The Good Old Days
Three of my deceased comrades from the 1960s British National Party; Paul Barnes, Bill Barnes and Roy Chester.
We all remember the Good Old Days when everything seemed better than it is now. But our memories are selective, we remember the good things and forget the bad. When I started drinking in 1960 a pint of beer cost less than two shillings, a tenth of a pound, but not everybody had two shillings.
Every April the Chancellor of the Exchequer would announce the government’s budget for the year. We waited to hear if the tax on cigarettes and alcohol would be increased. And if he put a penny on a pint or a packet of cigarettes we cursed him. Today, a pint of beer costs a fiver and the few people who still smoke pay up to £15.00 for a packet of cigarettes.
Smoking is a disgusting habit that clogs the lungs with tar, but most people smoked in the old days, in offices, factories, pubs, restaurants, and even on trains and buses. I remember my poor uncle John lying in his hospital bed with a cigarette in his hand. He could hardly breathe towards the end, but he was still smoking. The demise of smoking is one of the good things about life today. You can now enjoy a meal in a restaurant without going home smelling like an ashtray.
Smoking was so universal that nothing was done to restrict it. I have read that Adolf Hitler had the bright idea of stopping the tobacco ration given to his troops fighting and dying on the Russian Front. His generals listened to his proposal but did nothing about it. The brave and loyal German soldier would put up with almost anything, so long as he could have a smoke.
Drinking has also undergone a culture change. I worked most of my life in the construction industry where drinking was tolerated. But by the time I retired, in 2010, most construction sites had security guards to make sure that nobody had been drinking. Today, alcohol is forbidden throughout industry and the number of pubs has decreased accordingly.
Drugs have always been around but in the old days they were confined to the rich and famous. I remember when the police arrested Sarah Churchill, the actress daughter of Winston Churchill, when she tried to get drugs at our local GP's surgery. Nowadays, nobody would take any notice, but in the fifties the incident was reported in the newspapers.
Our habits have changed and so has our population. When the first black people arrived in the 1940s, we kids used to touch them for luck. If you did that now you would be charged with Racial Hatred and sent to prison for 're-education'.
What started as a trickle turned into a flood, and now the UK is a multiracial country. On the credit side we have plenty of Chinese and Indian restaurants and many talented black sportsmen and musicians, but on the debit side there are whole areas of our country that are hostile to white people. We never had a racial problem when we were all of one race, but instead of taking heed of the situation in America and South Africa, our politicians went ahead with their reckless experiment in social engineering.
The UK is a different country to the one that I remember, and the changes have not been for the better. We used to have middle class prime ministers like Ted Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major but now we have upper class millionaires like Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
Suffering Abuse
Nowadays it's almost impossible not to offend somebody. Ethnic minorities take offence at the slightest thing, and liberal whites are just as sensitive.
Marlene Headley is a woman of West Indian heritage from east London who dresses in African robes and calls herself Ngosi Fulani. She was offended when Lady Hussey asked her where she came from. This conversation was recorded on a concealed device that Ms Fulani just happened to be wearing. This incident was blown up by the popular press and Lady Hussey was unfairly branded a racist. In fact, as a companion to Queen Elizabeth she met hundreds of African and Asian people and was always respectful to them.
People should not be so sensitive. We all suffer abuse at some time or other but we get over it. Members of the so-called far-right are good at giving and receiving abuse.
Arnold Leese (pictured) the leader of the Imperial Fascist League was abusive. He described the policy of the British Fascists, led by Miss Rotha Lintorn-Orman, as: "Conservatism with knobs on." And he dismissed rival fascist leader Oswald Mosley as: "A kosher fascist."
Oswald Mosley wrote in his autobiography 'My Life':
"The beginning of the story was a small anti-Semitic society founded around the year 1920 by a veterinary surgeon called Arnold Leese, with the name Imperial Fascist League. After languishing in obscurity for nearly half a century without any increase in the handful of members with which they began, and despite a change of name to the National Socialist Movement after the war, it received some continental publicity which suggested that the leader of this group at that time, a Mr Colin Jordan, had something to do with me. In the course of some interlocutory proceedings in the appeal court on October 9, 1962, Lord Denning made it quite clear this was not the case."
Martin Webster stated in 'The National Socialist':
"There were three choices open to me in 1962; Union Movement, a reformed British National Party and the three month old NSM. Union Movement was a waste of time. All Mosley seemed interested in doing in his twilight years was earning himself a respectable obituary in The Times. I gave sympathetic consideration to what John Bean had to say on behalf of the BNP, despite the fact that I felt most of his membership were little more than a bunch of down and outs who if it were not for the presence of blacks in the country would find refuge in the left-wing of the Labour Party."
