I am coming to agree with this, even if public opinion has shifted since the late and much missed Ted wrote it.
Brexit was for us British Nationalists, a means to an end: recreating Joseph Chamberlain's dream of Imperial Federation, essentially - a union of the White Dominions and Britain, including ideally eventually the US. That was easily doable in 1895, entirely possible in 1935, and just about possible as late as 1970.
Hence what became the NF disagreed with Mosley on this issue, I think at the time an NF Government - in hindsight a vision with Tyndall riding to No 10 on unicorn back whilst squadrons of winged porkers flew past in salute - could perhaps still have achieved it as late as 1980. Party politics was predicated, as must be, on the assumption the party will be in power to implement it. So I think we were right then to disagree with Sir Oswald. However, the Greater Britain train has now long left the station, and we want, to use a cliche, to be the first of tomorrow, not the last of yesterday. Whether or not Mosley was right in 1948, in today's situation I suspect he would be right now.
There are many reasons to embrace a European future in 2020 if not 1950. Nationalism, moribund here, is rising in Europe. Much of Europe, notably in the East, is Whiter than much of the old White Commonwealth, which seems basically moribund to me. Europe needs to stand together against the hordes now pressing in on us from East and South.
In the post Covid-19 world, globalisation will need to be replaced with regional autarkic blocs, with movement of individuals and eventually goods between them made as difficult as possible. No more Chinese tourists! Bojo's "Global Britain" is dead in the water now.
Britain is too small and too crowded to stand alone. We cannot feed ourselves. In theory, we could solve this by wielding the British sword to seize land for the British plough in what is now the Irish Republic - the British Isles as a whole could achieve self-sufficiency in food. However, I am not prepared to countenance White nations preying on their brother Whites in this way - Hitler was wrong (morally and, since it largely caused him to lose his war, practically) to try it in Russia and I do not want my Irish relatives ethnically cleansed or enslaved, thank you.
Europe, eventually including Russia, is a potential autarkic unit (as is Australia, North America, and Greater China - everywhere else in in trouble, I fear). Britain alone is not. The logic to me is inescapable. I feel more akin personally to Anglo-Australians, Kiwis and Canadians, but nonetheless we, and they, are culturally and racially Europeans, and we are geographically too.
I think that Europe therefore is where our destiny lies, but am open to persuasion otherwise. Thoughts?
Happy Birthday John Bean
Congratulations to my old friend John Bean who will be 93-years-old on June 7th. John was born in Carshalton, Surrey in 1927. He did his national service in the Royal Navy, worked briefly in India, and studied chemistry at the Borough Polytechnic, now the University of the South Bank. In 1974 he left London with his wife and children, his technical knowledge, and his trusty typewriter for the wilds of West Suffolk, where he spent the next 47 years earning a living. He has now retired to North Yorkshire, to be with his extended family.
In 1995 he wrote 'Ten Miles From Anywhere' which told the story of his adopted village from 1969 to 1994. For 18 of those years he was editor of the parish magazine 'The Wickhambrook Scene'. This fascinating book which really captures the rural remoteness of the area is available from Amazon.
He is better known for his 1999 political memoir 'Many Shades of Black'. An entertaining account of his career as a street corner orator, including getting 3,410 votes (9.1%) in the 1964 Southall general election. At the time it was the best election result ever achieved by a 'patriotic' candidate, and I am proud to have been part of it. 'Many Shades of Black' has become a standard reference book despite JB's occasional lapses into journalistic licence.
In recent years he wrote two historical novels; 'Blood in the Square' and 'The Trail of the Viking Finger'. They got mixed reviews, but to my mind they were not as good as his documentary works.
