Britain's Foreign Nationalists

There were two foreign nationalist movements in post-War Britain. One of them could defend even the invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. The other could defend even an act of high treason against The Queen, in the interests of the Boer Republic set up as an explicit act of anti-British revenge in a former Dominion of the Crown by people who had been interred during the War because of their pro-Nazi activities.

Bizarrely, the former enjoyed considerable influence within the wider Labour Movement. Just as bizarrely, the latter enjoyed considerable influence within the Tory subculture. Furthermore, there were Soviet sympathisers on that subculture’s intellectual fringes, as there were Boer sympathisers in that Movement’s less educated corners.

Today, Britain is again afflicted with two small but well-placed foreign nationalisms. The first is neoconservatism, which has merely changed Marxism’s ending so that the bourgeoisie wins, and thus so that the most bourgeois of countries (which is not Britain) wins. And the second is Islam. Not “a perversion of Islam”, but any religion or ideology deriving honestly from the Qur'an and the Hadith.

The Party Leaders are close to the first, and depend on it in internal party terms. Yet they are also afraid of the second, both at home and abroad. So they must constantly placate both. This is one of the key reasons why ever-fewer people vote, calling our democracy ever-more into question.

We need to recreate the cross-party movement that resisted both the Soviet Union’s and the Boer Republic’s supporters, so as to resist both foreign nationalisms today. We need British politicians who will stand up for Britain against all comers. From the bottom up, and for these among many other reasons, we need to replace both parties.