European Outlook

Saturday, 31 May 2025

European Outlook # 106, June 2025

What The Papers Say

League Sentinel issue 137, Winter 2024-5

Who Won US Election?

The election of Donald Trump as US President was hailed as a great victory for the American people. A great victory until Trump's 'import tariffs' policy crashed Wall Street's stock exchange costing tens of thousands of US jobs.

Trump's foreign policies have benefitted just one country - Israel.

Under Trump's plans the US will 'take over' Gaza and transform it into 'the 'Riviera of the Middle East.'

The 2.3 million Palestinian occupants, with some families having been settled there for over 400 years, will be 'ethnically cleansed' to neighbouring Egypt and Jordan.

Israel has been tasked with security of the region and Israeli settlers have been invited to take over Palestinian farms. Sooner rather than later Gaza will become part of 'Greater Israel'.

Candour issue 885 January - February 2024

Email: akctrust@yahoo.co.uk

Keep On Keeping On

For some racial nationalists 2024 will be very much dominated by elections, local and general.

Local elections will or will not be on 2nd May depending on where you live in the UK (check your own area).

General election. That must be called in the next 11 months by the serving Prime Minister. The latest a Parliament can be dissolved for a general election is on the fifth anniversary of the first day it met. This takes us to 17th December 2024-5 to prepare for the election. Really is could be called by the PM anytime they see a slight advantage for their party. Always party before Folk & Nation.

Candour will support true racial nationalist candidates where they stand. The "Civics" , who denounce racism are a deliberate distraction and fake pressure valve for the State. Any Israeli Zionist sentiments will be called-out in Candour.

Beware of, and standby to put in their place, the boarders who are already heading our way. The failed UKIPers, washed up Tories, REFORMers et al. They can work there way in long term, but I will not listen to their bleating in the meanwhile.

Heritage and Destiny issue 124, March-April 2025

Email: heritageanddestiny@yahoo.com

Editorial

Without doubt the part of nationalist policy that has bee most consistently distorted and misrepresented over many years - post WW11 anyway - by our enemies both on the left and right, as well as by the MSM, has been our firm and principled stand. This policy is perhaps even more important today than it was when I and many others joined the movement in the 1970s.

Whether those who attack and slander us because of our stand on immigration are motivated by hostility or ignorance seems to make little difference. The final result is always the same : Nationalist policy is described as being "politically and practically unsound, unworkable and morally reprehensible."

The subject of morality is a strictly subjective one, of course. We believe that protecting the welfare and advancing the special interests of White people. - the British people's in particular - is morally worthwhile and in fact morally imperative that we do so.. So-called anti-racists/fascists, the liberal-left, and even many of those who call themselves conservatives (including the leadership of Reform UK) do not.

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Do We Need Defence?

We need defence to go round de garden. But seriously, we need to defend our islands from invasion. There is little danger of a foreign army invading, but we have been invaded, not by soldiers carrying guns but by immigrants carrying entry visas and asylum seekers carrying nothing but the latest smartphone.

Retired admirals and generals constantly demand increased defence spending that we can't afford. In response Keir Starmer has cut old people's benefits to accommodate them.

But do we really need bigger and better armed forces? Our current forces are comparable to France and Germany. At present we are part of NATO, but if that organisation closes down we can cooperate with our neighbours to form a viable defence force.

The purpose of NATO was to counter the Soviet Union, which was dissolved in 1991. The Russian Federation, which replaced the Soviet Union, is engaged in a war with Ukraine that has nothing to do with us. The Ukraine war is the result of NATO's eastward expansion; there is no tangible evidence that President Putin has further territorial ambitions.

China is even further away than Russia and poses no threat to us. Hong Kong and Macao have returned to China and Taiwan will eventually join them. The Chinese are dedicated exporters who seek trade rather than war. We might not approve of their domestic policies but they are none of our business. After all, we are best friends with Israel which brutally occupies Gaza and the West Bank.

