Nation Revisited # 184 February 2022

The Monarchy

Wnen Barbados became a republic in November 2021 the Queen was replaced as head of state by Sandra Mason, a Barbadian woman. This was accepted in the UK without protest. How different it was in 1957 when Lord Altrincham criticised the monarchy and got his face slapped by Philip Burbidge, a veteran of the First World War, a retired Merchant Navy officer, and an active member of the League of Empire Loyalists.

Philip's fine of one pound was immediately given back to him by a member of the public. Today, he would be treated more harshly for striking a peer and standing up for Britain.

The LEL was absorbed into the National Front in 1967 but their magazine Candour is still published by the AK Chesterton Trust under the editorship of Colin Todd, their website is managed by Rob Black.  www.candour.org.uk 

Most Britons support the monarchy, but I find myself in the same camp as Charles Maurras of Action Francaise. He was an agnostic and a republican but his movement strongly supported the Catholic Church and the monarchy because he thought they were good for France. I have my doubts about the Church of England and the House of Windsor but they are pillars of stability in an ever-changing world.

Unfortunately, the antics of Prince Andrew have tarnished the Royal image. The Queen is still popular but she is 95 years-old and when she dies the future of the dynasty will be in doubt, 

The latest YouGov poll on 8 and 9 March 2021 showed that 63% of those surveyed accross the UK wanted to keep the monarchy, while 25% preferred an elected head of state.

Plus ca Change 

In1974 the UK was in turmoil following the stock market crash of 1973. This resulted in two general elections. In March of that year I listed five objectives in my duplicated newsletter 'Nation'. Forty-eight years later we are going through another economic crisis and I still have the same objectives, except for the point about quitting the United Nations. I now think we need an international forum to disguss global issues such as the refugee crisis, and we should take advantage of our seat on the UN Security Council.

(1) Link all overseas aid (£300 million in 1973, £14.5 billion in 2020) to repatriation. If they want our money they must co-operate with the resettlement of their people.

(2) Tax the really rich. Tax them until it hurts. Tax them into exile. The old Tory lie that we need the super-rich has worn threadbare with the telling. Make them pay through the nose.

(3) Rethink the whole mess of state handouts; Arts Council grants to mediocre theatre companies, the futile Race Relation industry, and improvement grants to millionaire landlords.

(4) Abolish the Civil List. Most Britons support the monarchy, fair enough, but the Royal family are amongst the richest people in the world, must the institution cost us millions a year?

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

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

Dying For Democracy

(When Eddy Morrison ran the National Front website he occasionally reprinted  articles from Nation Revisited. The following piece wich appeared in 2010 warned of the folly of our intervention in Afghanistan. Now, eleven years later, the Taliban have won and imposed their medieval regime on the whole country. For no good reason we wasted the lives of 456 British servicemen in Afghanistan and suffered hundreds wounded in body and mind).

Politicians of all parties support the Afghan war and accept the slaughter of British and Allied soldiers. As each young man is killed they say: "He died doing the job he loved" and "He was helping to make Afghanistan a better place." But the warmongers cannot convince us that there is any point in this aggression.

Britain's new top general Sir David Richards has predicted that we will be in Afghanistan for thirty or forty years. And NATO's Lieutenant General Stanley McChristal has called for more men.

The general praised the UK's 8,000 plus force and said more would be welcome. He told the BBC, "I don't know a general who would not like to see more troops, particularly forces as good as the British." (Daily Mirror 13/06/09)

We can therefore expect to sustain heavy losses in a war that we will eventually quit just as we did in Iraq. But before we pull out we will kill thousands of Afghans and risk bloody retaliation on the streets of our major cities. Far from ensuring domestic security we are endangering ourselves by declaring war on Muslims after letting millions of them into our country.

Once again a blinkered government has gone to war without a plan. They imported cheap labour and created alien ghettos without thinking of the consequences. Their foreign policy consists of following America and their economic policy is tied to 'free markets' and 'open borders'.

City Minister Lord Myners and London Mayor Boris Johnson have attacked EU plans to outlaw hedge funds (Guardian 21/07/09). And Home Sectetary Alan Johnson says that he doesn't lay awake at night worrying about the population hitting 70 million (Daily Mail 16/07/09).

