NOR SHALL MY SWORD -
THE REINVENTION OF ENGLAND
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HOW President Blair - CORRUPTS EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES.
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Daily Mail
Saturday, April 30, 2005
By
SIMON HEFFER
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[We have included this essay
on our bulletin board because there are but few accomplished masters of the
English History and its Ancient Constitution and what it means to be an
ENGLISHMAN as many of his past articles have testified.
Though Mr Simon Heffer is no longer at his former post but has returned to
offering his great contribution to the Daily Telegraph and we shall be viewing his Column with our
accustomed interest.]
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When Labour came to power in
1997 they inherited a
SYSTEM of GOVERNMENT
that has evolved over
centuries to create one of the most stable and peaceful democracies on Earth.
THIS WAS NOT LEAST BECAUSE
OF THE
CHECKS AND BALANCES
OF
OUR
CONSTITUTION
THAT PREVENTED
ABUSES OF POWER.
Eight years
later, those safeguards are in ruins.
And the Prime Minister’s treatment of the advice of the Attorney
General, Lord Goldsmith, about the legality of the Iraq war proves just how
corrupted our system has become.
We are supposed to
have a Prime Minister who ‘is first among equals’. We are supposed to have a
system in which the Cabinet takes decisions collectively - and if it does not
agree with the Prime Minister, then HE must change his view and RESIGN.
However such
democratic niceties irritate a Prime Minister who prefers to think of himself
as a PRESIDENT.
The Conventions
and Institutions that once protected our liberties from an
over-mighty HEAD of Government have been wreaked, not least because of Mr
Blair’s knack of corrupting and soiling every pillar of the
CONSTITUTION
- he encounters.
Cabinet
Government was the first casualty of his premiership. Ministers were
appointed either because they were cronies, or because (like John Prescott)
they had a constituency within the party that had to be represented at the top
table.
Having reached the Cabinet
they were then routinely ignored in meetings that became shorter and shorter.
Mr Blair has
preferred to govern using a coterie of unelected advisers - such as his
political secretary Baroness Morgan, his Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell and his
former Press Secretary, Alistair Campbell.
And instead of their discussions being minuted for the record, they are
of an informal, ‘sofa’ nature.
The Cabinet never saw the
Attorney’s original advice on Iraq of March 7, 2003.
This was either
because Mr Blair has such contempt for his colleagues that he felt they had no
right to be consulted, or because he feared they might prevent him taking us
to war.
Some Ministers, notably Robin
Cook, behaved honourably when they were by-passed, and resigned.
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[The great and sad loss of
Mr Robin Cook since this essay was written in April of this year- who was one
of a select band of Honourable members of conscience and principle remaining in
the Commons.]
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But the vast majority sat
tight.
In the age of
the professional politician, Ministers would rather follow the call of a high
salary, further promotion and, in the end, a place in the House of Lords than
the call of their conscience.
The reputation of
the Attorney-General is now in shreds among the very people whose
respect for him is crucial: the Bar and the judiciary.
YET he has, so far, seen no
cause to resign over how he was persuaded to change his advice to the Government
between March 7 when he said there might be legal considerations affecting our
participation in the Iraq war, and March 17, when he said there were none.
When the credibility of the
Attorney -General is compromised in this way, the whole legal profession is
damaged.
The failure to
show the original advice to the Cabinet breached the
Code of Ministerial Conduct
One of the main
enforcers of the CODE is the HEAD of the Permanent Civil Service, the
Cabinet Secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull.
Sir Andrew,
like his predecessor Sir Richard (now Lord) Wilson, has presided
over a ruinous politicisation of the Civil Service, which has helped end the
culture of wise objective advice that existed not just to help Ministers govern
properly,
BUT
to protect the
Public from
EXCESSES
The Civil
Service is now of lower calibre than at any time since competitive
examination was introduced for entrants to it 150 years ago. Its morale is low. It is no longer an attractive career
prospect for high-grade graduates.
Civil servants are
now routinely blamed for decisions that are the responsibility of
Ministers. Advancement, it is clear, is
likely to be obtained only by civil servants who oblige the
administration. Sir Andrew seems
relaxed about the seismic, and highly damaging, cultural change.
THE BEST example of how a public
servant has profited from obedience is, of course
John Scarlett.
As HEAD of the
Joint Intelligence Committee, he helped the Prime Minister and Mr Campbell ‘sex
up’ the dossier advancing the case for war against Iraq.
[On December 15 -2005 George
Bush has admitted the Intelligence much coming from the UK was wrong but the
war was still OK, as we had removed Saddam Hussein]
He [John Scarlett]
never wavered in his support for them when the dubious quality of this
intelligence was exposed. And now we
learn that he had also touted ‘nuggets’ of intelligence to the Iraq Survey
Group, which he claimed proved Saddam was a genuine threat.
