Nation Revisited # 101, March 2013

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The Special Relationship

Britain is very much the junior partner in the “special relationship” with America. The last time we did anything on our own behalf was the Falklands War but even that was with Ronald Reagan’s permission. Harold Wilson managed to keep us out of the Vietnam War by pleading poverty but Tony Blair sent the RAF to bomb Serbia into submission to NATO and we fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and got involved in the civil wars in Libya, Mali and Syria.

Generals like wars because they can try out their latest weapons and they are good for recruiting. Young men drive cars and motorcycles too fast and drink to excess because they think they are indestructible. But unscrupulous politicians exploit their bravery by sending them to do NATO’s bidding. This has got nothing to do with patriotism on the part of the politicians. Warmongers like William Hague make sure that they keep well away from the battlefield.

Since the end of the Cold War there has been no direction to American foreign policy. They are propping up the apartheid regime in Israel but trying to bring down the popular government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. And they are backing al-Qaeda in Syria but fighting them in Mali. America trained and financed the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets but they are now backing the drug-running dictator Hamid Karzai.  They first supported and then deposed the brutal regimes of Said Barre in Somalia and Haile Marian Mengistu in Ethiopia. At present they are paying Ethiopia and Kenya to occupy Somalia and the navies of the world are patrolling the Indian Ocean to suppress piracy resulting from thirty years of compulsive American meddling.  

Foreign affairs experts cannot decipher American policy. Instead of bringing stability it has left a trail of destruction around the world. Iraq is a typical example of a country systematically destroyed for no good reason. We now know for certain that there were no “weapons of mass destruction.” But their endless wars have benefited the defence industry on both sides of the Atlantic. Pilotless drones, missiles, tanks, guns, ships, aircraft and satellite surveillance systems cost billions of dollars. The Pentagon has ordered 2,457 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters at a cost of $400 billion.

It’s no coincidence that the boards of the defence contractors are staffed with retired admirals and generals. War is good for business and despite the crocodile tears of the politicians they couldn’t care less about the lives of our soldiers. They are “collateral damage” in the so-called “war on terror”; a small price to pay for guaranteed dividends.

Micawber’s Advice

We all remember Mr Micawber’s advice to young David Copperfield: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”

Nations are no different to people; if they don’t live within their means they are soon in trouble. Borrowing against expected future earnings can only be a temporary measure.

Portugal had a balanced budget under the Estado Novo from 1926 to 1974. The country was poor but the government didn’t have to please the voters because elections were a formality. This system lasted until the cost of fighting colonial wars in Africa emptied the Portuguese treasury and brought down the Salazar regime.

Authoritarian states do not have to court popularity but parliamentary democracies have to borrow the money to keep half the population on the dole. This is what has bankrupted the industrialized world. If any government tries to balance the budget by slashing spending and raising taxation it will be thrown out at the next election. That’s what will probably happen to the governing coalition in the UK; and every other administration that tries to do the right thing.

The system survived because the world economy was growing. People were earning more money and buying more cars, houses, clothes, shoes, computers, health care, pensions, education, holidays and everything else. But now the worldwide boom has run out of steam and people do not have the money to spend. Therefore the taxes on company profits, sales and wages have slumped disastrously. And governments can’t cover their deficits because the banks and pension funds that buy their bonds have also run out of money.

This will correct itself. Governments will eventually be forced to stop spending and the social systems paid for with borrowed money will collapse. The mob will riot in the streets as they have already started to do in Greece and Spain. But no government, left right or centre will be able to spend money that it doesn’t have and cannot borrow. The riot cops will be kept busy as liberal democracy is overtaken by economic reality.

A system based on head counting and the myth of an ever expanding economy will be replaced by something more tangible. Micawber’s Law which says that you can’t spend more than you earn will prevail and the practice of bribing the electorate with welfare cheques will come to an end. But in the meantime we have to work with what we’ve got, and our priority must be to stop trying to feed, house and medicate half the world. We will never stop mass migration while our welfare system acts like a magnet for the poor and dispossessed of the entire world.

No change at the BBC

Last year Chris Pattern was appointed chairman of the BBC following a series of managerial disasters at the state-owned corporation. The British government has always pretended that the BBC is “independent” but like so much of British policy this is nonsense. The BBC is and always has been the state’s mouthpiece.

In 1939 the Duke of Windsor spoke for the first time since his abdication in 1936. His speech on American radio was broadcast by world-wide link-up to 400 million people but it was banned in Britain by the BBC.

“I speak to no one but myself and without the previous knowledge of any Government. I speak simply as a soldier of the last war whose most earnest prayer it is that such a cruel and destructive madness shall never again overtake mankind. I break my self-imposed silence now only because of the manifest danger that we may all be drawing nearer a repetition of the grim events which happened a quarter of a century ago.

You and I know that Peace is a matter far too vital for our happiness to be treated as a political question. We also know that in modern warfare victory will only lie with the powers of evil.

Whatever political disagreements may have arisen in the past the supreme aim of averting war will, I feel confident, impel all those in power to renew their endeavors to bring about a peaceful settlement.

Among measures which I feel might well be adopted to this end is the discouragement of all that harmful propaganda which from whatever source it comes, tends to poison the minds of the people of the world. I personally deplore, for example, the use of such terms as ‘encirclement’ and ‘aggression’. It is in a larger spirit than that of personal or purely national interests that peace should be pursued. The statesmen who set themselves to restore international security and confidence must act as good citizens of the world and not only as good Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, Americans or Britons.

In the name of all those who fell in the last War I urge all political leaders to be resolute in their discharge of this mission. The world has not yet recovered from the effects of the last carnage. The greatest success that any Government could achieve for its own national policy would be nothing in comparison with the triumph of having contributed to save humanity from the terrible threat which threatens it today.”

In 1939 the BBC denied the British people the chance to hear the Duke’s powerful plea for peace. Seventy-four years later we have satellite TV and the Internet but if we relied on the BBC we would still be kept in the dark. 

Running out of Time

When young Roger Clare joined Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement in the late fifties he asked the North London organizer Fred Shepherd: “how long will it be until we come to power?” Fred thought about it for a while and answered: “about six months”.

