Nation
Revisited # 102, April 2013
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We have lost our national triple ‘A’ credit rating and
the economy is static but the forces of destiny may provide some unexpected
help.
The corrosive influence of the Frankfurt School has
run its course. Most of the left wing academics of the swinging sixties are
dead and gone. Multiculturalism is still part of the national curriculum but
the long-haired revolutionaries of days gone by have been replaced by tame
little conservatives who are only interested in getting a job. One of the
unintended consequences of austerity has been the restoration of middle class
values. Today’s docile teachers and students even read the Daily Mail.
Half a century of campaigning against immigration has
failed to stop it but market forces might do the trick. Plantation slavery was
initiated by economic conditions and it was ended by them. European refugees
flooding into America during the early 19th century were cheaper to
employ than black slaves who needed to be fed and housed. In the same way Third
World workers in Europe and North America will be replaced by automation.
Immigration is not a monstrous conspiracy by the “liberal elite” but an
old-fashioned preference for cheap labour. Supply and demand will govern employment
and population policies. The more technological that our society becomes the
less we will need unskilled labour.
Flag-waving jingoism will not feed our booming
population or pay our bills. The UK cannot stay apart from the world’s largest
trading bloc; an economic union of half a billion souls stretching from the
Atlantic to the Urals. If we ever get Dave Cameron’s long promised referendum we
might quit the EU and join EFTA with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and
Switzerland. But that would only be a temporary measure; eventually we will
become Europeans. Ukip is capturing protest votes from the established parties
but they can’t turn back the tide of history with policies that are nothing but
nostalgic nonsense.
This newsletter is unashamedly nostalgic but we are
not a political party. Only the middle aged can remember Enoch Powell or the
Soviet Union. We should forget about “the good old days” when people enjoyed
decent incomes and conditions. We must appeal to the youngsters who are trying
to pay mortgages and fuel bills on frozen salaries. They are no different to
the generation that fought the Battle of Britain and stormed the beaches of
Normandy; all they need is leadership.
The Ongoing Debate
I am grateful for the gift of copies of the League Review and the National Review dating back to the
seventies. Their pages record the death struggle of Rhodesia and the relentless
Third World invasion but the dominant theme is Europe. The current version of
this magazine is the League Sentinel: http://www.leaguestgeorge.com
Following their short-lived collaboration in the
National Socialist Movement John Tyndall pursued his leadership ambitions in
the National Front and Colin Jordan devoted himself to writing and publishing.
Despite the failure of the Ottawa Conference of 1932
to unite Britain with the White Dominions through “Imperial Preference” John
Tyndall believed in a resurrected Commonwealth and rejected union with Europe.
Commenting on the editorial in issue 36 of the League Review in December 1981 he wrote:
“Those who would prefer us to have a close European
tie rather than a White Commonwealth tie will claim that the dominions are no
longer bound by automatic loyalty to Britain and will simply trade where their
own interests dictate. To this I would answer – Yes! And those interests
dictate that if Britain is willing to but their surpluses in return for their
buying its surpluses, they should take up the offer.
Of the three options mentioned by you, therefore, a
trading bloc of Britain and the White Commonwealth is the only one that
corresponds to economic reality. This does not mean, however, that there would
not be many areas of common interest between such a bloc and Western Europe in
which the two could work together.”
John Tyndall’s insular policies still influence the
nationalist parties today. Colin Jordan never supported the EU but he rejected
narrow nationalism and stood for white solidarity; in a letter to the League Review in February 1983 he wrote:
“If we are to learn from the past, and to prevent any
possibility of a repetition of such catastrophic folly (World War 2) in the
future, we have to expand our vision beyond an insular nationalism. Feeling for
soil, love of country in all the fullness of its meaning, a sense of the
community of the folk, all of which is cherished and cited by the nationalists,
and so rightly so, is not, as is their great mistake, to be exclusively equated
with and restricted to the contemporary nation states. These states, Britain included,
came about through the migrations and divisions of the white peoples, a family
of related races, and now, if those white peoples are to have a future, we must
embrace without delay a unity beyond and greater than those segmentary states
in separation. This is not for one moment to deny or to neglect the most
obvious fact that in Britain our most immediate and particular attachment is to
our own island, and to the task of securing its salvation; but this not only
does not conflict with a positive and practical recognition of an overall
allegiance to the white cause world-wide, but absolutely requires it from the
start. Britain cannot go it alone and win by herself in the world of today. Her
only true hope lies in the triumph of a National Socialist world struggle of
the white man.”