We are fighting to impose our failed system on a country that has never done us any harm. The 9/11 terrorists were not Afghans, they were Arabs who trained and plotted in the United States. We are waging war to prop up Hamid Karzai's corrupt regime of misogynists, warlords and drug dealers who are no better than the Taliban. This war is as pointless as the Iraqi catastrophe and it will end in the same humiliating withdrawal.

To All Friends of Willis Carto - Elizabeth Carto

Attacked daily by most of the mainstream media, it is no wonder that ,millions of patriotic Americans stick to their guns so to speak, and refuse to kneel and beg forgiveness for being born white.  The word racist has been applied to anyone who does not walk or riot with Antifa or BLM. This has actually brought out more courageous voters to take a stand as the recent election in Virginia proves. Parents objecting to the teaching of the Critical Race Theories by left wing school boards were threatened  with FBI investigations, The source of all the trouble can be placed on the Teacher's Union left wing activists. 

Although still somewhat quietly, the average American is finally waking up to the  subversive movements in our school system from first graders to college students as it was planned and executed since the 1960s.

When President Trump was cheated out of his second term in office, that outrage alerted many citizens to the fact that subversive elements were taking over not only this last election but planned the same for the future. It is so easy to do with computer manipulations among other things. However, the left will now find more opposition than anticipated in most states, even with all the media control and their lies the Internet cannot  be completely silenced,

Willis Carto spent 60 years of his life fighting subversion. He published hundreds of books and periodicals . Many authors relied on him to have their books published at all. Book censorship never ceased, this is evident today.

Please read the words from Willis's introduction to Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey:

I believe that the Western world can survive. It all hinges on faith, faith in our future, faith in our superiority and survival. Skepicism, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, cynicism have destroyed the old faith and it has not been replaced by a new one. But faith is and always will remain the essential ingredient in every historical force, Only a unifying faith can provide the common motivation for survival - the just and deep conviction of our right to live and spark the single-minded and intolerant power which can clean and redeem our fast-decaying, rotting milieu. Very simple: the imperative of inspiring that faith is the central problem of our time. November 1962

In the September 1964 issue of Western Destiny, Willis reprinted a letter written to Lyndon Johnson written by Carlton Putnam, the founder of Delta Airlines. He was a New York native, a graduate of Princeton and Columbia universities. The subject was school desegregation. He had written the book Race and Reason, a Yankee View, which became a bestseller at the time.

Quoting from the letter to Johnson:

Throughout the world, in our foreign policy as well as such matters as the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 and the current Civil Rights Bill, we are dealing with a problem in which it is essential to realize that genetic racial differences due to evolutionary grade will not be changed by changing environments, and that instead of the average Negro's nature and performance being the result of the White man's prejudices, the White man's prejudices are the result of the average Negro's nature and performance. The evidence is overwhelming.

We Are Still British

When I was a lad I had a paper round. I would report to the newsagent early in the morning, and while I was waiting for him to pack my bag of newspapers a constant stream of men would come in on their way to work. Each man would buy a newspaper, usually the Daily Mirror or the Daily Express, and he would buy cigarettes, or tobacco, and a box of matches. Today, few people buy newspapers, they get their news online, few of them still smoke, and we don't make matches anymore.

In those days most men had served in the armed forces and were used to discipline. Working men wore work clothes and overalls during the week but at weekends they would polish their shoes and dress up in a suit and tie just to go to the pub on the corner.

Women wore headscarves and always carried a shopping bag. They spent hours queuing at the local shops for rationed food because there were no supermarkets and very few refrigerators. 

Fruit was unobtainable except for apples and pears, and when the first bananas were imported we didn't know how to eat them. For some unknown reason we had pomegranates from Palestine, which contained thousands of seeds that we kids used to spit at each other.

There were a few West Indians driving buses or working in hospitals but the mass migration from the Commonwealth had only just started. Most British people today boast of their tolerance and lack of prejudice but that was not the case years ago when all foreigners were resented. Those were the days when we used to touch black people for luck, and some boarding houses displayed signs saying "No Blacks, No Dogs and No Irish."

We had one black boy at my school, a lad from British Guiana who grew up to be a TV star. In those days he was regarded as an exotic curiosity, but today that same school is overwhelmingly black.

The local Roman Catholic school was in the same position but now there are plenty of white children from the Polish and Portuguese communities.

