and won council seats throughout the country, a seat on the Greater London Authority and two seats on the European Parliament. But thirty years after the collapse of the NF they repeated the performance. They still have their two seats in Europe but their chances of retaining them are slim and they have been overtaken by Ukip; an angry mob of disgruntled Tories stuck in an imperial time warp with no concept of race or culture beyond the trans-Atlantic use of the English language.

 

When the Soviet Union collapsed after 70 years of communist repression the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church suddenly appeared as if by magic and carried on ministering to their flock as though nothing had happened. Such is the power of ideas. Communism couldn’t wipe out the faith of the Russian people and greedy Western materialism has not extinguished the flame that never dies. We are still here and our ideas are still relevant. 

Parties come and go but the urge to build a better Britain has never gone away. We are still being swindled by international finance and governed by corrupt politicians just as we were before the war when the blackshirts mobilized. Their flags and banners belong to the 20^th century but their defiant spirit lives and will never die. 

From Nation # 5 April 1974
 

(In 1974 the world was reeling from a fourfold increase in the price of oil resulting from the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Today we are still suffering from the Financial Crisis of 2008. Europe, America and Japan are deeply in debt but the proposed EU fiscal union is a step in the right direction. Self-sufficient blocs such as Europe, the Russian Federation and the North American Free Trade Agreement will not be at the mercy of the rate-fixers.)  

 

Britain now has a minority government; the Tories collected the most votes but Labour captured more seats and the Liberals run their usual third. Our economic crisis continues under the new administration. Like Ted Heath before him Harold Wilson knows only one way to deal with our crushing burden of debt; to run to the international pawnbrokers for a billion dollar loan. They still haven’t learned that it’s impossible to borrow your way out of debt. As soon as one loan is repaid another must be opened. We are working flat out but all of our money is going to the banks.

 

As the debt spiral brought down the government at home it also toppled that of France, but with a wave of the presidential hand Pompidou reinstated it.

In Italy the 36th government since the murder of Mussolini collapsed due to the same problem of debt. The Italians have tried almost every parliamentary permutation without success; their problems cannot be solved by shuffling parties.

 

Belgium has just put together another patchwork coalition and has to insist on compulsory voting to get her electors to bother. 

In Canada their minority government has barely survived a vote of no confidence.

The United States prepares to impeach her president who seems to have had his finger in every pie.

Japan faces a general strike and possible civil-war as her much-lauded economy breaks up.

In India the police are forced to fire on the desperate victims of food racketeering as Mrs Gandhi takes Tiffin with the Maharaja of Notsobad. 

Granny Golda Meir hangs on in Israel against the criminal lunatics of Likud and with a population disenchanted with military adventure.

The Irish government finds itself powerless to deal with a terrorist army that threatens both Dublin and Belfast.

Debt, inflation, chaos, murder, anarchy – this is the record of elective democracy in Britain and throughout the world. Democracy is supposed to be government of the people, for the people and by the people. It is in fact dictatorship of the people, for the bankers, by crooks, liars, fools and failures.

 

What’s left to negotiate?
 

Dave Cameron says that he wants to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the EU. But what’s left to negotiate?  We have opted out of the euro and the Schengen border agreement. We are only nominally in the EU and it’s difficult to see how we could loosen our terms of membership without leaving altogether. Of course that is exactly what the rightwing of the Tory Party want. They want us to negotiate the same deal as Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.

 

But even if we did we would still have to conform to international specifications that are based on the EU. We could not export anything in non-metric sizes so the idea of returning to the old weights and measures is a non-starter. 

The other factor is that many American and Japanese companies are based in the UK in order to gain access to the EU. If we quit the EU a lot of them would relocate to take advantage of the world’s biggest market.

 

We would not have to pay our dues to the EU but we would spend whatever we saved on new legislation. Thousands of specialized lawyers would be required to draft new regulations and the resultant confusion would clog up the courts for years.

 

There is already confusion about the various pan-European agreements that we are party to. The European Court of Human Rights was a post-war British initiative that is not part of the EU. And our military ties to NATO are endorsed by the Lisbon Treaty but are not governed by it. If Dave Cameron is serious about “repatriating powers to Westminster” he must quit NATO and tear up the Anglo-French Defence Agreement of 2010; this is the basis of our defence strategy. 