Keir Starmer criticises Israel but we maintain RAF bases in Cyprus to protect the Zionist state. They are supposed to be defending the sea route to India; but we quit India in 1947.

Overseas bases are a remnant of Empire that we can no longer afford, except for Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands that have British populations. We should also force the Ministry of Defence to release land for housing.

We can take practical steps to modernise our armed forces without throwing money at them. For a start, we should sign non-aggression pacts with Russia and China and look after the old, the sick and the disabled with the money saved.

The revival of the Cold War only benefits the Military-Industrial Complex. Defence contractors on both sides of the Atlantic are booming while Palestinians are being slaughtered by the Israeli Defence Force, and Russian and Ukrainian soldiers are locked in mortal combat.

The term 'Military-Industrial Complex' was not coined by some left-wing pacifist, it was said by United States President Dwight Eisenhower, a soldier and a statesman who knew what he was talking about.

Despite the financial and military aid we are sending to Ukraine and Israel we will probably still make a profit on arms sales. We need exports but we should not be involved in mass murder and ethnic cleansing. Keir Starmer has blood on his hands.

Willies and Fannies

The British Supreme Court has ruled that men are men and women are women. Men have got penises and women have got vaginas - known colloquially in the UK as willies and fannies.

The trans movement is up in arms over the decision. They insist that a woman can have a penis and a man can have a vagina. They further insist that people have the right to decide their gender without reference to biology.

There are some very rare cases where nature has confused the issue, but generally speaking the desire to change sex is a mental health problem..

Doctors can change sexual characteristics with hormone treatment, and surgeons can cut and carve genitalia to achieve a cosmetic result, but they cannot give a man a womb or a woman a functioning pair of testicles.

It's sad that some people feel trapped in the wrong body, just as it's sad that some people imagine that they are cats or dogs. A man went to his psychiatrist thinking that he was a dog. The doctor told him to get on the couch, but the man said he was not allowed to.

Della Aleksander (1923-2001) was a nationalist activist who made the change from male to female. Della started out as Derek until he went to Morocco to have his penis and testicles cut off. The resultant 'woman' was a brave and gifted writer and teacher who pioneered gender reassignment in the days when homosexuality was illegal and cross dressing was frowned on.

Perhaps psychiatry will be able to help such people in the future, but at present they will just have to accept their situation. And those who encourage little children to question their gender should also have their heads examined.

The Imperial Mentality

When President Donald Trump threatens to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, he is displaying the imperial mentality that typified Britain in the old days.

Colonial officials used to be posted around the British Empire without regard to their qualifications. A former governor of some backward African territory would suddenly find himself in Cyprus, a European country with an ancient Greek culture. But he wouldn't change his arrogant attitude to the 'natives'. He would still shout loudly for his gin and tonic and treat colonial subjects with contempt.

The Empire is long gone but the imperial mentality lives on. It's one of the reasons why we poke our nose into every conflict from the Middle East to China.

Keir Starmer and his cronies still think we have a navy that rules the waves and an army capable of putting down native uprisings. That's why he wants to put British soldiers in Ukraine to defend the corrupt and dictatorial regime of Volodymir Zelensky.

Keir Starmer is living in the past but Donald Trump retally does have a formidable navy and and the world's biggest economy. His imperial ambitions are ridiculous and his rhetoric is shameless. Trump is half Scottish and half German, so it's no surprise that he has an inflated sense of his own importance. But he will be gone in four years time and there's no chance that Canada and the Danish possession of Greenland will willingly submit to American hegemony.

Canada was one of the original white dominions of the British Empire. She stayed loyal to Britain when the American colonies broke away, and King Charles 111 is their king as well as ours. Canada's prime minister Mark Carney has made it clear that his country values its independence.

Greenland has long historical ties to Denmark. She is part of the Danish Commonwealth, her people speak Danish as well as Greenlandic, they use the Danish Krona, and like their Canadian neighbours they have no desire to be part of the USA.