In 2012 I collaborated with John Bean and Arthur Kemp on the publication of 'Meaning of an Enemy' by Andrew Fountaine (1918-1997). This critical evaluation of Winston Churchill is available from: ostarapublications.com
Until recently JB's 'Nationalist Notebook' was a regular feature on the British Democratic Party website. He started writing politically in 1955 with an article in 'Nationalist Unity' warning of the dangers of uncontrolled immigration:
With the possible exception of the harnessing of nuclear energy for weapons of war, the political awakening of the Coloured races of Africa and Asia is transcending all other socio-political problems of this age. Accompanying this awakening, is the gradual infiltration of Europe - Britain and France in particular - by Coloured peoples.
Should Western opinion continue to face this problem with the old concept of 'equality of man', it will not be long before Europe as a racial entity ceases to exist, and with it the highly-developed civilisation that Europe has given the world.
Here in Britain we are made daily aware of the increasing resistance that this Coloured influx is meeting, whether it be from busmen or hospital workers who are striking because they fear that the standards their Trade Unions have obtained for them will be undermined by Coloured labour, or from hotel landlords who reserve rooms for White customers only - as the writer has seen done in reverse in hotels and clubs in India.
Whilst this paper opposes the belief that all men are equal, we do not on the other hand contend that biologically any one race is superior to another. The fact is we are all different.
If we are to conserve our country as a European nation, all further Coloured immigration - except for genuine students - must be halted now before its too late. There is little point in creating a race problem where one does not exist.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Russian Federation has adopted a free market economy, and China has embraced capitalism with enthusiasm. The United States is a superpower with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet, and Europe and Japan are its faithful allies.
The global economy was recovering from the financial disaster of 2008 when the banks sold each other so many worthless mortgages that they ran out of money. Stricter banking regulations and fiscal policies resulted in steady growth and stability. But this has been shattered by a coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands of people and wrecked the global economy. Governments all over the world are spending billions of dollars in rescue operations, but every penny will have to be paid back by the taxpayers. Our world has been turned upside down and we can only hope that it soon gets back to normal.
The global capitalist system will take a battering but it will survive. Human nature never changes; the love of money is the root of all evil and until we adopt an equitable political system, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. But if we move towards a self-sufficient geopolitical system, as first proposed by Oswald Mosley in 'The Alternative' in 1948, we can avoid the worst excesses of capitalism. Mosley envisaged a new order arising from the ruins of the Second World War. Our situation today is almost as grave as it was then, but we have the expertise and the resources to build a better world; all we lack is the will to do it.
'The Alternative' is available from oswaldmosley.com
Red Terror and The Communist Technique in Britain
Robert Best's booklet 'Red Terror' charts the bloody history of the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution to the Second World War. We must never forget the atrocities committed by Joseph Stalin in this time of revolution and war, but his speech to the Communist Party Congress in 1929 explains his motivation. He was convinced that Germany would attack the Soviet Union and he was determined to be ready for them:
"We are 50-100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it or they crush us."
To achieve his objective he crushed liberty and condemned thousands to death, but his brutality had nothing to do with Karl Marx who was a middle-class German journalist who never killed anyone. Stalin modernized the Soviet Union, defeated Nazi Germany, conquered half of Europe, and began the program that put the first man into space.
Apart from Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, most of the Bolshevik leaders were Jews, but instead of sticking together they turned on each other. Best records that:
"Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico on the orders of Stalin, Zinoviev was executed by Yagoda, Yagoda was purged by Beria."
'Red Terror' is available from Steven Books.
'The Communist Technique in Britain' by Bob Darke was published in 1952 at the height of the Cold War. He was an East London bus conductor and an active member of the Communist Party who became a Hackney councillor. He describes the strategy of the Party in the 1940s which used the trade union movement to further its aims. Darke never departed from his socialist convictions but he despaired of the devious tricks of his comrades, who would do almost anything for the Cause. Today, the Communist Party has been replaced by several ineffectual left-wing parties but in 1952 it was force to be reckoned with. Bob Darke explained why he wrote the book:
"I have not written this book because I wish to raise the pile of ex-Communist literature by another inch or two. I have written it in an attempt to get home to my fellow trade unionists the extent to which their interests and their rights are being shamelessly betrayed by the Communist Party.
