Nation Revisited # 184 February 2022

The Monarchy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plus ca Change 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dying For Democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To All Friends of Willis Carto - Elizabeth Carto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quoting from the letter to Johnson:

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

We Are Still British

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Woodbridge writes:

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

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

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

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

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Nation Revisited # 183 January 2022

What's The Point?

Anyone looking at the election results of the British nationalist parties in the UK might ask "what's the point." In the 2019 UK general election the Conservatives got 43.6% of the poll, the Labour Party got 32.2%, the Liberal Democrats, got 11.5 %, the Scottish National Party, standing only in Scotland, got 3.9%, the Greens got 2.9%, and the British Nationalists came nowhere. 

For the benefit of overseas readers I should point out that British nationalist parties embrace the four nations of the United Kingdon, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, unlike the Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalist parties that are only concerned with their own countries.  

The first British nationalist party, the British Fascisti, was founded in 1923 by Miss Rotha Lintorn-Orman, almost a hundred years ago, but in all that time we have never had an MP elected to the Westminster parliament.

There are many reasons for this; lingering wartime propaganda, a first-past-the-post system that favours the big parties, unfair media coverage, big business backing of the old gang parties, and so on. But the real reason why we don't succeed in the UK is because the electorate are frightened of strong government in peacetime. They like flag waving and jingoism but they are are horrified by the prospect of identity cards or mass medication. There's an unfortunate streak of anarchy in the British people.

Oswald Mosley's post-war formation, Union Movement, made a bold start in 1948 with the promise of "Europe a Nation", but in 1963 their policy was effectively hijacked by the Tory Party when prime minister Harold Macmillan applied to join the European Economic Community. The Tory Party remained committed to Europe until Boris Johnson saw an opportunity to grab power in 2016.

The National Front staged spectactular marches throughout the country in the 1970s with a policy of stop immigration, start repatriation, and get Britain out of the Common Market. They fielded hundreds of parliamentary candidates, only to see the party collapse in the general election of 1979 when Margaret Thatcher said that she understood people's fears of being "swamped" by immigration.

The British National Party repeated the performance of the National Front twenty years later. This time they were eclipsed by Ukip, a one issue party supported by the popular press that campaigned to get Britain out of the European Union.  At its peak the BNP had scores of local councillors, a member of the London Assembly and two members of the EU Parliament, but it began to collapse in 2009 following leader Nick Griffin's disastrous appearance on the BBC TV program 'Question Time', and within two years it was all over.

Today, there are many little populist-nationalist parties, most of which are little more than a 'leader' and a website. None of them have the slightest chance of getting an MP elected, but people have got a right to their opinions and we need a proper political party to steer youngsters away from dangerous and illegal groups such as National Action.

A proper political party should be registered with the Electoral Commission, it should publish its accounts on time, and comply with the law. If laws are unjust they should be campaigned against, but they shouldn't be broken. And members should study history and economics instead of wasting their time on fantasy projects such as resurrecting the Empire or deporting ten percent of our population.

We are entering an economic recession as a result of the pandemic and the dislocation brought about by Brexit. This should benefit the Labour Party but the electorate turned against them because of the vicious media campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, and they are turning against the Tory Party because of Boris Johnson's clownish behaviour and dishonesty. This impasse could be the opportunity that we have long been waiting for.

Recovery

The Coronavirus pandemic has killed five million people worldwide and wrecked national economies. You may believe, as I do, that it's a natural virus, or you may think that it''s a plot by George Soros, Bill Gates, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and their alleged Satanic paedophile ring. But whatever the reason, in the words of the song we will have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down, and start all over again.

The Coronavirus pandemic had the same impact as a war. It took 20 years for the UK to recover from WW2, and it will probably take just as long to get over the current disaster. We were greatly helped by the American Marshall Plan after the last war but the US is unlikely to come to our aid this time.

They say that it's safer to be on a big ship in a storm but we disembarked from the European Union just as the first clap of thunder was heard. 

The mind-boggling sums of money borrowed by the government to combat the virus and protect the economy will have to be paid back. In Hindu mythology Rishi is a wise man, but our Chancellor Rishi Sunak is unwise to predict that taxes will soon come down. The recovery will spark inflation as wages rise to meet escalating food and fuel prices. This will come as a shock to a generation of mortgage payers that have never known inflation. And it will add to the cost of government borrowing. Far from coming down we can expect taxes to increase.