Nearly sixty years later we are still anxious to come to power before any more harm is done. The Empire has gone, except for Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands and a disputed strip of Antarctica. The Soviet Union has disappeared into the dustbin of history – to misquote Karl Marx. And the influx of blacks and Asians that started with the arrival of MV Empire Windrush in 1948 now threatens to overwhelm Europe.

The crisis of global capitalism predicted by Oswald Mosley has come to pass. Demonstrators in Madrid and Athens have thrown a few petrol bombs and the cops have shot a few students but in most of Europe, and especially in the UK, people are   going about their business as usual. There is still enough money sloshing around to keep the system going and the state has got us all on CCTV. The plutocrats will not make the same mistakes that led to the French and Russian revolutions; they will let us have just enough money to sustain the system.

The fear of the communists taking over has been replaced by nightmare of millions of black and Asian economic refugees flooding into the country. The popular press pays lip service to immigration control but they are more interested in undermining the European Union. The populist right is playing on the Muslim threat but the religion of the invaders is irrelevant. The feral gangs terrorizing parts of London are nominally Christian and Muslim shopkeepers were amongst their victims in the recent riots.

The races of the world have been scrambled and we must get used to thinking in terms of collective identity instead of the old national designations. The criminal lunatics who have been in charge of the UK for the past hundred years have done a thorough job of destroying everything we were proud of. Two world wars, half a dozen recessions, deficit spending and fifty years of mass migration have laid waste to the UK and the most of the Western nations.

But instead of feeling sorry for ourselves and quoting manic-depressive philosophers of the past we must look on the bright side. There are still a billion Europeans in the world who are capable of anything given the motivation. Despite the disparity in populations we have the ability and the technology to recover our territory. From the 16^th century the European powers took over most of the world in an unparalleled burst of energy. That era has passed into history but we are still the same people with the same courage and determination. We have mastered science and technology and we are destined to follow Yuri Gagarin and Alan Sheppard in the conquest of space. The re-conquest of Europe will be entirely possible.

NR Five Questions

We asked our readers five questions; Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could direct government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to be remembered? So far we have heard from John Bean, Robert Edwards, Bill Baillie, Michael Woodbridge, Eddy Morrison, Robert Best, Arlette Baldacchino and Alexander Morano. We would like to hear from more readers. Please reply to: nationrevisited@gmail.com

Who are you?

I am Rufus. I write the News From Atlantis blog, and other associated ones. I have been active in anti-Internationalist circles for more of my life than I haven't. During that time I have participated in the electoral process, although I no longer have any faith in that particular avenue. I now focus upon networking and helping others to get the message across. To this end, I have contacts across every continent. Beginning from a rather blinkered point of view, I am free of any alien-imposed supremacist illusions, and now seek a peaceful restoration of national freedom to every people of every origin, worldwide.

What do you believe in?

In a nutshell - Freedom. I believe in the right of the individual to grow and develop in the security of a stable society. I believe that the best way for people to reach their full potential is for them to be allowed to live in a natural organic society. The natural society is one in which there is a shared culture, based on a shared ethnicity. The multi-culti anti-society we have had foisted upon us by the materialists who rule over us is the exact opposite of all which is healthy. I believe that Internationalism is the death knell of humanity, and that it has to be halted if we are to avert a bland global coca cola state in which the people are subservient to commercial interests. We are at a crossroads in history. If things progress as they have been doing, we will find ourselves in a global slave state, devoid of culture and anything of worth. It is our duty to the generations who come after us to end the internationalist agenda of those who misrule us, and to create a new world of free nations, living peacefully side by side but absolutely independent of one another; culturally, ethnically and in terms of sovereignty.

If you could direct government policy what would you do?

I would immediately end all involvement in NATO, the UN and all other internationalist bodies. I would nationalize the economy, forbidding anyone who does not belong to the nation (the indigenous nation) to own any part of it. By Nationalize, I mean end all foreign and international ownership; I in no way support the Marxist principle which is but Capitalism by a different route. All funds presently concentrated on the military occupation and exploitation of other lands would be redirected into helping the non-indigenous peoples presently living amongst us to return to their homelands. The crimes of the Establishment must be addressed, and our first priority must be to ensure that those who have been wrenched from their own countries by economic factors (contrived poverty at home, and the lure of a better life here) can return without any further economic hardship. The financial aid to the countries of origin of those who are in our lands but should not be, would not only be the morally right thing to do, but it would ensure that the goodwill of our nation would be taken with the returned migrants, thus preventing any feelings of animosity amongst those we restore to their natural homelands. I want to end the entire capitalist system of exploitation as far as my own country is concerned, and would hope that by providing an example of how a peaceful solution to our woes can be achieved, other nations would rise up to free themselves in a similar manner.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

That's a tricky one. Pride and Regret can both be damaging in their own ways. I do have regrets, but I try not to dwell on them. Certainly if I could live my life over again, I would hope to be more self reliant, and not to have fallen into the trap of following leaders for the period in which I did so. However, that experience helped to mould me, as has every experience, both good and bad, so all-in-all everything I have had to go through has been for a reason - however hard some of the experiences have been. I am proud of my family, and of my friends and comrades - there is nothing more important in life than people, and I have been fortunate to have had to opportunity to share my life with people who have been a pleasure to be around, and who have challenged me at every step. My love of my kin is the basis of my politics, and the reason I fight against those who seek to reduce humanity to self-obsessed producer-consumers.

 How would you like to be remembered?

Does it really matter if we are remembered? If I can leave the world in the knowledge that I have helped to awaken people to our plight, I will be happy. I hope that people who I have been involved with on any level will take the battle forward and see the importance of action. If I am to be remembered, it is as a part of a movement for freedom - and hopefully a victorious one.

Thank you very much for interviewing me. It has been a pleasure to be asked my opinions. I hope that people who read this will see the importance of taking the battle to the real world and doing whatever they can to halt the progress of our enemies. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something - and if there are enough of us, those small actions will build into an unstoppable force. Victory is achievable if we sense our own strength, and turn ideas into action.

 Many Shades of Black

John Bean’s 1999 political biography charts his journey from Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement to Nick Griffin’s BNP. Following a sell-out first edition it has now been reissued by Ostara Publications at £12.95 plus postage.

