Part 2
Ed: This was first published in ‘Free Nations’ and we re-publish with the permission of the author. Part 1 can be read here.
It is high time that the UK Government started issuing guidance on the tariffs which the UK would apply on imports – which would rise and which would fall (food, raw materials and clothing for instance would fall)
For raising tariffs the general principle would be “tit for tat”. We would not apply new higher tariffs unless the EU applied such tariffs to our exports. We would make a big profit from mutual tariffs because we import more from them.
Very quickly the boot would be on the other foot and the EU would be forced into a u-turn on trade and sensible co-operation.
Transport for London which comes under the control of Mayor Sadiq Kahn, is to allow adverts on the tube for the People’s Vote Campaign – in direct contradiction of TfL’s own ban on political advertising campaign (“..contains images or messages which relate to matters of public controversy or sensitivity”)
The politicisation of public services and the arbitrary interpretations of laws and regulations to disadvantage political opponents or promote political friends is the essence of fascist politics. No wonder Kahn’s London loves the EU.
When anti democrats lose a vote they attack the voting system and promote a system reflecting their own prejudices. In the case of the 2016 Referendum result its far left opponents now call for a different result through a different “People’s Vote” as if “people” did not vote in 2016!
Of course the use of words like the “People’s” vote or the “People’s Court” is a classic expression of fascist politics where public institutions serving all are turned into political tools of the fascist class.
Two of the organisations which promoted marches in London for a second referendum have received direct funding from the EU. European Alternatives received €300,000 and the European Movement €350,000. (Imagine if the British Government donated to French or German anti EU organisations and parties!)
A recent letter from over 100 MEPs “to the British people” shows how the EU and its fifth column have worked over Brexit. The letter said the UK should now have another vote “because Brexit is so different from what people voted for”! Thanks to their scheming with UK Remainers and their refusal to follow the democratic choice of the British people we have indeed ended up with the May deal which is even worse than staying in! THEIR manipulations frustrate us – so WE must vote again!
Jaguar Land Rover sales were down in 2018 and the company said Brexit was a factor. What manipulative rubbish! In fact their sales figures showed exactly why the UK should leave the EU. For sales in Europe were down 7.8%, China minus 21% but sales to the USA were up 7.2% – how much better we would be with the freedom to strike a trade deal with the USA! The small fall in the UK of 1.5% was entirely due to the UK Government’s own policies on lending and diesel cars!
Jaguar of course has benefited from some pretty distorted EU subsidies which have driven jobs from the UK. The company received £100m in state aid from Slovakia to take production and jobs from Solihull. While this State aid was apparently acceptable the EU was applying state aid controls to the UK when it came to reducing scandalously high business rates. No company can benefit from more than £200,000 if their business rates are reduced!
The UK’s Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Jonathan Allen, has said that 2019:
has to be the time when the silent majority stand up & are less silent. Otherwise we will lose ground to the national sovereigntists.
It is the UK Government’s policy – and that legislated for by our parliament – that the UK retrieves its national sovereignty by leaving the EU. What is our UN deputy ambassador doing making up his own policy?
John Redwood visited an exhibition at the Design Museum in Kensington. He records a massive snub to British design and an emphasis on European – such are the loyalties of the europhile elitist classes in the political and arts Establishment.
The vehicle selection centred on the chassis of a Model T Ford , a huge picture of a VW Beetle, commentary on Porsche and a picture and comment on a large Citroen saloon of the 1960s. I did not see any images of the amazing Mini which revolutionised and popularised small cars, nor any hint of the beauty of an E type Jaguar. There were no Rolls Royces or Morris Minors. There seemed to be some kind of block on UK vehicles. There was a Vespa scooter but no Triumph or Norton motorcycle.
Corporatism, Statism and incipient fascism have united the establishment political parties and their sponsored agencies against the people. Their natural home is the European Union. Their natural enemy is the democratic and patriotic instincts of the British people. We, the British people, will win.
If you can make something of the points in this article – use them in a letter to the press (local, regional national). If you can mention freenations.net all the better!
Rodney Atkinson is the author of And Into The Fire, Fascist elements in post war Europe and the development of the European Union, with contributions from William Dorich and Edward Spalton. It is available from Amazon.
On Jaguar Land Rover, it is clear to me that Brexit is being used as an ‘excuse’. Ever since they opened their new plant in Slovakia and moved production of the Discovery there, it has always been their intention to move all of their production to take advantage of the cheaper labour costs. And if the EU is helping to fund this move, all the better for them. Regardless of how Brexit turned out, they are going to do this anyway.
So much for the mantra of “we need to stay in the single market/EU to protect jobs”.
Ask the former workers at Peugeot’s plant in Coventry if they agree. Or former workers at any other UK manufacturing site, who have lost their jobs due to production being moved to other EU countries, like Poland, Romania etc.