Not so long ago, in the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, they used to talk about shrinking the State and having less government, but we are now heading in the opposite direction. The wartime situation brought about by the pandemic has forced an increase in government. In order to borrow billions of pounds our government has grown in scope and power and the Conservative dream of individual responsibility has faded. We are entering uncharted waters.

Sam Dickson

Thanks Bill,

I am honoured to be quoted by you.

I especially liked the article on AK Chesterton. 

When I was at college (some 50+ years ago), I subscribed to the newsletter 'Candour'.

The article I remember best in it was entitled "This Man is Dangerous."

It was a review of a silly book purportedly exposing the Jews and the Illuminati by an author who may still be alive so I won't mention him because I don't wanr to get dragged into a fight with a nut. (Old English proverb: "Argue with a fool? Who is the greater fool?")

Chesterton quoted one nutty passage after another. He also noted the ludicrous factual, historical mistakes. The author had Marlborough in command of the British army at Waterloo for one such goofiness.

Chesterton concluded with a point that I have never forgotten.

Why is it that antisemites choose to embrace such goofy , baseless claims as the author of this book when it has to be admitted that there is a trove of indisputably true information to support their position?

I see this at work all the time. People uoting impossible "facts." Repeating long refuted claims. All the while ignoring the conclusive evidence that proves us right.

I still hope some day to get back to the UK before I die. (I'm 75.) If so, I hope we can have a personal meet-up.

I am going to Egypt with my much older brother who is well into his 80s. We are to go on a Nile cruise the first 10 days of December.  

Jared Taylor and his wife are going with the same tour group. 

The group itinerary calls for us to fly to London and change planes there to get the plane to Cairo.

Jared has been informed by the British "Mother of the Free" government that he is banned from the UK. They will not permit him so much as to change planes in the international terminal at the airport. He and his wife will have to fly through Frankfurt.

After some thought I wrote to the British Embassy by email a week  ago to ask if I am also on the banned list.

I'm still waiting to hear. My fear is that they may have found that I'm not on the list  and are looking into whether I aught to be.

Jared thinks that I made a mistake by asking but I could not afford the risk of being turned back in London and having my brother to have to go on unaccompanied. 

I hope that I am still allowed to visit the UK.

I will soon know.

Sam

Oversensitivity

The persecution of the Uyghars in China is universally condemned, and so is the mistreatment of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, but any mention of the miserable fate of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territoties prompts accusations of  antisemitism. This oversensitivity is partly to do with the  Hollocaust. The concentration camps were liberated 77 years ago but Christians still feel a collective guilt that makes them sympathetic to the Jews. This is particularly true of the Protestant nations but they don't get the same consideration in Latin America. This may cause a change in American foreign policy as immigrants from south of the Rio Grande continue to seek a better life. They have no feelings of guilt about the Hollocaust and would not be so ready to contribute billions of taxpayers' dollars to the Zionist state.

The Black Lives Matter movement is another case of oversensitivity. Anyone refusing to 'take the knee' is accused of racism, but people are fed up with being pushed around by extremists who attack the police and tear down our statues. There should be no place for racism in sport and there should  be no place for political posturing.

The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has been accused of racism because one of its members used the P word, When India was partitioned in 1948 they needed a name for the new Muslim state. They took the initial letters of the neighbouring states; Persia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and India to spell Paki, and added 'stan' which means country. There is nothing racist about it, but the P word is banned along with the N word and the highly offensive Y word. 

On the other hand, the once taboo C word can now be used, as well as the ubiquitous F word. Homosexuals used to be known by the Q word but they have now reclaimed it and wear it as a badge of honour. And the same thing is happening to the N word which some black people use to describe themselves. Perhaps the P word will undergoe the same rehabilitation?

For the record: I dislike racial hatred and petty nationalism, but we should not excuse war crimes and hooliganism because people have suffered in the past. We were all slaves at some point in history. 

Parliamentary Reform

                              

Parliament has been rocked by new corruption disclosures. Another MP has been caught taking bribes and a donation to the Tory Party of £3 million has been quoted as the price of a peerage. Nothing has changed since Hilaire Belloc and Cecil  Chesterton wrote 'The Party System' in 1911.