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Gun Control: an American perspective from Robert Lyons

I enjoyed your #100 Nation Revisited. Thanks for sending. About the only comment I can make is on your article about gun control. A countryman of yours, Piers Morgan, is beating the bushes here to have the US population disarmed with laws similar to what the UK has today. As you pointed out the love of the firearm in this country is very much steeped in our country’s history and is a very complicated issue so I will comment only on my observations.

I remember the stories US soldiers brought back about arriving in the UK during WWII and being amazed that most British recruits into the military had never seen a firearm much less fired one whereas most US soldiers were country boys totally experienced in the handling of such weapons long before they joined up to fight, so training them was easy compared to their British counterparts.

In my youth I was raised on a farm, weapons of all kinds were part of our daily existence. From a very early age we hunted small game, mostly squirrel and rabbit as well as deer, wild game was a large part of what we ate back in those days. My uncles also ran trap lines for the pelts of muskrat and the occasional mink to make a little extra income and I would help.

We also hunted nuisance or varmint animals both for sport and to protect crops, those animals in this category would include raccoon, fox and groundhog. The coon hunt at night through the woods with a pack of coon dogs was a sight to remember. Many times whilst plowing I would take along a rifle to shoot groundhogs to help with the boredom. Those were the good ole days.

Back in those days we never gave guns a second thought, they were readily available, bought in any Sears or Montgomery Wards catalog. Weapons of any type could be purchased at the local hardware store along with dynamite if you needed to blow stumps on your farm. Shooting accidents happened back in those days but they were few and far between because firearms were a tool and a way of life.

Sadly times have changed; our society is now urban and with urbanization came the liberalization of society, politics and crime. The little farms are a thing of the past, it’s all agribusiness now. Firearms are still respected by the law abiding citizens who grew up in a more gentler and kinder time and those of us who can still love to handle our weapons and still love to shoot for either sport, hunting and for protection. In this day and time protection with the crime rate out of control in the US can’t be emphasized enough.

As your article pointed out there has been many new gun laws recently introduced due to the hysteria caused by the unfortunate recent shooting incidents. Who are these gun laws aimed at? They’re aimed at the law abiding citizens and not the criminal, if half the laws already on the books aimed at the criminal were enforced gun crimes would be way down. Unfortunately in the end it will be the good citizens who will be disarmed like in the UK and the criminal will still have a source of easily obtainable weapons.

I remember back when I was a teenager we would hear of kids making pistols called “zip guns”, a very effective little weapon created from the frame of a cap pistol joined to a certain model car aerial, easily broken off for a barrel and wrapped with heavy rubber bands, this homemade creation would fire a .22 caliber shot very effectively at close range. Nowadays with the easy access of drug money and black market weapons kids don’t have to be creative anymore to kill one another or rob a liquor store or gas station.

During WWII in the occupied countries various intelligence agencies passed out diagrams to resistance groups detailing the creation of a very effective little Tommy gun which looked like the old WWII “grease gun.” All it took to create this fully automatic .45 caliber weapon was some skill with a lathe and about $50 in parts.

The American people have lost and are losing so many of their Constitutional rights it seems there’s little recourse but try to maintain what we have in a seemingly hopeless battle with the government. Our law abiding citizens will one day wake up and find their 2^nd Amendment rights also gone. When and if criminals are ever denied weapons, if forced to do so they can easily create them.

Immigration

The far-right believes in a conspiracy to destroy the white race but the real reason is the capitalist love of cheap labour. The government promotes multi-racialism but the driving force behind immigration is big business. Britain brought in immigration controls in 1968, 1972, 1981 and 2010 but they are still flooding in and nobody knows how many illegal immigrants are here because we don’t have identity cards. Laurel Grove told the truth about immigration on The Independent website 11/02/13.  

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The largest immigrant groups in Britain are Indians and Pakistanis. There are many more of them than there are Romanians and Bulgarians. The government already has powers to control their entry, which it does not exercise because of pressure from business interests in favour of cheap labour. The problems the UK has with immigration are not in the main the fault of the immigrants themselves but of our own governments, both Tory and Labour, and their sponsors. How often have you heard 'business representatives' claim they "just cannot find the skills they need" in the local labour market, despite millions of unemployed? When politicians 'talk tough' on immigration you can be sure there is still a back door left wide open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gun Control

The slaughter of 20 children and 6 adults by Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut, and the multiple killings in Webster, New York have reopened the debate on gun control. Last July a graduate killed 12 people in a Colorado theatre showing a Batman movie. And less than a month later an army veteran killed 6 worshippers at a Sikh temple in Winsconsin.

In the UK the Gun Licence Act of 1870 was followed by the Pistols Act 1903, the Firearms Act 1920, the Firearms Act 1937, the Criminal Justice Act 1967, the Firearms Amendment Act 1988 and the Violent Crimes Restriction Act 2006. These laws were prompted by the abundance of firearms brought home by returning soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars and the First and Second World Wars, and by popular demand after a series of massacres in Hungerford, Dunblane and Cumbria.

Some conspiracy theorists accuse the authorities of being implicated in these atrocities. They think that governments are using mass murder to disarm the population and prevent armed insurrection. Most people reject such ideas out of hand but Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Daily Telegraph accused the FBI of causing the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the New Age spokesman David Icke believes that the world has been taken over by a gang of green lizard people led by Queen Elizabeth II and known as the Babylonian Brotherhood.

But apart from the Wild West and the usual suspects gun control laws are widely supported and there’s no sign of an impending revolution. The gun lobby is powerful in the US but it’s insignificant in Britain because we were never attacked by the forces of King George III or faced with marauding Red Indians or dangerous wild animals. We need protection against armed terrorists and criminals but the use of firearms must be restricted to trained officers of the law.

The idea of ex-servicemen keeping weapons at home is dangerously misguided. A former Swiss soldier recently shot dead three women and injured two men in the village of Daillon. Ex-servicemen are trained to use firearms but they are just as vulnerable to mental disorders as the rest of us. In fact the Samaritans report that young ex-servicemen are up to three times more likely to take their own lives. Soldiers need weapons for fighting battles but in civilian life they need jobs.

The policies of the far-right

In 2010 the UK government scrapped plans for identity cards when everyone from the lunatic left to the rigid right started screaming about civil liberties. They claimed that ID cards were a step towards dictatorship but if we want to control immigration we need to know who is in the country. The government has problems with vote rigging and social security fraud but efforts to update their databases are frustrated by lack of information. In the modern world accurate records are a fact of life; the far-right is encouraging criminality by opposing them.

