Nation Revisited # 195 January 2023

The Authortarian State

John Tyndall speaking for the National Labour Party in the late fifties. Note the cross and star symbol still used by Nation Revisited and European Outlook. The cross stands for our nation and the star stands for our people. It was designed and bequeathed to me by John Bean.

John Tyndall published 'The Authoritarian State' in 1962 when he was 28 years old. We all say unwise things when we are young. Liz Truss made a speech to the Liberal-Democrat conference when she was 19 calling for the abolition of the monarchy. She was forgiven for her youthful indiscretion but John Tyndall was not. He died in 2005 just two days before his trial on a charge of inciting racial hatred. If he had stood trial, and if 'The Authoritarian State' had been used in evidence, he would probably have been convicted. UK prisons hold many people found guilty of offences under the Race Relations Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act whose rhetoric is restrained compared to the frank language of the past. 

It's perhaps rather late to review a pamphlet that was published 61 years ago, but better late than never.

I am indebted to the archivist Stephen Swinfen for providing me with a PDF of JT's first literary effort. I have been looking for it for years without success, but by the wonder of the Internet my search has been rewarded.

'The Authoritarian State' is closely modelled on Oswald Mosley's pre-war policy statement 'The Greater Britain'. It calls for strong government, leadership, financial reform, protectionism, and so on. JT even borrowed some of Mosley's favorite phrases such as; "the old gang", "old women", and "the coming crisis."

The Talking Pictures TV channel shows old movies often carrying the warning that they contain "prevailing attitudes and language of the time that viewers may find offensive". A similar warning should be attached to 'The Authoritarian State' which sensitive souls may find alarming:

"While the authoritarian creed respects the idea of personal freedom. It insists upon the establishment of clearly defined limits to which such freedoms can go. Aside from the aforementioned examples, one could go on indefinitely giving instances of how, under the old Democracy, the concept of "freedom" has been turned to the worst possible abuse - because such practical limits have failed to be enforced. Our simple test of individual activity is: Does it or does it not harm the moral or material well-being of the nation. If the answer is no, then by all means let it continue. If, on the other hand, a man's conduct of his personal life is of a nature certain to lessen his usefulness to the community he serves, and hence harm that community as a whole, then he is abusing his right to freedom, and as such must warrant the intervention of state guidance until he has mended his ways.

Freedom for those that work, for those who create, for those who conscientiously remember their duties of citizenship; such freedoms we would never wish to destroy. What we would not tolerate in the state of tomorrow is the loafer, the spiv, or the degenerate. In short, what we intend to build is a national community in which that natural Nordic birth right of freedom is not something to be taken for granted by the dregs of society, but something earned by labour, loyalty, and service." 

JT's worldview was based on the conspiracy theory outlined in 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' that was distributed by the Okhrana, the Imperial Russian Secret Police, in 1903. He quotes from this dubious source:

" Political freedom is an idea but not a fact This idea one must know how to apply whenever it appears necessary to use it as a bait to attract the masses of people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who is in authority. This task is rendered easier if the opponent has himself been infected with the idea of "freedom", so-called Liberalism, and, for the sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of his power."

JT believed that the Jews are behind a plot to flood Britain and Europe with non-Europeans. He saw immigration not as an economic problem but as a conspiracy to destroy European civilization. In later life he toned down his antisemitism but it's hard to believe that he had a genuine change of heart. 

The following passage is from his obituary on the BNP website of 19 July 2005:

"Tyndall's courage was legendary and his stamina undoubted. He was a fine writer with a tremendous grasp of written English, and an outstanding platform speaker. Nevertheless, John Tyndall's Nazi associations in his early life dogged him throughout his political career. In addition, the same 1930's mindset left the British National Party under his leadership with an outdated strategy which alienated public support." 

'The Authoritarian State' is essential reading for anyone trying to understand John Tyndall, just as 'Mein Kampf' is essential for the study of Adolf Hitler. Both works chart the development of their authors. We all modify our views over the years. The young are expected to be radicals and the old are expected to be conservatives, but few people change their core beliefs.