British imperial arrogance survived the humiliating fall of Singapore in 1942, and the Suez fiasco of 1956. Even today some British politicians think that the Sun never sets on the Empire. In the same way, American imperial arrogance has survived their defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan. They have learned nothing.

An Empire Loyalist Remembers

Former LEL members Paul Barnes, Bill Barnes and Bill Baillie on a National Front march to Red Lion Square in 1974. The only NF march I ever went on. It was attacked by angry mobs of 'anti-fascists' who fought the police, resulting in the untimely death of Kevin Gately.

I recently heard from an old school friend and League of Empire Loyalist comrade who emigrated to the USA some forty years ago. He writes under the nom de plume Paul Stockwell.

I have been reading your work and reminiscing about my time in the LEL. I recall a conversation with Bill Barnes where we both agreed that nationalism was acceptable, but socialism in any form was not.

I initially believed in a Confederation of European States, but voted against joining due to its elitist and technocratic nature.

I can't be arsed to rewrite.

But I just spent two hours reliving our past in LEL etc my political opinions and memories of Bill Barnes, the evolution of my opinions and so on. Went to send it to you FB but they wiped it.

In a subsequent message he criticised Oswald Mosley's reliance on Keynesian economics and he expressed the view that Europe and the UK are finished because of Third World immigration. But on the same day I got a message from 'Confederate 1861' who stated that Springfield, Ohio has been overrun by illegal immigrants, and warned that the entire USA was under threat.

I hope that these pessimistic correspondents are wrong and that the white race survives worldwide. According to the 2020 census, Brazil has 104,472,254 White people, 93,807,378 mixed people, 15,235,537 Black people, 3,264,758 Asian people, and 870,603 Indigenous people, but the whites predominate in government, commerce, industry and culture

Candour Interim Report, October 1962

Loyalists Active on Many Fronts

Apart from the greatly intensified campaign against Britain's entry into the Common Market the League of Empire Loyalist has continued to be active on a variety of fronts.

Several nuclear surrender meetings have received the attention of Loyalist hecklers. At one meeting, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament had invited spokesmen from the Soviet and American governments to put their views on the banning of nuclear tests. The foreign spokesmen did not turn up, but League spokesmen did, one rising to tell the audience as the meeting was due to start: "The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has invited you to hear the Russian point of view and the American point of view. The one thing you will not hear from the CND is the British point of view."

At another CND meeting Avril Walters was kicked in the back by a nuclear disarmer. Bill Baillie and Paul Barnes, going to her assistance, were set upon by a gang of Communists who had gathered behind them, and Baillie's eye was cut open so badly that he had to be taken to hospital to have it stitched. Determined to show that they would not be frightened by this sort of violence, a team of League members went to the next nuclear surrender meeting to be held in London. This occasion was a "reporting back" by delegates who had attended the Communist-front "peace conference" in Moscow. The programme was intended to start with the singing of CND songs by a choir, but there was an unscheduled alteration. The choir opened their mouths but they remained silently open as the voices of Austen Brooks, Avril Walters, Bob Huxtable, Bill Baillie (who had insisted on attending) , Paul Barnes, Peter Bray, David Baber, Moyna Traill Smith, and others sang out with "Land of Hope and Glory". After allowing the official choir one song, the Loyalists took over with "Bongo, bongo, bongo, let's send Russell to the Congo, for we don't want him here," and when they closed the musical proceedings with "Rule Britannia" some of the audience and a member of the platform actually joined in. There was some muttering among the audience but no violence was attempted against the compact Loyalist party of hecklers. Eventually Brooks arose and told the Chairman: "We have heard enough of this Communist propaganda. We're off."

It was at this point that one nuclear disarmer showed an inclination to violence. He turned to the man standing behind him and said: "Let's have a go at them." "Don't be a BF replied Bill Barnes, pushing past him "I'm with them." The inclination to violence abruptly disappeared.