They are also wrong about shale gas. Energy prices have nosedived in the US as a result of gas fracking. Scientists believe that shale gas deposits in the UK could match the North Sea oil boom. If they are right nothing will stop the government from exploiting them. Wind power is expensive and unreliable. Nuclear power plants are expensive to build and cripplingly expensive to shut down.  Coal is relatively cheap and available but twice as polluting as gas. There are environmental risks to shale gas but they will be managed.

Before the current Afro-Asian influx the British population was descended from tribes that crossed the English Channel in antiquity; Beaker Folk, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans. But despite our anthropological links to the mainland the far-right makes no distinction between European and non-European immigration. Their lack of racial solidarity and historical perspective is shameful.

The BNP fought the last general election with images of Winston Churchill and Spitfire aircraft to emphasize their patriotism. But they failed to make a breakthrough and they have been eclipsed by the reactionaries of Ukip and the Paki-bashers of the EDL.

They claim that the UK contribution to the EU budget is £43 million per day – that’s £15.6 billion a year. In fact our contribution in 2012 was £6.5 billion before the rebate. This is even less than we spend on foreign aid; an insignificant sum compared to a national debt in excess of £1 trillion and a budget deficit of £126 billion. They should concentrate on immigration and leave economics to those that understand it.
The newly-formed British Democratic Party has issued a detailed policy statement calling for an end to immigration and Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. They deny being anti-European but they are implacably opposed to federalism and will be competing with Ukip, the BNP and the NF for the eurosceptic vote. The average voter might not be able to tell the difference between the far-right parties but the popular press will have no such problem. They will encourage Ukip but use every trick in the book against parties contaminated with anti-Semitism by the youthful indiscretions of their leaders. Having the word “democratic” in their title will not save them.

John Gaster

The inquest into the death of Gareth Williams the MI6 codebreaker who was found dead in a zipped-up holdall in his Pimlico flat reminded me of another highly intelligent character who had worked for the government and died in unusual circumstances. It seems that not all of our spies are as indestructible as James Bond.

John Marston Gaster was dismissed by Jeffrey Hamm as public relations officer of the British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women for being too openly National Socialist. That was before the League was absorbed into Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement in 1948. He founded an organization called the North West Task Force under the slogan “Wir Kommen Wieder” – “We come again”; a bold but risky strategy in the immediate postwar period. A few years later he founded a swastika bedecked movement called the British Pan-German League.

His contemporaries describe John Gaster as an impressive character. Roger Clare remembers him as an accomplished pianist, linguist and historian who had worked for the British Foreign Office. John Bean recalls him addressing a meeting of the National Labour Party in an upstairs room of Bill Webster’s pub the Black Horse in Kentish Town; and discussing history and politics with his comrades Frank Leonard, Neville Bealing and Peter Greenslade. Roy Chester told me that John Gaster used to translate directly from the Russian newspaper Pravda. And Vic Sarson remembers a tall, well-spoken man smartly dressed in a railwayman’s uniform.

He was an authority on secret societies and the author of Krumm-Heller in England, a treatise on the German-Mexican Rosicrucian Arnoldo Krumm-Heller who was implicated in the Zimmerman Telegram in WW1 and supported the pro-Nazi Swiss National Front during WW2.

I met John Gaster in the Bladebone pub in Bethnal Green in 1972. He asked me if I knew anything about the Italian “Propaganda Due” Masonic lodge. But I knew nothing about P2 until the apparent suicide of “God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi a decade later. When I heard that he had died following an assault in 1998 I remembered our conversation and I was intrigued when the “anti-fascist” magazine Searchlight blamed Roberto Fiore, leader of the Italian Forza Nova party, for his death: an allegation that Alexander Baron has dismissed as just another Jerry Gable fantasy. The coroner found that his death was caused by an infection and the police made no arrests.

John Gaster was just one of the many thousands of people who have passed through the so-called far-right movements. But he is remembered as a remarkable man by all who knew him. He was apparently born about 1920 so he would have been nearly 80 years-old when he died. It is not known why he left the Foreign Office and ended his working life on the railways. Or why such a gifted linguist and historian devoted himself to radical politics instead of pursuing an academic career. We can only speculate on the man and his motives and be grateful that we knew him. Not many railwaymen can speak Sanskrit or quote pages of Goethe.

Nationalism in a Changing World

Opponents of immigration are divided between racial and cultural nationalists. But racial homogeneity does not guarantee national unity and language does not define nationality. The Spanish-speaking Gibraltarians are British to the core but the English-speaking Irish are determined not to be British. The state of Belgium was created to save the Dutch-speaking Catholic Flemings from domination by the Protestant Hollanders. But after 183 years of union with Catholic French-speaking Wallonia they are demanding independence. Their nationalism was first based on religion and then on language; but there is no appreciable racial difference between the Flemish and Walloon people.

Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley brought peace to Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement. Although they came from different traditions they got on so well that they became known as the “chuckle brothers.” The Loyalist and Nationalist leaders found that on abortion and a host of issues they shared the same views. The flag riots are not typical of the vast majority of the population. As a handful of hooligans threw petrol bombs at the police 250,000 decent Belfast people went to work.

The Slovenes, Bosniaks, Croats, Montenegrins, Serbs and Macedonians came together after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire because they shared the same Slavic language and culture. But their common heritage did not save them from war when the authoritarian regime of Marshal Tito collapsed. But now Slovenia and Croatia are members of the EU; Bosnia and Montenegro have applied to join and the government of President Tomislav Nikolic has recognized Kosovo as a prelude to Serbia’s membership. Soon all of the former Yugoslav states will be reunited in the European Union.

The Israelis are comprised of white Jews from Europe, brown Jews from Arabia and black Jews for Ethiopia; many races, languages and cultures united by a common religion. They are surrounded by the Arabs who can be anything from black to white. Most of them are Muslims but they may be Christian or Druze; many races and faiths united by language and culture. Race is a matter of biology but nationality can be based on race, religion, culture, language, monarchy, geography or bureaucracy. The people of Alsace-Lorraine have been German or French according to the fortunes of war. And when asked why a Jewish field marshal – Erhard Milch – was serving in the Luftwaffe Herman Goering said: “I decide who is a Jew and who is an Aryan.” (Bryan Mark Rigg: Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers).