"The Sale of Legislative Power

The ordinary method of replenishing the Party Funds is by the sale of peerages, baronetcies, knighthoods, and other honours in return for subscriptions. This traffic is notorious. Everyone acquainted in the smallest degree with the inside of politics knows that there is a market for peerages in Downing Street, as he knows that there is a market for cabbages in Covent Garden; he could put his finger upon the very names of the men who have bought their “honours.” Yet the ordinary man is either ignorant of the truth or only darkly suspects it. And most of those who know about it are afraid to bring the facts to light by quoting names and instances, because the administration of our law of libel weighs the scales of justice heavily in favour of the rich, and because a particular case could only be proved if one were able to do – what one would not perhaps be allowed to do – to subpoena the party managers and demand that the party accounts should be brought into court."

The more or less open sale of peerages came to a head in 1925 when Maundy Gregory, who was David Lloyd George's broker, was charged under the Prevention of Abuses Act, but the practice continues to the present day.

We need sweeping parliamentary reform to weed out the bribe takers, and we need to trim down the whole operation. We don't need 650 members of the House of Commons when the US House of Representatives manages with 435. And we don't  need over 800 members of the House of Lords when the US Senate has just 100 members, in a country with almost five times our population.

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is blatantly unfair, The Liberal Democrats have only got 12 MPs but under a truly representative system they would have 39.

Our upper chamber, the House of Lords, what Jack Lelieve of the original BNP used to refer to as: "that once august establishment", is a total anarchronism. Lords are appointed by the ruling party for services rendered, instead of being elected by the people. Their number should be limited to 100 and they should all sit as independents.

The House of Commons should also be trimmed down to a managable size. MPs should make greater use of modern technology and electronic voting should replace the old-fashioned system that involves MPs shuffling into lobbies to be counted.

Parliamentary language is another relic of the past. All MPs are 'honourables', members of the Privy Council are 'right honourables', lawyers are 'learned members', and members of the armed forces are 'gallant members'. Tradition is all very well but we must move with the times.

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All articles are by Bill Baillie unless otherwise stated. The opinions of guest writers are entirely their own. We seek reform by legal means according to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19:

"We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people."

    

   

 

 

   

 

  

Nation Revisited # 182 December 2021

Britain Can Make It

Battersea Power Station was the largest brick-built building in the world when it was completed in 1955. It generated electricity from British coal delivered by Thames barges, while the nearby Nine Elms Gasworks turned the same abundant fuel into cooking gas.  Now, some of our electricity comes by cable from France, some of our gas comes from Norway by pipeline, some of it comes from the United States by tanker, and the former industrial site at Battersea is an unaffordable, upmarket apartment complex financed by a Malaysian oil company.

When Britain excelled at industrial production we were blessed with coal, iron and a clever workforce that soon adapted to the latest technology. We built ships and locomotives for export and turned raw materials into finished products. The airplane was invented in the US but we were not far behind and by the end of the First World War we had taken the lead. We invented the tank which revolutionised warfare and when the Second World War came our codebreakers at Bletchley Park built the world's first computer to crack the German Enigma cipher.

As the world economy developed we discovered that we could import certain manufactured goods, and agricultural products, cheaper from abroad. And so started the decline of British industry that eventually resulted in the desperate situation we find ourselves in today. As our great manufacturers declined they were bought up by overseas competitors and the jobs that sustained our population and the profits that enriched our exchequer were exported to countries like the United States and Japan.

We cannot put the clock back. We are, where we are but let it never be said that we can't do anything that we put our minds to. We have got world class universities that are turning out scientists and engineers, and a willing workforce that performs well enough for its foreign masters. All we lack is the self-confidence that once motivated us. 

Those of us who were born in the last days of Empire are proud of our country but the younger generation are less so, having been brainwashed by a twisted educational system. We must put them right without resorting to the petty nationalism of the popular press. We are a great nation but we are also part of the European family. The 'Daily Mail' argument that it's unpatriotic to support European unity doesn't make sense. An Englishman is proud of England even though we are united with Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland. In the same way we can be proud of Britain as an integral part of Europe.

