The three weeks or so which have passed since Boris Johnson’s famous victory in the general election of the 12th December has allowed us some space for reflection.
Anyone who has read any of my earlier remarks about Boris will know that I am no fan of his, and he is no friend of ours. Nevertheless, it was with relief that I switched on the television at 10.00 pm that Thursday night to see the exit poll forecasting a Tory majority of eighty plus – relief because I did not want to have to confront a realisation that our people had voted into power an open-borders, pro IRA, quasi-communist. The relief was tempered with regret at the self-immolation of a once great party of the British people, captured by international Marxists. But any regret was soon swept away by the pleasure of watching the hard Left and its celebrity bubbleheads going into terminal meltdown (where are you now, Lily Allen?).
In an earlier piece of mine, “Chaos is a Ladder”, I said that given the then dysfunctional state of Parliament and the lack of a Conservative majority, Boris showed every sign of being an interim figure. I compared him with Kerensky, the short lived leader of Russia who came after the Tsar and before the Bolsheviks. How wrong can one be? I can only plead that I was by no means alone in supposing that the Johnson premiership might break all records for brevity! But now, and barring one of those accidents which can never be wholly ruled out in political life, it seems that Johnson is likely to be in power for at least four years and probably many more. But in another, quite unintended, sense I was not so far wrong because we are at an interim point in our politics; the Conservative Party is transitioning into something else, while Labour must do the same if it is to survive.
The Conservative Party is doing what it always does, hitches a ride on the flowing tide of the current political fashion; and the current political fashion is populism – which leans to the Left on the economy but to the Right on social and cultural issues. In other words, the Conservative Party has tilted a little – only a very little – towards our part of the political spectrum. But how things have changed in the past decade! In 2010 we were nearing the high tide mark of international liberalism, and surely nothing could shake its hegemony? Everywhere parties differed little as they came under the control of politicians who bought into that hegemony; politicians who shared similar values and attitudes, whose education and life experiences were all to be found within the same privileged cocoon. So in this country we had the identikit politicians Blair, Clegg and Cameron and the “Liblabcon Party” – one party with three faces.
Populism has always been around but driven to the political margins after 1945 and especially since the soft Marxist cultural revolution of the 1960s. So what has brought it roaring back? If we were to choose one event, one moment, which shattered the liberal hegemony and led to the revival of populism in Western Europe it was surely Mrs. Merkel’s catastrophic folly in 2015. In country after country people realised that they were losing their countries – hence Brexit, hence Trump, hence the rise of populist parties throughout continental Europe. Hence too, in those countries which have so far been lucky enough to escape mass immigration, such as Hungary and Poland, the election of traditionalist governments pledged to ensure that is how they will stay.
So Johnson’s Conservative Party has co-opted populism, and in the process taken over territory prepared for it by the Brexit Party, by UKIP, and – a little further back – by the BNP. The co-opting of populism shows how canny a politician Johnson is; he is said to travel light ideologically – adopting whatever position best serves the only real objective, power. So it served him to present himself as an arch liberal when Mayor of liberal, cosmopolitan London, and it serves him to present himself as a populist when contending for Labour seats in more traditionalist parts of the country. The populism of his government will inevitably be a watered down, moderated, even neutered populism, even when compared with that of UKIP. How far he can water it down without losing the support of his newly gained seats remains to be seen.
But quite apart from a renewed Conservative government, something else came out of this election – the collapse of the Labour vote. The Conservative vote only went up a notch or two, but victory was secured by a huge drop in the Labour vote – 10 points or more. Some of those lost Labour votes went to the Brexit Party, more were lost to people who preferred to stay at home. So there is a very large number of voters who have become detached from Labour and no longer have a political home. Labour can recover its lost votes only by itself becoming more populist and moving towards social and cultural conservatism, which will be no easy task given what Labour has become over the past forty years. So who is going to pick up those votes? Our system of democracy needs an official Opposition, but no one ever said that the principal opposition to a Conservative government has to come from the Left. These are intriguing times politically, and no one can say what will emerge from Labours debacle. But what really matters is that our kind of politics (or at least a pale imitation thereof!) is back in fashion. Of course the populist tide will have to rise a great deal further before it can begin to deliver what we want, and no-one can tell how far it will rise. Our job, if we are active in racial nationalism or active in the building of nationalist communities, is to keep on drawing that tide towards us.
By Frederick Dixon © 2020
Michael Woodbridge
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It was the Finnish political philosopher and orator, Kai Murros, who reminded us at a London Forum meeting that to be a winner one must first think like a winner. He also speculated that history occurs in 70 year cycles. After a lifetime of near national despair, despair as one political humiliation has followed hot on the heels of the next, perhaps we are reaching an historical turning point where we might again dare think like winners.
IRONKRAFT
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With the Muslim population rising above 3,000,000, and serious violence in general, higher that most have ever known it, we know that politics is the opposite to “democracy”.
We as White Nationalists, must club together to do more than we have ever done in the past. We must legally form a platform cased on “rights”. A fund through Western Spring, or similar vehicle on a global scale, must be actioned, and available to “our communities” anywhere.
Jock Lewes
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“… populism – which leans to the Left on the economy but to the Right on social and cultural issues…”
Populism is also characterised by an uncritical preference for easy answers, the assumption that wishful thinking by the man in the street is a sound basis for public policy.
