Nation Revisited #152 June 2019

Our Place in the World.

The United States ended the Second World War as a global superpower, but Europe, Asia and the Soviet Union were devastated. There have been many changes since then, such as the collapse of the European empires, the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of China, but the United States is still the dominant power. President Donald Trump rules an empire bequeathed by history.

Britain, on the other hand, lost her empire, her naval superiority and access to cheap raw materials. We were reduced to living on American loans and when we tried to flex our muscles by joining France and Israel in the invasion of Egypt in 1956, we were ordered to withdraw by a furious American government..

Countries are measured by their military capacity, standard of living, level of education, economic performance, and many other factors. By any standard Britain is a great nation with a seat on the United Nations Security Council, a modern army, navy and air force equipped with nuclear weapons, a thriving financial services industry, and world-class health and education.

We are doing well but we could do so much better. It's a national disgrace that people are sleeping in doorways. Philip Alston, the internationally respected UN expert on poverty, has issued a damning report on homelessness in the UK. The government has denied his report but rough-sleepers with sleeping bags and makeshift cardboard bedding can be seen in most city centres.  We have started building more houses but, young people are finding it difficult to get mortgages because of tighter banking regulations. And all the while, the gap between rich an poor grows wider.

The Brexit fiasco has forced us to consider Britain's place in the World, The Brexiteers are living in the past, but most people realise that we are a European power, like France and Germany. We are Europeans by history, geography, blood and culture,

The latest date for Brexit is 31st October, but the Euro election results show that the country is equally divided between Leavers and Remainers. The Brexit Party won the most seats but the combined votes of the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats were greater. 

Theresa May has finally given up trying to appease the head bangers of the Tory Right. The lunatics have taken over the asylum and Boris Johnson is waiting in the wings. He is a Brexiteer but he would serve as prime minister of Britain in or out of the EU, he just jumped on the Brexit bandwagon to further his ambition.

John Bean

The article on my old friend John Bean in last month's Nation Revisited prompted several enquiries about his health. I am pleased to report that he is in good shape both mentally and physically. The last time that he had his intelligence measured was in 1991 by Mensa. At that time he scored an impressive 138. His Mensa certificate is attached.

John Bean writes: "Thanks for that. I will appreciate a mention in June NR. This is not just my touch of vanity but rather to show that followers of the Radical Right amongst your readership are not just a collection of non-thinking prejudiced idiots."

NR writes: According to the journal 'Intelligence', the smartest voters in the 2001 election were supporters of the Green Party and the least intelligent were BNP voters. You will not be surprised to find that this survey appeared in 'The Guardian'.
   
Saving the NHS

We are torn between staying in the European Union or breaking away, but many of us fear that an 'independent' Britain would be swallowed up by the United States. We are linked to America by language and history and many of us have friends and family across the Atlantic, but we are different countries. Their health care system is based on insurance and leaves millions of people without cover, but we conform to the European Social Model which provides universal health care. We do not let people die because they are poor.

Our National Health Service employs over a million people and tums over £120 billion. The giant American medical corporations will gain access to the NHS if the far-Right Tories get their way. They have long advocated closer ties between the UK and America,

The shadowy Atlantic Bridge movement was founded by Liam Fox in 1999 to promote trade between Britain and America. Margaret Thatcher was appointed president and the membership included, Michael Gove, George Osborne, William Hague and Chris Grayling. The movement was shut down by the Charities Commission in 2011.

The real choices is between being an equal member of the European Union or an American dependency like Puerto Rico. We must not allow our NHS to be taken over by businessmen who are more interested in profit than people.

The Reverse of the Truth

Members of the Brexit Party and UKIP are wrong about Europe. They fear that membership of the EU will rob us of our identity, and they think that pro-Europeans are 'traitors'. They even question the sincerity of Theresa May, a decent patriotic woman who loves her country.  

The same accusations were aimed at Oswald Mosley and his supporters who opposed the war. Most of them had fought in the First World War, but that didn't stop the warmongers from calling them traitors. Mosley wrote in 'The Alternative':

"What then, was the truth concerning the National Socialist or Fascist movements before the war? Our fault was exactly the opposite of that suggested against us. How often in politics is that the fact? How rarely are the people permitted to know anything except the reverse of truth. It was suggested that we might set the interests of other countries before our own: that was an absurd lie. In reality we were all too National - too narrowly concentrated upon securing the interests of our own nations. That was the true fault of all real National Socialist or Fascist Movements; whether in Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy.

