Brexit: A Cynical Manipulation

On the 23rd of June 2016, the people of England, Cymru and Kernow voted to leave the EU. Alba and the British-occupied north of Ireland voted to remain, as did the nation of Gibraltar, and the globalised city of London.  Due to the sparsity of people in the Remain-voting areas, other than London, the result of the Independence Referendum was for the UK as a whole to strike out on the path of Sovereignty and Freedom.

The referendum Voting patterns showed a clear division between the Ruling Caste and their bourgeois lackeys on the one side, who voted to keep the UK inside the EU, and the Working Class who voted for the UK to regain control of its own destiny.  The political divide was equally stark, with the globalising liberals lining up in defence of their beloved EU superstate, and the anti-Capitalists of every political stream joining together to break the UK out of the clutches of the despots of finance capitalism.

A year after the vote, with the ludicrous Article 50 negotiations crawling along, it is evident that the people were lied to.  The implication given by David Cameron and his partners-in-crime, was that once the votes were counted, the UK would either continue as a part of the EU, or it would be outside the bloc and would be an independent country.  If the vote had been pro-EU, that would have been the case, and nobody would have heard of Article 50 at all.

The procrastination following the vote has led people to the logical conclusion that the government expected the people to do the bidding of Brussels, London and the Bankers/Corporations who control them, and that with the rebellion of the Working Class was completely unexpected. This is quite possible.

The level of propaganda thrown at us included the useful execution of the MP Jo Cox, who was an outspoken advocate of EU power-grabbing.  We were supposed to vote to stay in prison out of a sense of respect for a dead politician. A few pathetic liberals may have been swayed by the killing, and probably more by the sickening celebrations by the State-stooges of the now thankfully illegal National Action, but the impact on the EU vote was negligible.

The Ruling Caste only allowed the EU Referendum because whatever the result, they would win.  If we had voted to stay in the EU, we would have voted to accept an EU Army, the Euro as our currency, complete metrication, a single legal system, and through rapid stages, the end of all the countries of the EU, with the UK divided into nominally distinct areas with as much influence on EU policy-making as a current local authorities have on Westminster.

Total standardisation of the economy would have meant the UK as a sovereign entity, would have ceased to exist.  This would have been catastrophic for the Working Class, but would have been a glorious victory for the corporate despots who would have had all barriers to their accumulation of wealth and power, removed.  The Referendum split the people into the decent family-centred freedom-loving Proletariat on one side, and the vile self-obsessed individualistic bourgeois capitalist scum on the other. The fact that we won the vote proves that the flame of Revolutionary Socialism burns brightly in our people.

The immediate resignation of the fake populist leader of UKIP, Farage, allowed the media and Establishment to push their Article 50 nonsense onto the people. The bourgeois filth who took to the streets to demand the EU vote be ignored, stood as counter revolutionaries, defying the people.  The time to push forward the revolution was missed, and the UK has languished as a prisoner in the EU prison ever since.

The departure of the Prime Minister and the subsequent calling of an election by his replacement on a platform of more austerity, pay freezes, benefits cuts, the confiscation of homes of the elderly, was all designed to give more authority to the EUphile MPs, mocking the Working Class vote. The situation we have now is of a government serving business, riding roughshod over the wishes of the Working Class.  This is as it always has been, but now much more transparently than since the vote was grudgingly given to us, which came about only within the last hundred years.

With the likes of Trilateral Commission member, David Miliband joining the choir of Globalist Dictatorship, the Referendum is being more and more openly ignored.  We voted for Sovereignty, for total control of our borders, for total control of our territory (including the seas of the UK), for total control of the economy.  What we are getting is a pledge to keep or seas as places open for all factory fishing environmental terrorists.  Our borders will not be closed until after an open-ended transition period, which will no doubt be extended and extended until with the help of the media, and the reality of vast numbers of people brought in as cheap labour, will become irrelevant.

The refusal to respect the will of the Working Class proves that the Ruling Caste and their Middle Class lackeys, are the enemies of the people.  It is so obvious that only the most brainwashed of the media-consumers can fail to see it.  The problem, of course, is that apathy is the greatest tool of the Ruling Caste, with the failure of the people to rise up, being taken as an excuse to push ahead with the globalist agenda regardless of what the people have stated they demand be done.

The bleak situation we find ourselves in is one in which we have voted to leave the EU, and the corrupt globalising political class is manipulating our decision in order to make sure that we do not gain the sovereignty we demand, but rather fall further into the web of global control.  The probability of the UK moving from the EU to the EEA, will mean that the UK does not achieve the ability to renationalise and rebuild heavy industry and our vital transport infrastructure.  The government has stated that if there is no EU Trade Deal, the default position will be for the UK to become a tax haven for the rich, with the Working Class becoming even more the subjects of tyranny than we already are.  The party of government would be happy to govern the UK according to World Trade Organisation rules, which also prohibit the implementation of policies which protect the people from multinational exploitation.  WTO vs EEA really is a false division - in both scenarios, the Working Class are used as fodder for the profits of the rich, with sovereignty eroded to make sure the capitalists in charge can gain more wealth and power with no fear of the people getting in their way.

