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 91, May 2012

Nation Revisited                                        

May 2012, # 91 

 

A Dismal Science
 

The ICM/Guardian poll of October 2011 shows 40% in favour of our membership of the EU and 49% against.  But only a minority vote for UKIP or the far-right parties that want to break away from Europe.  Many of those who claim to be eurosceptic have accepted the necessity of the European Union and will not risk their jobs and mortgages by voting to go it alone.

 

Some withdrawalists have started to think outside of the box of insular nationalism that was set in stone when the National Front was founded in 1967. But most of them remain firmly stuck in the past. They are convinced that the sovereign debt crisis is a European problem, even though it affects Japan and the USA.

In the unlikely event of a far-right government coming to power in the UK there would be an immediate flight of capital out of the country resulting in the collapse of the pound. The rest of the world would react to their protective tariffs by imposing trade restrictions that would leave us struggling for food and oil. Their dream of deporting millions of immigrants would be unaffordable. And their plan to resurrect the Commonwealth would be dismissed by hard-headed Australian, New Zealand and Canadian businessmen committed to trade deals with Asia and the USA.

Murray Rothbard was a so-called free-market economist but he was right when he said: “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of economic ignorance.”

 

Bradford West
 

The Labour Party imported millions of immigrants in the hope that they would vote Labour.  But George Galloway has shown for the second time that this is not necessarily so. He won Bethnal Green and Bow with Bengali support and he won Bradford West thanks to the Pakistanis. The Zionist businessmen who back the established parties will not be pleased to see George Galloway back in Westminster. He is a fearless opponent of war and exploitation who will not be shut up by the powerful Friends of Israel. He is accused of “playing the race card.” But, as he points out, he is a Scottish Catholic; it was the Labour Party who put up a Pakistani Muslim candidate to exploit the immigrant vote.

 

George Galloway’s landslide victory overshadowed the rest of the results but at the bottom of the poll, just ahead of the Loony Party, we find UKIP and the National Democrats. They were never going to win in a constituency that’s 37% Asian but BNP candidate Paul Cromie managed to save his deposit in the same area with 6.9% in 2005. There are still plenty of disgruntled whites in Bradford but UKIP only managed 3.3% and the National Democrats got just over 1%. These figures show that last year’s riots and the austerity budget have not helped the far-right.

There is a desperate need to stop non-European immigration and start repatriation. But the public must be persuaded that such objectives are achievable. We must present them with coherent policies based on self-sufficiency within a restructured Europe. People know that an isolated Britain would struggle to survive and could not mount a massive programme of resettlement.

Bob Mellish
 

In NR #88 we remembered the handful of Tory MPs who dared to make a stand against uncontrolled immigration. A reader has pointed out that Bob Mellish the patriotic Labour Party MP for Bermondsey was an early campaigner against Commonwealth immigration as well as a convinced European.

 

He was born into a large working class Catholic family in Deptford in 1913. He started the war as a sapper and ended it as a major in the Royal Engineers fighting the Japanese in the South East Asia. He was elected to parliament in 1946. 

He argued in the House of Commons, and in the Daily Express, that the Malawi Asians expelled by Hastings Banda in 1976 should not be admitted to the UK:

 

 “We cannot go on like this. I do not care what those on this side of the House, or the Opposition side or anywhere else, say. Problems at local level will become worse and worse for our own people unless something is done. All hon. Members know that people come to their surgeries describing the most distressing conditions – terrifying conditions. People born and bred in their own constituencies have been on the housing waiting list for as long as six years. But on the points system, one must give immigrants preference. People cannot come here just because they have a British passport – full stop.”

“I am not a racist but I am not a humbug. This tiny island of ours is not much more than a dot on the map and the time has come to face the situation. It won’t go away. We’re bulging with more than a million unemployed, there’s a shortage of housing, and every family in the land, just about, is battling to maintain standards. My views are not really different than Labour’s policy over the years. We instituted the voucher system of entry control. I am opposed to the floodgates being opened so that everyone can come crowding in, much as I sympathise with people who need help.

On the 50^th anniversary of VJ Day Roy Jenkins expressed regret at the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Bob Mellish said: “While on board we heard that the war was over. I have never prayed so hard nor been as grateful for anything as I was for that atom bomb. It was the finest thing that ever happened that we should have dropped it on those villains. When we reached Port Swettenham the ramifications would have been unbelievable. Thousands of lives would have been lost and, at the time, I thanked God for the atom bomb.”