There have been so many changes. People make me laugh when they talk about "getting our country back." The country that I knew has gone forever, but I like to think that we are still the same people that conquered half the world. We no longer have eight halfcrowns to the pound, or eight pints to the gallon but such things are unimportant, we still have our fighting spirit and sense of duty. 

We are going through a period of self-inflicted suffering. We have elected a government of crooks and liars, but nothing lasts forever and we will eventually emerge from the chaos of Brexit. Our racial make up has changed, along with our currency and weights and measures, but we are still British.

The UK is 14% non-white and 86% white. We are a Christian country, if only nominally, Muslims are only two percent of our population and the Jews are only one percent. Politicians are overstating their arguments. Black Lives Matter should stop feeling sorry for themselves, and the far-right should heed the words of a prayer with which I am familiar: "God give us the grace to change those things we can change, to acceot those things that we cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Mass migration is bad for the receiving country because it holds down wages, and it's bad for the sending country because it robs them of valuable workers, but if we stop now and bring in sensible immigration controls we can still build a better Britain. 

Michael Woodbridge writes:

Dear Bill, Thanks once again for your ever thought-provoking Nation Revisited. We live in very interesting times. But, because of this, very dangerous times.

You mention National Action as a "dangerous" organisation but a man of your experience will no doubt understand that the danger lies not through its alleged threat to the government but to its own adherents who have become used as scapegoats by a ruthless establishment.

I've involved myself with several ex-National Action activists by attending their trials and am astonished how they've been alloted long prison sentences for nothing worse than Thought Crime. You may have seen my article about Oliver Bel in Heritage and Destiny? The latest outrage is the 8-year prison sentence passed on Ben Raymond, a young man with a one-year-old daughter.

The conclusion I've reached is that, whatever reservations you or I may have about the presentation or veracity of their National Action ideology, National Action were absolutely right to challenge the status quo, because by doing so they've further exposed our despicably corrupt establishment.

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Nation Revisited # 162 April 2020

Plus ca Change, Plus C'est Meme Chose

This French postcard from 1942 depicts our mother Europe sheltering her chicks with Switzerland and Sweden nearby and Britain heading towards the USA. Note the Star of David on the lid of the American box, and the striking image of Marshal Philippe Petain on the postage stamp. Seventy-eight years later things are much the same.

The Marshall has gone from France but their current president, Emmanuel Macron, fancies himself as 'Father of the Nation'. Switzerland belongs to EFTA which is just outside the EU. Sweden is a member of the EU but with her own currency and an air of detachment. The Swedes, like the British, talk about 'Europe' as though it's a separate place. And Britain is still drawn to America where the Star of David is as dominant as ever. As the French say: "Plus ca change..."

The big difference today is the coronavirus pandemic that has circled the world. When the EU offered us ventilators to treat the infection, Boris Johnson put Brexit before breathing by rejecting them, but now he has tested positive. His petty nationalism is in contrast to the co-operation between the EU states that are helping each other. President Donald Trump insists on calling it "the Chinese virus" but viruses don't recognise nationalities, even paranoid North Korea is effected. 

Our Day Will Come

We have quit the European Union just in time to be struck down by the coronavirus pandemic. Boris Johnson is doing his best but the crisis has revealed that we have fewer hospital beds and doctors than Spain or Italy. It has also exposed the fragility of our gig economy. Tim Martin the boss of Wetherspoons who is an apostle of the free market has told his redundant workers to get a job at Tescos.   

Boris is spending money like a drunken sailor to show his concern for the workers, but at heart he is an old-fashioned Tory who described the poorest twenty percent of the population as: "chavs, losers, burglars and drug addicts." He called single mothers: "uppity and irresponsible" and accused their children of being: "ill raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate." When Ken Bigley was beheaded by Isis terrorists, his home city of Liverpool mourned him, but Boris Johnson condemned: "the mawkish sentimentality of a society that is hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood." Nevertheless, the punters still voted for him.

When slavery was abolished in America most of the liberated slaves stayed on the plantations because there was nowhere else to go, and it seems that the British electorate are in the same position. We don't trust the Labour Party, and if we vote Liberal Democrat our vote will be cancelled out by an unfair 'first past the post' system. So we stay where we are, with a government directed by the unelected advisor Dominic Cummings.

Our new Home Secretary Priti Patel has vowed to cut inward migration by 70%, and treat all applicants equally. We shall have to see what happens but every Immigration Act so far has failed to stem the tide.

