… about our money! Let’s talk about how we, the British peoples, have been paying over the centuries with our blood and our money to save Europe from tyranny.
Now that the ‘All EUropean’ festivities and re-enactments at Waterloo are over, we need to take a look at what made this possible, both our victory then and the festivities of the last few days.
It has become obvious that the European ‘elite’, politicians and academics and especially the MSM, have turned this event into a celebration of their ideology of a unified Europe, under the guidance of Brussels. Napoleon, as we’ve seen and heard and read, is the hero of that unified Europe, and lo and behold, we in the UK are not only the inconvenient stumbling block which must be kicked into shape, we must be made to accept that Waterloo was actually not our victory. I’ve written here about the way the Left achieved this, through years of falsifying our history, denigrating our great leaders, and devaluing the heroic feat of our soldiers, culminating in snide remarks and historically unfounded criticism of Wellington’s acts at Waterloo.
The one thing the EU Left didn’t mention at all is money, our money, which made this possible.
In all the jubilation about how it was the Prussians “wot won it”, together with the other European contingents in the Allied force commanded by Wellington the Neo-Napoleonic EU ‘elite’ omitted to mention that we, the peoples of Great Britain, financed those Allied soldiers, and paid for those armies since the beginning of the Napoleonic wars, through subsidies and loans. In fact, since the French revolutionary Armies started to fight the other European powers from 1792 onwards, we subsidised these powers. These monies came on top of what we needed to rebuild our Royal Navy and our Standing Army. In 1814, for example, we paid as much in subsidies to those foreign powers as we paid for the Royal Navy. Here is a very brief survey.
We did this while fighting on the High Seas throughout, and on Dry Land in the Peninsular War. One aspect of that war, little mentioned unless with denigratory sniggers, is that Wellington insisted on getting money from London to pay for what his army needed in food and transport, and to support the Spanish guerrilleros. This contributed greatly to Wellington’s success, because the French rapaciously took everything they needed from the populace wherever they went and fought, be it in Spain, be it in the German and Austrian countries, and especially in Russia. We did not – we paid!
We, the Brits, paid our own way and paid for the soldiers in the Alliance as well, yes even for Russian soldiers. We were able to do this because we’d already become the ‘Nation of shopkeepers’ so disdained by Napoleon. But these ‘shopkeepers’ had created the modern banking system which also financed the Industrial Revolution – the revolution which enabled us to build and provide for a more modern Royal Navy and Army.
Of course, such modern systems of banking, further developed and today so important to our economy as The City, is anathema to the EUroLeft. That’s why we get the derogatory remarks about ‘bad bankers’ financing our victories while Napoleon, simply ravaging all countries he conquered, with everybody becoming impoverished across the whole ‘unified’ Napoleonic Europe, is admired by the Left.
Nothing has changed in that Leftist view, and it won’t change in the future.
We are still paying to subsidise EU countries, countries which are becoming more impoverished as the € crisis drags on. You all know how much we pay to the neo-napoleonic EU overlords day in day out! That’s why they do not want us to leave – and that is why we must leave, because this time round their laws are strangling us, having done to our economy what Napoleon only dreamt of achieving with his ‘Continental Blockade’.
The European elites, driven by France, have kept that Napoleonic dream of a unified Europe alive for 200 years. They are now so close to achieving their goal, but still they cannot do it without us – without our money. They haven’t forgiven us for Waterloo, shattering that dream, and never will forgive us. And we, the British peoples, must keep on paying them for having inflicted this shame and defeat on them – not only at Waterloo but during WWI and WWII as well.
We must never be allowed to talk about money, our money, nor about why we, on this small Island, we’re able to resist and fight not only a bloody war but an economic one as well for such a long time. We cannot be allowed to realise that we won through our own efforts, through our own modern economy, inventiveness, sheer work and sacrifices.
After all, if we do finally realise this, we might ask the inconvenient question why we should pay for the pleasure of becoming impoverished ourselves while being despised for our sacrifices to keep Europe from tyranny for over two hundred years!
Isn’t it time we stopped subsidising the continental Left and use our money for ourselves?