Most of John Tyndall's supporters were worried about coloured immigration, but he barely mentions it in this pamphlet which concentrates on the failure of democracy, the need for leadership, and the alleged Jewish conspiracy. Oswald Mosley never mentioned coloured immigration in 'The Greater Britain' because it was not an issue in 1932, but it was twenty years later. 

John Tyndall was a brave and decent man who was stuck in the past. He believed in reviving the British Empire, deporting the millions of non-Europeans in the UK back to their countries of origin, and 'Economic Nationalism' which took no account of changes in world trade. He advocated these policies from 'The Authoritarian State' in 1962 to the 'Eleventh Hour' in 1998. Like the Bourbons he learned nothing and forgot nothing.  

Example of the Aztecs - Andrew Fountaine

From 'The Meaning of an Enemy', available from Amazon.

In nations and civilizations as in armies it is the leadership corps which counts and whose importance is paramount. Of a number of great civilizations which have come and gone before our time few were causatively destroyed by enemy conquest or military miscalculations. The majority died by their own hand of auto-intoxication and internal disintegration, and in every case it was among the culture bearing stratum that the rigidity, petrification and suicidal tendencies had first appeared. For the evils of parasitism, class wars, social anarchy and revolution are not the causes of decline of civilizations but the symptoms of the disease itself which is the decline of authority.

There is no more instructive example in the history of this phenomena than the story of the conquest of Mexico.

The Aztec civilization was the last in line before our own. Of all past civilizations including classical Rome it bore the nearest analogy to our European Faustian ethos and though by some strange aberration of circumstances the wheel had not been discovered, their culture had reached a grandeur and stability matching anything in Europe and their calendar system and time reckoning by annual computation alone failed to match modern Greenwich calculations by a mere matter of minutes. This was a civilization that by the 16th century had substituted human sacrifice in the place of civil war and social crime and had introduced compulsory education, state welfare and a universal health system at least as efficient as the parody with which we are burdened today.

It was upon the shores of this state in March 1519 that Cortez landed with 553 soldiers (including 32 crossbowmen and 16 horses) and 14 cannon and set out in a little under two years to conquer an empire nearly twice as large as Spain and defended by an army of 200,000 well-armed and fanatical warriors who believed as devoutly in their war god Huitzilopochtle as Cortez did in Christ. But it was not Spanish guns and cavalry which conquered Mexico but the suicidal compulsion of the Aztec Emperor Montezuma himself who believed in a myth as fervently as Cortez believed in the Virgin Mother and therby suggested his own defeat and the collapse of the highly organized Empire.

The myth was that the tribal god of the Toltecs (a race the Aztecs had conquered some centuries earlier) by name Quetzalcoatl - of fair complexion, dark hair and flowing beard - had on the defeat of his tribe sailed away eastward over the Atlantic, promising at some future date to return and resume his rule. Thus when Cortez appeared Montezuma had accepted him as Quetzalcoatl!

Time and again when the Spanish were surrounded and facing annihilation the emperor called off his disciplined warriors and sent in emissaries with supplies and victuals begging the invaders to return whence they had come.

Eventually he allowed the Spaniards to enter Mexico and ultimately surrendering his person to Cortez, allowed his temples to be desecrated and was killed in a tumult. Thus by sheer auto-suggestion he collapsed into moral suicide. From thence the conquest of the leaderless and demoralized Aztecs took nine months of the bitterest fighting of all and added Spanish reinforcements. Yet despite the phenominal leadership of Cortez and the incredible courage of his men the Aztec civilization was destroyed by a ghost - the calumny of its leader.

It is relevent to observe here that the Spanish loot of Aztec gold and the contemporary plunder of the Inca treasure south of the isthmus found its way by devious dissipation into the coffers of the Indian potentates where it lay dormant for two centuries until in the year 1747. Clive at the decisive battle of Plassey laid open the treasures of Bengal.

