The Revolution Will Be Televised

A serious and sensible country should build its institutions around its people.  It used to be that this was broadly the state of affairs in Britain.  We do not suggest that this country was ever perfect or that there was, at some misty point in the past, a rose-tinted golden era of peace, harmony and contentment.  We know this country’s history isn’t like quite that.  In some ways, the cleave arising from the Norman Conquest, between an Anglo-Norman elite and native Celtic-Anglo-Saxons, presaged tumultuous ethnic and class-based struggle in England that persists to this day and divides society.  On reflection, our elites seem ‘foreign’ to us – and if they are not that in fact, then certainly they act as if they are. 

We know that the white British working class were treated horribly during the Industrial Revolution, in a way that was akin to slavery.  We know that the land of the English feudal peasantry was stolen from them by legislative fiat to make way for industrialisation and urbanisation; thus, many of the well-heeled individuals who appear on your television talking about law and order are themselves the descendants of legalised thieves.  We know that working class men were used as cannon fodder in numerous wars.  We know that this country’s proud tradition of liberalism and freedom is marred by a conflicting tradition of repressive laws and the brutal suppression of dissent.  We know that today the political elite ignore us, sneer at us, and ridicule us when talking among themselves, and they continue to asset-strip this country (they call it ‘privatisation’), destroy indigenous communities and bring in cheap labour to compete with the white British (it’s called ‘multi-culturalism’ and ‘diversity’), disregard national sovereignty, and happily put this country under the governance of unaccountable international and supranational bodies.  Those who oppose them are variously demonised as racists and bigots, and other things.

Despite these problems, in broad terms we would argue that this country has a history to be proud of and traditions that should be valued - and restored, albeit in a way that looks to the future.  Our belief is that the traditions of this country were built around the needs and particular characteristics of an insular, free and rambunctious people.  We had common law, jury trials, considerable personal liberties, strong regional identities, a quiet unmartial sort of patriotism.  Later, as modernism and capitalism took hold, we developed proper money, disciplined schools, austere prisons, and so on - the country was not perfect, but its modest institutions worked.  Life could be harsh, the culture could be overly-conservative and stifling, and sometimes people were treated unfairly; but at the same time, the majority were more content, men had a clear role and outlets for their energies, women were at the centre of home life, large families were the norm; children were happy, smiling and healthy.  Nobody worried too much about ‘careers’.  Very few people were in serious debt or even contemplated taking on debt.   In most places, there was no ‘housing market’ – you bought a house to live in, or you rented from the council.  Everything made sense.    

We are not a bunch of fuddy-duddies: it is not our view that Britain should go back to the past.  Nor are we inflexible conservatives or rigid traditionalists: we value the past, but we don't want to live in it.  Yet we don't want to stay in the present, either.  We want to look to a future in which core values and common sense notions are re-evaluated and re-adopted to address the needs of the time with a mind on the long-term future.  This is what we regard as true radicalism: root and branch reform.

You return to the roots not because you want to be subversive, but because you recognise that things have over-developed and become too comfortable and perhaps evolved in an unwanted direction. The aim is to get back to the core values.  That means, and it requires, an end to Leftist institutions like the BBC that refuse to listen to or reflect the sensibilities of the British people and that rely on laziness and complacency and a dumbed-down culture to get away with it.  

We talk of revolution because that is what is necessary; but true revolution is a process of evolution: we know that we will have to fight these people every inch of the way, making sudden and large gains at times, but mostly advancing little-by-little.

But the revolution will happen.  And it will be televised.