The UK Independence Party doesn’t have any Westminster MPs but they have 3 members of the House of Lords and 12 members of the European Parliament. Their leader is Nigel Farage a former Tory commodities trader who is married to a German woman and famous for wearing overcoats, drinking beer, smoking cigarettes and insulting people. He recently explained his fears to Simon Walters of the Daily Mail:

Farage says he saw a glimpse of it at the European Parliament last week when the EU’s anthem Ode to Joy was played. “I looked around the room and I saw them standing ramrod straight to attention and I thought Bloody Hell, that is scary.” He denies comparing it to the rise of Hitler, but adds: “This is the new nationalism. For German politicians in the European Parliament it is acceptable to be deeply patriotic about the European flag and not their own. Germany, Italy – there are many countries who feel they are rubbish and they rather like a flag they can be proud of and an anthem they can stand up to. The European project is now a project of nationalism and it is very dangerous.

Nigel Farage’s comments are self explanatory. He supports the United Kingdom which is a union of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, but he rejects the same federal arrangement for Europe. Ukip are simple patriots but their loyalty is misplaced and their 1930s-style nationalism is redundant: we cannot live on nostalgia.

Europe is finally coming together after centuries of squabbling. The European Central Bank will henceforth guarantee the euro and oversee a common fiscal policy. But Dave Cameron has promised a “hokey cokey” referendum if he wins the next election; in out, in out shake it all about.

Ukip’s fears are groundless. England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales still have their own identities after hundreds of years of political and economic union. Europe united on the same federal basis as the United Kingdom will offer the advantages of collective security without threatening our nationality.

After the war Oswald Mosley called for Europe a Nation with America as our ally against communism. That was during the Cold War when the Soviet Union was an expansionist power. But Francis Parker Yockey and Jean Thiriart saw American capitalism as the main enemy and called for rapprochement with Moscow. Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 interest in a European-Russian alliance has been revived. Apart from the racial and cultural affinity between Europe and Russia there is also the fortuitous proximity of Russian gas and oil to German industry.

When John Tyndall wrote Six Principles of British Nationalism in 1966 Commonwealth trade was booming. But fifty years later selling Morris Minors and BSA motorcycles to grateful Australians is no longer a viable proposition. The White Dominions have found new markets and we have ditched much of our industry in favour of a service economy. In the sixties the pound was tied to the dollar, the dollar was backed by gold and Britain had advantageous trade relations with the Commonwealth. That system collapsed in 1971 when America finally abandoned the Gold Standard.

The political and business leaders that want Britain to stay in the European Union are not Marxists they are realists. Japan, China and Korea are recreating the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Russian Federation stretches from the Baltic to the Pacific and the North American Free Trade Area links the economies of Canada, the USA and Mexico. The European Union is here to stay and we should be at the heart of it. But we must deal with what we have. The EU is the world’s biggest trading bloc and the euro is the second most traded currency. The BDP idea of a Europe of 100 Flags is a fantasy that will never be realized. A hundred flags would mean a hundred armies and a hundred competing economies: a recipe for perpetual warfare.

NR Five Questions

Who are you?

My name is Alexander Morana. I am now approaching my 60^th year since my birth. I live in a multi-racial, progressive and affluent metropolis in North America. I graduated in Media Arts and worked for many years in advertising, switching to magazine and book publishing in later years. Since my full time job was obliterated by the new means of communications, for the past six years I have become a full time, independent day trader using the same means which had previously made my old skills obsolete. I am married to a clever wife who also works in publishing and have a wonderful son, presently in his last year of university.

I love art, since I was introduced to the great masters when I was a little boy. I would like to add, the enjoyment of good conversation, a good meal with a Mediterranean red or white wine. I enjoy an entertaining film if it puts me in the mode and feel engaged in mentally as well as visually. Also I enjoy reading a good historical and factual book. In the last twelve years the company of a white female West Highland terrier, called Shelia, has rejuvenated me (due to 2 times a day walks), and instilled a bit of patience, of which I had lacked.

What do you believe in?

I believe in my European and Mediterranean heritage. To my ancient ancestors I am in debt for who I am and what I have become even though my birth roots have been uprooted and transplanted to a multi-cultural society. I believe in my first people, of pre-History, the temple builders of Hagar-Qim who glorifying the mythical element of earth, spirit and race and transcended through the classical period of Greece and Rome. I strongly also believe in the freedom of the whole self and mind as for the individual, the will to create, produce and contribute is boundless. The works of Spengler, Dr Michael Pearce, Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey, including Gabriele D’Annunzio, Norman Lowell’s – Credo, the theories of Alexander Dugin, I have not taken them all as creed but to my heart. To my father for he has taken me to the Temple of Apollo in Segesta, Sicily as a child. To walk and speak softly, as he pointed out where the Gods slept and who instilled in me to be proud of my heritage and where I come from. Here I asked if the gods will awake and speak to us. His answer was that they will only speak to special people and only if they want something special from them.

If you could direct government policy what would you do?

I would dismantle all the current European laws issued by Brussels as well as the local municipal bylaws concerning welfare and social security and liberate all the shackles of trade and industry to flourish from the burden of taxes and duties. Furthermore remove any censorship, dictate and rules concerning, publishing, cinema and entertainment. Implement the death penalty. Dismantle any central laws, duties and excise taxes on produce, finances and property. Let the city state flourish and communities work and contribute for the benefit of each other. Eventually the removal or cleansing becomes naturally applicable by self whether or not one would be able to function or be able to produce or partake in such communities? (To the strong and creative and productive people they shall be rewarded and for the weak and lazy they should fall. Only the old and sick will be catered to by the state). The great medieval trade centers thus became prosperous, Florence, Pisa, Ghent, Antwerp, the city of York, London, Paris, Cologne, Genoa, Venice, Naples and Palermo.

Finally, I would demolish NATO and remove all US bases in mainland Europe and remove all the nuclear warheads stored in Britain. (Notice there is no public debate on this issue anymore?) No more bloody conflicts for someone’s interest sending young men and women to some far flung hell holes. Defend the homeland only if attacked.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

Of my family and my son and wife as well as to what I have achieved in life so far. I regret that perhaps some people, who are no longer with us, lived a bit longer to have shared some of my joys and sorrows.