Liberalism

In the last hundred years capital punishment and corporal punishment have been abolished, prison sentences have been reduced and attitudes to sex & drugs & rock & roll have changed. Many people who are worried about rising crime rates and antisocial behaviour blame Liberalism. Vic Sarson writes:

"The disease of 'Liberalism' took root in the aftermath of WW1. Feminism is one of many 'Liberal' manifestations; all sectional groups unbalance, distort and fragment society robbing it of cohesion and morale without which there can be no 'society'. Liberalism is an active evil rather than an innocent naivety which, combined with doctrinaire socialism has all but destroyed British society. So called democratic politicians pander to all sorts of notions and give credence to social evils such as encouraging junior school children to transgender. It would take an armed rebellion to strip these people out of their entrenched positions but even if the arms were available/obtainable would it be possible to raise and sustain such a force given the people material of today?

I often wonder if we were again in a WW2 situation would we have the manpower to fight it?"

The French Revolution, which laid the social foundations of the modern world, sprung from Liberalism. It was founded on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity but it took a bloodbath to replace the Ancien Regime. Citizen Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety sent thousands of 'enemies of the people' to the guilotine but eventually it claimed him as well. The Sea-Green Incorruptible was not above the Law. 

There is always a danger of going too far. It was wrong to hang a man for stealing a sheep but it's also wrong to let a thief go unpunished. Something must be done to achieve a sense of balance. Successive governments have experimented with 'short sharp shocks' and longer prison sentences but none of them have got it right.

The problem of rising crime is made worst by drug taking. The police have decriminalised cannabis, without consulting parliament, and their efforts to control harder drugs are limited by lack of manpower and resources. Drugs permeate every level of society and our larger than life prime minister, Boris Johnson, displays all the symproms of cocaine addiction. According to Narcanon these include; euphoria, overconfidence, unusual excitement, aggressiveness, paranoia, poor judgement, delusions, and hallucinations. This may explain his attraction to Pepper Pig.

Boris Johnson's tough-talking home secretary Priti Patel is expected to tackle the drug problem, control immigration, reform the criminal justice system, and restore respect for Liberalism.

Keeping The Lights On

The news that the French oil company Total has discovered a major new gasfield in the Shetlands comes as an embarrasment to a government worried about climate change. Gas is less polluting than coal or oil when used to generate electricity, but not as clean as wind power or nuclear.

                  

Nuclear power claims to be the cheapest way to generate electricity but if you consider the cost of decommissioning, and the storage of radioactive waste, it becomes the dearest. And when  you make provision for nuclear accidents such as Chernoble or Fukushima, the cost in lives and treasure becomes unacceptable.

Wind power is clean and efficient but only when the wind is blowing. Britain is usually a windy country but we recently went three months with our turbines at a standstill.

At present the price of gas is high due to increased demand from Asia. Germany is negotiating a long term contract with Russia that guarantees future supplies. Britain could do the same if we were not waging economic war on Russia with sanctions over Russia's annexation of the Crimean penninsular, a Russian speaking province that has been part of Russia, or the Soviet Union, since 1783.

This hostility to Russia is part of Boris Johnson's jingoistic policy that sent our aircraft carrier 'Big Lizzie' to provoke the Chinese in the South China Sea. He is pretending that we are still a world power with a navy that rules the waves; a position we have not enjoyed since we sank the German battleship Bismarck in 1941. He would do better to concentrate on keeping the lights on. 

We are already connected to the European pipeline system and our domestic network serves the whole country, Gas is the only source of reliable and affordable power.

Of course, we are trying to clean up the atmosphere, but we must be realistic. The volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma is currently spewing out massive quantities of pollutants, and other volcanoes around the world, including those under the sea, are adding to the problem. We can't fight nature but by changing to electric cars and taking practical steps towards emission control we are doing our best to protect the environment.

The oceans are another cause for concern. Plastic waste that is almost indestructable is found in every ocean. It poisons fish and other sea creatures and finds its way, via the food chain, into our digestive systems. Steps are being taken to replace plastic packaging with cardboard that will rot away to nothing. Most of the packaging is unnecessary, there is no need for apples to be sold in plastic boxes.

Our planet Earth is a molten ball of lava with a cooling crust orbiting an uncontrolled nuclear reaction called the Sun. This  emits radiation of all types, including deadly X rays and Gamma rays, and it throws out solar flares that interfere with radio communications. We share our Solar System with greater and lesser planets and satellites that exert gravitational forces that lift our oceans up and down and cause earthquakes, We are also surrounded by millions of stars that influence our planetary progress through the Universe. Mankind's industrial activities are no doubt dangerous, and should be controlled, but we are not the masters of our own destiny.

