Rejoice!
Despite months of intense scaremongering by the Remain campaign, it now looks as though we are heading towards victory for the Leave campaign and a firm vote in favour of the UK leaving the European Union. As of 05:15am this morning the Leave campaign have received 15,437,289 votes, compared to 14,328,314 for the Remain campaign, placing Leave on a 51.9% share of the vote counted so far and 1,108,975 votes ahead. Already Nigel Farage has given the…
What’s the Point of a Points Based System?
You will have seen that both of the pro-Brexit factions – the Tory dominated VoteLeave and the UKIP dominated Leave.eu – want to introduce what they call an “Australian-style points based immigration system” in the event that we leave the EU. That we should leave is profoundly to be desired for all sorts of reasons which have already been well rehearsed on Western Spring, but not least because a country which cannot control its borders…
Sen Leads Charge Down Cul-de-sac
Today the inaugural meeting of a new nationalist organisation will take place. An assortment of discontented nationalists from across the country have been invited to attend what has been billed as a ‘Lancashire Patriots Lunch’, in which the founder members of an organisation calling itself British Renaissance, or BritRen for short, will outline their ideas. In a way, this event typifies all that is wrong with the wider nationalist movement at present, because the launch of…
Some Thoughts on the Corbyn Phenomenon
By Max Musson: Most people from all political persuasions are both surprised and bemused by the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party, not knowing quite what to think. There are those members of the public who are of a more radical left-wing persuasion who will no doubt be rather pleased by Corbyn’s success and the prospect of being able to vote for a decidedly left-wing prime ministerial candidate at the next…
The Bite of the Adder, or can only Whites be Racist?
By Michael Woodbridge: “Take up the White Man’s burden And reap his old reward, the blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard…” When the United States relieved Spain of the responsibility for administering the Philippines, Kipling wrote these words to his friend Theodore Roosevelt, as a warning about the consequences of taking on an imperial role. Likewise, Mark Twain declared that the colours of the American flag should be changed from…
The Corruption & Debasement of our Electoral System
By Max Musson: Yesterday I wrote about some of the shortcomings of our political system here in the UK and in doing so, I referred to “the inadequacies of our electoral system, … the mendacity of our media moguls and the corruption of our politicians”, and today I would like to focus attention on the ‘inadequacies’, or perhaps I should have said the ‘iniquities’ of our electoral system. Political pundits will often blame anomalies within…
At the Hustings!
By Max Musson: As Britain goes to the polls, in an election the outcome of which will be largely irrelevant, our news media is full of opinion polls predicting in terms of parliamentary seats won and who might or might not form the next government, that today’s contest will be a very closely run thing. During the course of the election campaign there have been attempts to stir public interest with all manner of issues,…
Country Before Party
By Frederick Dixon: I doubt if many of those who visit the Western Spring web site intend to vote Conservative at the imminent general election, although I’ve equally little doubt that many have done so at various times in the past; I certainly have, particularly when my M.P. was the late racial nationalist, Sir Ronald Bell. Regrettably, the likes of Sir Ronald have never had much sway in the counsels of the Conservative party and never…
Start Small, Dream Big
By Shaun de Moray: Fundamentally, the broader nationalist movement has now reached a position where we need to readjust our sights and adopt a new strategy. Many talk of change and of revolution, but they must face the fact that there are only a relative handful of White people in this country at the moment who care enough about the survival of their race to take decisive action; and so to think about a revolution in the short-term is stupid. I’m…
Waiting for Godot
By Max Musson: Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play written by Irish playwright and poet Samuel Beckett and described as a ‘tragicomedy’ it incorporates both tragic and comic elements as the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon wait in vain for the arrival of a third character, Godot, who never comes. So, what has this got to do with us? It is a metaphor for a condition that I recognise in many nationalists at…