How would you like to be remembered?

I would like to be remembered like I remember my late father, as someone who had taken and given to mankind in good spirits, professionally, culturally and ethically.

The Meaning of an Enemy

Andrew Fountaine (1918-1997) fought for General Franco during the Spanish Civil War and served in the Pacific as a Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander during WW2. His masterly denunciation of the warmonger Winston Churchill is now available from Ostara Publications at £7.45 plus postage. www.ostarapublication.com

The Proclamation of London

The European Liberation Front issued the Proclamation of London in 1949 setting out the revolutionary ideas of Francis Parker Yockey.

Thus, the Liberation Front now states to Europe its two great tasks: (1) the complete expulsion of everything alien from the soul and from the soil of Europe, the cleansing of the European soul of the dross of 19th century materialism and rationalism with its money-worship, liberal-democracy, social degeneration, parliamentarianism, class-war, feminism, vertical nationalism, finance-capitalism, petty-statism, chauvinism, the Bolshevism of Moscow and Washington, the ethical syphilis of Hollywood, and the spiritual leprosy of New York; (2) the construction of the Imperium of Europe and the actualizing of the divinely-emanated European will to unlimited political Imperialism.

The ELF grasped the reality of the post-war situation but most people were living in the past, and sixty years later they still are. They are worrying about Britain losing her mythical independence in a world that’s already divided into superpowers.

The dollar is the world currency and world trade is governed by the World Trade Organisation. Apart from Russia and China, any country wanting to buy oil needs dollars and any country with its own currency needs dollar reserves. Any country trying to circumvent this system will be destroyed by US economic or military warfare. Argentina, Iraq and Libya have been destroyed and Syria, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba and Burma are currently being destroyed. This system is enforced by American military power supported by NATO. It is known as “The New World Order.”

All states lacking the firepower of Russia and China must conform to American foreign policy. Britain and France last acted independently when they attacked Egypt in 1956 but their forces were recalled under threat of American economic warfare and they have behaved themselves ever since. Britain pretends to be an independent sovereign state but she is occupied by US armed forces and her nuclear weapons cannot be fired without Washington’s permission. This system is known as “Collective Security.”

Under the terms of the WTO the free movement of goods and labour is guaranteed. Any country trying to defend its borders will be put on America’s hit list and denied access to oil and credit. This system is known as “Free Trade.”

We must forget the fears of the past. Communism has been abandoned in Russia and commercialized in China: the real danger to Britain and Europe is international capitalism. Francis Parker Yockey’s prophetic vision is now taking shape. The world trade system is breaking down as capital moves from Europe and North America to Asia. We will not correct this seismic shift by tinkering with tariffs and waving national flags. A fundamental change is required: we must start thinking as Europeans.

The Proclamation of London is available from Wermod & Wermod Publishing Group at £15.99.  http://www.wermodandwermod.com

 

Nation Revisited

           # 99, January 2013  nationrevisited@gmail.com 

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Well Done Everybody

The low turnout at recent UK elections showed how disinterested people are in democracy. The voters know that their opinions are ignored and that voting is a complete waste of time. And given the choice of parties available one can hardly blame them for staying at home.

The Labour Party has benefited from the unpopularity of the government but the industrial working class that sustained them is shrinking fast. The heavy industries have gone to Asia and their once powerful trade unions have lost their clout.

The Liberal Democrats have got some intelligent policies but they have been damaged by their coalition with the Tories and are undermined by the mass circulation newspapers, Sky TV and Channel 5 for being pro-European.

Ukip are doing well but if Britain quits the European Union they will lose their raison d’être. They are therefore trying to become a Poujadist movement by calling for tax reform and immigration controls.

The BNP intend to make good a budget deficit of £126 billion by withholding £6 billion from the EU and £8 billion in foreign aid (2012 figures). But even a financial genius like Nick Griffin can’t make 6 + 8 = 126. This is no doubt a mathematical conspiracy by Marxists, state agents, traitors and Searchlight spies.

The Green Party is making progress in middle class areas like Brighton but they are not likely to appeal to a wider constituency. The Respect Party is more or less limited to immigrant areas and the various far-left parties are hopelessly divided.

Given a choice of parties in the pockets of big business it’s no wonder that a ballot box was recently returned in Monmouth with not a single vote cast. Elections are being decided on turnouts of 25% or less. The Old Gang is crying crocodile tears over the decline of parliamentary democracy but more and more people are refusing to take part in head counting. The real winners of last year’s elections were the apathy party; the majority of men and women who refused to put illiterate crosses on ballot papers to give a gang of ungrateful chancers £65,738 a year plus expenses. Well done to everybody that stayed away from the polls. Emma Goldman was right when she said: “if voting changed anything they would abolish it.”

The Rise of Ukip

People have got very short memories. The Labour Party won all their by elections despite being responsible for ruining the economy and flooding the country with immigrants. They have only been out of power for two years but people have already forgotten how bad things were under Gordon Brown. The public’s response to Croydon town centre being burned down by rioting black mobs was to re-elect the Labour Party that brought most of them to the UK.

But the big surprise was the rise of Ukip. They have become a rightwing populist party that has eclipsed the BNP. They have captured the anti-Euro vote and they now seek to grab the anti-immigration vote. While their far-right rivals have been arguing amongst themselves Ukip have come up with a simple non-racist five year ban on immigration that is legal as well as popular.

They came second in a string of by elections but their prospects are still as limited as their horizons. The Tories could blow them away by calling a referendum on Europe but the more likely scenario is that Dave Cameron will do a deal with Alex Salmond. He will drop his insistence on a yes/no Scottish referendum to offer the SNP “devo max” – total autonomy within a federal UK in return for scrapping the Scottish MPs at Westminster and ensuring a Tory majority in an English parliament.

Despite Brian Leveson’s conclusion that the popular press is impartial it’s clear that Ukip is promoted by the mass media and could easily be destroyed by them. Nigel Farage enjoys favourable publicity at the moment but if Dave Cameron did a deal with the media barons to save them from regulation the inanely grinning face of the great patriot would disappear from our screens and newspapers.

Like all political parties Ukip is comprised of human beings who enjoy all the usual vices. There’s almost bound to be a sex scandal or a financial impropriety waiting to be exposed by our “fearless press.” These things are part of the human condition and it seems that politicians are particularly vulnerable to temptation.