Here the combined treasure of the old world and the new provided the sinews of Britain's Napoleonic campaign, fertilized the industrial revolution, and created the fulcram of amorality upon which the back of the English aristocracy was broken.

Five Questions Answered # 20 Dennis Whiting

Who are you?

I am Arthur Dennis Whiting (known as Dennis). Born 18/07/33; grew up mainly in the Maidstone area: attended Maidstone Grammar School; National Service in the Royal Artillery, 1952-54; read English literature at Keble College, Oxford 1954-57; became a librarian, firstly at Aberdeen University, 1959-63, then at the University of Kent, 1963-95. Married Sylvia Brewer in 1976, sadly no children. Been retired since 1995. As a teenager I became a fan of G.K. Chesterton, who inoculated me against conventional politics for the rest of my life. In the 1950s I became aware of A.K.Chesterton, cousin of G.K. I subscribed to Candour and joined the League of Empire Loyalists. I was never in touch with the postwar Mosley movement. I was active in the National Front from 1967-1980 and with the British National Party thereafter (until 2011).

What do you believe in?

I am a Christian believer (early influences, Chesterton, Belloc, Newman, C.S. Lewis). Although an Anglican until I was received into the Roman Catholic Church at age 50, I was never at heart a Protestant. My faith has become more important to me in recent years as it has become ever clearer that modernism, globalism, and the new world order are an all-out attack on Christendom. My Catholicism is by way of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the Society of ST. Pius X and Bishop Richard Williamson. I consider Pope Francis to be a very bad pope and a traitor to the institution which he is nominally the head.

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

If I was in charge of government policy (what a dream) I would have to undo a great deal of the legislation of the past half century or more. I would be guided by the list of SINS CRYING TO HEAVAN FOR VENGEANCE found in my missal. They are; Wilful murder - The sin of Sodom - Oppression of the poor - Defrauding labourers of their wages.

This missal incidently is not some ancient historical document but was published and given its imprimatur in 1962 under the reign of John XX111, the first modernist pope. The two later sins one might have to deal with indirectly by a radical reform of our corrupt and usurious financial system. The two former encompass abortion and the LGBTxyz attempt to destroy the family. Abortion ought never to have been legalised. It might not be prudent to re-enact homosexual activity between consenting adult males as a criminal offence but most certainly organisations such as Stonewall need to be turfed off the moral high ground which they have fraudulently seized. Single mothers carrying unwanted children in the womb are themselves the victims of our current society and should be treated gently and compassionately. There are many childless couples anxious to adopt. No doubt there was undue harshness in the past but we should remember that the pro-abortion lobby has been in charge of the narrative for a long time and they do not give a fair picture of how things used to be.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

There is not much in my life to be proud of but I do regret the way I allowed my family, friends and workmates to compartmenalise my political activities. Here - they seemed to say - is a decent enough chap: why he puts up as a parliamentary candidate for an extremist outfit like the NF we don't wish to know. For the sake of a quite life I went along with this when I should have defended my views in season and out.

How would you like to be remembered?

How would I like to be remembered? I have written a number of articles in my time which have mainly fallen on stony ground. It would be good if some of them could be collected to remember me after I am gone.

Viva Argentina

Congratulations to Argentina on winning the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The New York Times demanded to know why they had not fielded any black players. Probably because the black population of Argentina is less than one percent. 

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 Dropping Clause 4

Political parties need to update their policies to suit changing circumstances. When policies become set in stone they act as an anchor. That happened to the Labour Party with their infamous Clause 4 which demanded the nationalization of industry. It made the Labour Party unelectable until Tony Blair brought about the New Labour revolution that put them in power from 1997 to 2010.

The Tories have got a similar problem. It was a Conservative prime minister, Ted Heath, who took us into the Common Market in 1973, but the right wing of the Tory Party has always been opposed to Europe. Dave Cameron knows that there is no economic alternative to the EU but the rise of Ukip has forced him to promise a referendum. He is trying to appease the “bastard faction” without panicking the Confederation of British Industry. If he gets it right he might win the next general election but if he gets it wrong he will be thrown out of office.