Jan Lamprecht

Under the influence of South African born tech billionaire Elon Musk, the United States is admitting White South African refugees whose property was confiscated without compensation by the ANC regime, but the fearless political campaigner Jan Lamprecht remains banned from Donald Trump's 'Truth Social' media platform. You can follow Jan on: https://historyreviewed.com

John Beattie

John Beattie (born 1941) posted his last You Tube video on November 2024, in which he looked very frail. He has been suffering from Parkinson's Disease for some time. John was born in 1941, he led the Canadian National Socialist Party 1965-1978, and he is currently the leader of the British People's League. I hope and pray that he is alright. If anyone knows anything, please let me know.

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Wednesday, 30 April 2025

European Outlook # 105, May 2025

A Worldwide Rebellion

Reform UK is the latest version of UKIP, a populist-nationalist party that's short on policies apart from a general dislike of foreigners. Its leader, Nigel Farage, has managed to remain respectable despite his views on immigration. This sets him apart from the little parties of the far right; NF, BNP. BDP, BM, and many more, that have virtually identical policies.

Reform UK is tipped to win the next general election but I don't believe it. The big business interests that control this country will either take over the Party, or have it crushed by repressive legislation.

Whatever happens, the non-parliamentary parties of the far-right will continue to split and splinter into little groups based on a website and half a dozen members.

So why do I encourage some of them and write articles for them when they are far too insular and reactionary for my liking? Because they are part of a rebellion against liberal-democracy that's sweeping the collective West, but I don't expect any of them to come to power in the UK. The British people are brave and hard-working but politically unconscious. When the French rose up against the aristocracy the English Chartists assembled a quarter of a million supporters in Kennington Park but they went home peacefully when an officer told them that they were upsetting his majesty.

In the 1930s Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists held impressive marches and meetings all over the country, but they were shut down and locked up in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B. After the war they regrouped as Union Movement and fought the 1959 election in Notting Hill, but they never recovered from the Second World War. When my friend Roger Claire joined Union Movement at the age of 16 he asked the North London organiser Fred Shepherd "How long will it be before we come to power", Fred replied: "At least six months."

UM was followed by the National Front which became a mass movement until it was wrecked in the1979 general election by Margaret Thatcher who said that she understood people's fear of being "swamped" by immigration.

Next came the British National Party which achieved electoral success in local elections and the European Parliament, only to be overtaken by Nigel Farage with his fake nationalist party UKIP.

When the great uprising happens it will probably come from abroad. In the meantime I will continue to beat the drum for European Nationalism.

Letter to the editor of Heritage and Destiny

Britain currently faces a choice between trading with the EU or the USA, our first and second markets. We depend on world trade because we have nearly 70 million mouths to feed and we only produce half of our food and energy.

We have been a trading nation since the 18th century, when the East India Company pioneered global capitalism. In those days we had the largest navy in the world and the confidence that comes with imperial power: "We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, we've got the men, we've got the ships, and we've got the money too."

But things are different today. The world is divided into trading blocs that wage economic warfare - sanctions and tariffs - according to their political viewpoints. The collective West imposes sanctions on Russia because of the war in Ukraine that has devastated the German economy. The Germans benefitted from cheap gas and oil from Russia but in order to obey American foreign policy they have cut their own throats.

The United States is a huge country with abundant natural resources and the ability to feed and defend herself. President Donald Trump can threaten the world with trade sanctions because he has no fear of retaliation. The US has everything a modern country needs - except perhaps Russian uranium for their nuclear power stations.

Britain, on the other hand, has a declining industrial base, low productivity, and armed forces too small to defend our islands. Keir Starmer should know these facts but he struts around the world threatening Russia and China as though we still had an empire.

It's time for British politicians to wake up and smell the coffee. We are not an imperial power and it's time we stopped pretending to be. We should train our own people in the skills we need and stop importing labour from overseas. We should encourage our birth rate by tax incentives. We should limit our foreign aid to those countries that take back their own nationals. And we should mind our own business when it comes to foreign wars. Economic reality will decide our trading arrangements.