The only solution to the Brexit trap, is for the Working Class to stand up against the Ruling Class and their bourgeois collaborators, and demand that the UK gain complete sovereignty, leaving not only the EU, but the WTO, IMF, NATO, UN, WHO, World Bank and all other branches of the global capitalist system.  The solution to the capitalist EU is not for a continuation of the capitalist UK in a different structure, but for a complete break from the bankers' economy and the establishment of a free federal Socialist Workers' Republic, in which 'trade' with other countries is not a priority, but rather the welfare of the British Working Class is the absolute focus of government.  We need the full implementation of Socialism in One Country, and the long-term goal of assisting other countries to do the same, so that ultimately capitalism will collapse everywhere and the whole world will be free.

Join us. Make a difference. Don't let the capitalists turn our Brexit victory into their victory.

Workers' Revolutions don't happen without the Workers!

SWPE is a Revolutionary party.  By Revolutionary, we mean that we do not seek an accommodation with the Establishment, we do not seek any form of compromise which will allow for the Ruling Class oppressors and the bourgeois collaborators to continue to hold positions of power and influence.  We want to completely overturn the current system and to bring into being a Socialist Republic which will put the People and Nature before Profit.

It is fine to speak of Revolution.  It is another thing to achieve it.  It is important that we increase our base of support, but in such a way that we do not have to dilute our ideals.

Radical organisations grow by attracting people who are like-minded.  The maintenance of ideological purity comes at the cost of risking decline into cult status, more often than not with the added problem of despotic leadership controlling the membership in a tyrannical fashion.  An extreme example of the danger of a completely closed organisation with an autocratic leadership was the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought (WIMLMZT), which was ultimately a plaything for its violent, sadistic and megalomaniacal rapist leader, Aravindan Balakrishnan.  SWPE is a million miles from the lunacy of the WIMLMZT, as are all of the organisations and individuals we are in contact with.  Non-members reading this need have no worries that SWPE could ever even set foot on the path that WIMLNZT progressed down (and members will laugh at the idea!).  The danger of Cultism has to be taken seriously though.

The point of raising the idea of closed groups is to highlight a genuine problem faced by all who are involved in Revolutionary politics.  If we let just anyone join, without first being sure that they are of the right calibre and have the same ideological tendencies as ourselves, then we will grow and the membership coffers will increase, but this is at the cost of the inevitable slide into factionalism and ego issues.  Plenty of parties are happy with gaining members, taking their money from them, and replacing them with new customers members when they get fed up and drop out.  SWPE has no time for the politics business (for that is what such parties are), recruiting instead people of quality who share our ideals and will stay with us to build the party and keep it moving forward.

The merging of the old FWL and BSP took a lot of time and serious consideration.  It was a rare success which we are all rightly proud of.  But to expect SWPE to continue to grow by merging with as yet unknown groups, is expecting too much.  Realistically, the tendency in organisations is for cliques to form, growing into factions, then into separate entities as they find they cannot coexist with the other factions inside the same organisation.  This creates quite a problem for people who seek a total revolution, during which the State is to be overthrown and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat put in place.

Revolutionary Unity isn't going to happen by all the rival organisations merging into one.  It is a nice thought, but not a practical one.  People who have built organisations, or have risen through the ranks to positions of leadership, or have simply found a home where they feel that their comrades share the same vision as themselves of a better future, do not feel comfortable throwing away what they have. In some cases, the parties exist as cash cows for the leaders: letting parasites who see the desperate plight of the Working Class as an excuse for making money, into contact with others who have not had to deal with such immoral people in political circles, is an obvious recipe for trouble.

SWPE approach to the problem of overcoming the Class Enemy, is to unite with like-minded groups and individuals on an issue by issue basis.  We are already building alliances with a range of comrades across a number of countries, covering different cultures and strands of thought.  We always keep true to our belief in autonomy, cooperating where it is mutually beneficial, but never trying to dominate or dictate to those we work with.

To build a mass movement in a time of a myriad of competing organisations, does not require the submission of any group or individual to any other.  Loose informal alliances work well in pursuing common aims.  All Socialists share the grand aim of exposing and breaking false class consciousness in the section of the Proletariat which considers itself 'middle class' and doesn't realise that it is just as much controlled and beaten down by the Ruling Class as the rest of us.  Keeping that in mind, allows us to see who our potential allies really are, and who are the wasters and useful idiots who are fighting ghosts and who really need to be avoided at all costs.