 

He was one of the last of the decent Labour Party that stood for the British working class. He was hounded out of his constituency by the Militant Tendency. They tried to install Peter Tatchell as the local MP in 1983 but he was soundly rejected by the people of Bermondsey who returned the Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes. 
 

Bob Mellish spent his remaining years in the House of Lords and died in 1998. 

 

We Don’t Need Cheap Labour
 

The majority of the UK electorate wants to stop Third World immigration but they are frightened of being called “racists.” They are influenced by newspapers, radio and television stations that have always championed immigration.  It was only the sudden arrival of a million Poles that caused papers like the Daily Mail to call a halt. If they had been black or brown the popular press would not have dared to risk prosecution under the Race Relations Act.

 

Those of us who believe in “Europe a Nation” have little in common with parties like the BNP; except for the need to control immigration and start repatriation. Mosley dismissed any similarity between Union Movement and the far-right parties but most of them were founded by his former supporters. Their protectionist policies are the same as the pre-war BUF and so are their slogans; “Britain for the British” and “British jobs for British Workers” came from the pre-war Mosley movement, as did the “Old Gang” and the “Money Power.”

The Bradford West result was disappointing but the BNP only averaged 6.2 when they won two seats in the Euro parliament, and in the last general election their national average was 1.9%. These figures reflect the twin obstacles of white flight and defeatism. Those who can afford to have moved away from “enriched” areas and no longer see immigration as a problem. And those who are too poor to escape have given up the struggle. The influx is slowing down because we don’t need cheap labour. We are still in recession, unemployment is unacceptably high and wages are static. Even the political class admits that the last thing we need is more immigrants. Their open-door immigration policy has been a disaster. Some immigrants have successfully assimilated but most of them cling to their own cultures and refuse to integrate. We will have to re-dress half a century of misgovernment.

Traitors
 

According to the BNP website George Galloway is a traitor. An unsigned posting headed “The Islamist Curse on Britain’s Streets” says: “The pro-Islamist traitor George Galloway has gone native, surrounding himself with Muslim thugs…” They believe that anyone sympathetic to their perceived enemy is a traitor. If America or Israel attacks Iran the British government will take the same view and opponents of the war will be treated as Fifth Columnists. It happened before in 1940 when Oswald Mosley and his supporters were detained without charge or trial under Defence Regulation 18B.

Our most famous traitor was Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up King James 1. Kids still chant: “Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.” And after 400 years we haven’t forgotten it. Guy Fawkes was certainly guilty. He tried to kill the Protestant King James and replace him with a Catholic. He didn’t hate his country; he wanted to save it from what he considered to be a heretical religion. In his own mind he was a patriot who served God and country.

William Joyce and John Amery were hanged for assisting the enemy in time of war. Joyce broadcast Nazi propaganda on German radio and Amery tried to recruit British POWs to fight on the Russian Front. Both men accepted their fate and went to their deaths bravely. They put their ideology above their obligation to a plutocratic state engaged in a fratricidal war. The keeper of the Queen’s art collection Anthony Blunt spent most of his life spying for the Soviet Union but he died peacefully in his bed. It seems that treason, like beauty, is in the eye of beholder.

 

John Amery stated his case in 1942.

“Only what you do and how you act can be the determining factor to decide whether, betrayed, we intend to react and take our place in the lines of civilization, or whether we are a race played out, who accept foreign interference, foreign control, and who go forward to the loss of all we possess, because we have neither the courage nor the desire to preserve our heritage.” 

On the morning of his execution William Joyce wrote to his friend Angus Macnab.

 

“I am now so far moved away from all earthly things that the remaining minutes of my life seem like tenants who have not paid their rent. Thank you for your devotion to me and above all for your prayers. More I will not write save to say that when we meet again, we shall regret nothing that has happened now.”

 

Are these the words of traitors? Rebecca West had no doubt when she wrote “The Meaning of Treason” but Mary Kenny was not so sure in her book “Germany Calling.”

 

Gloom & Doom
 

According to the far-right our way of life is being destroyed by the rise of Islam and the survival of the white race is threatened by the black and brown birthrate. Global warming is turning our countryside into a desert; atmospheric pollution is choking us and rising sea levels are drowning us. If we escape al-Qaeda and step carefully over the black babies, wear anti-biological warfare suits and respirators and stay on high ground we might survive long enough to be blown to bits by an Israeli nuclear strike. As William Butler Yates wrote: “Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold.”