A Photographic Mystery

Oswald Mosley pictured with a group of friends soon after the founding of Union Movement in 1948. All of them have been identified except for the figure second left which appears to be John Bean. The trouble is that JB always denied that it was him. He joined UM in 1950, so it could have been him, but why would he deny it?

This photo was sent to me, about twenty years ago, by another former UM member, Terry Savage, a keen photographer who certainly had the skill to doctor a photograph, but again, why would he?

This is the only picture I have of my old comrade Otto Abbeysakera, the Sri Lankan man to the left of Jeffrey Hamm. In those days we opposed communism more than immigration, and nobody objected to having a brown-skinned man in our ranks, especially one as brave and loyal as Otto.

I joined Union Movement in 1973 when it had practically ceased to operate as a political party. But I had attended Mosley meetings since the 1960s and I knew many UM members through the Bladebone pub in Bethnal Green. Fraternisation between members of Union Movement, the League of Empire Loyalists, and John Bean's BNP, were strictly forbidden but they happened anyway - so much for total obedience.

Beyond Brexit

The 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union resulted in a narrow win for the Brexiteers. They promised that Brexit would end mass immigration, boost our economy, and restore our sovereignty. In fact; immigration has doubled, our economy is flatlining, and we are still tied to NATO, the European Court of Human Rights, the United Nations, and various international treaties.

God works in mysterious ways and so does geopolitics. The war in Ukraine has promoted Keir Starmer to the position of generalissimo of the Coalition of the Willing, a European army in all but name.

Of course, this will not be the first time that the IK has fought a war in alliance with other nations. We defeated Napoleon with the help of Dutch and Prussian soldiers. We fought the Russians over Crimea with the French. We narrowly defeated the Afrikaners with Australian and Canadian troops, we fought the Germans in WW1 with France, Russia and America, and we repeated the performance twenty years later in WW2.

Apart from the Falklands war, most of our military entanglement have been in alliance with America as part of NATO or the UNO.

Our warmongering mass media are screaming for increased defence spending, even at the expense of the old and infirm. They are even proposing conscription to build an army to fight the Russians and the Chinese. Our standing army of 75,000 men would have no chance against the millions of soldiers available to Russia and China, but if the principle nations of Europe each contributed 100,000 men we could have a European army of over half a million.

Such an army would not be welcomed by the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, or the Telegraph. They are so anti-European that they still give the weather forecast in degrees Fahrenheit. They probably don't know that Daniel Fahrenheit was born in Poland.

There is no reason why we should be hostile to Russia or China. The Ukraine problem dates back to Katherine the Great who won Crimea from the Turks. And the Chinese problem is totally misrepresented in our mendacious newspapers. The opposition party in the Taiwan parliament is in favour of reunification with China. Macao and Hong Long are booming as part of 'One China', and there is no reason to suppose that Taiwan would be any different.

We are not about to go to war but Keir Starmer is copying Adolf Hitler who rescued the German economy with defence spending. At a recent trip to Barrow in Furness he inspected three nuclear submarines being built for the Royal Navy and boasted that defence spending would employ thousands of British workers.

In a world turned upside down we have gone beyond Brexit. The UK Labour Party always supported socialism and opposed war, but now they have reversed both policies. The anti-Europeans always hated the idea of a European Army but now they are supporting it. And the Americans under Donald Trump are returning to their traditional isolationism.

The UK is part of Europe by history, geography, race and culture. Brexit is merely an aberration.

The present leadership and direction of the European Union leaves much to be desired, but the concept remains viable. We don't propose to do away with the Westminster parliament because it's dominated by liars and fools, so why should we do away with the EU because it is similarly afflicted.