Britain has kept her identity for 40 years in the EU but an “independent” Britain would be swallowed up by America. The go-it-alone option is a myth for a country that depends on imported food and oil. The real choice is between Europe and the North American Free Trade Agreement. That was Conrad Black’s policy when he owned The Daily Telegraph and it was the objective of the shadowy Atlantic Bridge movement which included Liam Fox, William Hague and most of the Tory front bench. It was shut down by the Charity Commission in 2011 but its malign influence lingers on.

The anti-EU campaign is the Tory Clause 4; a bitter division within the party. They should remember that we had millions of Afro-Asian immigrants long before we joined the EU. And that the US has got a black president, a multi-racial immigration policy and a worldview based on perpetual warfare. The idea of British independence is an illusion and the prospect of American domination is a nightmare. The rise of European consciousness is our only hope of salvation.

Parliamentary Democracy

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has recommended that MPs get a £10,000 pay rise on top of their existing £66,396. This would give them almost three times the average UK wage of £26,000. That’s an awful lot of money at a time budget cuts and pay freezes.

Since Prime Minister’s Question Time has been televised we have seen the asinine behavior of some of our MPs. Senseless jeering and cheering fills the chamber of the House of Commons as the Speaker tries to keep order like a schoolteacher with a class of naughty children. Parliament is proud of its ancient traditions but the behavior of some MPs is disgraceful. The House of Lords is more sedate because most of them are asleep. The European Parliament also needs reforming but it doesn’t have the same level of hooliganism as Westminster.

As power is devolved to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast we will not need 635 MPs to represent us. And with modern communications we could slash the number of MPs. We need a smaller, more efficient parliament governed by strict conditions of employment. Those who go missing without producing a medical certificate should be sacked, and so should those who report for work under the influence of drink or drugs. Jeering and booing should not be allowed and the highest standards of civility should be maintained. Representing the people should be a full time job and second jobs, consultancies and directorships should not be allowed.

The practice of shuffling ministers between departments is wasteful. They should have a background in their field of responsibility and receive on the job training. The Minister of Defence should be an ex-serviceman, the Minister of Health should be a medical man, and the Minister of Education should have teaching qualifications - and so on. When Selwyn Lloyd was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in 1951 he protested that he: “had never been abroad, spoke no foreign languages and didn’t like foreigners.” Winston Churchill replied: “Then you are just the man for the job.” Such perversity might be amusing but it has no place in the modern world.

The House of Lords is a comfortable billet for 754 worn out party donors and camp followers. It should be transformed into a Senate charged with approving bills from the House of Commons and empowered to throw out bad legislation. Senators should be drawn from all walks of life. They should be British nationals with outstanding records of achievement. Their number should be limited to 100 men and women appointed by IPSA; or a similar independent body. Their pay and conditions should be the same as MPs, and their conduct should be exemplary at all times.

The growing importance of the European Parliament, the Scottish referendum on independence and the ongoing debate on House of Lords reform will force us to re-examine our parliamentary system. Scandals involving party funding, cash for questions, drunken brawls, sexual shenanigans and fiddled expenses have destroyed the public’s faith in Parliament.  And this has been exacerbated by undeserved demands for more money. Guy Fawkes was in no doubt that Parliament was irredeemably corrupt but with a determined effort it can be reformed. We should give it one last chance before resorting to gunpowder.

Striking a Balance

“Dictators lose any sense of balance as they pursue their obsessive ambition into a world of unreality.” Benito Mussolini

Libertarians warn of the dangers of the surveillance state and whistle blowers reveal the extent of spying. But governments blame terrorism for the need to snoop on our telephone conversations and e-mails. The trouble is that they are both right. If governments are not restrained by an independent judiciary they become dictatorial, and if terrorists are not apprehended we suffer further atrocities. The trick is to strike a balance.

Every state has the right to control its borders and implement immigration policies. The UK has made little or no effort over the years to control immigration. We had customs and immigration officers at airports and ferry terminals but everybody knew that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants were entering the country. From time to time the police would round up a few illegals but they were usually released without charge. Big business needed workers and the cheaper the better. The Establishment parties pretended to be concerned but they effectively turned a blind eye to the influx.