 

All of this can be done, at a price, but few of those who scream for independence have thought it through. Existing agreements allow us to import gas through the network of pipelines linking us to the mainland; electricity from the French national grid and freight via the channel tunnel. All of these contracts would have to be renegotiated if we quit the EU. We shouldn’t expect any improvement in jobs if the rightwing Tories get their way but there will be plenty of work for lawyers.

 

The North-South Divide
 

The UK press has resorted to the Herrenvolk theory to explain the European debt crisis. They point to the fact that Greece, Italy and Spain are in the south but they forget that many of the northern states have been in the same position.

 

The UK was rescued by the IMF in 1976 when Harold Wilson was handed £2.3 bn just in time to stop the Natwest Bank (RBS) from collapsing. That would be worth about £23 bn in today’s money. Gordon Brown sold half of Britain’s gold reserves in 1999 for the knockdown price of £3.5 bn and Dave Cameron has just issued another £50 bn in QE. Iceland was given $4.6 bn by the IMF in 2008. Latvia received 7.5 bn euros in 2008 and Ireland got 85 bn euros in 2010. There have also been massive internal bailouts by Sweden, Finland and Germany. 

 

The financial crisis in Europe is governed by the trade index not the cephalic index. And when Standard & Poor’s assess the wealth of nations they use calculators rather than cranial calipers. Every state in Europe has enjoyed good times and bad and every one of them have contributed to the sum total of European achievement. We will reform the economic system by adopting the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Oswald Mosley; not those of Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

 

The USA, Japan, the UK and Europe all have massive national debts, but China, Switzerland and the Gulf States have got so much money they don’t know what to do with it. Eventually there will have to be worldwide redistribution of capital, whether the international banks like it or not.                 

Who Runs the World?
 

Bob Diamond the disgraced former chief executive of Barclays is a Boston boy whose family name was originally O’Daimain. He has no Jewish connections but Marcus Agius the former chairman of Barclays is married to Katherine de Rothschild of the famous banking family. The Rothschilds have controlled Britain ever since Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli borrowed £4 million from them in 1876 to buy a majority interest in the Suez Canal. A policeman earned £4 per month in 1876.

In 1938 Captain Maule Ramsay MP exchanged angry correspondence with the Chief Rabbi of Scotland Dr Salis Daiches. Ismay Ramsay had made a speech to the Arbroath Business Club in which she accused the Jews of leading a communist plot to take over the world. Dr Daiches demanded that she name those Jews involved or withdraw the accusation. Captain Ramsey replied on his wife’s behalf:

The Jewish group concerning which the reference that Dr Daiches dislikes was made is, of course, the Third Communist International. Does Dr Daiches deny that that body works for world revolution? The Jewish complexion of that body is clearly set out in a booklet published on March 26, 1938, entitled ‘The Rulers of Russia’. It is written by the Rev Denis Fahey CSSP, and bears the imprimatur of the Archbishop of Dublin. It states that, of the 59 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1935, 56 were Jews (giving the names) and the remaining three, namely Stalin, Lobow and Ossinsky, were married to Jewesses. If that does not constitute, in Dr Daiches opinion, ‘a group of Jews working for world domination’, perhaps he will indicate what clearer definition he would suggest.

Captain Maule Ramsay trusted Denis Fahey’s information but senior members of the Catholic Church were not so sure. Archbishop John McQuaid wrote:

 

Dr Fahey will certainly not err in doctrine, but he is capable of making statements and suggestions that are not capable of proof by any evidence available to the censors. I have been obliged to watch carefully his remarks upon the Jews. He will frequently err in good judgment, and this error will take the shape of excerpts from newspapers as proof of serious statements, unwise generalizations and, where Jews are concerned, remarks capable of rousing the ignorant or malevolent. In his own congregation, Fr Fahey is not regarded as a man of balanced judgment. He is a wretched Professor, obscure and laborious.

 

Captain Maule Ramsay MP was imprisoned without charge in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B together with Oswald Mosley and 1500 other peace campaigners. He wrote the following sacastic poem on House of Commons notepaper on 4th September 1939 – the day after war broke out.
 