The divide between narrow nationalism and European
solidarity is as wide as ever. Most members of the so-called far-right parties
are deeply anti-EU but there are a few realists who keep quiet for fear of
being shouted down by the hard-liners. They are primarily concerned with
stopping Third World immigration and put up with the petty nationalist rhetoric
for the sake of unity. In the next two years leading up to a possible
referendum we will hear all the arguments for and against Europe; but the real
decision is not about politics or economics, it’s a matter of faith.
Some of the League of St George magazines are nearly
forty years old but their pages brought back many names that I remember, or
have come to know; Ron Hargrave, Bill Whitbread, Oliver Gilbert, Bob
Molesworth, Robert Stanton, Robert Edwards, Keith Thompson, Jerry Sibley and
many others.
Then, as now, the UK economy was in chaos and our future
in Europe was threatened. The Soviet Union has ceased to exist but apart from
that nothing much has changed. We are still being overrun by Third World
immigrants; misgoverned by corrupt politicians in the pockets of big business,
and misinformed by the mass media. The crisis of capitalism long predicted by
Oswald Mosley has come to pass. The Tories think that they can escape from
reality by pulling up the drawbridge; but the inexorable rules of supply and
demand dictate that a nation that owes more than £1 trillion and imports half
of its food and oil cannot go it alone.
Economic Nationalism
North Korea now has atomic weapons and the means to
deliver them. The “Juche” (self-sufficiency) regime has sacrificed the living
standards of the people to develop its own nuclear and space programmes. Kim Jong-un
took over the impoverished Asian nation of 23 million people on the death of
his father Kim Jong-il - the Dear Leader, who followed his father Kim il-Sung -
the Great Leader. He leads a bizarre hereditary dictatorship obsessed with
flag-waving and crippled with paranoia. He is far from being a heroic figure
with his bouffant hairstyle and stacked heels but there is a real danger that
he might get carried away with his own belligerent propaganda.
Life is hard in North Korea but most citizens share their
government’s antipathy to foreigners and are immensely proud of their 1.2
million strong armed forces and their modern weapons including the world’s
largest submarine fleet. To encourage the workers factories belt out patriotic
music on their public address systems and state television and radio extol the
superiority of the Korean race.
American-led sanctions have rendered North Korea’s
currency unconvertible and made international trade all but impossible. She is
an example of what happens when a nation tries to go it alone against the
world; a half starved bankrupt dictatorship kept in power by a massive army.
The last thing we need in the UK is a xenophobic
regime like the Kim dynasty. We have an immigrant-swollen population of 63.2
million; we are running out of oil and we have not fed ourselves since the 18th
century. Our industrial output has started to recover but we need to increase
our exports and we will not do that by erecting protectionist tariffs that are
always reciprocated.
If we took the lead in Europe, instead of trying to
wreck it, we could revitalize our economy, deport criminals and illegal aliens
and encourage the voluntary repatriation of non-European immigrants. With
proper leadership the economic potential of half a billion Europeans would make
anything possible.
But on our own we simply do not have the resources to
fight colonial wars all over the world. We have wasted hundreds of lives in
Afghanistan but the Taliban will probably march into Kabul as soon as NATO
forces withdraw. William Hague’s interference in Libya unleashed a wave of
terrorism in Africa and his current support for the rebels in Syria will have
the same effect in the Middle East. The far-right wants to expand our armed
forces but common sense demands that we restructure them for home defence and
stop acting as the world’s policeman.
Dave Cameron is trying to outmaneuver Ukip but a
Harris poll (Financial Times 18/02/13) puts the European issue in perspective.
It showed a two thirds majority for quitting the EU but placed the issue at 14th
out of 15 priorities. The Tory Party is obsessed with Europe, gay marriage and
House of Lords reform but most people are more concerned with health, education
and the economy.
The last Labour government left us with a massive
national debt that we are struggling to repay. The UK is in the same position
as the EU, the USA and Japan. Our problems are the result of years of deficit
spending and have nothing to do with Europe. We will eventually pay off our
debts but we must stop pretending to be a world power and shut our doors to
mass migration.