All the time that the economy was booming nobody worried about immigration. The whites had the money to buy houses far away from the inner city ghettoes. And the government was collecting sufficient tax revenue to keep millions of people on the dole. But in 2008 the banks suffered a Minsky moment and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer. This was just after we admitted a million East Europeans who immediately found work, mostly in construction and agriculture. Because Poles and Lithuanians are white our newspapers were allowed to object to them. Blacks and Asians have been pouring in for the last half century but our gutless newspapers said nothing for fear of prosecution under the Race Act. Now populist movements like Ukip are demanding a total ban on immigration. We have gone from one extreme to another without achieving a sense of balance. The fact is that with an ageing population we may need immigrants in the future but we should choose them from kindred nations that can be easily assimilated.

And it’s the same with economics. The Labour Party believes in spending money to promote full employment and provide decent public services. The Tories, on the other hand, spend less but leave the taxpayers with more money in their pockets.  We all love the National Health Service. It’s one of the finest things this country ever did. But it must be managed like any other industry. There’s no limit to the money we could spend on the health service. We could forget about education, defence, transport and all our other commitments and spend our entire national income on the NHS. Once again, a sense of balance is needed.

Defence is another department in danger of running away with our money. The government expects the Trident update to cost £20 billion but Greenpeace puts it at £100 billion. The Tories want to spend the money but their Liberal Democrat coalition partners are looking for a cheaper option.

Every aspect of politics requires a sense of balance. When politicians lose it we end up with a Margaret Thatcher or a Gordon Brown; fanatics who pursued their doctrinaire policies to the bitter end.

In the name of Tradition
 

The Traditional Britain Group recently gained publicity by inviting Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg to address them. They describe themselves as traditional conservatives but many of the traditions they cherish serve no useful purpose. We will not save our race and nation by wallowing in the past; and certainly not be listening to Tory MPs.
The Amish and the Orthodox Jews have become trapped in the 18^th century as far as their clothes are concerned. They think that God likes black hats so they will not wear anything else. That’s what happens when tradition takes over. Apparently sane people start flapping around in gowns like a superfluity of demented nuns.

The Church and the Law are noble institutions but they can save our souls and empty our bank accounts without resorting to fancy dress. The splendid regalia of the Archbishop of Canterbury may have impressed medieval peasants but today it looks ridiculous. And a courtroom with its judge and lawyers in powdered wigs could be straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera “Trial by Jury.”

At the State Opening of Parliament an MP is held hostage by the Crown against the Queen’s safe return. This dates back to the Civil War but it’s no way to run a modern industrial nation. Presumably, if Parliament refused to let her go the unfortunate hostage’s head would be chopped off and impaled on the railings of Buckingham Palace?

Some traditions have served us well and are worth keeping but many of them are instant traditions invented by Victorian PR gurus to promote the British Royal Family.

Joseph Goebbels performed much the same service for Adolf Hitler. The Germans enjoyed the brilliant choreography of the Nazi era; the flags, banners, drums and flaming torches. But the present generation is managing very well without them. They have given up goose stepping across borders and are enthusiastically making BMWs and generating a trillion dollar surplus without so much as a “Sieg Heil” to keep them going. These industrious and irrepressible people have achieved all of the Fuhrer’s economic objectives without firing a shot.

Five Questions Answered by Jane Edwards

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

So far we have had replies from John Bean of the British Democrats # 76, Robert Edwards of European Action # 77, Bill Baillie of Nation Revisited # 78, Michael Woodbrige of Western Springs # 96, Eddy Morrison of the Nationalist Sentinel 97, Robert Best of the League of St George # 98, Arlette Baldacchino of Viva Malta # 99, Alex Morana from North America # 100, Rufus of News from Atlantis # 101, Pete Williamson of The White Way Home # 103, Claire Khaw of Voice of Reason 106.