John Bean  7 June 1927 - 9 November 2021

I encountered John Bean in 1959 when cycling through central London with my school friend Paul Barnes. JB was speaking from the plinth of Nelson's Column at a meeting of the National Labour Party. Thus began a friendship that was to last a lifetime. 

He was born in Carshalton, Surrey. He spent his teenage years studying, dodging German bombs, and waiting to be called up. The war ended before he was needed but he did his National Service in the Royal Navy. On leaving the navy he started work as an industrial chemist but later turned his hand to journalism. 

He was recruited to the Lewisham branch of Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement in 1951 by his lifelong friend Carl Harley. He left UM two years later but he took some of their policies with him. He didn’t go so far as “Europe a Nation” but he believed in a Confederation of Nation States. 

He joined the League of Empire Loyalists in 1954. They were a right-wing pressure group that was firmly against Communism and finance capitalism. In 1957 he founded the National Labour Party, which merged with Colin Jordan’s White Defence League in 1960 to become the British National Party. In 1962 Colin Jordan and John Tyndall broke away from the BNP to form the National Socialist Movement. Colin Jordan kept the Princedale Road HQ, and John Bean kept his paper Combat which ran from 1958 to 1968. The leaders of the NSM were locked up for organising a paramilitary formation called Spearhead. The reorganised BNP stood in local and parliamentary elections with John Bean receiving a record breaking 9.3% at Southall in the 1964 general election; a campaign that I am proud to have taken part in. 

In 1967 the League of Empire Loyalists joined with the British National Party and a faction of the Racial Preservation Society to form the National Front. At first John Tyndall was excluded but he was allowed to join a year later. This development together with the rejection of JB’s policies on European Confederation and Workers’ Partnership persuaded him to quit active politics. He did not return until 1999 when John Tyndall was ousted as leader of the contemporary BNP by Nick Griffin. He became editor of the BNP magazine Identity but fell out with Nick Griffin in 2010. He joined the British Democratic Party in 2013 and for many years he wrote a column for the BDP website called Nationalist Notebook. 

He wrote four books; Ten Miles from Anywhere, an account of life in rural Suffolk, Many Shades of Black, his political autobiography, Blood in the Square, a political novel, and The Trail of the Viking Finger, a historical novel. He also appeared on television; Timewatch in April 1995, Windrush in September 1997, and The Lost Race in March 1999. 

He should be remembered for his practical approach to politics which he described as the art of the possible. He rejected the shock tactics of Colin Jordan in favour of conventional campaigning, and he tried to bridge the gap between Oswald Mosley’s vision of “Europe a Nation” and the narrow nationalism of John Tyndall.

He was a likable, sociable and intelligent man with a good sense of humour. His main fault was that he mixed with the wrong people and was reluctant to dump them. He was a genuine patriot with a social conscience. He leaves behind his wife Marion, his son Chris, his daughter Carol and lots of grandchildren and great grandchildren.

We agreed about ninety percent of the time but we argued about the other ten percent for over half a century; first by letter and then by email. I shall miss him dearly.

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Nation Revisited # 181 November 2021

Conspiracy and Common Sense

I congratulate Colin Todd for Issue 877 of 'Candour' which features part one of Steve Smith's account of the 'Rights for Whites' campaign in East London. www.candour.org.uk

But why does a dedicated European like me promote a Brexit supporting magazine? Because I agree with much of what they say and I believe that economic reality wiil eventually dawn on them.

I also thank him for sending me a facsimile of 'London Tidings' from 1947. This was set up by Douglas Reed the author of many books including 'Insanity Fair'. An article entitled 'World Government: Fact and Fiction' by AK Chesterton (pictured), writing under the nom de plume Philip Faulconbridge, explains conspiracy theory. 

"Some students of affairs, ruminating upon the many strange happenings in the world, do not hesitate to attribute them to a virtually all-powerful secret world-government. They call this sinister body the "Kabal", but when asked to name its members, to give their addresses, and to state where they meet, and what resolutions they pass, they explain rather airily that they use the word only as a sort of convenient shorthand. Such over-simplifications are both unwise and dangerous. They are unwise because few people can be persuaded to believe them, and dangerous because those few who do believe them usually end up by becoming obsessed monomaniacs.

This is not to assert that international groups, wielding immense influence, and even on occasion immense power, have no existence. They certainly do exist. It is even true to say that they seem, from one generation to another, to pursue the same broad policies, and that these policies do more mischief to mankind than they do good. Such groups are not, however, a world-government. That, no doubt, is what they aspire to become, but as yet they are only international pressure-groups - powerful yes: all-powerful, certainly not."