Also don’t forget how the EU paid Ford Europe to relocate their production facilities to TURKEY. Last time I checked, Turkey was not even an EU member. (But they are part of the EU’s Customs Union however).
What I do find ironic is how Jaguar Land Rover’s owners Tata Motors have been blaming recent downsizing on ‘lower sales’ in China, since they opened new manufacturing facilities over there in Asia.
Perhaps Tata Motors misunderstand how discerning the new middle and upper classes are in China and other parts of Asia? Owning a Land Rover, Range Rover or Jaguar would be seen as a ‘status symbol’, especially one manufactured in the UK (“Made In Britain”) and imported in.
Building these ‘luxury vehicles’ in factories in China, well perhaps they become perceived by the locals as more “made in China” tat, so does that put them off? Yes, they may be cheaper to manufacture, but if the consumer cost price is not much lower as a result, people wise up that they are being exploited so this corporation can make bigger profits. But also, if the cost price significantly drops due to lower production costs, the middle and upper classes no longer have a ‘status symbol’ to be proud of.
Interesting though that despite Jaguar Land Rover’s woes, Nissan and Toyota are continuing to invest in their UK production facilities, almost as if they know something we all don’t…
I agree with every word of the economic, historic and political analysis and will purchase a copy of the author’s book “Into the Fire”.
How can national sovereignty be bad except as part of a fascist (Imperial State/collectivist/corporatist centralised planning) takeover and using democracy as a means towards socialist values? What seems so paradoxical is the support of socialists, “Progressives” and liberal reformers for such a system…. perhaps the answer to this can be seen in the words of Himmler “capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system…The National Socialists and the Red Front have the SAME aspirations” or of Mussolini, who expected at the end of the War that the Left and Right would reunite in a 3rd-Way extension of these utopian values around Europe and eventually the whole world: “The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them…. We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them!…Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere…. When the war is over, in the world’s social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth’s riches.” It was in fact this Left-wing fascism that Che Guevara called “pure” and it equates with Fabianism in its rejection of free trade, competitive edge, self-government and the movement of capital etc… hence the predominance of these views amongst Remainers. It was Benito Mussolini who said “Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.”
What’s the difference between that position and the position taken by most establishment Remainers?
I once was learning all I could about Social Responsibility. In that investigation I did an internet search and found to my puzzlement that almost all the sites were interested in Corporate Responsibility or Environmental Responsibility. It was as though the concept of Social Responsibility had been thrown down the ‘memory hole’. Check the Wikipedia definition. You will find that in the second sentence, no less, they disappear into a deviation.
‘Social responsibility is a duty every individual has to perform so as to maintain a balance between the economy and the ecosystems.’
My own basic understanding of SR was that it is a responsibility for society, and society is a lot more involved than the economy or the environment. In short the most important part, that is, in general, a concern for others, ownership, identity, social morals etc. was being side-stepped.
Now look at the Wiki definition of Fascism.
‘Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state’
Where have you seen this before?
Yes Socialism, and that is exactly what fascism is, a symptom of Socialism.
The only difference is that since Hitler they have dumped the Nationalist bit.
Until we all start calling It for what it is we will not be seeing the truth.
All our main political parties, or should I refer to the singular, that is the LibLabCon party are now Socialists.
In the USA it is the Democrats.
We are seeing a very sly but very real emergence of Fascism with a capitol F.
So I would reword the first sentence of the penultimate paragraph.
‘Socialism has united with Corporatism and is now manifesting itself as Fascism.’
In short Fascism has gone international. The big clue was the Nazi plan to ‘unite’(sic) Europe, and many Nazis survivors also took influential jobs in the early days of the EU.
That’s how I see it, but always open to criticism and correction.
Thank you for the article Rodney and the link Flyer.
As usual, very well observed Kim
I withdraw any criticism of this article and although I would like to see Socialism fully exposed I am not qualified to suggest changes to this excellent article. The author is very generous in his offer to use any of the material and has supported the understanding of the subject immensely.
I quite like that phrase ‘ National Sovereigntists ‘ . Though a British official seems to think it a term of abuse . Lol.
Flyer I get the impression that Trump is trying to continue from where JFK was stopped.
To think he could have had a nice quiet life enjoying his retirement and his wealth.
Respect.
Would be grateful for links for the EU funding received by European Alternatives €300,000 and the European Movement €350,000 if possible.
Here’s a video that after a little preamble tells things like the are in America. This video is worth a listen because the brown stuff is about to hit the fan in the US and if what I think is going to happen here in the UK over Brexit does happen, it’ll get very nasty here too. We live in very unpleasant, very worrying times.
“MAJOR EVENTS COMING TO AMERICA!! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!”
https://youtu.be/0sJQMWSCwf4