President Donald Trump knows that 300 million Americans can't go on defending 500 million Europeans against 170 million Russians. NATO is not fit for purpose but the security of Europe remains a priority. Let us therefore invest in e European Defence Force and a peaceful foreign policy.

Economic Fantasy

Left and Right extremists believe that banks create money out of thin air. If this was true Lehman Brothers, the fourth biggest investment bank in the world, would not have gone bankrupt in 2008, they would simply have created some more money.

Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers governments all over the world tightened regulations to stop overtrading. This has contributed to the global recession but it has restored confidence to the banking industry.

The numbers involved in national debt are unimaginable, but President Donald Trump is determined to clear the United States' astronomical national debt of $36 trillion. If he succeeds, or makes a meaningful start, it will have a knock-on effect all over the world.

The UK was technically bankrupt in 1945 following six years of World War Two. We borrowed so much money from Canada and the USA that we only cleared our debts during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. Unfortunately, a succession of spendthrift governments has put us in debt again; we are currently borrowing just to keep going, but everybody knows that it can't go on. We must live within our means and forget about foreign aid and increased defence spending.

We don't need two gigantic aircraft carriers. These ships are designed to operate east of Suez where we no longer have imperial interests. They are a remnant of Empire when Britain ruled the waves.

And we don't need the eye-wateringly expensive Trident missile system, we could fit nuclear warheads on cruise missiles to defend our homeland, but we should not get involved in foreign wars requiring intercontinental ballistic missiles.

If we restrain defence spending, abolish foreign aid, stop mass immigration, and make an effort to clear our national debt, we can have a decent country that looks after people instead of taxing them into the ground.

There is nothing magical or mysterious about the banking system, it has evolved over the centuries to serve the financial needs of the nation.

It is pure fantasy to suggest that the system is about to collapse, or that the dollar will be replaced by a return to the Gold Standard.

Interest rates and currency conversions are determined by the Market. And as Margaret Thatcher said: "You can't buck the Market." Liz Truss proposed a budget that spooked the Market and she was gone almost immediately. There is no point in dreaming of 'sovereignty' when we are part of a global capitalist system. All we can do is to regulate the banks and outlaw vulture capitalism.

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Monday, 31 March 2025

European Outlook # 104, April 2025

The New American Revolution

President Donald Trump has some good ideas, but he has made himself and his country look ridiculous by announcing his intention to colonise Gaza and turn it into "The Riviera of the Middle East." To make this possible he would ethnically cleanse 1.8 million Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan. If this fantastic scheme ever happened it would result in another humiliation for America. Donald Trump said that we must learn from history but he appears to have learned nothing. American forces were fought to a standstill in Korea, beaten in Vietnam and chased out of Afghanistan. What makes him think that Gaza would be any different?

In preparation for the new American Empire he has purged his country's civil service of the Old Guard. Thousands of government workers have been fired, but they should think themselves lucky, when Joseph Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet Union the unfortunate bureaucrats were sent to concentration camps or executed.

These mass sackings are part of sweeping reforms designed to reverse liberalism. Under the new regime so-called positive discrimination will be scrapped and government jobs will be awarded on merit instead of race or gender, school teachers who taught little children to question their sex will be dismissed, and only male and female genders will be recognised.

So far so good, but Trump's obsession with trade sanctions and tariffs is as dangerous as his imperial ambitions.. President FD Roosevelt's oil embargo of Japan in the 1930s resulted in the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Pacific War and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Economic warfare can lead to actual warfare. Nations inevitably respond to tariffs against them by imposing their own restrictions on trade. Russia has already responded to Trump's sanctions by limiting sales of enriched uranium to America. This sort of tit-for-tat protectionism led to the establishment of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an attempt to fairly organise international trade, but Donald Trump doesn't rely on world trade because his country is more or less self-sufficient.

His plan is to protect American producers against foreign competition, but the immediate effect will be to increase the cost of living for American consumers. It will also damage their relations with China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union and possibly the UK, despite our 'special relationship'.