The writer goes on to cover the post war situation; the dominance of Wall Street, the atom bomb, and the global machinations of Bernard Baruch who was the George Soros of his time. Since 1947, when this article was written,  we have seen the demise of the British Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the humiliation of the United States, and the spectacular rise of China. Was it all part of a diabolical plan or the natural course of events? 

Those who believe in the Great Conspiracy are not open to debate. They have seen the light while the rest of us are floundering in the dark. We study history and economics to understand the world around us but they claim to know exactly what's going on. I think that most of my readers have a foot in both camps.

Protests

The fanatics who are disrupting the motorways are an inconvenience to the public and an irritation to a government that's hosting the COP 26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

The right to protest is enshrined in UK law but the government only allows demonstrations when it suits them. If protesters seriously challenge government policy they will find themselves in jail. 

Members of the BUF, and other fascist parties, were detained without charge or trial in 1940 because they opposed the war. The government claimed that they were 'fifth columnists' who were a threat to security, but nobody believed it, not even Churchill. The ancient law of Habeas Corpus which guaranteed trial by a judge was suspended for the duration of the war. All this in a country that was fighting for 'freedom and democracy'.

On Saturday 22 February 2003 one of the largest marches ever seen in London took place in protest at the Iraq War. The police estimated 750,000, the organisers estimated 2 million, but the numbers didn't matter because Tony Blair simply ignored it. The 'Will of the People' meant nothing to a prime minister determined to earn his place in history. Power corrupts politicians and it also drives them mad.

Civil liberties are not as restricted in the UK as they are in some countries, but the idea that we are a perfect democracy is hypocritical nonsense.

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is blatantly unfair and our second chamber, the House of Lords, is unelected. The gap between rich and poor is growing and the trade unions have been undermined by zero contract employers who run the 'gig economy'. We have abandoned the European social model in favour of the American 'hire and fire' culture.

According to the Each Other website:

"The UK is one of the most economically unequal societies in the global North. Inequality affects all people within society regardless of their income. Inequality can harm an individual's physical and mental health, self-esteem, happiness, sense of trust and civic participation.

On average people in deprived neighbourhoods in the UK live seven years less than people in wealthier neighbourhoods. Unequal societies have less social mobility as people are not able to reach their full potential, and these societies also tend to have higher crime rates." 

We used to have middle class prime ministers like Ted Heath, Jim Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, and John Major. Whatever their defects they knew what it was to earn a living, but now we are ruled by parasites who have no idea how ordinary people live. Of course, not all Tories are as bad. Harold Macmillan was a Scottish aristocrat, but he fought in the trenches in the First World War and he understood the working class people of Stockton-on-Tees who voted for him. He was a One Nation Tory as opposed to the Johnson gang.  

Under Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson with his Cabinet of multi-millionaires this country is an unrepresentative plutocracy. You can protest against rising gas prices, higher taxation, immigration, and anything else, but the government with an 80 seat majority in Parliament is unlikely to listen.

Demonstrations only work if they are big enough. The Fascisti came to power in Italy in 1922 with the March on Rome, a mass movement that came to power of its own volition. And in 1934 Action Francaise paralysed Paris and brought down the Cartel des Gauches government by sheer weight of numbers. 

Frankly, we are not able to command such support, our only hope is that the Tories are so greedy and incompetant that they crash the economy and leave a bankrupt country to fend for itself. Then, perhaps, we can pick up the pieces and build a much fairer society.

Electric Cars

Petrol and diesel powered cars are being phased out to be replaced with electric vehicles. This will help to clean up the atmosphere and save the planet. But where will we get the electricity from?

We are committed to stop burning coal to generate electricity, which is a pity because we've got plenty of it. Biomass, gas and oil are almost as dirty as coal, hydroelectric power only contributes 2% to our national grid, wind turbines only work when the wind is blowing, and tidal and solar power are uneconomic That only leaves nuclear, but our nuclear power plants are too old to operate safely, and new ones would be prohibitively expensive, especially when we factor in decommissioning and accidental discharge of radiation.

Energy companies can only stay in business if they can make a profit. State-owned generating companies rely on government subsidies and tax breaks but there's a limit to what the taxpayers will stand for.   