 

In fact we are recovering from the banking crisis of 2008. Austerity is biting but we have gone through recessions before and we know that we will survive. The UK is still 85% white and at long last the government has started to control immigration. The unemployable underclass still has to be fed and housed but at least we are now aware of it. For years welfare dependency was ignored but now even the liberals accept that something must be done. We still have a crippling national debt but the coalition government is trying to reduce borrowing and spending. The IT revolution continues to change the world. Advances in medical science are wiping out diseases. Unemployment is too high but most of our workers have got a job. The expectation of life is increasing and the infant mortality rate is falling.

The far-right’s alarming predictions all came to nothing. We didn’t have a war with the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation is now a parliamentary democracy with a market economy. We didn’t lose our identity when we joined the EU. We have not been bitten by rabid dogs running through the Channel Tunnel. We were not inundated with unemployed Italians. And we have not had German troops goose-stepping through England’s green and pleasant land.
 

We are occupied by 9,382 American servicemen but they don’t seem to worry about that. 

They are convinced that the UK has been hijacked by an unholy alliance of capitalists, communists and Muslims. In the real world these groups have little or nothing in common but in the tortured imagination of the far-right they are part of a vast conspiracy to destroy the white race in general and Britain in particular. This is more or less the same plot outlined in the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” but since the death of John Tyndall, and Nick Griffin’s historic rapprochement with Israel, the Jews have been replaced by the Muslims. The following posting is by “British Bulldog” on the official BNP website shows the extent of their paranoia: 

 

“Absolutely wonderful to see the British National Party coming together and sending out a message of real hope to the indigenous people of Britain and show that there IS a real alternative to the treasonable traitors of the Multicultural Marxist Lib/Lab/Con/BBC establishment cabal of criminals that have wrecked OUR country for so many decades.” 

 

The London Mayoral Election
 

The BNP’s candidate for the London Mayoral Election is their press officer Carlos Cortiglia. He was born in Uruguay and came to this country in 1989. There have been xenophobic comments from the usual suspects and the question is not if easy going Londoners will vote for him but if his alleged supporters will. He performs very well on television and answers questions with clarity and intelligence. A welcome change from some of the tongue-tied candidates we have seen in the past. 

 

Carlos is not the only candidate with exotic connections. Boris Johnson, the sitting Conservative Party Mayor of London, is the great-grandson of Ali Kemal a liberal Turkish politician who was stoned to death by a nationalist mob in 1922 during the Turkish War of Independence. His unfortunate family history has not deterred Boris from a career in politics. He is tipped to be re-elected.

The Labour candidate Ken Livingstone was twice Mayor before Boris. His election telecast featured a multiethnic cast of actors urging him to fight for London. Ken is reported to have burst into tears when it was screened; the rest of just threw up. It may have increased his popularity with the ethnic minorities but it will probably have the opposite effect amongst the white British population. 

 

Brian Paddick the Liberal Democrat candidate was formerly Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police; a background that inspires little confidence amongst the victims of crime in the capital. 

 

The UKIP candidate Lawrence Webb is calling for stronger measures on law and order and tighter immigration controls. He is also worried that proposed EU legislation might restrict the financiers of the City of London.

The Green Party candidate Jenny Jones thinks that road charging is the only way to control London’s traffic. This will not please the motorists but she obviously puts honesty ahead of popularity.

 

Siobhan Benita is an independent candidate with intelligent policies and high-profile supporters including Sir Gus O’Donnell.  She was formerly a senior civil servant who resigned over the government’s health reforms.

The media are accused of treating the minority candidates unfairly by giving prominence to the established parties. All the candidates are focusing on local issues but Londoners will probably vote the same way as the rest of the country. Immigration and Law and Order are important but the big issue will be the economy and the key voting areas will be the leafy suburbs rather than the inner city. Ken Livingstone will get the immigrant vote but Boris Johnson can depend on the Tory commuters. 

 

The Mad Scribbler
 

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tried to wreck Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential election campaign by dishing the dirt on the Whitewater scandal. But his timely intervention on behalf of the Republican candidate failed and Bill Clinton was elected with a decisive majority. He got 43%, George HW Bush got 37.4% and Ross Perot got 18.9%.  Following extensive enquiries by the American authorities Bill and Hilary Clinton were cleared of any wrongdoing.