If the trajectory of British society is to deflect from its present course to one that will enable a new Britain, based in traditional values but attuned to the changing geo-political, technological and cultural circumstances, there will be “nothing but blood, sweat and tears”. And new populisms promising a painless route to security, wellbeing and comfort may well arise offering save the people from those inevitable miseries. That will be a feature of the most difficult stage: holding course through prolonged and varied adversities until the fruits of the new Britain can be experienced in everyday lives.
Johnny Leech
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Whatever way one interprets this current epoch in our political history: it is without question the white working class on mass who voted for ‘Boris’ and for that matter Brexit!
Populism or could it just be white working-class patriotism?
Boris Johnson to be fair has become quite a cool fish in the eyes of a number of political journos and amongst many who despised him ten or more years ago. Some would say he took a major gamble by expelling numerous Tory dinosaurs of pro EU ideology! I think that move in its self deserves some merit. The Tory Party could not have won such a massive majority without a part move to the right.
Our society is need of a patriotic boom. Many of our population have over dosed on the ideas of liberalism for far too long. Violent drug related crime is rife in our nation. Sex crimes against our children by foreign culture and indeed even some of our own white population is in epidemic proportions!
Sure, we realize Boris has limitations, we understand his liberalist/Zionist psyche, but does he understand what is at stake? We will be out bred in our nation if there is not a radical approach on immigration and we need a radical no nonsense approach to a policy of repatriation surely!
Bring on the Brexit an Independent nation once again: we have almost won a major political battle without no power but with just our ideas. Get ready to rejoice!
mark holland
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Boris Johnson was elected on the get Britain out of the EU ticket, after the 31st of January we start the transition period before we leave the said EU on December 2020, Just read today the EU is going to ban the sale of certain tobacco products from the shops, so how exactly are they going to square this one? either we are leaving the EU or not, they can’t t both ways or could they? there will be a lot of unrest over this one.
Alec Suchi
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One of the main concerns of Labour winning the general election was its commitment to uncontrolled immigration. Although the Conservative Party has proved unreliable regarding controlling immigration since the war Labour has shown itself to have an even worse record.At least with a large Majority, Mr Johnson will be able to formally affect our departure from the EU, even if the terms are much less than was previously expected by those who had voted to leave in 2016.
The Labour vote has collapsed in Scotland, and hasn’t recovered from 2015. However the loss of key seats in its traditional heartlands reveals a more fundamental difficulty than Mr Corbyn’s perceived unpopularity. Labour has abandoned its traditional white working class support who remain socially conservative and opposed to mass immigration in favour of furthering the interests of immigrants. A proportion of an educated middle class and largely employed in the public sector support the party and uphold what is understood to be progressive policies, such as open borders and a multicultural society. Their values are diametrically opposed to those of the white working class and it is difficult to see how such a dichotomy could be resolved. The Brexit issue precipitated a sequence of events whereby Labour’s traditional support felt betrayed by the party’s reluctance to implement the referendum. The remain wing were mostly drawn from its middle class base, including a large number of students mobilised through Momentum.Consequently Labour retained its seats in the large cities due to a large immigrant base and the number of students and Progressives resident there. But in the smaller towns,Labour’s traditional support abandoned the party causing significant losses in places like Leigh, Bassetlaw and Bolsover.
It is doubtful that the Conservative Party will be able to retain such support from Labour’s traditional core base, but will it return to Labour? Could a new party emerge instead which addresses the issue of identity and thus mobilise the indigenous people of the Isles to act in their own best interests.
Albert
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When the Labour Party first got into power in 1924 70% of Labour MPs was from the Working Classes, Before the last General Election just 8% of Labour MPs was from the Working Classes the same percentage is the same in The Conservatives, Their is actually more Ethnic Minority MPs in Parliament than from The White Working Classes,
Today the Labour Party are mostly made up of White Privilege Middle Class Liberals and Marxists who abandoned the White Working classes years ago, who they actually hate,
With The Tories they also have no time for the White Working Classes, and quite happy importing Millions of Non EU immigrants for a never ending supply of cheap Labour,
Boris may have got the Northern Labour vote but if he dont deliver he will be gone, and let’s be frank what the White working classes want( End of Mass Immigration)
He wont deliver, He is the Man who suggested an Amnesty for a Million Illegal immigrants,
Brexit gave the chance for the indigenous population to have a say and changed this Country forever and maybe for us Nationalist our time may well come.
Alec Suchi
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In the short term it is fortunate that Labour was not able to form a government as its commitment to uncontrolled immigration and ambiguity regarding its position on “Brexit” would prove detrimental to the country.
With a large majority, Mr Johnson will be able to affect some sort of departure from the EU but it is unlikely to satisfy many who voted to leave envisaging a much cleaner separation.
It is unlikely that many of Labour’s traditional support will continue to vote for the Conservative party. That transference of votes which we saw in areas like Leigh was specifically to ensure that we would leave the EU and the Conservatives were perceived as more trustworthy, especially as their manifesto commitment was clear on this point.
It needs to be asked whether those transferred votes will return to Labour. Would it be possible in the meantime to build a coherent nationalist party as a repository of those votes? If not then we in the nationalist movement will have squandered a further opportunity to establish electoral relevance.