When Wall Street crashed in 1929, millions of the poor lost their jobs, political
instability was exported to Europe, Latin America and the poor countries from whom we purchased raw materials. Russia bought idle industrial machinery to accelerate her Five Year plan. Extremism, in all its political forms and manifestations was on the march. Are we to witness the same again? No, it will be worse. On this time-round not only will millions lose their employment,
but those same people are already up-to-their eyes in debt. Poverty and debt will co-exist in a way that it did not in the inter-war years. Have no doubt, things are increasingly desperate.
Global financial institutions, not only have an increasingly difficult task to survive, but they are collapsing under the weight of their own institutional corruption. What can we do?
We can withdraw from the EU. and endeavour to become as self-sufficient as possible. Stock-pile strategic reserves, and encourage as many businesses as possible to locate in the UK. This can be done by making large enterprises Rate free: ship-building, car makers, and similar employment. Employment creation will enable individuals to service their own debts and stay solvent. Reduce imports, by forgetting nonsense like agricultural set-aside. If the EU tell us that such measures would violate their anti-competition agreements, we tell them that protecting the interests of our own people must take precedent over all other considerations. Therefore we leave.
We are no longer an homogenous people. Tension on the home-front, will exist as it never did in the early 20th.C. Wish I could be more optimistic, but that, in these troubled time, is not possible. In times of war and economic collapse, we must take control of our own national management. Such times are with us.
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