Aren’t 200 years of us subsidising the ingrates in EUrope enough?
This article, in my opinion is seminal, in expressing good sound reasoning and historical relevance to our necessity of BRexit, just recently I have been noticing on this forum a number of similar excellent documents and I will be placing this one among them to contribute to my personal understanding of where we are at and what has led up to our present national predicament and thus forming my personal “narrative” . I too am learning much!. I trust HO is learning too.
For those interested I recommend.
An article in the Detroit Times by Neil Winton 28/5/15
An article by John King in the New Statesman (last few days)
I know I could “Google” those articles, but perhaps you could give us the URLs yourself – always helps when referencing such things.
You can even embed an HTML tag into your post like this, for example: UKIP web site.
The syntax is:
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That`s the problem Brian,
I`m not adept at pushing computer buttons and getting a simple answer .(age related?)
But along with others, I despair of the Disqus set up that seems to eat up my posts.
For instance I tried on 2 or 3 occasions to publish the Detroit site, but it just kept on disappearing, in fact it also disappeared off Courant, where I got the info from in the first place.
I only managed to save it to my computer by asking them to email it to me direct.
If you like, I can try to email it to you.
……….and furthermore Brian I have just been reading Daily Telegraph yesterday`s Business section and found a couple of items which I thought might help UKIP opinion and presentation of the wrongs of the Euro and an analysis of the benefits of BRexit to exporters.I didn`t see them in Courant.
a) “For everybody`s sake, it is time for the EU to set Greece`s economy free” (Allister Heath)
b) “Why leaving the EU would not be a disaster for the UK`s exporters” (Change or go – published Business for Britain)
Good article. You can even see it in the uniforms the allied nations wore. The Portuguese army was equipped entirely by use (they wore the stvoepipe shako) and was turned from an army that had been easily crushed to a reliable one that the Iron Duke himself wished he had with him in Belgium, the Dutch-Belgian armies were equipped by us and even some Prussian Landwehr units were still wearing British shakos at Waterloo. Even in games you see the degeneration of the British name, Napoleon Total War, a grand strategy game, claims that we did little fighting before 1805:
“Great Britain is a constitutional monarchy, a nation of free trade and personal liberty. Its people are seemingly devoted to making money and disliking foreigners in equal measure. Foreigners are, quite simply, just not very good at anything, be that running an empire or making a decent pie. Britons make no secret of their prejudice, a crass attitude that makes diplomacy difficult. The “English” as, much to the annoyance of the Scots, everyone calls them, are disliked in every court in Europe for this arrogance and their willingness to let everyone else do all the fighting and dying against the French. The apparent truth of this last point has been a gift to Bonaparte.”- from the British introduction in the game.
Great read. If we added up all the money we have been forced to give to the EU since we were conned into joining the Common Market, might it not clear our National Debt and Deficit. Add to that the cost of having to defeat the despot Napoleon who descimated the other European Countries, the EU has no right to celebrate anything. It is the British who can celebrate keeping Europe safe from Napoleon and Hitler, yet the tragedy is we have ended up paying the bill. France and Germany should be ashamed of their EU Left system of economics when they haven’t balanced their accounts for years. The want us to stay in because we are subsidising them.
SUCH A CONCLUSION CAN NOT -MUST NOT- BE IGNORED IN THIS REFERENDUM DEBATE! (But – DON’T BLAME ME – I voted UKIP!)
Exactly!
And again it is for us foot soldiers to make these points when we talk about the EU Referendum to the people we meet.
The cartel party politicians certainly won’t mention it!
Keep on ‘digging them out!’ When you spot them, copy and SHARE! BUT I’D LIKE TO HEAR FAR MORE FROM THE HEAD OFFICE! BUT, meanwhile, ‘keep on shooting from the hip’! Every ‘SHARE’ is AT LEAST a ‘double-up’ of effort….
An excellent source of new historical insight for this reader.
Nice job!
Thanks!
I find history fascinating, and am of the firm opinion that we must reclaim it from the left ideologues and from those who are distorting it for their own purposes.
Don’t forget (pre Napoleon) the wars of Spanish succession: a previous attempt by the French to dominate Europe and defeated by British led (Marlborough) allies.