So far from being willing to serve each other as "Fifth Columnists" in the event of a clash between States, our political ideology and propaganda were far too Nationalistic even to mould the minds of men in a new sense of European kinship and solidarity which might have avoided disaster by universal consent. So far from fighting for other countries in a war, we none of us argued with sufficient force in favour of that new sense of European Union which modern fact must now make an integral part of the new creed."

An article by Martin Webster is circulating which argues that Oswald Mosley adopted European unity to ingratiate himself with the Establishment. In fact, he abandoned imperialism after the war because the Empire was no longer viable. Instead, he developed the idea of 'Europe a Nation', Mosley moved on but nationalists are still clinging to obsolete pre-war policies. 

Oswald Mosley and his followers were not traitors and nor are the 48% that voted to remain in the EU. People are entitled to their opinions and they should not be threatened and insulted because of them. We seek to change men's minds by reason and debate and we deplore the modern practice of shouting down the opposition.

Ken Clarke

Last month I proposed Ken Clarke to lead a Government of National Unity. He has been annoying the right wing of his party for many years, but I still think that he is the man for  the job. He upset the powerful Zionist faction when he invited Oswald Mosley to address the Cambridge Tories in 1961.

The Daily Telegraph reported:

"While still a student at Cambridge, Clarke joined the Conservative Party and was chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.

Controversially, he invited Sir Oswald Mosley, The former British fascist leader, to speak, leading some Jewish students, including a young Michael Howard, his future successor at the Home Office - to resign from the association in protest."

Ken Clarke is currently under fire from the far-Right. They have tried to unseat him as an MP but he is too popular with his constituents. In an age when politicians change their minds to suit the prevailing mood, they are lucky to have a reliable figure to represent them. Compare him and his achievements as a Cabinet Minister with the miserable gang of second-raters that are scrambling to lead the Tory Party.

Chris Grayling has failed so many times that he is known as 'Failing Grayling'. Gavin Wlliamson, known as 'Pike' to his colleagues, was sacked for leaking state secrets, Jeremy Hunt did not know that his wife was Chinese, and Dominic Raab did not know that Dover was a vital seaport.

The Rebel

Thanks to Stephen from the East Midlands for alerting us to the alternative news service 'The Rebel'. When the mass media on both sides of the Atlantic are in total agreement we suspect collusion. The news is seldom presented impartially by the BBC, CBS, Fox, Sky etc. Just look at their one-sided coverage of the Iran situation. 'The Rebel' seeks to break their stranglehold by reporting the news objectively and allowing people to form their own opinions. Check out 'The Rebel' website. -  https://www.therebel.media/therebels  

My Lord Tomnoddy - Robert Barnaby Brough (1828-60)

Our parliamentary system developed when most working men were illiterate and few of them had ever left their villages. Members of Parliament were elected by landowners to represent their interests. This satire dates from the nineteenth century but much of it is still applicable.

My Lord Tomnoddy's the son of an Earl;
His hair is straight, but his whiskers curl;
His Lordship's forehead is far from wide,
But there's plenty of room for the brains inside.

He writes his name with indifferent ease,
He's rather uncertain about the "d's,"
But what does it matter, if three or one.
To the Earl of Fitzdotterel's eldest son?

My Lord Tomnoddy to college went;
Much time he lost, much money he spent;
Rules and windows, and heads, he broke -
Authorities winked -young men will joke!

He never peeped inside a book;

In two years time a degree he took,
And the newspapers vaunted the honours won
By the Earl of Fitzdotterel's eldest son.

My Lord Tomnoddy came out in the world
Waists were tightened and whiskers curled
Virgins languished and matrons smiled,
Its true his Lordship is rather wild.

In very queer places he spends his life;
There's talk of some children by nobody's wife -
But we must not look close into what is done
By the Earl of Fitzdotterel's eldest son.

My Lord Tomnoddy must settle down -
There's a vacant seat in the family town!
It's time he should sow his eccentric oats -
He has not the wit to apply for votes:

He cannot e'en learn his election speech,
Three phrases he speaks, a mistake in each!
And then breaks down - but the borough is won
For the Earl of Fitzdotterel's eldest son.

My Lord Tomnoddy prefers the Guards,
The House is a bore so, it's on the cards!
My Lord's a Lieutenant at twenty-three;
A Captain at twenty six is he

He never drew sword, except on drill;

The tricks of parade he has learnt but ill;

A full-blown Colonel at thirty-one

Is the Earl of Fitzdotterel's eldest son!