The UK is drawing closer to Europe following the failed experiment called Brexit. It would be a shame if we lost some of our exports to America, but we could manage quite well as part of a pan-European trade agreement. Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Turkey all have access to the Single Market. We should follow their example and not allow dogmatic nationalism to ruin our economy.

The Housing Crisis

The Tories did well in the 1950s when Winston Churchill's Housing Minister Harold Macmillan (pictured) built 300,000 houses per year. In those days Britain was short of money, manpower, and building materials, but the government had the will and the determination to get the job done.

Successive governments grudgingly invested in social housing until the Tory Party under Margaret Thatcher tried to turn Britain into a 'property-owning democracy' by selling 'council' houses to their tenants and effectively abandoning social housing.

But many of the tenants that bought their houses at a discount sold them to property companies for a handsome profit and her dream of a 'property-owning democracy' turned into the nightmare of greedy landlords charging exorbitant rents for poorly maintained flats and houses.

The Tories of the 1950s were 'One Nation' Tories who had a social conscience, but the hard-nosed Tories since the Thatcher era regard social housing as some sort of communism. This belief is strengthened by the fact that many Tory MPs are landlords.

The Labour Party say all the right things about housing but their record in government is disappointing to say the least, and many Labour MPs are landlords, just like the Tories.

The government could put a cap on house prices but it suits the rentier class to keep houses in short supply because building more of them would lower their value.

The Housing Crisis can only be overcome by treating it as a war requiring a national effort. Social housing should be taken away from often corrupt local councils and run by the government. In the meantime we need a new Rent Act to stop housing racketeers exploiting young couples who are struggling to survive..

The problem is made worst by mass migration. Every newcomer needs somewhere to live, and very few of them can afford to buy their own homes. It's not racist to point this out, it's just common sense.

As with many thing, all that's needed is the will to succeed. If we could build thousands of houses just after the Second World War, when we were bankrupt, we can certainly do it now.

Knife Crime

We have grown used to children stabbing each other. This behaviour is linked to drug dealing but it's often the result of a perceived insult, or just old-fashioned wickedness.

Many of these crimes are committed by black or brown youngsters but whites are also involved. Their common denominator is a lack of consideration for others.

The government is bringing in new laws to stop kids from buying knives on the Internet, but they can always take their mother's kitchen knife out of the drawer. They don't have to be zombie knives, or machetes to kill someone.

It would be virtually impossible to ban knives that are used by cooks, carpet fitters, fishmongers, butchers, surgeons, and many other trades. The problem is not the knives but the people that misuse them.

These young people are part of a culture that glorifies violence. They are brainwashed by rap music and videos to believe that stabbing people is normal. They lack any sort of morality because they are not taught to respect their classmates and teachers.

This sad state of affairs is the result of years of liberal education and lack of guidance. Religion helps to keep children on the straight and narrow, but even atheists know that it's wrong to kill people. We will not end knife crime by singing hymns or banning knives, we need to go back to traditional education with strict discipline, and we need a police force backed by a legal system that's serious about fighting crime.

The police and the judiciary must not be constrained by political considerations. It should not matter what race or creed the culprits are, they should be stopped and searched for weapons if they are acting suspiciously, and if they are found to be in possession of a bladed weapon they should receive a substantial custodial sentence.

Keeping out of Prison

Brandon Russell a 29 year-old neo-Nazi terrorist. Photo credit the Tampa Bay, Florida Police Department.

Several young men are serving prison sentences in the UK for real or imaginary terrorist activities. Some of them are dangerous psychopaths like Alex Mair who shot dead Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016, or Ali Harbi Ali a British man of Somali origin who stabbed to death Tory MP David Amess in 2021. But the majority of offenders are misguided souls who think that they can change things by visiting extremist websites or acting out fantasies.

They should realise that every nationalist movement has been infiltrated by Special Branch or some other government agency that monitors their phone calls and reads their emails.