Much of our industry relies on imported labour and some of our biggest companies are foreign-owned. This makes our workers vulnerable to cutbacks and redundancies. HSBC have announced 35,000 redundancies worldwide, many of them in the UK. Naturally, as a Chinese bank they are looking after their own people. And the same is true of Honda who will be making their electric cars in Japan.

Is there any hope? Yes, we can talk, read and write. We can express our contempt for the Old Gang parties and propose alternative policies. Ideas can't be destroyed and nothing lasts forever. One day our class-ridden country will be liberated from plutocracy. The blatant hypocrites who preach peace and make war will be gone. So will the inverted racists who promote every nation except our own. Not to mention; faux patriots, metric martyrs, Luddites, Morris  dancers, flat earthers, conspiracy freaks, Holocaust deniers, and assorted fruitcakes who support Boris Johnson. Don't despair comrades; our day will come.

Union Movement Policy

Under Priti Patel's points based immigration policy our fellow Europeans are to be excluded but West Indians, Africans and Asians are welcome. The Tories are anxious to improve trade with the Third World and they have already promised China and India that they will make life easier for their students and workers. 

They have separated us from Europe but those of us who believe in genuine liberation are not satisfied with a country divided by class, where ex-servicemen sleep in doorways and beg for food, and where whole families live in bed and breakfast accommodation. We despise the politicians who misgovern us and we recall Union Movement's policy from 1948 which is still relevant, except for point six about Africa. 

1)  To secure the Union of the European peoples.
2)  To resist the menace of International Communism and      
         International Finance. 
3)  To win the consent and enthusiasm of the people for a            new way of life.
4)  To win power in Britain by the vote of the people.
5)  To abolish the Party game and thus to create a system of       united national action.
6)  To develop Africa as an estate of the European which can       solve the economic problem of our continent.
7)  To abolish the values and influence of class which rests 
     on hereditary wealth and impedes the life of the nation.
8)  To provide continuing security in creative service of the           people for the man who has built his own means of                 livelihood and desires his children to follow after him in           heredity, science, art, craft, profession or business.
9)  To assert the right and will of the whole British people             above every faction and thus to enable all to earn what           they are worth with full security in sickness and old age.
10) To create a new sense of service and a new morality in           the State.

Union Movement no longer exists but Mosley's ideas are still discussed and Brexit has actually encouraged the European movement. As the elderly Brexiteers pass away the younger generation will reverse the decision to leave Europe. It's only a matter of time.

Letter From America by Robert Lyons

Thanks Bill for the latest issue of "Nation Revisited", excellent reading and informative reading as always.

Enjoying the sun and warm weather here in Florida.

I know back in the day the only problem we ran into on the streets was the Jewish Defence League, I have no idea whatever what happened to them, now the opposition group is Anfifa, and it seems to be both Jews and non-Jew leftists, Anarchists and Communists and they go after everybody from Trump conservatives to NS. I believe our worst enemy in the old days was the FBI, the FBI was insidious, using every behind the scenes dirty trick in the book, their main weapon was finding out where you worked and getting you fired.

While in London in 1961 I was accosted several times by Special Branch, mostly they wanted me to know they were watching me and wanted me to talk to them, at the time I wouldn't talk to the FBI, I certainly wasn't going to talk to them but I did notice that Special Branch was more polite than the FBI who were a bunch of rude, crude, dogs as far as I was concerned.

With great sadness I read of the passing of Carl Harley, what a wonderful gentleman. I'm so happy I had the honor of meeting him. I really enjoyed the personal notes about Carl, thanks for including them.

(As a young man Robert Lyons was active in the National States' Rights Party. He attended the international camp at Andrew Fountain's estate in Norfolk in 1961. He is seen here 50 years later outside the door of the old BNP headquarters in Princedale Road).

Anti-Semitism

The current hysteria surrounding anti-Semitism is unjustified. With the Holocaust never far from our thoughts most people are sympathetic to the Jews. But criticism of Israel is another matter, and so are crimes of prominent Jews such as Robert Maxwell and Bernie Madoff. It is not anti-Semitic to say that the Israeli Defence Force is as bad as the Nazis when it comes to their brutal occupation of Palestine, and it's not anti-Semitic to describe Maxwell and Madoff as criminals of the worst type.

