THE FRINGE EFFECT

The recent Feltham and Heston by-election has again revealed the collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote. This time they did just fend off UKIP who came fourth, polling 5.49% to the Liberal Democrat vote of 5.87% - 1,276 votes to 1,364 votes. By comparison the BNP polled 540 [2.33%] and the English Democrats polled 322 [1.39%].

Although UKIP failed to beat the Liberal Democrats, once again UKIP has demonstrated that it is polling better than the other two right-of-centre fringe parties.

Until recently UKIP has failed to poll well in elections other than the EU elections with proportional representation. UKIP has failed to poll well in local elections and can usually be beaten, almost casually, by both the BNP and the English Democrats.

UKIP is now pondering whether or not to support the campaign for an English Parliament. That they are taking a long time to re-examine their stance shows that many, if not a majority, in the party are opposed to an English Parliament and shows the angst that UKIP have over diluting their current single issue message.

Even if they do embrace the English Parliament issue then this would not necessarily make UKIP English nationalists. It is possible to support the calls for an English Parliament on democratic and constitutional grounds only. True English nationalism goes beyond that and UKIP does have an ambiguous stance regarding immigration and political correctness, to put it mildly [e.g. see the English Rights Campaign items dated 4 May 2005 and 17 November 2006]. Adherence to political correctness and mass immigration is incompatible with English nationalism.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

‘Political unity, right or wrong, good or bad, is incompatible with national independence. The will to bring Britain into the Community is the will to give that independence up. Each one of us must take his own resolve. I can only say what is mine. I do not believe this nation, which has maintained and defended its independence for a thousand years, will now submit to see it merged or lost. Nor did I become a member of our sovereign parliament in order to consent to that sovereignty being abated or transferred. Come what may, I cannot and I will not.’

Enoch Powell

THE EU

David Cameron’s refusal to agree to the proposals being dictated to him by our EU partners [as they are continually styled] has not stopped the movement towards fiscal union [ie the economic policies of all EU countries being dictated by Germany] nor has it saved the City from EU regulation, which the our EU partners intend to impose by Qualified Majority Voting in due course anyway.

It is to be noted that it was the interests of the City which finally provoked the British veto, not the interests of the other sectors of the economy [such as fishing], nor the preservation of our democracy and sovereignty.

While Nick Clegg and some other Liberal Democrats initially supported David Cameron’s stand, their rapid U-turn has discredited them. The reactions of some Liberal Democrats have verged on the hysterical in their craven pro-EU stance.

The Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation has been dismissive of the use of the veto and references to the national interest present it as something sordid. For a nationalized national broadcaster dependent on national monies from the ordinary people whose interests and values it holds in such contempt, this snooty approach is a wonder to behold. Perhaps the English people should no longer insult the BBC with their licence fee monies and allow the BBC to rely upon the EU for its funding?

Meanwhile, the case for the exit from the EU is not being properly put. The Tories, even some of the Eurosceptic ones, are keen to set out the supposed benefits of EU membership and how determined they are to remain in the EU. In particular they continue to assert that we have to be in the EU in order to have free trade with the EU. That is untrue.

One thing the veto does do is to increase the prospects of a referendum on the EU. Such would certainly be a way of parking the issue and allowing the public to decide rather than allowing the coalition government, which is divided on the matter, to pull itself apart.

Be there no doubt, the only way to safeguard our national interests is to leave the EU. So much power has already been conceded that we cannot solve our problems without leaving, as the determination of our EU partners to foist regulations and taxes onto the City via Qualified Majority Voting will prove.

Of more immediate concern is that David Cameron has been very eager to donate many tens of £billions to the IMF in full knowledge that those monies will be pumped into propping up the Euro. Even now, the Eurozone countries are plotting to get their hands on IMF money rather than use their own.

If we remain in the EU then:

1. We will continue to be ruled from the EU

2. We will continue to pay £15billion each year to the EU and will face the renewed attacks to completely abolish the rebate

3. We will face further demands to pay yet more £10billions to bail out the Euro

4. We will see the collapse in our fishing stocks and the decimation of our fishing fleet

5. We will be sucked into a new EU foreign and defence policy

6. We will be required to increase mass immigration to allow unlimited Turkish immigrants into this country with Turkish accession to the EU [NB the Tories are very keen for Turkey to join the EU]

7. Rules, regulations and general bureaucracy will continue to be imposed on us by Qualified Majority Voting

8. We will continue to be in a minority within the EU [as the present crisis has demonstrated]

9. We will witness the steady erosion of what little democracy and freedoms remain and the continued destruction of our national culture

10. WE WILL BE ABSORBED INTO A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE

If we leave the EU then:

1. We will be able to restrict our relationship with the EU to one of free trade only

2. We will escape from the Common Agricultural Policy and cut food prices

3. We will escape from the Common Fisheries Policy and be able to reclaim our territorial waters and fishing grounds – our fishing industry will boom, creating substantial employment

4. We will be able to stop paying £15billion each year to the EU

5. We will be able to repeal the bureaucracy that is strangling our economy

6. We will be able to properly re-establish border controls and end mass immigration

7. No more laws will be imposed on us from the EU, particularly we will be able to escape the so-called human rights nonsense

8. We will be able to manage our economy for the benefit of our nation, in particular, we will be able to move towards full employment by re-establishing a properly functioning national labour market

9. We will recover full control of our defence and foreign policy

10. WE WILL RECOVER FULL NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

THE EU

The Liberal Democrat/Tory coalition government has taken a supine approach to the Eurozone crisis. The Liberal Democrats are of course pro-EU and want a United States of Europe. The Tories are divided on the issue although the leadership, in particular David Cameron, is much more pro-EU than they would wish to admit.

In a recent speech, Nick Clegg said:

'No frontbencher in the coalition is talking about unilateral repatriation of powers from the European Union. Why? Because it simply is not possible - it does not work like that. We have to seek agreement with 26 other countries to get that repatriation. The idea that one can simply get on to the Brussels Eurostar, go over to Brussels and come back with a bag load of powers is simply not feasible.'

What Nick Clegg has pointed out is true. He is simply stating facts. What he is saying may not be palatable but that does not alter the accuracy of what he has said. In reality, there is no way that Britain can reclaim any significant powers from the EU, given the determination of the other EU countries to proceed with their integrationist project, and given the necessity for unanimity to achieve a treaty change.

The reality is that the only feasible policy is to leave the EU. There is no alternative. This fact particularly impacts upon the prospect of a referendum on the relationship with the EU. Presently, the suggested questions to be put to the electorate include a sort of middle option of renegotiating our membership with the EU and staying a part of it. This daydream might sound very nice and moderate, but it is a fraud.

There will be no renegotiated relationship for the reasons that Nick Clegg has set out. What would happen were the electorate to vote for this option and it was ostensibly pursued, is that the option would fail and the British ruling class would continue as before, with the result that we would continue to see our freedoms, rights and monies given away, and our country would continue to be absorbed into the EU superstate.

THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS TO LEAVE THE EU.

What is now needed is leadership to set out the merits of leaving the EU, and to disown any lure of a fraudulant fudge of a renegotiated EU membership that can never happen. We need the leadership to encourage the English to make a stand, something that Ian Smith pointed out was always very difficult [see the English Rights Campaign item dated the 15 April 2005].