The Germans manage without a worldwide army, a fleet
of aircraft carriers, and a £130 billion Trident missile system (The Guardian
18/09/09). They were wiped out twice in the 20th century but they
have rebuilt their country as the powerhouse of the EU. We are finally moving
in the right direction by withdrawing the British Army of the Rhine. It was
probably an accountant who realized that we had 20,000 troops stationed in
Germany 68 years after the end of WW2 and 22 years after the collapse of the
Soviet Union.Another Fake Quote
In 1922, the Bolshevik leader Selenkov stated in Moscow: "We must create a climate of anti-nationalism and anti-racialism amongst Whites. We must reduce patriotism and pride of race to meaningless abstractions and make racialism a dirty word." Not only that, but obviously Selenkov was Jewish. Or he was named Zelenkov. Or whatever. There never was any Bolshevik leader named Zelenkov/Selenkov, and for all I or others can tell, this is yet another fake quote. You can usually tell these fake quotes just be looking at them, because it seems like no sane prominent person would ever be caught dead saying something so outrageous. Also, fake quotes are usually manufactured by nationalists. They place the quotes in the mouths of politicians they don't like and make them say they are going to hatch some kind of conspiracy against the ethnic group or nation in question. (From Robert Lindsay in California who describes himself as a non-racist race realist and a leftist nationalist.)
I recently received an e-mail that was supposed to show a little boy in Iran having his arm run over by a car for stealing bread. An Internet search revealed it to be an Israeli fake that has been doing the rounds since 2005. The pictures are of a gypsy fairground show where a little boy’s arm is run over before he miraculously recovers and goes around with the hat to collect money from the audience. Similar shows are familiar throughout the Middle East.
Another
bogus e-mail showed Muslims in America apparently celebrating the anniversary
of 9/11. In fact they were innocently observing a Shia holiday that happened to
fall on the same day.
And I have seen several copies of a letter that’s supposed to be from a doctor listing the ample benefits claimed by an unmarried mother. There are British and Australian versions of this forgery but the original was from America and the doctor in question was forced to admit that he had heard about it from a nurse and couldn’t personally verify it. In fact benefits are capped in most states and food stamps are usually issued instead of money.
The BNP used to quote from what it described as “the highly respected Epoch Times”. This is actually the newspaper of Falun Gong, a wacky Chinese religion that believes human beings can fly through brick walls.
There are more than enough genuine outrages in the world without resorting to fabrications that can easily be disproved. These bogus propaganda stunts rely on the naivety of recipients who pass them on. The golden rule must be not to pass on anything that’s suspect. Anybody writing articles for publication has a duty of care. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and we can all make mistakes but we must try to be as objective as possible. As the great Marcus Aurelius said: “If it’s not right don’t do it; and if it’s not true don’t say it.”
Retro Chic
Political designations are often inaccurate and
confusing. The old East German communist dictatorship styled itself “The German
Democratic Republic” but the regime was kept in power by the army and that was
backed up by the Soviet Union. They called the DDR “democratic” to distinguish
it from the National Socialist state that preceded it; and which it resembled
in many ways. But the communists avoided the words “National Socialist” to
describe the Third Reich. They preferred to call it a “fascist” regime to avoid
any confusion with socialism.
The Fascists were an ex-serviceman’s movement that
took over Italy in 1922 during the Great Depression following the First World
War. They started off as monarchists but ended up as republicans. They were
sprung from the same socialist roots as the communists but they became bitter
enemies. The Italian movement was copied throughout Europe; in Germany it was
infused with racism, in Spain and Portugal it was hijacked by Catholicism, in
Romania and Hungary it was obsessed with territorial nationalism. And in
Britain and Ireland it gravitated from right to left before being shut down by
the Second World War.
The descendants of the pre-war movements have
abandoned “fascism” because of its association with the horrors of the Second
World War. There was a very short-lived
breakaway group from Mosley’s Union Movement in the early sixties when their
South London branch under Keith Goodall styled themselves The National Union of
Fascists and held meetings in Brixton Market. At the same time the Spearhead
faction broke away from the original BNP under Colin Jordan to form the
National Socialist Movement complete with Nazi flags and uniforms. Both
attempts to resurrect fascism failed but Gary Raikes, the former leader of the
Scottish BNP, is trying again with an Internet-based group called the New
British Union.
Would-be respectable groups are distancing themselves
from openly fascist movements but their electoral performances are not getting
any better. Dave Jones got the average nationalist percentage in the Todmorden
local election despite being photographed carrying a rifle with a swastika flag
flying overhead. Most of the far-right groups are led by former make-belief
Nazis. They may have put their well-polished jackboots in the back of the wardrobe
but old photos of them posing for posterity are still circulating. We all do
daft things when we are young but membership of the World Domination League
doesn’t look good on your CV.
We live in exciting times where “retro” is the latest
thing and outrage is its own reward: militant gays are calling themselves
“queer” and black people are using the forbidden word “nigger.” Perhaps the
beautiful Art Deco imagery of fascism and the heroic theatricality of the Nazis
will soon dominate the busy stalls of Camden Market.