Land of dope and Jewry

Land that once was free

All the Jew boys praise thee

Whilst they plunder thee

Poorer still and poorer

Grow thy true-born sons

Faster still and faster

They’re sent to feed the guns

Land of Jewish finance

Fooled by Jewish lies

In press and books and movies

While our birthright dies

Longer still and longer

Is the rope they get

But – by the God of battles

‘Twill serve to hang them yet

 

Modern critics of the money power should remember that capitalists come in all shapes and sizes. The top ten richest people in the world according to Forbes magazine are:

Carlos Slim, Mexico, Telecoms, $73.5 bn

Bill Gates, USA, Microsoft, $53bn.

Warren Buffet, USA, Berkshire Hathaway, $47 bn.

Mukesh Ambani, India, Reliance Industries, $29 bn.

Lakshmi Mittal, India, Steel, $28.7 bn.

Lawrence Ellison, USA, Oracle Data, $28 bn.

Bernard Arnault, France, Fashion, $27.5 bn.

Elke Batista, Brazil, Oil & Gas, $27 bn.

Amancio Ortela, Spain, Retail, $25 bn.

Karl Albrecht, Germany, Aldi Supermarkets, $23 bn.

The only one with a Jewish connection is Lawrence Ellison. His biological mother was Jewish but he was brought up by Christians and does not practice the Jewish religion. And none of them are bankers. Warren Buffet sells financial advice but he only tips established companies and never speculates. Jews are undoubtedly influential in the media, show business and politics but they do not run the world. 

Crime and Punishment
 

Following allegations of false accounting, money laundering and rate fixing at Barclays the public might have expected prosecutions. None has been forthcoming but the full weight of the law has been brought to bear on former England captain John Terry who was accused of racially abusing fellow footballer Anton Ferdinand. Despite appearing to mouth racist obscenities John Terry who denied the charges was found not guilty after a five day trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

We seem to have got our priorities mixed-up. The Borders Agency has lost control of immigration and doesn’t know how many illegal aliens have slipped through the net. The FSA has clearly failed to regulate the banks. And a government committed to reducing the national deficit is actually spending more money. We can’t control our borders, our banks or our bureaucrats but we’ve got racial abuse under control.

 

We are reducing police manpower to save money but we are paying 775 members of the House of Lords £300 per day just for turning up. Lords are either appointed by the government for alleged services to the country or they are Bishops of the Church of England or descended from the Norman conquerors that ravaged Britain almost a thousand years ago. They have no real power but they can delay decisions made in the House of Commons. 

 

Attempts to reform the upper house have been blocked by the same irresponsible Tory rebels that are demanding our exit from Europe. If Dave Cameron doesn’t stand up to them they will bring down the coalition and return us to a lunatic Labour government.

Issue 90, April 2012

Nation Revisited

# 90, April 2012

Short-sighted Politicians
 

After six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan an opinion poll by ITN showed that 73% of people want to bring our troops home. But Dave Cameron insists that they stay for another two years to comply with the NATO timetable. In the past month we have seen pictures of American troops urinating on dead Taliban soldiers. We have had the Koran burning episode. And now a US Army staff sergeant has gone on a shooting spree resulting in the deaths of 16 innocent women and children. But Dave Cameron says that we must stay until “we finish the job.” 

After fifty years of mass immigration our politicians have began to notice a lot of dark faces on the streets. Very few MPs ever objected to immigration and most of them thought that it was a good thing. But now, with breathtaking hypocrisy, the Labour Party is accusing the Tories of not doing enough to control it.

For many years industrialists have warned that lack of apprenticeships would cause skill shortages. Now that we are short of engineers the government has started to address the problem. But why did it take so long?

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown borrowed as much money as they could for 13 years with hardly a squeak out of the Tories. They just went along with the insane borrowing and spending until the whole thing collapsed.

Our short-sighted politicians never noticed millions of immigrants pouring into the country or billions of pounds being wasted. A few of them dared to point out imminent dangers but most of them keep their heads down and their mouths shut. They were careful not to rock the boat and their only ambition was survival.