Here is Jane Edwards of the British Democrats - http://britishdemocraticparty.co.uk/

I am a middle-aged divorcee living with a 19-year-old son in Leicestershire. My former husband was hard-working Polish, but his nationality had nothing to do with our marriage break up.

Until the start of this century I had always voted Labour and in fact at one time was a convinced Socialist. Probably the main reason why I held this view was that Labour had always seemed to recognise women’s rights more than the Conservatives and although the Liberal Democrats paid lip-service to this view, it was lost in the general mish-mash of opinions that they held as a party. 

Having first had no objections to immigrants who came to this country to carry out useful work and were no more involved in crime than the average native-born Briton, like many, my views began to change in the Blair years, when I realised that in Leicester, like London and Birmingham the original Brits and other Europeans were becoming a minority.

I looked at BNP literature and its website but its leadership in general did not – and still doesn’t – appear to be genuine to me. However, I agreed with much of what John Bean said in his articles he wrote for them, particularly as he was more European-minded than Griffin and company. Obviously, this meant that I was not attracted to the insular Toryism of UKIP.

I corresponded with John Bean – but have never met him as yet – and he drew my attention to Nation Revisited and your support for the views of Sir Oswald Mosley. Reading some of Mosley’s life story and policies was certainly an eye-opener and from the image of him being a thug of the nobility, as the media would have us believe, I found he was a man of great intellect. Being a feminist, I was impressed by photos and reports of the importance of the women’s section of the British Union and the intelligence of his wife, Lady Diana Mosley.

If I could direct government policy I would apply the British Democratic Party’s belief that all further mass immigration should be halted and illegal immigrants deported as they had broken the law to get here. Secondly, although the present EU regime is too Marxist orientated in its practice, I would strengthen inter-European ties for the simple reason that there is no alternative for a white future.

I am most proud of the fact that my son has reached 19, actually has a reasonable job without going to University, and rejects drugs.

I would like to be remembered as somebody who realised before it was too late that we have been lied to time and again by the old party system. If the ‘wicked’ Oswald Mosley once used that expression, so what.

European Socialist Action – www.europeanaction.com

The front page of European Socialist Action No 47 demands a Nuremburg Trial for the Americans. Robert Edwards lists some of the crimes committed by NATO forces around the world in pursuit world domination. And he offers an explanation for their permanent hostility.

 “United States foreign policy is based on permanent war. It is the neo-con strategy for imposing “freedom and democracy” on the rest of the world. Dreamed up by a gang of Jewish former Trotskyites, they took their global/internationalist perspective onto a different level. From the permanent revolution of their student days to permanent war as US policy.”

 

The Editorial implicates the Americans once again; in the military coup that removed the elected President of Egypt from power. In fact the Egyptian army has been running the show since General Neguib overthrew King Farouk in 1952. Morsi’s year in power was only a temporary aberration. My Egyptian barber welcomed the coup because the Egyptian economy is in trouble and tourism has collapsed. But I have no doubt that the Americans and Israelis are happy with the result.

On page three Robert Edwards looks at the origins of the left-right labels applied to politics. They have never been fit for purpose but since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the coming together of the Old Gang parties they are now meaningless. He also dismisses the notion that “nationalism” is necessarily anti-communist and points out that Stalin fought the Great Patriotic War as a nationalist crusade. He quotes from Stalin’s Marxism and the National Question:

“The right of self-determination means that only the nation itself has the right to determine its destiny, that no one has the right to forcibly interfere in the life of the
nation, to violate its habits and customs, to repress its language or curtail its rights.”

John Roberts describes his return to the Elbe after thirty years and marvels at the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche after the wanton destruction of Dresden in 1945. He mentions the similarity between the local Saxon people and the English and describes a German woman who, he said: “could have been my Mother.”

Scott Ullah looks at the environmental damage caused by unrestrained capitalism and calls for a united European approach to conservation.