I was a member of the old BNP but I never took offence at Martin Webster's remarks. After all, we believed in European solidarity and Workers' Partnership, so I guess we were left-wing. In any case, he has suffered lots of abuse over the years but he seems to thrive on it.
Rudyard Kipling
Black Lives Matter and their liberal allies are trying to ban our greatest writers. Men like Charles Dickens, and Rudyard Kipling (pictured) were masters of their craft who painted word pictures that still capture our imagination. But because they were white men who lived at the time of the British Empire they are condemned as 'racists'. The following passage from 'Letters of Travel' by Rudyard Kipling shows what he could do:
"No one who has been through even so modified a blizzard as New England can produce talks lightly of the snow. Imagine eight-and-forty hours of roaring wind, the thermometer well down towards zero, scooping and gouging across a hundred miles of newly fallen snow. The air is full of stinging shot, and at ten yards the trees are invisible. The foot slides on a reef, polished and black as obsidian, where the wind has skinned an exposed corner of road down to the dirt ice of early winter. The next step ends hip-deep and over, for here an unseen wall is banking back the rush of the singing drifts. A scarped slope rises sheer across the road. The wind shifts a point or two, and all sinks down, like sand in the hour-glass, leaving a pot-hole of whirling whiteness. There is a lull, and you can see the surface of the fields settling furiously in one direction - a tide that spurts from between the tree boles. The hollows of the pasture fill while you watch; empty, fill, and discharge anew. The rock-ledges show the bare flank of a storm-chased liner for a moment, and whitening, duck under. Irresponsible snow-devils by the lee of a barn where three gusts meet, or stagger out in to the open till they are cut down by the main wind. At the worst of the storm there is neither Heaven nor Earth, but only a swizzle into which a man may be brewed. Distances grow to nightmare scale, and that which in the summer was no more than a minute's bare-headed run, is half an hour's gasping struggle, each foot won between the lulls. Then do the heavy-timbered barns talk like ships in a cross-sea, beam working against beam. The winter's hay is ribbed over with long lines of snow dust blown between the boards, and far below in the byre the oxen clash their horns and moan uneasily."
The loud-mouthed culture destroyers of the lunatic left want to burn our books, tear down our statues, and bully our local councillors into renaming streets. At present they are getting their own way, but nothing lasts forever, the tide will turn, and they will never erase the memory of our national heroes.
Kipling belonged to the days of the British Empire but his simple patriotism still inspires us. Men like Cecil Rhodes were tainted by capitalism, but the soldiers and administrators of the empire thrived on hard work and loyalty. Today, it's fashionable to denigrate Britain's achievements but nobody can take away from us the fact that we once ruled over half the world. The British Empire has gone the way of all empires, but the people who founded it are still with us.
Thirty Years On
Derek was faced with total hostility from his fellow councillors and endured eight months of threats and abuse from 'antifascists'. The Labour Party mobilised its Asian supporters to depose him with a 65% turnout at the next election. But the psychological breakthrough had been made. The BNP proved that it was electable.
Derek's victory in a working class district was remarkable because the so-called 'democratic system' is rigged against minor parties, and the block immigrant vote usually goes to the Labour Party.
In middle class constituencies mass migration is less of a problem and people are less inclined to support parties like the BNP. But tribal politics is breaking down. We have seen traditional Labour seats in the North going to the Tories and 'safe' Tory seats in the South going to the Lib Dems.
Electoral success at any level depends on money. The Tories are backed by big business and the Labour Party is financed by the trade unions, but the Lib Dems, the Greens, and parties like the BNP rely on donations from their members.
The Tories, who spent £16 million on the 2019 general election, have made such a monumental cock-up of things that the Labour Party is expected to win the next general election. The Tories have run out of ideas; they need to take a rest for a few years, by then the global recession will be over, the UK's prospects will look better, and the people who own the country will be back in charge.
I couldn't support the National Front or the BNP because of their opposition to the EU, which is a step towards European unity. I supported their stand against coloured immigration, but their hostility to East Europeans was disgraceful. They couldn't tell a Norwegian from a Nigerian; to them they were all 'bloody foreigners'.
We are out of the EU now but we still have a massive problem with non-Europeans pouring into the country. In order to curry favour (pardon the pun) with India and China, Boris Johnson promised them access to the UK in return for trade deals.
The only difference between the Old Gang parties is that the Tories welcome immigrants as cheap labour and the Labour Party needs them for their votes. That's why brave men like Derek Beacon are so important. He took great personal risks to make a stand against the System and we should be thankful to him.
Derek now supports the British Democratic Party which like its predecessors is wrong about Europe but right about finance capitalism and immigration. I wish him every success.
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