We will probably never know the real cost of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, or the full extent of the polution released into the atmosphere. We can count the dead but we don't know how many people were poisoned with radiation, or how many babies will be born with genetic defects. It is not surprising that the Ukrainians and the Japanese have suspended nuclear power.

Modern petrol and diesel engines are clean and efficient, and the latest fuels emit far less polution. If we fail to generate enough power to charge the batteries of millions of cars we may have to reprieve the internal combustion engine.

Or we could subsidise public transport and do away with private cars. We would still have buses, taxis, ambulances, fire engines, police cars, and delivery vehicles. But young mothers would not be able to drive their kids to school in their land cruisers, and fathers could not show off their latest model in the golf club car park. It would cost the jobs of thousands of car workers, mechanics and dealers, and it would limit our freedom of movement; such is the price of progress.

Democracy

When Eddy Morrison was in charge of the National Front he used to reprint some of my articles from Nation Revisited. The following piece was posted on the NF website in April 2009.

The concept of democracy is universally supported. People trust doctors, dentists, motor mechanics and airline pilots with their lives, and bank managers and financial advisors with their savings. They are happy to trust the experts, except when it comes to government. Then they put their trust in elected amateurs. This is based on the idea that a multitude knows better than an individual. There is no basis for this belief but it's entrenched in popular culture and one of the tenets of political correctness.

If opinions were arrived at by careful deliberation democracy might be a fair system of government. But the trouble is that opinions are created by the mass media. The parties that get elected and the laws that are passed are decided by radio, television and newspapers, not by people thinking for themselves. Democracy is therefore an instrument of power controlled by big business and operated by the mass media.

Nobody voted for the wars of the last hundred years. We fought the First World War in a frenzy of patriotism. Hundreds of thousands of men volunteered to be slaughtered in the mud of Flanders or the burning sands of Arabia. By the Second World War the jingoism had died down but still men went to their deaths willingly.

Then followed a string of colonial wars as the Empire fell apart. Britain fought in Malaya, Kenya, Aden, Cyprus and the Falklands, and as part of the United Nations in Korea. Recently we have supported the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. But not one of these wars was voted on by the people, in every case it was the government that decided to go to war.

Every war was fought for commercial reasons that had nothing whatsoever to do with Belgian neutrality or Polish independence. We fought the First World War to steal Middle East oil from the Turks and the Second World War to stop Germany from bypassing the banks by trading manufactured goods for raw materials. Nearly all subsequent conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan, were really about natural resources. America's ultimate aim is to control all the gas and oil between Egypt and China.

And just as big business sent us to war they also decided to change the population of our country without consulting us. So they introduced the British Nationality Act and imported millions of Third World immigrants to undercut wages and drive down expectations. Then they rushed through laws to stop any criticism of their actions. And at every stage, in every war and throughout half a century of mass migration the people have gone to the polls to endorse their own destruction. They have voted for the very parties that took us to war and turned our country into a dumping ground for the surplus population of the world.

From time to time protest movements have arisen that have fought for Britain. Some of them have become mass movements but the power of the State has been used without mercy to detain people without trial, or charge them with newly invented crimes.

Our task must be to educate the masses, to wean them off the existing 'democratic' system and make them aware that there are alternatives. Our 650 elected MPs and 800 appointed members of the House of Lords are divided into parties but they all serve the same masters. 

We are being decieved by charlatans. Nothing is more sickening than the false patriotism of the capitalists. They send us to war with drums beating and flags flying but they couldn't care less who wins the war so long as they are making profits. Big business is international and has been for hundreds of years. The great corporations do not recognise countries or races; they exploit mankind without regard to race, creed or colour.

Communism and Fascism came and went without destroying the capitalist system. They tried to build mighty states with their own resources but they never escaped from international finance. Today, the Internet is changing everything, it's no longer possible to control information and keep people in a state of ignorance. Revolutionary philosophies may yet come together with climate change and demographics to finally bury debt and usury.

We must read, write and communicate. The State can close down dissenting movements but ideas cannot be destroyed. The present system relies on media control and political corruption but it cannot survive in the age of Information Technology. The people now know too much to be treated with contempt by elected representatives who are mainly interested in taking bribes and fiddling their expenses.

We must develop a modern system of government that is not controlled by bankers and racketeers. The financial crisis shows that capitalists are only vulnerable human beings who make mistakes. They can be beaten.

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