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?
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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