Anti-Semitism was much worse before the war. Arnold Leese of the Imperial Fascist League published a book in 1934 accusing the Jews of the ritual murder of Christian children. He was found not guilty of seditious libel but was sentenced to six months hard labour for public mischief. He celebrated his release by publishing another book called 'My Irrelevant Defence' which was just as bad. Leese remained a dedicated anti-Semite until his death in 1956.

At a meeting of the Nordic League in May 1939 AK Chesterton, the former editor of 'The Blackshirt', called for the Jews to be strung up from lampposts. The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, decided not to prosecute because Chesterton was only preaching to the converted at a private meeting. In 1948 he published a book entitled 'The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism' but he continued to campaign against 'international finance'. He founded the League of Empire Loyalists in 1954 and the National Front in 1967.

Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, always denied being an anti-Semite. Richard Thurlow wrote in 'Fascism in Britain':

Contrary to the claims of several authorities, the use of political anti-Semitism by the BUF has to be seen as a genuine belief rather than a cynical device to prop up an ailing movement. Mosley was not an ideological anti-Semite but he became convinced that some Jews were acting against the British national interest through their role in international finance, and that others were trying to destroy the BUF through physical violence. 

Jeremy Corbyn has spent a lifetime campaigning against racism but he is accused of anti-Semitism for criticising Israel. It's ironic that the Jews are so sensitive when their national home was founded on racial supremacism.

The Coronavirus Pandemic

A highly infectious virus first identified in China is killing thousands of people throughout the world and causing serious economic damage. The governments of the leading nations have pledged billions of dollars in 'New Deal' rescue packages but many businesses will not survive. 

This conversion to Keynesian policies follows twelve years of austerity that failed to balance the books. The brutal policies of the Tories took no account of social welfare. Margaret Thatcher shut down the coal mines because they couldn't compete with cheap gas, but a generation later some of the mining villages have still not recovered. She believed implicitly in market forces but John Maynard Keynes realised that economics depends on common sense as well as mathematics.   

In 1937 he published his groundbreaking book 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'. In 1940 he entered the Treasury and in 1944 he organised the reconstruction of the British economy based on the Bretton Woods Agreement. Keynes' formula called for state intervention, a welfare system, low interest rates fixed by a nationalised Bank of England, and strict banking regulations.

His theory worked and the British GDP rose by 2.4% a year for two decades. But in 1972 the Bretton Woods system collapsed because of cripplingly expensive wars in Vietnam and the Middle East. The price of oil tripled and President Richard Nixon imposed the Petrodollar system under which the USA protects any state that uses dollars to buy oil, and threatens any state that does not. Cast adrift by America, the UK joined the Common Market but we still looked across the Atlantic for protection. 

Against this uncertainty, Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 on a false promise to control immigration. Instead, she deregulated the banks, encouraged casino capitalism, cut social spending and allowed property prices to escalate. The eventual result was the financial crisis of 2008 when Lehman Brothers crashed and the Royal Bank of Scotland had to be rescued by the British taxpayer. Since then we have lived under the black cloud of austerity, but it hasn't reduced the national debt or improved productivity.

When Harold Macmillan was asked what prime ministers fear most, he famously answered: "Events dear boy, events." Boris Johnson has a massive majority, a weak opposition, the prospect of a trade deal with America, an attractive young girlfriend with a baby on the way, and the total support of the popular press. But he has been overtaken by events.

He boasts that we have "got our country back" but the current crisis proves that we are part of the wider world. Already, the Exeter-based airline Flybe has collapsed with the loss of 2,400 jobs, EasyJet has grounded its fleet and Virgin Atlantic and British Airways are laying off staff.  

Boris Johnson's arrogance has served him well. He has risen to the top of the political dung heap and hopes to emulate his hero Winston Churchill. He is trying desperately to avoid an economic meltdown but the outlook is grim.

Surely the global capitalist system won't be brought down by a mere virus? That remains to be seen, but in HG Wells' classic story 'The War of the Worlds', the Martians were defeated by just such an organism. Viral infections, like influenza, tend to start in Asia and follow the trade winds around the world.

The coronavirus is a natural part of creation but people with over-active imaginations are blaming the usual suspects for spreading it as part of a diabolical plot. It's wicked to mock the afflicted but these conspiracy theorists really need to control themselves. It's hard to accept reality when you have been abusing fantasy for many years, but former addicts have quit alcohol, smoking, drugs, and gambling. Conspiracy theory is just another compulsion that can be beaten.   

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