The electorate is never allowed to decide important issues. We were not asked if we wanted to go to war in 1914 or 1939. Nobody asked us if we wanted millions of Afro-Asian immigrants. And Tony Blair showed his contempt for public opinion when he made war on Iraq despite massive demonstrations for peace.  Our MPs serve their parties rather than their constituents and our cabinet ministers rely on their senior civil servants. We might as well appoint a government of technocrats as they have done in Greece and Italy. We should look to the world of commerce and industry for legislators rather than taking them from the ranks of MPs. There are a few honest and capable parliamentarians but far too many of them are drunks, cocaine addicts and wasters who would struggle to hold down a proper job.

Eating Grass
 

A British diplomat attending an Allied conference in Russia in 1941 wrote home that Stalin was planning the future division of Europe when Nazi gunfire could clearly be heard in Moscow. It seemed to our young emissary that Russia was already beaten but Joseph Stalin had other ideas. He had commissioned his scientist and statisticians to work out what materials were necessary to sustain the German war effort. They had calculated how much oil, coal, iron ore, food, nitrates and every other vital resource Adolf Hitler had at his disposal and how much he would need to win the war. Their conclusion was that Germany would run out of materials by the winter of 1944. Joseph Stalin was not a gambler or a blind optimist. He relied on scientific calculations rather than the empty rhetoric of the Nazis who put their faith in “blood and soil.”

Benito Mussolini’s invasion of Egypt was an attempt to seize the Suez Canal and starve Britain of fuel from the BP oilfields in Iraq. It was defeated at El Alemein by Allied forces under General Bernard Montgomery in November 1942. 

The surrender of Axis forces at Stalingrad three months later in February 1943 marked the end of their campaign to seize the Azerbaijani oilfields.  Millions of lives could have been spared if Adolf Hitler had ended his mad adventure following the annihilation of his forces by the Red Army. But he ignored the advice of his general staff and carried on until most of Europe lay in ruins.

On the other side of the world the Japanese had early successes against the Americans in the Philippines, against the Dutch in Indonesia and the British at Hong Kong and Singapore. But following their defeat at the Battle of Midway in 1942 the Japanese Imperial Navy was denied access to the Shell oilfields in Indonesia. They fought on for another three years but they could not match the awesome power of American manufacturing industry. 

Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo were defeated by economic reality. This is not something that can be shouted from balconies or used to inspire soldiers but those that ignore it are doomed to failure. The bravery and endurance of the Axis military forces counted for nothing when the oil ran out. WW2, just like WW1, was won by those who controlled the oil.

When I asked a young BNP supporter how an isolated Britain protected by tariffs would feed herself he said: “We don’t care; we will eat grass if necessary.” If only these people would read their history they would know that brave words and noble intentions are not enough. Bravado did not impress the Allied leaders during the war and it will not feed hungry Britons shut out of international trade by retaliatory sanctions and embargoes. Patriotism and leadership are vital assets but national survival in war or peace is a matter of economics. 

Boycott their newspapers
 

There’s no doubt that we are ruled by capitalists who seek to maximize profits but the conspiracy theorists go too far with their accusations. The British Empire was undermined by the rise of Japan and the USA but they blame its collapse on Jews and Freemasons who actually helped to create it. Immigration is about cheap labour but they think that it’s a plot to destroy the white race. And the banks crashed because they overtraded not because of a conspiracy by bankers.

These ideas came from The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a blueprint for Jewish world domination that originated in Tsarist Russia. Its message was taken up by Arnold Leese author of The Jewish War of Survival who considered the mass murder of the Jews before the war. It was continued by AK Chesterton founder of the National Front who wrote a glowing biography of Oswald Mosley called Portrait of a Leader; only to denounce him two years later. And finally by BNP founder John Tyndall who stuck to the same policies from The Authoritarian State in 1962 to The Eleventh Hour in 1988.

According to the conspiracy theorists the Jews are responsible for most of the great crimes of history. They are supposed to have killed prominent people from JFK to Princess Diana. They are accused of causing the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11. And they are blamed for manipulating the markets and wrecking national economies. But the Jews are not all powerful. They are influential in the UK and the USA but less so in the emerging economies of Asia. 