My Lord Tomnoddy is thirty-four;

The Earl can last but a few years more.

My Lord in the Peers will take his place;

Her Majesty's councils his words will grace.

Office he'll hold, and patronage sway;

Fortunes and lives he will vote away;

And what are his qualifications? - One!

He's the Earl of Fitzdotterels's eldest son.

Managing Immigration

The governments latest immigration proposals have been put on hold pending the Brexit debate. If it ever gets sorted out we need a sensible immigration policy which acknowledges our declining birth rate.

Many years ago I was talking to a Japanese banker in a City of London pub. I asked him why Japan was so successful compared to the UK. He said: "After the war we went for automation and you went for immigration." Japan has the same manpower problem as Britain. People are having fewer children and they are living longer. We solved the problem by importing labour, but the Japanese designed robots to replace human beings.

It is unrealistic to call for a total ban on immigration. We are desperately short of skilled labour because irresponsible governments imported cheap labour from abroad. Now, we are forced to hire bricklayers from Portugal and nurses from the Philippines. We can change things by training our own people but that will take time.

Britain never had a comprehensive immigration policy that took account of housing, education and welfare. We must calculate how many immigrants we need to maintain production and decide where we get them from. Workers from Europe are obviously easier to assimilate than those from Asia and Africa. The other answer is to encourage native Brits to have more children by providing affordable housing and reducing taxation.

Immigration used to be a taboo subject. Many people worry about it but they are frightened of being accused of racism. The far-Right fantasizes about deporting  immigrants to their countries of origin. They expect our army of 80,000 men to round up millions of immigrants and deport them to countries that would probably refuse to take them. Successive governments brought in legislation to silence debate on immigration, but it's a subject that must be addressed. We need skilled immigrants that will contribute to our economy but we do not need dole scroungers and criminals. Immigration must be managed. 

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Nation Revisited # 150 April 2019

April is the Cruellest Month.

The great American poet TS Elliot (pictured) began his epic poem, "The Waste Land" with the words "April is the cruellest month"; further on he states, "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down". Unfortunately, only Greg Johnson knows what Elliot was talking about.

This April will be cruel for those who were looking forward to Britain leaving the European Union. But having waited 46 years to 'get our country back', another two months is not so bad.

The Brexiteers are obsessed with the idea of nationality, but we Britons are Europeans by blood and culture. If we leave the EU we will probably rejoin in a few year's time. It's not a perfect institution but it's a step in the right direction - towards European unity.


Ten Points for Action

In 1973 Action Party (Union Movement) published its manifesto "Ten Points For Action".

1. Action to Build Houses

We want Action to solve the housing problem. It should be taken out of the hands of local authorities and entrusted to Government leadership, with powers to mass produce houses and flats like an "operation of war", turning out homes as arms and munitions were mass-produced in time of war.

2. Stop The Land and Rent Rackets

Give the Government powers to acquire land at pre-boom prices and to finance housing by low-interest charges on all non-essential and luxury buildings. Such action would bring down house prices and rents and at last provide good but cheap housing for all.

3. Stop Immigration - Start Repatriation

We want Action to ease the pressure on housing and other social problems (like the reintroduction of diseases unknown in Britain for hundreds of years) by stopping all further immigration and by repatriating all post-war immigrants to good jobs and conditions  in their homelands to which prosperity has been restored by using the surplus wealth and production of united Europe. But Britain could make a start now before the complete union of Europe is achieved.

Remember that we have been advocating this policy since 1952, long before any of those now saying the same sort of thing - without the means to carry it out.

4. A Choice in Education and Health

We want Action to build good schools, colleges, universities and hospitals, just as we would mass produce houses and flats. Parents should have a choice of schools for their children. We should not be taxed to provide those health services we will never use (maternity benefits for confirmed bachelors!) but free to pay in proportion to our requirements.

5. Free Speech - Law and Order

We want Action to ensure freedom of speech for everyone, guaranteed by the Government, which has a duty to maintain law and order in the State and to take effective action against mob violence, which today denies freedom of expression to any views of which its agitators disapprove. Let us maintain local police forces with their local knowledge and experience but let us supplement them with a highly-trained, well-equipped, mobile national police force, to put down organised crime and to maintain public order.