His reward for this betrayal
of his calling:
He has been promoted head of
MI6
Meanwhile,
Britain’s once-proud intelligence services enjoy a universal reputation for:
Incompetence
And
Servility to politicians.
As part of his
pursuit of Presidential power, Mr Blair has nobbled various other important
institutions. Parliament, in particular, has suffered profoundly.
News of important
Government business that would normally have been subject of a statement in the
Commons -where the MINISTER responsible could be questioned on it- is now
broken on Radio 4’s Today programme or in a grovelling newspaper.
The House of
Lords, whose value as a revising chamber and role in trying to limit the damage
done by absurd legislation were crucial, has been emasculated.
Hereditary peers
with an ethic of Public Service were all but eliminated. The HOUSE was packed with Mr Blair’s
cronies. Now further reform is planned
to remove what remains of resistance to the Blair line.
In the remote
event of a Government defeat there, legislation is imposed ruthlessly using the
PARLIAMENT Act. We now have,
effectively, a single -chamber PARLIAMENT.
Meanwhile, our non-political
institutions have been corrupted.
THE POLICE,
once universally respected for their effectiveness and fairness, have become an
instrument of social engineering, with CHIEF CONSTABLES falling over themselves
in sycophancy to the Government.
The FIGHT against
CRIME haws taken second place to the implementation of polices on
‘Inclusiveness’
for ethnic minorities and
homosexuals.
This is not
the least because ambitious officers know well they will not prosper without
toeing the New Labour Home Office line.
The BBC, after a
rare burst of independence after the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly,
is now far more compliant with the Labour ‘project’. Its institutional Leftism is apparent in the daily tone of much
of its news and current affairs coverage.
Its political
editor is an unashamed Blairite.
Once-great newspapers of record are also degraded by their toadying
regard for Mr Blair and his philosophy.
AND NOT LEAST of
the things sullied by Mr Blair is the Honours system: not just in the way
peerages have been awarded, but in the shameless manipulation of the system to
provide gongs to low-rent celebrities to impress certain elements of the
public.
Such is the
casualness with which Mr Blair has treated the Queen that even she, as the FONT
of HONOUR appears to have no more influence over these matters than over
anything else ‘HER’ Government DOES.
BUT THEN the
Presidential project cannot allow for a rival HEAD of STATE, so HER MAJESTY had
to be taught HER place. The MONARCHY
has been damaged, like every other important institution in Britain, because of
Mr Blair’s arrogance and disregard for the
OLD
CHECKS and BALANCES
Sadly, the
shocking way he behaved over the Attorney-General’s
advice was more than just indicative of his character flaws. It was the inevitable consequence of the
destruction of
OUR
CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTIONS
If Mr Blair remains in power, his corruption of our great
institutions will continue relentlessly.
OUR LIBERTIES will continue to VANISH as his POWER mushrooms.
And the once-proud boast that the British way of Government
is an example to the world will be merely a sick joke.
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[This Essay was published on
the 30th April 2005 just before the General Election and most
certainly must have had a great impact on many patriotic voters as evidenced by
the smallest Labour majority for many a year.
The purpose of showing the
above at this festive time of CHRISTMAS
Is that with families
together it is the right time to?
WARN
of the consequences of many
people not showing the interest when their
OWN
hard fought
Rights and Liberties
are being destroyed by
MR NICE GUY
under your very eyes.
A book which will make you
think and hopefully react before it is too late:
Simon Heffer’s
NOR SHALL MY SWORD
The reinvention of ENGLAND
Weidenfield & Nicolson
The Orion
publishing Group Ltd
Orion House
5, Upper Saint
Martin’s Lane
London WC2 H 9EA
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In order to
encourage fellow Englishmen to enquire further we will give a few pages of the
above publication under the heading
A Crisis of Identity
(1999)
Chapter one.
Only the most unobservant
can have missed the latest great fact in what the Victorians so charmingly
called ‘our island story’:
That the majority of the
Scots wish to lesson their nation’s antique ties with ENGLAND [But not lose the
special payments they have enjoyed for years]
The point was spectacularly
confirmed at the General Election of 1 May 1997, when the main Unionist party
in Scotland was unable to secure a single candidate to the United Kingdom
parliament at Westminster.
The message was relayed even
more loudly at the referendum on the Scottish parliament held in September
1997, when the Scots voted by a substantial majority to establish a legislative
body. [Their later Parliament
building cost over £400 million -the majority of which was paid by the
taxpayers of ENGLAND].
At almost every opinion poll
since then it has been shown that public support for the main separatist party
in Scotland, the Scottish National Party, is growing steadily [with the
encouragement of Tony Blair].
In September 1998, exactly a
year after the referendum, 50 % of Scots questioned in an opinion survey wanted
their country to be independent.