Newspapers like The Guardian and The Independent regularly carry objective reports on the Middle East. The Israelis have lost Turkey and Egypt as allies as a result of their brutal occupation of Palestine. And demographic changes in the United States mean that Israel will not be as important to an increasingly Mexican electorate as it was to white America.

It’s not surprising that many conspiracy theorists also believe in astrology. Both systems are an attempt to bring order to the chaos of life. They explain the inexplicable and conform to the binary logic of good and evil. What the far-right calls the “liberal elite” are the bogey men who frighten children and the ghosts of popular imagination.

But the world is not run by conspirators meeting behind closed doors. It is governed by elected politicians meeting in democratic assemblies and influenced by media moguls openly promoting global capitalism; men such as Rupert Murdoch, Lord Rothermere, Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay and Richard Desmond. We should boycott their newspapers and TV stations but many people depend on a daily dose of globalist propaganda with their breakfast. Voltaire said: “It is difficult to free fools from the chains that they revere.” Bad habits can only be broken if there is a genuine desire to change. People manage to give up addictive drugs like nicotine, alcohol and heroine; it must be possible to give up newspapers.

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to…
 

The UK Independence Party belongs to the Freedom and Democracy Group in the EU Parliament. This includes an independent from Belgium, the Danish Peoples' Party, True Finns, Movement for France, People’s Orthodox Rally from Greece, Lega Nord from Italy, Order & Justice from Lithuania, Netherlands Reform Party, the Slovak People’s Party, and United Poland.

The BNP belongs to the Alliance of European National Movements. This includes the Front National from France, Democratie Nationale from Belgium, Fiamma Tricolore from Italy, Jobbik from Hungary, Partido Nacional Renovador from Portugal, Moviemento Social Republicano from Spain and Nationaldemokraterna from Sweden. 

A third group of nationalists and separatists called the European Free Alliance is comprised of the Scottish Nationalists, Plaid Cymru, New Flemish Alliance, Corsican Nation, Galician National Bloc, and Human Rights for Latvia.

One of the strangest parties is Jobbik of Hungary. They hate the EU but instead of retreating into a national redoubt they want to form an alliance with the Turks and the peoples of central Asia. They have revived the Turanist movement that inspired the Turkish Republic of 1923. Strange bedfellows indeed for parties like the BNP that are implacably opposed to Turkey’s application to join the EU.

Gabor Vona has called for Hungary to quit the EU to form a Turanic alliance. He posted on his website: “As Jobbik party president I am now taking the first step by declaring here in Hungary, and before the whole world: I am Hungarian, grandson of Attila! Come what may, I am ready!”

Hungary’s link with Asia is tenuous but Gabor Voda and his followers have constructed a political movement around the myth. The American historian and anthropologist Lothrop Stoddard wrote about Pan-Turanism: “In practical politics the vital thing is not what men really are, but what they think they are. This simple truth, so often overlooked, is actually of tremendous import. It gives to many a riddle otherwise insoluble.”

Jobbik and the BNP are equally deluded about their national identities. Stephen Oppenheim has shown in his book The Origins of the British that our ancestors came from mainland Europe much earlier that we thought but that doesn’t alter the fact that we are closely related to our neighbours.  And although their language came from Asia the Hungarians are more closely related to the Austrians than to the Mongols. We were driven into our respective territories by climate change and migration but we have never been isolated. Attempts to rewrite European history to a nationalistic agenda will not succeed. Blood and culture determine who we are and those who look and act like Europeans are Europeans.

The Warmongers
 

Tony Blair didn’t hesitate to support the Americans when they attacked Afghanistan in 2001. He sold the idea to the British people that denying al-Qaeda terrorists the use of bases in Afghanistan would protect us from attack. But far from saving us it resulted in terrorist atrocities in London. Undeterred he lied to parliament and the nation in order to go to war with Iraq. He compiled his infamous “dodgy dossier” of misinformation about Iraq’s possession of missiles that could threaten Britain. In fact Iraq had no such missiles. As a result of the first Gulf War and ten years of crippling sanctions they had no air force and their army was desperately short of equipment. But with the Tories backing him all the way Tony Blair sent our soldiers to fight and die for the madman George W Bush.