A lively letters page rounds off an interesting and informative newspaper. ESA carries on its masthead the words: “We are performing the role of those who prepare.” And its mission statement begins: “No less than the creation of a European Nation State in the spirit of brotherhood and European kinship. That this Europe a Nation be embraced by all Europeans and to supersede and replace the EU and all such arrangements.”

The Meaning of an Enemy

First published in serial format in Combat magazine, the writings of Andrew Fountaine, the National Front’s first parliamentary candidate and later deputy leader, detail the causes of Europe’s slide into World War 11 and the effects on post-war Britain.

This book discusses the origins of World Wars 1 and 11, the rise of Nazi Germany, a highly critical evaluation of Winston Churchill (who, Fountaine points out started the terror bombing of civilians), the destruction of the British Empire, the effect of Christianity on modern society, and Third World immigration into Britain. This is an incisive overview, written in the no-holds barred style for which Fountaine became famous. With an introduction by Combat editor John Bean, and an appendix by Bill Baillie “Ten Years of Combat.”

Andrew Fountaine (1918-1997) was the son of Vice Admiral Charles Fountaine who had been naval ADC to King George V. He fought on Franco’s side during the Spanish Civil War against the Communists and served as a naval Lieutenant-Commander in the Pacific during World War 11.

Fountaine was also leader of two 1960s-era groups, the National Labour Party and the (then) British National Party. In 1979 he split with Tyndall and unsuccessfully challenged him for the leadership of the NF. Defeated, he formed the short-lived NF Constitutional Movement, later called the National Party. Within a short time, Fountaine became disillusioned with the in-fighting in British nationalist politics, and in 1981 retired to farm on his property near Swaffham.

The Meaning of an Enemy by Andrew Fountaine is available from Ostara Publications at £7.45 plus postage: www.ostarapublication.com

Views on the News

The crackdown on illegal immigrants was reported but it will be interesting to see how many are actually deported. Doreen Lawrence thinks that it’s a racist campaign but pictures published so far show white people being detained. It looks like a cynical propaganda stunt to persuade the punters not to vote for Ukip because everything is under control. They used the same tactics against the National Front in 1979.

Nobody wants to see drilling rigs and pipelines all over the countryside but shale gas will be exploited and the environment will be protected from the effects of fracking by existing rules governing gas production and distribution. When gas was made from coal we had tips, gasworks and gasholders, often in the centre of town. They were unsightly but they provided employment and power for over a hundred years.

Our newspapers have suffered a 25% fall in circulation since 2007. If this continues some of them are bound to cease publication. The Sun is fighting back with a website subscription linked to Sky Broadcasting. But there are too many newspapers chasing too few readers. This is a shame for those who earn their living from newspapers but it can only be good news for the nation. Our newspapers are mendacious rags totally subservient to the Money Power. We would be better off without them.

The Metropolitan Police have paid an undisclosed sum to the widow of Ian Tomlinson, a non-political bystander who was “accidently” killed by PC Simon Harwood at the London G20 demonstration in 2009. The police have accepted full responsibility but refuse to tell the taxpayers how much of their money they are paying out. We welcome their apology but their secrecy shows that they have not abandoned their culture of impunity.

Critics of foreign aid will be outraged by Britain’s support for Nigeria’s space programme, and the theft of £480,000 by the Somali terror group al-Shabaab. In 2012 UK foreign aid was behind Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium, but ahead of Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy and France. We gave 0.48% of GDP but have now raised it to 0.7%. This might seem over generous at a time of austerity but most foreign aid is tied to trade deals. It also provides a bargaining chip when it comes to repatriating economic refugees.

Ukip chief executive Will Gilpin has given up trying to organize Ukip which he describes as “a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs.” His resignation follows the “bongo bongo” outburst by Godfrey Bloom, Stuart Wheeler’s dismissal of women in the boardroom, and Dean Perks’ support for cutting off the hands of thieves. All of this went down well with Nigel Farage who has decided to take direct control of the party. He leads a gang of populists who will say anything to please the mob. Cato the Elder ended ever speech with the words “Carthago delende est”; Nigel Farage ends his speeches with “Get Britain out of Europe.”