[The EDP was formed in 1994
to do exactly this for
ENGLAND
Another survey
[there have been many of them for Scotland but none for ENGLAND] taken three
month’s earlier, made the telling point that a majority of Scots, including
many who do not wish for independence, nonetheless expect their country to be independent
from England within fifteen years.
[Well! the way that the
majority of Englishmen are shirking their responsibilities to their own
country- England may not exist by then]
The phenomenon of Scottish
separatism is growing not least among the young it has become a fashionable
attitude. The glib explanation for why
this should be so has for the last few years been that this generation was much
moved by the film
BRAVEHEART
[‘We now learn that the only accurate thing in the movie is
that Scotland and England were at war.’]
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In which mediaeval Englishmen are seen brutalising,
oppressing and generally being unsportsmanlike towards mediaeval Scotsmen. It
may be that this fairly typical piece of Hollywood anti-English acted as useful
propaganda for the Scots nationalist cause, but that cause was well advanced
before Mr Mel Gibson lent his reputation to it, and for reasons that we shall
shortly explain.
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[There are over a hundred and thirty pages of forthright
comment from a erudite historian and with a father a newcomer to our Island and
a soldier of the Great War which as we have explained elsewhere have in our
long history been the most fervent defenders of our FREEDOM and Liberties.]
Whenever the movement really took off, it is now entrenched.
An ICM survey
carried out in Scotland for the Scotsman newspaper in June 1998 showed
that 63 per cent of people in the eighteen to thirty-four age groups would
prefer to see Scotland as an Independent country.
[Well the EDP
and no doubt millions of the English people wish to be free of the massive
contribution to Scotland if the people there have only an interest in their own
country instead of the Island of which we ALL share. The policies of the EDP are on our website and we represent
A Family of
Independent
Nation States of a Greater Britain]
We hope many viewers who have yet to see the above
publication will do so because it is as we
have explained from
the heart of an
ENGLISHMAN
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Simon Heffer was born in 1960 and educated
at king Edward VI School, Chelmsford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
where he read English.
After a spell as a
medical journalist and leader writer for The Times, he joined the Daily
Telegraph in 1986.
In 1991 he became
deputy editor and political correspondent of the Spectator also writing
a column for the Evening Standard and then the Daily Mail.
From June 1994
until October 1995 he was deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph and the
paper’s political columnist.
Since 1995 he has
been a columnist for the Daily Mail and a prolific contributor to other
newspapers AND PERIODICALS.
His Life of Thomas
Carlyle, Moral Desperado, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson to
widespread acclaim in 1995.
His most recent
works are [As at 1999]:
Power and Place
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The Political
Consequences of King Edward VII
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And the monumental
and much-lauded
Like the Roman:
The Life of Enoch Powell
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published by the above
named company.
The Following are
the chapters of
NOR SHALL MY SWORD
-THE
REINVENTION OF ENGLAND
Chapter I
A Crisis of
Identity
Chapter II
An English
Comedy
Chapter III
The Rights of
Majorities
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JERUSALEM
[From the
Prophetic Book, “Milton”.]
‘And did those
feet in ancient time
Walk upon
England’s mountain s green?
And was the holy
Lamb of God
On England’s
pleasant pastures seen?
And did the
Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon
our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem
builded here
Among these dark
Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of
burning gold!
Bring me my arrows
of desire!
Bring me my spear!
O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my
chariot of fire!
I will not cease
from mental fight,
NOR SHALL MY
SWORD
sleep in my hand,
Till we have built
Jerusalem
In England’s green
and pleasant land.’
William Blake
(1757-1827)
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DEC/05
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The abolition of Britain
by The Reform Treaty
- Second Reading-Passed by majority of 138
on
21st January, 2008
LATE NEWS
Daily Mail
Tuesday, December 20, 2005.
FROM BAD TO WORSE.
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Sleazebusters Face Axe
The anti-sleaze
watchdog that forced David Blunkett to resign could be facing the axe [unless
the truly honourable and individual members of INTEGRITY in Parliament ignore
King Tony for this is a matter for the two Houses of Parliament to defend to
the death].
Tony Blair has
been handed a report calling for the ABOLITION of the Whitehall advisory
committee on business.
THE COMMITTEE aims
to STOP Ministers and senior Civil Servants taking up lucrative positions too
soon after leaving Westminster.
Mr Blunkett, the
former Work and pensions Secretary was forced to quit in November -2005 after
the Committee ‘named and shamed’ him for failing to consult it over jobs he
took in the four months after he first resigned from Cabinet.
The advisory
Committee, led by Lord Mayhew, released correspondence showing he had ignored
its warnings that he was breaking the MINISTERIAL CODE OF CONDUCT.
