Germany And The P-Word

So the Landesbank system is going to be sorted out? Good for you, Angie. Show the FDP from the start who’s boss. And the shrieking about “protectionism” has already started. Even better. When can we have some “protectionism” over here? When we start taking industrial and agricultural workers seriously, that’s when. So don’t hold your breath. We now have the deliberate importation, as much as of anything else, of a new working class which understands no English except commands, has no local allegiance here and can therefore be moved around at will, knows little or nothing about such workers’ rights as we still have, and can be deported if it steps out of line.

There cannot be a “free” market generally but not in drugs, prostitution or pornography. There cannot be unrestricted global movement of goods, services or capital but not of labour. American domination is no more acceptable that European federalism. The economic decadence of the 1980s is no more acceptable that the social decadence of the 1960s, which led through it to the warmongering and the constitutional vandalism of the New Labour years.

Those who looked to the union-busting criminality of pirate radio, which was funded by the same Oliver Smedley who went on to fund the proto-Thatcherite Institute of Economic Affairs, were enfranchised in time for the 1970 General Election, gave victory to what they thought were the Selsdon Tories, and went on to support first the economic and then the constitutional entrenchment of their dissolute moral and social attitudes by Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. If “there is no such thing as society”, then there can be no such thing as the society that is the family, or the society that is the nation.

A domestic manufacturing base, a largely domestic food supply, and ownership of our own industries and resources by our own citizens, are all integral to national sovereignty. Nothing has weakened the Union more than the dismantlement of the nationalised industries, which created communities of interest among the several parts of the United Kingdom, and many of which had the word “British” in their names. Quite possibly the most important of all the State’s duties is to guarantee the economic basis of paternal authority. Few things, if any, did this better than the digging of coal to power a country largely standing on it. The same can be said of nuclear power.

Requiring a union card is no different from requiring a British passport or a work permit. It is as wrong to silence the voice of the aristocratic social conscience by abolishing hereditary barons as to silence the voice of organised labour by abolishing trade union barons. One way or another, both of those voices must be heard again, just as the economic safeguards of national sovereignty, of the Union and of paternal authority must be restored.

As for Germany, she rules via the EU, and has better schools, policing, transport infrastructure, working conditions, and standards of behaviour than we have, as well as cleaner streets, a huge domestic manufacturing base, and ownership of her own industries. She is already out of recession. But never mind, eh? We won the War…