 

He tried again to upset the American judicial system with his 1997 book “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.” He claimed that the Oklahoma City bombing was a failed operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But his “evidence” was consigned to the FBI’s bulging conspiracy files. The mass-murderer Timothy McVeigh was convicted and executed for the worst terrorist attack in American history prior to 9/11. He was a US military veteran who belonged to a right-wing militia movement.  An American spokesman dismissed Ambrose Evans-Pritchard as “a pain in the ass,” and the Washington Post dubbed him “the mad scribbler.”

Having outworn his welcome in the USA he turned his attention to Europe. He predicted that the euro would collapse soon after its introduction in 2001. But more than a decade later the euro is still going strong and he is still hoping for an economic catastrophe. He led the screaming for Greece to be thrown out of the eurozone and coined the phrase “Club Med” to introduce a racist element into the discussion. But when the European Central Bank guaranteed the Greek deficit he immediately turned on Spain and is now predicting her downfall.

 

The Daily Telegraph boasts that it sells 180,089 more copies than The Times but it is still losing circulation. It sold 690,445 copies in 2009 but is now selling 686,679. The Barclay twins must have noticed that their newspaper is failing. The much derided euro will probably last longer than their strangely shortsighted International Business Editor.

If he does get fired BNP leader Nick Griffin could do with an editor for his party newspaper The Voice of Freedom. It’s not as reactionary as the Daily Telegraph but it’s just as boring. A conspiracy freak with an irrational hatred of the European Union might be the ideal choice.

Journalists have every right to push their own opinions. But there is a difference between reasoned argument and demented fantasy. The federal government of the USA is not engaged in a war against the people. And the leaders of the European states are not trying to wipe out all things British. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is not just a harmless crank obsessed with the EU. His negative reporting has done a lot of damage to the European economies including the UK. Every time he talks down the euro he helps to put another Briton out of work.

 

Historical Context
 

AN Wilson in his modern history “Our Times” remembers the 1950s.

Churchill told the cabinet that “the continuing increase in the number of coloured people coming to this country and their presence here would sooner or later come to be resented by large sections of the British people.

 

The blatant racism of the old war hero shocks a later generation. For this reason, it is convenient for historians to suggest that it was only “extremists”, such as Sir Oswald Mosley, who thought in this way. (Mosley tried to revive his old fascist thugs of pre-war days and stood for Notting Hill in the 1959 election.) It was in Notting Hill, where many blacks had settled, that the race riots had occurred in 1958. It is easy, and correct, to see Mosley as inflammatory. Less easy for the imagination to absorb is the fact that when it came to his views on black people, the leader of the British fascists had views that were commonplace for a white man of his generation. They were shared by Sir Winston Churchill. They were shared by the hero of El Alemein General Montgomery (1887-1976). 

After the war Clement Atlee as Prime Minister sent Monty to Africa to provide a confidential report on the suitability of giving the Africans self-government. It was a shock for the liberal-minded Clem to be told by Monty, after a two-month fact finding-tour, that “the African is a complete savage and is quite incapable of developing the country himself.” He recommended making the whole of sub-Saharan Africa into a British-controlled bulwark against communism, to be aligned with South Africa. His advice was only to come to light in 1999, and a fellow peer, Lord Chalfont, commented that “his reputation is irredeemably damaged.” 

 

It’s difficult to put history into perspective. Half a century ago racism was normal and race mixing was frowned on. But times change and we change with them; at least superficially. We would not use the same language today but few would disagree with Churchill and Mosley’s sentiments. And Monty’s assessment of Africa has stood the test of time. Black Africa has generally gone backwards since the white man laid down his burden. South Africa still has enough whites to maintain a modern economy but Zimbabwe is only kept going by the Chinese. Most of sub-Saharan Africa is constantly at war, totally corrupt and living at subsistence level.

 

The liberal regimes of the late 20^th century were a reaction to the regimentation of two world wars. They gave us the social state but they saddled us with an unbearable burden of debt. The current mood is a reaction to the near collapse of the banking system.  All over the world people are returning to tradition values. The Arabs are turning to Islam and the Europeans are flirting with nationalism. The Global capitalist crisis has provoked a reaction that threatens to sweep away liberal democracy. Churchill, Mosley and Monty do not seem so old-fashioned after all.