But it might not take a juicy scandal to bury Ukip: they are killing themselves with constant repetition. They have been predicting the demise of the EU and the collapse of the euro for donkey’s years but both are still going strong. If you want to know who will win an election it’s best to look at the bookmakers’ odds. And if you want to know the viability of a currency look at China’s foreign reserves. Tony Gallagher, the desperately depressing editor of the declining Daily Telegraph, is convinced that the euro is doomed but the cheerful new Chinese leader Xi Jinping can’t get enough of them. The EU is the world’s largest trading bloc and the euro is the second most traded currency after the dollar. You can either listen to the last gasp of a dying newspaper or follow the example of the world’s fastest growing economy.  

The press is still powerful but fifty years ago it was all-powerful. Malcolm X is hardly remembered today but he was one of the first popular leaders to challenge the stranglehold of the press barons. In 1964 he said:

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role; it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press”…

“If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

Too Late For Justice

In 1988 Ronald Reagan agreed to compensate Japanese Americans detained without trial during World War 2. This cost the American taxpayer $1.6 billion. Inspired by this act of redemption former BUF member John Charnley wrote to Chris Pattern at the Home Office to demand a pardon for his wartime imprisonment under Defence Regulation 18B. Charnley invoked the Petition of Human Rights 1628 which states that: “No free man may be imprisoned other than by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” Chris Pattern is a good man in many ways but his answer was a classic legal cop-out. He replied:

“It would seem that whilst Mr Charnley was detained under the law as it then stood, but not convicted of any offence there is therefore, no offence that can be pardoned. There is no power by which the Home Secretary can effect or, as it were, ‘wipe out’ the fact that he was detained under the exceptional powers of detention in the Defence Regulations. I am afraid I can only confirm that there is no action which the Home Secretary could now properly take.”

The recent publication of Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain (Portobello Books) details some of the atrocities committed against victims of 18B and prisoners of war under chief interrogator Robin ‘Tin Eye’ Stephens. He was exonerated at his subsequent court martial but as more wartime documents are released the truth about this dark chapter in our history will be revealed. Even David Blair in the Establishment mouthpiece the Daily Telegraph admitted:

“The Attlee government covered up these horrors and Stephens walked free after a flawed trial.”

Nellie Driver was a courageous BUF organizer who was imprisoned without charge or trial under Defence Regulation 18B. Together with over a thousand others she was detained simply for opposing Winston Churchill’s war. She further defied the forces of ‘democracy’ by writing the following haunting poem:

Within these walls confined at night

I often heard them cry
Although my woes were far from light
My own eyes were not dry,
It seemed that justice came that way
And haughtily passed by.

(Nellie Driver – The Ballad of Holloway Gaol)

Sixty-eight years after the war there are probably no survivors of 18B. It’s too late for them to be pardoned or compensated. 18B was not a legitimate security measure. A thousand unarmed and untrained men and women would have been no use to an invading German Army comprised of 9 infantry divisions and 2 airborne divisions. 18B was a vindictive act of political persecution by the fanatical warmongers Winston Churchill and Herbert Morrison. Following the Battle of Britain Adolf Hitler cancelled Operation Sea Lion because he couldn’t beat the RAF or the Royal Navy. The excuse of detaining alleged “fifth columnists” made no sense after November 1940 but many of them were held captive until 1945. Innocent men and women whose only crime was to disagree with Winston Churchill and stand up for their rights: the very principles that the war was supposed to be about.

The Roots of European Union

Opponents of the European Union accuse it of being a “Marxist-inspired” organization designed to enslave the world under a global dictatorship. But the father of the EU, Robert Schuman, was no Marxist, he was a devout Catholic who devoted his life to public service and the cause of European unity.

Speaking at Strasbourg in May 1949 he outlined his vision:

“We are carrying out a great experiment, the fulfillment of the same recurrent dream that for ten centuries has revisited the people of Europe: creating between them an organization putting an end to war and guaranteeing an eternal peace. The Roman church of the Middle Ages failed finally in its attempts that were inspired by humane and human preoccupations. Another idea, that of a world empire constituted under the auspices of German emperors was less disinterested; it already relied on the unacceptable pretentions of a ‘Fuhrertum’ (domination by dictatorship) whose ‘charms’ we have all experienced.

Audacious minds, such as Dante, Erasmus, Abbé de St Pierre, Rousseau, Kant and Proudhon, had created in the abstract the framework for systems that were both ingenious and generous. The title of one of these systems became the synonym of all that is inspirational: Utopia, itself a work of genius, written by Thomas Moore, the Chancellor of Henry VIII, King of England.

The European spirit signifies being conscious of belonging to a cultural family and to have a willingness to serve that community in the spirit of total mutuality, without any hidden motives of hegemony or the selfish exploitation of others. The 19^th century saw feudal ideas being opposed and, with the rise of a national spirit, and nationalities asserting themselves. Our century, that has witnessed the catastrophes resulting in the unending clash of nationalities, must attempt and succeed in reconciling nations in a supranational association. This will safeguard the diversities and aspirations of each nation while coordinating them in the same manner as the regions are coordinated within the unity of the nation.”

If the Marxists wanted to bring about world government they should have infiltrated the British Empire. It was worldwide, contained all the races and resources of humanity and was controlled by a central authority. But far from encouraging the British Empire they worked hard to destroy it. Ramon Mercander killed off the Marxist plan for world government when he buried an ice axe in the head of Leon Trotsky in August 1940. His employer, Joseph Stalin, believed in “socialism in one country” – just like his ally of the time Adolf Hitler. Far from being a Marxist conception the European Union is the culmination of two millennia of cultural development; a political and ultimately a spiritual union with the potential to of feed, defend and preserve our civilization.

It’s a funny old world

We have all heard outlandish theories that are supposed to explain what is really happening in the world. They are usually based on the idea of a deliberate conspiracy and they are so popular that they have their own magazines and websites. The first rule of conspiracy theory is that nothing is what it seems to be. Plane crashes are never the result of mechanical failure or pilot error but always due to sabotage. And assassinations are never the work of a lone psychopath but always organized by a team of professionals working for one of more of the intelligence agencies.