The homicidal Blair/Brown regime sank in a sea of debt in 2010 but it was replaced by a coalition of Tories and Liberal Democrats that is just as bloodthirsty. Dave Cameron sent the RAF to support the rebels in Libya who are now desecrating the graves of our war dead. This was another American production designed to enforce the Pax Americana on a formerly independent country. We were treated to the ridiculous spectacle of William Hague strutting about the world stage. It must be remembered that he led his party to a landslide defeat in the 2001 general election. He is a proven failure with Napoleonic pretentions of military strategy.

Fresh from the carnage of Libya the little Tory warmonger now threatens Syria and Iran.  David Cameron has revived Tony Blair’s fictitious weapons of mass destruction; now said to be aimed at us from Damascus and Tehran. And once again we are being led into war through a fog of deceitful propaganda. Syria and Iran are no threat to Britain. We are simply following American foreign policy. President Barack Obama is carrying on where the Republicans left off. US policy remains the same; they seek total hegemony and will not settle for anything else. Any state that hesitates to obey American orders will be invaded and Britain will automatically join in the slaughter. 

The Tories are famous for their flag waving; they like singing “Land of Hope and Glory” and standing theatrically to attention for the national anthem. But their patriotism is an act to disguise their craven submission to America. Our young men and women are not dying in Afghanistan for any British interest but in defence of American foreign policy. The guests on the UK television programme Question Time were recently asked if we should pull out of Afghanistan after the deaths of six of our soldiers. The Tory MP Eric Pickles said that we must stay until 2014 to “finish the job.” Will Self said that we should pull out now. The rest of the panel waffled about supporting our troops – as though we don’t support them. But nobody admitted that it was not our decision; that our troops are there under NATO command and will only be withdrawn with American permission. It’s time that we started telling the truth.

League Sentinel
 

The front page of the Winter 2011 issue of League Sentinel carries a picture of a Santa Claus figure called the Holly King wishing us “A Merry Yule, and a Wish Fulfilled New Year.” League Sentinel is published quarterly by the League of St George, a lobby group founded in 1974 by former members of Mosley’s Union Movement.

The editorial criticizes the Home Secretary for banning the Muslims against Crusades group. The editor rightly points out that “anti-terror” legislation can be used against any perceived enemy of the state. He says: “We remember 18B.” He also supports the bailing of the Croydon tram ranter Emma West so that she could be with her children at Christmas. Finally he remembers comrades who are in the armed forces or in prison over Christmas. Like all the articles in this magazine the editorial is unsigned.

An article entitled “Britons in Poverty” compares hardships at home with the foreign aid that we give to India. This was written before the ungrateful Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee dismissed our donation as “peanuts”. The writer comments:

“Incredibly, Britain will continue to pay £1.4 billion in aid to India, which itself can afford to donate £3.5 billion in aid to Africa! India also has its own nuclear programme and a space project costing £2 billion a year.” 

“News around Britain” features the BNP conference in Liverpool; the clandestine visit of former NDP leader Gunter Deckert to London, and Kellogg’s announcement that their cornflakes are Halal and therefore suitable for Muslims.

A double page article covers “The Middle East” and questions the democratic credentials of the new rulers thrown up by the Arab Spring.

“Look Back at History” tells the story of the New Party and the founding of the BUF.

“Overseas News” reports on the progress of the Greek LAOS party, the German NDP and the Belgian Vlaams Belang. Unfortunately these are petty nationalist parties that are strangely out of place in a publication supporting “Europe a Nation.”

Finally a nostalgic article entitled “Yuletide and The Winter Solstice” recalls the good old days around the pagan campfire. 

League Sentinel also advertises books and pamphlets from Steven Books and allied political organizations. It’s an interesting publication but the absence of bylines is an irritation. And it could do with a letters page; letters to the editor often tell you as much about a publication as the actual articles. 

League Sentinel is available by subscription only from League Enterprises 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3XX. www.leaguestgeorge.com
 

The National Front
 

The breakup of the BNP has reinvigorated the National Front. The NF was founded in 1967 and peaked in the 1979 general election when they got 191,719 votes. Since then they have been eclipsed by the BNP but they now have a new website and they are standing in the forthcoming local elections.

