Part Of The Union

It is rarely mentioned, but much damage was done to the Catholic interest by the removal of most of the hereditary peers. According to the Catholic Herald, the Catholic Union of Great Britain, set up by the Recusant grandees back in the day, and with a long and proud record of advancing Catholic causes in Parliament, is now down to as few as two thousand members. And I suspect that many of them are getting on a bit, to say the very least.

Making it ripe for revivification by the pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker and anti-war movement of economically social democratic, morally and socially conservative British and Commonwealth patriots, heavily influenced by Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism, and drawing on the tradition of those who - because they were never entirely convinced as to the full legitimacy of Hanoverian Britain, of her Empire and of that Empire's capitalist ideology - produced the campaign against the slave trade, the demands for political reform, the Labour Movement, and the opposition to the Boer and First World Wars, while forging bonds to many parts of Europe and the world, forming the intellectual environment that created the American Republic, and defending the closest possible ties among the three previous Kingdoms of England (including the Principality of Wales), Scotland and Ireland.

Let's get to it.