Internment without Trial
The right wing of the Tory Party wants the UK to quit
the European Court of Human Rights. They object to “foreigners interfering with
British justice” but the real reason is that the court is outside their
control. Internment without trial is illegal under the terms of the European
Convention – except in a state of war.
This get-out clause enabled the UK to round up suspected terrorists from
1956 to 1961 and again from 1971 to 1975. Opposition from the ECHR helped to
end internment but there was no outcry in 1940 when Winston Churchill caged
nearly two thousand British dissidents under Defence Regulation 18B. They were
never charged with any crime and some of them were locked up until 1945. I will
only write about those that I met in the original British National Party and
later in Union Movement.
Tony Gittens was a leading member of the Imperial Fascist
League. He was detained under 18B in 1940. He effectively ran the post-war
National Workers Movement from 1948 to 1950. He took over Gothic Ripples when Arnold Leese died in 1956. And he kept the
Britons Publishing Co going until his own death in 1973. According to Richard
Thurlow’s 1987 book Fascism in Britain,
he was AK Chesterton’s intelligence agent in the early days of the National
Front.
Phil Ridout led the ‘tough squad’ that defended IFL
meetings in the East End. He was credited with popularizing the fascist
greeting “PJ” – short for “Perish Judah.” In 1937 he was fined for using
insulting language at an IFL meeting by referring to the League of Nations as
“the League of Nathans.” Oliver Gilbert who
was the first BUF member to be detained described him as the IFL’s best
speaker. He was interned in 1940. In 1951 he founded the British Empire Party
and in the general election of that year Trevor Davies their candidate for
Ogmore, South Wales, won 1,643 votes, 3.4%. In the sixties Phil worked for an
aircraft company with fellow 18B detainee Ron Hargrave and the much younger
Terry Savage. He was a popular speaker for the original BNP. I remember him as
a kindly pensioner, John Bean describes him as “a pleasant old boy,” and Robert
Lyons from the USA remembers him as “an English gentleman.”
Ronald Creasy (1909-2004) was a Suffolk farmer and
landowner who was invited to join a police squad during the 1926 General
Strike. But he sided with the strikers and refused to act as a strike-breaker.
He joined the BUF in 1938 and was elected to Eye Borough Council. He was
detained in 1940. After the war he became an enthusiastic Mosley supporter and
often spoke at UM dinners.
Robert Wilkinson was another victim of 18B. I had the
pleasure of hearing him speak at a Friends of Mosley gathering a few years ago.
He was in his nineties but he made an impassioned speech comparing the
situation today to the 1930s. He said that the capitalist racket was just the
same and that the solution was just the same.
Jeffrey Hamm was arrested in the Falkland Islands and
imprisoned in the rusting hulk of a ship before being taken to a
prisoner-of-war camp in South Africa. He was instrumental in founding UM in
1948 and kept the movement going following Oswald Mosley’s retirement in 1973.
Robert Row, who went on to be editor of Union and Action was also interned in 1940. He wrote: “There was no charge or
trial, banana republic justice replaced these, trial by jury was scrapped. So
was Habeas Corpus; so much for the honour of British politicians.”
Just fewer than 2,000 anti-war campaigners were
detained under Defence Regulation 18B of which 1,054 were BUF members including
Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford. (Figures are taken from In the Highest Degree Odious
by AWB Simpson and the Friends of Mosley)
Elected
Councillors - by “Union”
The
British Union led by Oswald Mosley had 40,000 members and was the biggest
patriotic movement in British political history. In fact Mosley’s pre-war and
post-war movements both had elected representatives.
Captain
Bentinck-Budd elected to Worthing Council in 1934 as a BUF councillor.Commander Charles Hudson elected to Bognor Regis Council in the 1930s as a BUF councillor.
Sydney Crossland elected as a BUF councillor in Sussex in the 1930s.
Ronald Creasy elected to Eye Borough Council Suffolk as a BUF councillor in 1938.
FB Price-Heywood elected to Grasmere Council Cumbria in 1953 for Union Movement.
Robert Saunders of Union Movement elected to Dorset County Council post-war.
Harold Soref a member of British Union elected as Conservative MP for Ormskirk in 1970.
Major Jocelyn Lucas a BUF member in 1935 elected as Conservative MP for Portsmouth South in 1939.
The
National Front had an elected councillor in Northern Ireland and 2 Conservative
councillors joined the NF in the 1970s in Wandsworth. Recently they briefly had
a parish councillor and a local councillor who joined from the BNP. The
National Party elected 2 councillors in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1976 and
recently the England First Party elected 2 councillors also in Lancashire.
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