There are some of us who haven’t forgotten anything about the last 3 or 4 centuries during which the French and the Germans have demonstrated that they are not to be trusted, acting either as enemies or undependable allies. And yet here we are allowing ourselves to be dictated to by both countries in their domination of the EU. We have to watch the unedifying spectacle of our spineless PM begging for concessions from 27 ‘partners’, many of which are countries that we fought against or helped to liberate not so long ago.
It’s an insult to those who lost their lives in those conflicts.
Why can’t Cameron & Co see that we need to walk away with dignity? We should also resolve NOT to become embroiled in any future war in Europe or anywhere else, reserving our Armed Forces for defence of these shores against aggressors.
There are some of us who haven’t forgotten anything about the last 3 or 4 centuries during which the French and the Germans have demonstrated that they are not to be trusted, acting either as enemies or undependable allies. And yet here we are allowing ourselves to be dictated to by both countries in their domination of the EU. We have to watch the unedifying spectacle of our spineless PM begging for concessions from 27 ‘partners’, many of which are countries that we fought against or helped to liberate not so long ago.
It’s an insult to those who lost their lives in those conflicts.
Why can’t Cameron & Co see that we need to walk away with dignity? We should also resolve NOT to become embroiled in any future war in Europe or anywhere else, reserving our Armed Forces for defence of these shores against aggressors.
Indeed. Why don’t we learn from history and put a stop to the malaise of decline? We owe the EU nothing yet give everything away. Our detractors see our weakness and bit by bit we are being enslaved to the corporate EU.
Ah – but learning from history is difficult if that history is no longer being taught. That, after all, is the aim of those cultural marxists: to make us forget, and if that’s not quite possible, to make us ashamed of what our ancestors achieved, to denigrate their achievements, and to drag everything down to the lowest level, while praising uncritically and defending their new ‘heroes’ – transgender sports celebrities and such.
I’m afraid it’s true and I see it in my own children who were taught by left wing teachers using a curriculum designed by a pro-EU left wing establishment. I have to be careful what I say in order to avoid rows, but a heated discussion with my younger son recently revealed to me that he knew very little about how we got into the EU. He had also swallowed the ‘3 million jobs lost’ mantra and did not realise that we are not allowed to make our own trade deals. I’ve started to send him some information such as Wm Dartmouth’s ‘Truth about trading with the EU’ and can only hope he starts to read and listen.
It’s sad, really, that we’re forced to behave like the people in the former Soviet Union, not daring to put right the rubbish our children are being taught in school because the teachers will then downgrade them.
As for your son – excellent strategy! Send him also the link to Ray Finch’s brochure on the catastrophe which is the Common Fisheries Policy and what that has done to our fishing fleets, harbours and indeed employment. But then, perhaps he doesn’t like proper fish ‘n chips … 😉
The best you can do is to hope and train people including offspring that to question more and stop taking the propaganda as truth is the best policy. I have the same problem with my children and I ask them never to “assume” and to question the output of the biased media and educational establishments.
This same tactic, as you know, has been successfully employed across the pond. Only the good Lord knows when they will reach the lowest level.
All good wishes to you and the Princess!
Indeed so – and we need to reserve our Armed Forces to defend against attacks on our possessions, the Falklands, for example.
Oh yes, I did not mean to exclude The Falklands, Gibraltar and anywhere else there are people who want to belong to this country, fly our flag and need our protection.
Pamela and Colliemum, maybe I am getting the wrong end of the stick, I agree we should protect “our own” and that includes the Commonwealth, if required, just as they in most cases unhesitatingly have come to our aid in the past, but I also believe we have a need and perhaps a responsibility far wider than that and that is we are a founder member of the security Council It`s remit is international and overarching, if called upon we are morally obliged to provide our men and materiel for that purpose.
I would say we must have more than sufficient just for our own needs available, in fact to carry clout (we are not to be messed with) then our power and the ability to project it must be paramount.
Sorry, if we are advocating being “Big Boys” trading throughout the globe then we must appear so. and indeed be so.
Good point!