We would ensure freedom of the Press for both newspapers and the public. Any man who felt himself misrepresented in the Press should be guaranteed (by law) equal space to reply in the newspaper concerned. This would free the public of the expense of seeking justice through costly libel action and free the newspapers from the legal blackmail of a threatened libel action by some unscrupulous racketeer.

6. Capital Punishment

The death penalty should be restored to the statute book, to be used sparingly in the case of premeditated murder. The Court of Appeal should have a solemn duty to recommend a reprieve if in any doubt. The sentence should be carried out not by hanging but by a quick and painless injection, or by some other humane method.

7. Action in Europe

To put these policies into practice Britain must advance beyond the concept of a so-called united Europe and Common Market to which the Conservative Party has at last been converted and which the Labour Party still opposes. We must advance quickly to 'Europe a Nation', which we have advocated since 1948. We stand for a union of all Europe. our former white Dominions and southern Africa, a great "third force" in the world, independent of both America and Russia.

This "third force" should have a central government for its defence, the economy, finance and scientific development, with power to raise wages and control prices as production increases for a guaranteed market, insulated against unfair competition from the rest of the world.

We need a European army, equipped with the most modern weapons, to defend our continent against attack from any quarter. This should be financed on a European budget instead of each small country straining its economy to finance its own defence. 

8. National and Regional Governments

There should be independent national and regional governments for each European country and the main regions. This would enable England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and other European countries and regions to have their own parliaments for internal affairs and for the preservation of their national and regional cultures.

9. The Irish Problem

The ultimate solution to the Irish problem is the union of that country within a united Europe. But the bloodshed must first be brought to an end by a free vote on a county basis in each of the Six Counties and a subsequent rearrangement of the border. The bulk of the Catholic population in the North would then be ruled (as is their wish) from Dublin, with a lessening of present tensions, the IRA would lose its bases in the North and the British  Army would have a much shorter border to patrol against infiltration from the South. In this improved situation, agreement could more easily be reached on the eventual union of Ireland, with the rights of the then Protestant minority protected and guaranteed by European government. 

10. Government of National Union

We stand for a government of national union and effective action, drawn from the whole nation; from the professions and the trade unions, arts and science, the law, and the armed forces. Government elected by the whole people alone should govern. It should have power to lead the economy, raising wages and controlling prices as science increased production. Then we will have cooperation instead of conflict in industry.

We want Action to halt the 'brain drain' and to arouse a new spirit of national service in our British people, by relating all reward directly to skill, effort, initiative and responsibility. There should be "great reward for great service", crowned by higher pensions drawn from the wealth of the new economic system, as the reward in old age for those who had loyally served the nation throughout their lives.

Nearly fifty years later, many of these problems and their solutions remain the same, but some things have changed. The mass repatriation of immigrants is no longer possible because there are far too many of them; the old Dominions have found new markets; peace has been established in Ireland by the Good Friday Agreement; taxation has been modernised, and the Brexit fiasco has shown that a Government of National Unity is more relevant than ever. Oswald Mosley died in 1980 and the last issue of his newspaper 'Action' was issued in 1992. But his books are still in print and the ideology of Union Movement is propagated by the Friends of Mosley website: www.oswaldmosley.com 

Science to the Rescue

We are trashing our environment at such a rate that some scientists think that it's already too late to save the planet. The latest warning concerns the insects on which we rely to fertilise our crops. Most of the world's leaders now accept that something has to be done but the leader of the so-called Free World, Donald Trump, is reopening coal mines and drilling for gas and oil. He wants the coalminer's votes and he doesn't care about the consequences of pollution.

President Donald Trump will not be around when our planet is turned into a desert. But our children and our children's children will inherit seas full of plastic waste and land contaminated with chemicals. Trump will not be president forever. He may win the next election with his tax cuts and promises to stop immigration, but the founders of the United States had the good sense to limit a president to two terms.

Politicians have never been much good.  It has always been the scientists and engineers who have saved us in times of trouble. Politicians did nothing about the unsanitary conditions that existed in the nineteenth century. Contaminated water spread diseases until the great engineer Joseph  Bazalgette (pictured) provided clean water and efficient sewage.

It was scientists, not politicians, who gave us the Industrial Revolution, improved agricultural output and discovered modern medicines including antibiotics. And it was engineers who built the railways, conquered the oceans and the skies and eventually got us to the Moon. This resulted in pollution but it wasn't until the Fifties that governments have started to protect the environment.