No country in the world has a greater right to be proud of its working class and trade union history than has Britain. We have built up a movement which is based on man's right to be heard and represented in whatever way he chooses, a movement which is based on man's fundamental belief in the decency of his neighbour.
Communism will replace this with a society based on man's fundamental fear of his neighbour.
Freedom of conscience and will is an inheritance we take too lightly, even after the Nazi war. We are in danger of having it taken away from us as much by the extreme anti-Communists as by the Communists themselves."
'The Communist Technique in Britain' is available from Amazon.
Jeffrey Hamm Speech to Colin Jordan's Birmingham Nationalist Club - from 'Union' January 1951
(The divide between British nationalism and European unity dates back to the immediate postwar years. Jeffrey Hamm knew Colin Jordan from his British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women which was one of the groups that formed Union Movement).
On the evening of Wednesday 17th January, members of the Birmingham Nationalist Club were addressed by Jeffrey Hamm of Union Movement (with the club's organiser Mr JCC Jordan in the chair).
Hamm opened his address by suggesting that although members of the club might not be prepared to accept European Union as the alternative to internationalism, they would at least agree with him in his condemnation of the international system. He proceeded to recall the widespread unemployment which had been caused in pre-war Britain by the activities of International Finance, which had been free to exploit the East and to flood Britain with produce of Oriental sweated labour. The natural reaction to this had been the emergence of the nationalist movement of British Union, which under the leadership of Oswald Mosley had advocated the development of Britain and of the British Empire as a self-contained unit.
Anti-European Nationalism Obsolete
In foreign policy, the speaker continued, the internationalists had disarmed Britain dangerously and then dragged our country and our people into a war which was not in our interests. British Union had advanced the nationalist policy of making Britain strong enough to defend herself against any country in the world and had advocated withdrawal from European entanglements in order to concentrate on the development of Britain and the British Empire.
Today, the speaker suggested, anti-European nationalism was obsolete. No longer could "the former British Empire" be economically independent while, in the age of the rocket and the atom bomb, we could not shut our eyes to the danger of Europe being overrun by Communism from the East. We should, therefore advance beyond our pre-war nationalism to the new idea of "Europe a Nation".
Hamm said he sympathised with the nationalists in the desire to see an independent Britain arise again, but if they were realists they would agree that she could not do so as an isolated unit. The world today is dominated by the two forces of American Capitalism and Soviet Communism. It was, therefore, necessary, if we were to regain our independence, for us to create a "Third Force". That force was Europe, united as one nation in a common faith and idea.
Europe united could save the peace and win back the lands seized by the Soviet Union. Then, by turning to Africa, we could win our own foodstuffs and raw materials and thus regain our economic independence.
The speaker dealt with a number of questions covering many aspects of Union Movement policy, and it is hoped that as a result of this meeting several of the Birmingham Nationalists Club will have advanced beyond their nationalism to the new conception of "Europe a Nation".
Bernard Franklyn writes:
The educational system and virtually everything else was messed up with the 1960's cultural revolution. I had a first class A stream Secondary Modern Education leaving school in the Summer of 1958. Two years later the school was closed. The massive well equipped science lab was removed along with well equipped large metalwork and woodwork shop. Fabians, Zionists and Freemasons had taken control of teacher training. A new breed of delinquent Marxists, do as you like teacher were ready to send into schools, with the result that the first class old teachers left in disgust.
Since then we have regularly seen in newspaper reports of our children leaving school barely able to read, write or do simple mathematics. Parliament will not do anything about it as it changed education to suit their nation-wrecking programme. Just as they refuse to listen when we complain about fluoride being added to the water supply when it causes a reduction in the thinking ability and causes cancer. To find out more go to my website - theflameuk.com
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