They have always stood for stopping non-white immigration, starting repatriation and getting Britain out of the EU; or the Common Market as they still call it. Both factions of the BNP now support European Confederation but the NF is even opposed to that nebulous proposal. They are still dreaming of resurrecting the Commonwealth.

They intend to pay for their programme by slashing foreign aid, stopping payments to Europe, and scrapping the race relations industry. The foreign aid budget for 2012 is £8.4 billion, UK payments to the European Union are £6.4 billion, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission cost £60 million. Nobody knows what it would cost to repatriate millions of immigrants but it would certainly be more than £15 billion. To put government spending in perspective we raised £598 billion in taxation in 2011 but actually spent £711 billion. We borrowed the outstanding £113 billion.  

A National Front government would pull out of the EU and the UN but without an international forum it’s not clear how they would talk to the countries concerned. If they are thinking of invading them to enforce repatriation they would have to take on India and China with their huge populations and massive standing armies. That’s even more than the gung ho supporters of the NF would contemplate. 

An isolated Britain would not have the logistic, military, economic or political power to repatriate millions of people. The NF’s policies are contradictory and self-defeating. The only way we are ever going to achieve immigration control and voluntary resettlement is through the EU.  The major states of Europe have all strengthened immigration controls; even Sweden and the Netherlands. But President Barack Obama has attacked Arizona’s border controls as: “threatening to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.” He also supports an amnesty for illegal immigrants.

The NF was founded by misguided patriots who clung to imperialism long after its sell- by date. Insular nationalism was finished in 1948 when Mosley dumped it in favour of European Union. He realized that pre-war policies that depended on captive imperial markets were no good after the war. We can achieve a degree of independence by uniting with our European neighbours but on our own we would be swallowed up by America. They already command our armed forces in NATO and use the “special relationship” to manipulate our foreign policy; it would be a small step for them to take us over completely.

Dangerous philosophies
 

As the worldwide recession continues to bite the search goes on for a better political system. Many ideas have been tried but all have been found wanting.

The Conservatives want to keep things as they are. Margaret Thatcher is the best known leader of the Conservative Party but she was really a revolutionary. Her attack on the trade unions and her determination to sell off social housing went against the pragmatic tradition of her party. Most Conservatives are happy to maintain the status quo; the monarchy, the Established Church and the Atlantic Alliance.

The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats tried to give everyone equality of opportunity. To a great extent they succeeded but the gains of recent years could be lost if we do not control non-European immigration. The GDP of the UK is sufficient to look after our own population but we simply cannot feed, house, educate and medicate the surplus population of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

The Marxists are right that economic forces govern history but they are wrong to ignore mankind’s spiritual needs. We are more than economic units. Leonardo da Vinci didn’t only capture the likeness of a woman when he painted the Mona Lisa and Beethoven didn’t just write a piece of music when he composed the Choral Symphony. Such great works of art go beyond materialism; they are in themselves supernatural.

The fascists put the good of the state above personal freedom but they were in too much of a hurry. We will never know what fascism might have achieved but for the war.  Mussolini transformed Italy into a modern industrial state with the world’s first motorways and a high speed trains. Fascism was destroyed by the war but its unique combination of science and vitality remains an example of what can be done.

The Nazis saw everything in terms of race and paid the price for believing their own propaganda. Adolf Hitler paid homage at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte before he invaded Russia. But it’s a shame that he didn’t copy the Emperor’s practice of embracing conquered nations as fellow Europeans and putting one of his cousins on the throne. Instead he allowed his psychopathic henchman Heinrich Himmler to post proclamations in Russian threatening to fill anti-tank ditches with women and children.

Nationalism based on military might is a dangerous philosophy. When German forces invaded the Ukraine they were greeted as liberators but within a short time Soviet citizens were flocking to join the partisans. The same thing happened to the Americans in Afghanistan. The Afghanis might not have liked the Taliban but after ten years of NATO occupation they liked the Americans even less. Political ideologies must be acceptable to succeed; imposed systems only last as long as conquering armies are prepared to stay.