If our World is to be saved it will be by scientists, not politicians. In fact, we may even develop computers that will consign parliaments to the scrapheap. Government by algorithm may seem far-fetched but it couldn't be worse than the shambles of Westminster. Computer programs driven by data are not prejudiced, they are not lazy, they cannot be bribed, and they always do their best. 

The Things They Say

British prime ministers are great liars. Harold Wilson devalued the pound but said that it would not effect "the pound in your pocket". He knew perfectly well that it would directly effect everyone but his calm, pipe smoking image was reassuring. Margaret Thatcher said that she understood peoples fears of being "swamped" by immigration. Tony Blair warned us of "weapons of mass destruction". And Theresa May starts every statement with the words "let me make this very clear, before deliberately confusing us.

Another trick is to damn us with faint praise. Before criticising the National Health Service, Nigel Farage paid tribute to the dedication of the medical staff. He would probably like to privatize the entire service but he dare not say so.

The Good Friday Agreement is another source of mendacity. Most people are thankful that peace has reigned for twenty years but there is a twisted minority that hates the Irish. They say that they want no borders in Ireland but given the chance, they would bring back border posts, guard dogs, and armed soldiers patrolling the streets. 

Immigration is another subject that turns men and women into liars. When they say that they value the contribution made by immigrants, they really mean that they would like to round them up and throw them out of the country. But such a statement would never be made.

They have twisted the truth so much that nobody knows what they are talking about. Dedicated racists masquerade as liberals and lifelong pro-Europeans, like Theresa May, pretend to be Brexiteers. If they were selling soap powder instead of policies they would be charged under the Trade Description Act. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover politicians.

In South America, in the good old days, they used to shoot lying politicians at regular intervals. This kept them on their toes until the next revolution. We are far too enlightened to follow their example but we must find a way of getting our representatives to tell the truth.

Opinions

Every month I invite those wishing to get off my mailing list to reply with the word 'delete'. This is a requirement of the Data Protection Act, So far, less than 10% have asked to be deleted. I thank the 90% who are interested in my opinions. 

Those who unsubscribe usually object to my allegedly liberal views. I am opposed to non-European immigration, but I am not obsessed by Race and I reject the Jewish conspiracy theory. The Deleted are usually patriots who have been radicalised by writers such as AK Chesterton (pictured). The following paragraph is from an essay he wrote for the British Union Journal in 1936 entitled "The Apotheosis of the Jew".

"It is now that the Jew stands on the verge of world domination. Accepted by society in its decadence he is able to move among highly placed people and pull political strings for the international financiers; in return, he can conspire with his fellow radicals all over the world to pull financial strings for the politicians. So long as his essential "Jewishness" is concealed there is no mischief which he cannot encompass by the subtle exercise of his power; no market he cannot 'rig', no government he cannot crash, no foreign relationship he cannot foul, and with skill and patience no war he cannot engineer. The whole world stretches before him as his promised land."  

AK Chesterton was right about the Jews being powerful in the USA and Europe but they hardly figure in Asia. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian and Indian businessmen are as greedy as their Western counterparts, but none of them is Jewish.

AK would have appreciated the story about the two Jews who were passing a Church. A large notice said: "Convert to Christianity and get £100. Abe went into the Church leaving Saul outside. When he returned, Saul asked him if he had converted. He said "yes, I am now a baptised Christian. "So what about the £100". "Money, money, money", said Abe, "that's all you Jews think about."

Of course, there are some readers that I don't want. Brenton Tarrant, the Australian terrorists who killed fifty worshippers in New Zealand, is not a White Nationalist hero, he is a psychopathic killer and a suspected Mossad agent.

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Alan Welfare RIP

Alan Welfare, a Former Union Movement member and lifelong Mosley supporter, died of a stroke at Weston-Super-Mare on February 28th. Here he is seen, in the background, at another funeral. He will be sadly missed by his comrades.

Jeff Wallder writes

Alan joined the Movement as a teenager in the 1960s and was an active member. He was always good company, great sense of humour and a gentleman. He did his best to prevent the decline of the country he loved and remained loyal to Mosley and to Europe until the very end. To him, we extend the full arm salute.

Terry Wilson writes

Alan was a dear friend and former neighbour who helped rejuvenate the League of St George. He had a great sense of humour and was loyal to Mosley, UM, the LSG and the vision of Europe a Nation. At demos when the reds shouted at him "Nazi", he would calmly reply: "I am not a Nazi, I am a Fascist." A true and loyal comrade. Our thoughts go out to Debbie, Tristan and Mikela.

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