There is absolutely no chance of changing things by dressing up as stormtroopers or dabbling in dynamite. That road leads directly to prison where the inmates are cut off from society and completely unable to influence events. Legal means of campaigning may not be exciting but they keep one out of prison.

The same is true of the United States where the CIA and the FBI keep tabs on people. In the 1950s when America was obsessed with the threat of communism, a meeting was held at which everyone present turned out to be a government agent. Today the perceived threat is from Islamic extremism, and to a lesser extent from the far-right.

Recently a young Bahamian-American called Brandon Russell and his accomplice Sarah Beth Clendaniel were charged with trying to blow up the Maryland electricity grid. Russell has already served a four year prison sentence for terrorist-related crimes. He is the leader of Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group based in Florida.

I asked my friend in Maryland, veteran nationalist Robert Lyons, if he knew anything about Russell and Clendaniel. He replied:

Hello Bill, I'm amazed that you are following this. Nothing ever happens in Catonsville but this did and evidently it made national and international news because of the total stupidity of the participants. Personally I wish I had never heard their names, I can only shake my head in wonderment as to how they could be so stupid, they take the cake in total stupidity. I can only guess their stupidity put them in prison to begin with and will keep them there forever. Bob

Living on Credit

The United Kingdom has been living on credit since the Second World War. We borrow billions of pounds every year because we spend more than we collect in taxes. Our main lender is the bond market and it's that institution that controls our economy. It was the bond market that threw out Liz Truss and, to some extent, Rishi Sunack.

We are told not to worry because the United States owes $36 Trillion, whereas the UK only owes $3.3 Trillion. But this is not really comforting because the USA has the advantage of having the dollar, the world reserve currency.

Brexiteers like to talk about sovereignty, a mythical state of independence in which we make all our own decisions. They persuaded a poorly informed public to vote for Brexit to "get our country back", but the truth is that we are totally at the mercy of international finance. It matters not a jot if we are in or out of the European Union, we will still be deeply in debt.

Our options are limited. We could go bankrupt, declare our insolvency and suffer the collapse of our domestic economy as our essential imports were cut off. Remember that we import half of our food and energy.

We could raise interest rates to attract investors, but that would hurt mortgage payers and increase the cost of living.

We could carry on borrowing until our creditors took fright and moved their money to more secure borrowers.

Or we could slash public spending, massively increase taxation, and spend the next half century paying off our debt.

These are the choices facing our new prime minister Keir Starmer. We wish him luck.

Slavery

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy (pictured) held talks with the The Caribbean states that are demanding £18 Trillion reparations for slavery. That's three times as much as our National Debt and quite impossible to pay.

We can't deny that we bought slaves in West Africa and shipped them to the Americas, but so did many other countries. Slavery was the accepted commercial practice of the day. Slaves were captured, mostly by Arab slave traders, who sold them to local African wholesalers who sold them on to us.

If reparations are due we must look to the Arabs and the Africans as well as the Europeans. And if compensation is paid we should demand our share from the Romans, the Danes, the Normans, and the Barbary pirates who enslaved our ancestors, and the 19th century industrialists who exploited our workers in their dark and dangerous mills.

We can't blame the Caribbean states for trying it on, but we have all been slaves at one time, and we should remember that it was the Royal Navy that put a stop to the transatlantic slave trade.

The only reason why we never had black slaves in any numbers in the UK is because it was cheaper to use poor whites. Black slaves had to be fed and sheltered but poor whites were paid a pittance and left to their own devices.

When my grandmother went to school in Bermondsey at the beginning of the 20th century, she paid a penny a week into a boot club so as not to go bare footed. The condition of the working class in the UK was desperate. When the Germans captured British soldiers in the First World War their medical officers reported that our men were underweight, undersized and unfit for military service. And this was at the height of the British Empire.

What's past is past. Terrible crimes against humanity have been committed by almost every nation, but we can't live in the past, and we must not bankrupt ourselves by trying to make amends

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