These ideas become entrenched over the years, and when somebody disagrees with them they are looked upon as a heretic. The Kennedy assassination has been described as the mother of all conspiracy theories. The Warren Commission was thoroughly conducted but more than forty years later a Fox News poll showed that 66% of Americans thought that there had been a conspiracy while 74% thought that there had been a cover-up.

One of the persistent fallacies is that everyone is Jewish. This accusation is made against; Churchill, Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, Ataturk, Rupert Murdoch, the old Queen Mother and Tony Blair. But people are not necessarily Jewish just because we don’t like them. On the other hand Ferdinand Lassalle the father of German National Socialism was a Jew; and so was Harold Soref who was a standard bearer at Mosley’s great prewar Earls Court rally and one of the first Tory MPs to defy Central Office by opposing non-European immigration into the UK.

Paranoia is contagious and a good conspiracy theory can go viral. Seemingly rational human beings who hold down regular jobs and read the Daily Mail suddenly start believing that George W Bush organized 9/11; that the Moon landing was staged in Arizona and that Elvis is working in Starbucks. Official enquiries do nothing to disabuse them because they believe that government ministers and high court judges are all part of the conspiracy.

Conspiracy buffs believe that almost every prominent person who has died in recent years was bumped off. They were therefore unfazed when British intelligence officers were killed in the helicopter crash of 1994, and when the Polish president Lech Kaczynski was killed in the air crash in 2010. The trouble is that governments do knock off their opponents from time to time and intelligence agencies are often staffed by criminals and lunatics. We should also remember that Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Hitler’s chief of military intelligence, was a British agent, and that the Cambridge Five;  Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean. Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross were senior British civil servants and KGB spies. As Margaret Thatcher said when she fell from power: “It’s a funny old world.”

There is no Alternative

After two years of coalition government Britain’s economy is still in trouble. Unemployment and inflation are stable but we are still spending much more than we collect in taxes. We currently have a massive deficit of £126 billion.

The government can tinker with taxation and raid pension funds but it has no control over the cost of imported oil, gas and food. At the same time our exports are undercut by Chinese and Indian goods made by workers earning a fraction of our wages. Businesses cannot expand because the state-subsidized banks are still undercapitalized: since the financial crisis of 2008 lending rules have been tightened and credit is effectively frozen.

Attempts to levy VAT on takeaway food and holiday homes have met with massive opposition. The Labour Party want to tax the rich and the Tories want to cut benefits to the poor. But there are not enough people at either end of the social spectrum to balance the books. Most people are not rich or poor; they are the struggling middle class that are trying to pay their mortgages and hang on to their jobs. The government might trim £10 billion off the welfare budget and squeeze another £10 billion in taxation but they will still have a massive budget deficit. The only solution is to stop spending so much money. This would not necessarily result in a reduction in services. Crime has actually gone down since police budgets were cut.

Our armed forces should be structured for self-defence and we should expand the Anglo-French Defence Treaty to include the rest of the EU. But the biggest drain on our resources is the upkeep of those who have never worked and are determined not to. Not the genuine unemployed who are looking for work, or the sick or disabled who are unable to, but those home-grown and imported parasites who are content to live on handouts. A drastic revision of welfare payments would start a stampede to get out of the country. The airlines would do a roaring trade flying home foreign scroungers and our native work-dodgers would find a job if the alternative was starvation. This may sound harsh but if we do not reduce spending and borrowing the pound will depreciate and the Welfare State will collapse.

NR Five Questions answered by Arlette Baldacchino

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

So far we have had replies from John Bean, Robert Edwards, me (Bill Baillie), Michael Woodbridge, Eddy Morrison and Robert Best. Here is Arlette Baldacchino of the Viva Malta website. http://www.vivamalta.org/

We are still looking for replies, not just from writers and ‘intellectuals’ but from anyone with something to say, Please send your replies to:  nationrevisited@gmail.com

Who are you?

My name is Arlette Baldacchino and I am one of 5 siblings born to a Scottish-Maltese father and a German-Maltese mother, making me as European as I am Mediterranean. I live in Malta, a small island in the Mediterranean where culture and tradition, together with strong family values are the foundations on which we build our future. As time went by, I started to realize that the same beliefs that shaped my life were changing, and as a mother I knew that the legacy I inherited from my ancestors was completely different to that which we are passing on to the next generation.

What do you believe in?

I believe that I have the right to Be.

To be serene in my environment; to be proud of my achievements and to strive for more, seeking within to find the strength we didn’t even know existed.

I believe in securing a future for our children, one that is not merely as noble as that of our forefathers, but better. A future anchored in tradition and improved with the advancement of science and technology.

I have the greatest respect for Mother Nature, for the earth and the cosmos, and I draw strength from the power of elements: the full moon, a roaring fire, and the waves crashing onto the shore in a splendid display of raw energy.

Politically I believe that the future is beyond left and right and that if we are to preserve our birthright we must put aside petty differences and seek what unites us. We must learn from the mistakes of the past, and close ranks to work together for a future that unites all people from a European background wherever they are, from Ireland to Vladivostok and beyond.

If you could direct government policy what would you do?

I would secure our borders and put an immediate end to all non-European immigration. This would be followed by a repatriation programme to send all foreigners back to their homelands.

Just as important would be a complete overhaul of the educational system and a similar exercise in mass media. Our children are growing up in a world that burdens them with guilt for the perceived sins of their forefathers coupled with an admiration for anything foreign and “exotic”. This is wrong and damaging, and if we really want to implement change, we must start with our children for it is these youngsters who will direct government policy eventually.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

I am proud of the fact that I act on my beliefs. In 2005 I co-founded a website and forum to raise awareness of the problems I have highlighted above. We also use this website to offer an alternative source of news and educational articles that the mainstream media does not cover, or worse, hides.

I am a proud activist and mother, and I practice what I preach, whether political, cultural or spiritual. I am a committed animal lover, a vegetarian and I am also teetotal.

I have very few regrets, mostly because when I am wrong I apologies and learn from my errors.

How would you like to be remembered?

I suffer no delusions and know that I am loved and hated in equal measure, so I will be remembered exactly as I am living. However with those I care for, I would like to be remembered as one who offered a safe haven; a sacred spot where souls meet to rest and nest, safe in the knowledge that their secrets are kept and their vulnerabilities respected. I am a loyal and brutally honest woman, and for all that it’s worth, that is how I will be remembered.