The report by Sir Patrick
Brown, a former Permanent Secretary at the Department for transport was
commissioned [no doubt to find a way to get rid of this unhelpful and
obstructive measure which Blairites detest - as with all other restrictions on
their immoral and unaccountable CONDUCT.] was commissioned 18 months ago after
Mr Blair rode roughshod over the Committee’s recommendations in the case of
former Air Chief Marshall Sir John Day.
It wanted a
year-long delay in his appointment as a military advisor to the defence
contractor BAE Systems on the grounds that the Company would benefit from
inside knowledge to win contracts. But Mr Blair overruled it.
THE REPORT
suggests responsibility for vetting could be passed to Civil Servant
Commissioners. [Over which Tony Bliar will have complete control]
Mr Blair has
already been criticised for scrapping the 83-year-old Honours Scrutiny
Committee, a watchdog that aimed to prevent political donors being rewarded
with KNIGHTHOODS AND PEERAGES [Lloyd George after World War I]
Tory
frontbencher Chris Grayling, who was instrumental in challenging Mr Blunkett’s
transgressions, said:
‘This is a completely
breathtaking act by the Prime minister. He has become completely arrogant and
out of touch’
‘In opposition he demanded
accountability and now he is considering abolishing this COMMITTEE.
[Well! Mr Chris
Grayling it is now eight years since MR NICE GUY the supposed ‘Servant of
the People ‘arrived on the scene and he has only got as far as he has
in dismantling our THOUSAND -YEAR CONSTITUTION and the CHECKS & BALANCES
because of the useless and accommodating OPPOSITION who were led like sheep into
an Illegal War and still feel that they have to imitate the Government not of
the once GREAT COUNTRY but as lackeys of a FOREIGN POWER in BRUSSELS.]
Mr Blair has been
sitting on the Brown Report since the Summer. [Well! Tony Blair already looks
on the British Electorate as a load of zombies who so wrapped up in their own
lives have not awaken to the dangers to their way-of -life and what that truly means.
Other Dictators in
the world at large must be watching developments in this once Democratic
country with much interest particularly Mr Putin in the USSR and many others
who have been criticised in our now poodle like assembly which does not deserve
the name by which it is known.
The example that
Mr Blair given of his apparent unlimited arrogance and contempt for the British
voter is there for everyone to see and he is getting away with it as shown in
his giveaway of £7 billion of OUR hard-won EU REBATE.
While millions of people
are enjoying their CHRISTMAS festivities behind the scenes there will be many
committed Europhiles who will also be celebrating at the wonderful progress
they are still making with the incorporation of ENGLAND
into the
UNITED
STATES OF EUROPE
solely on the strength of past EU Treaties -particularly
MAASTRICHT
Signed by
John
Major and Douglas Hurd.
In February 1992,
when the signing of Maastricht took
place,
Douglas Hurd,
Then British ‘Foreign’
Secretary, was notoriously overheard commenting, having just signed it, that
‘We’d better find out what
we’ve just signed’.
How will you deal with this Mr
David Cameron when you try to convince the 2,600,000 people who voted for the
UKIP in the EU Election in 2005 that you care?
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It is stated that ALL
signatories of ALL the EU treaties since the 1972 Accession Treaty had received
corrupt payments from a NAZI slush Fund.
[Full details are on our
bulletin board and confirmation obtained from the:
INTERNATIONALLY respected
journal
Est. 1969
International Currency Review.
www.worldreports.org
cstory@worldreports.org
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WHY WON’T BLAIR ALLOW
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY
INTO
LONDON BOMBINGS?
[See our
bulletin board for background to the Al Qaeda operation, which was
an extension of the BLACK tradition and is ultimately controlled like
the IRA
(Until very
recently) by the NAZI intelligence
service
DVD
Out of DACHAU-home of the infamous Nazi concentration
camp.
It was the Abwehr Nazi Germany’s main
external intelligence administration that first established, as a means of
undermining British influence in the Middle East.
the
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
From which all-subsequent Islamic terror groups, without
exception originate.
It will be recalled that the Group of Eight (G-8) met
this year at Gleneagles, Scotland.
Our sources assert that the London Underground attacks had been
scheduled for Wednesday 6th July 2005, their general purpose being
to ensure that the global terrorism issue, which is the key dimension of the
World Revolution and is being used to leverage targeted countries out of ‘democracy’
into NAZI style police state mode, [As almost already
achieved in ENGLAND] swamped the world
news media, and hijacked the G-8
agenda.
The attacks, sources
allege. Were specifically authorised by Jacques Chirac [President of France],
which on his orders were delayed 24 hours, in order to block out the news of
Britain’s successful bid for the Olympic
Games.
[More details
elsewhere on bulletin board.]
WAKE UP! -ENGLAND
ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS
BUT DON’T FORGET YOUR COUNTRY
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DEC/05
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