The Identity politics of the Trotskyites and liberals which infest the Socialist movement, is a distraction we need to keep clear from.  Those who are obsessed with campaigns concerning sexuality, race, so-called 'gender' and other divisive issues, are enemies of the Revolution.  We have to be absolutely clear that we will never allow our struggle to be derailed by unreconstructed Trotskyites / reactionary revisionists.  We are free to unite with everyone who can see beyond the sham circus of identity politics.  Change comes through smashing the organs of the State, not by pandering to people who think they have rights to work and welfare solely because they engage in certain sexual acts, have a right not to have their 'feelings' hurt, or other such drivel of the political correctness industry.

We reach out to everyone who can help to destabilise the Capitalist State, and not get bogged down by those who want to reform it or give their favoured minorities more scraps from the table than everyone else.  We are not interested in the reallocation of the scraps, we are interested in smashing the table!

SWPE is constantly reaching out to people who can see that the whole system has to be destroyed and a new better way put in its place.  Maintaining our organisations but marching together in the same direction, is the only way to bring about the downfall of Capitalism. We can argue over the details of what comes next, when we stand on the rubble of the citadels of Ruling Class power.  To break the citadels in the first place has to be our primary purpose.

So we call on all who are fighting for the end of Ruling Class domination to join with us in the common struggle.  If you agree with our ideology and see SWPE as a place where you could belong, get in touch and we can discuss the next step on the path to joining (we don't take anyone at all, just in return for membership subs!)  If you represent an organisation and which to join with us in a loose alliance which will be mutually beneficial in that it will advance common aims, get in touch.  We are many, but we are ghettoised and isolated.  To achieve the revolutionary aims we share, we have to communicate and to organise together - not necessarily as Comrades in the same organisation, but always as Comrades in the same cause.

The contact information is at the top of the page. Use it!  Together we are strong.

Forward to a World of a Thousand Nations. Goodbye EU, USA, UK and all Superstates

The election of Donald Trump as President of the USA has reignited campaigns for secession from the USA.  With the vote by the UK to leave the EU, the Globalist project is proving to not be as strong as its opponents have feared.  Now is the time to join with all secessionists worldwide to fight for a better world with local sovereignty and an end to centralisation.

Local sovereignty is a safeguard for freedom.  The further power lies from the people, the less free they become.  This is why the UK voted to leave the EU, and why that process has to be continued with campaigns to dismantle the EU entirely so that no country is trapped inside the impersonal imperial superstate.  But this is only the start.  For the UK, the fight for freedom has to extend to the demise of the UK itself, with England becoming a self governing country comprised of smaller countries joined together in a federation of equals.  Ideally, SWPE would like to see the return of the nations that predate England - first as autonomous members of an English federation, but ultimately as Free Sovereign Nation States.


As Comrade Tony Green has pointed out, the USA is no longer the monolithic entity it once was. California, Texas, New Hampshire, Hawai'i and Vermont are at the forefront of the secessionist movements, but there are more besides these.(see: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/5-us-independence-movements-inspired-by-brexit-214010)

A Socialist world is a world without Empires.  It is a world of cooperation and respect, with clearly defined borders preventing the global exploitation of the Proletariat, with borders being for defence and demarcation of territory belonging to the respective people.  Superstates have no respect for culture, tradition, customs, language, morality, spiritualism, non-Capitalist economics, nature, human and animal welfare.  Borders defend all this and allow life to flourish.  A world without borders is a gift to the global Ruling Class.  A world with many, many borders, protects everyone everywhere from the greed of the few wherever it may arise.

Open response to question about SWPE and 'National Socialism'

The following was prompted by a question asked about SWPE and how it relates to pre-Night of the Long Knives 'National Socialism.'  As pointed out by the questioner, National Socialism died in the summer of 1934. The brutal war of 1939-45 with all the horrors that were part of it, were by the design of Capitalists in London, Washington and Berlin, with the addition of the USSR as combatants fighting initially out of self defence as the territories they governed were attacked.  By the outbreak of the Second World War, all the genuine National Socialists were either dead or marginalised, or had betrayed the ideology and become paid accomplices of the Capitalist war machine.   Thank you to Steve for your question.

Our ideology is what we term Real Socialism.  We say Real Socialism because what often passes for socialism is nothing but decadent liberalism, hedonism and forced globalism.  Very often, the so-called socialists of today (such as the UK Labour Party and the rapist-apologist moslem-hugging SWP) are pushing ideologies based on nothing but economics, making them a variant of the capitalists they feign to oppose.  Real Socialism puts economics in its correct place as a part of the bigger picture, and not as the over-riding factor.  Where the confusion comes in with people who call themselves Socialists, but are really globalist liberals, is that they fail to understand that a country is more than just a geographical area, but an area with a people tied to it.

Socialism is National in every aspect because it is a belief in achieving the best which is possible for the maximum number of people in the Nation.  The Nation is the extended family - the Nacio / the People.    We fully endorse Walther Darré's concept of Blood and Soil.  Ironically and which must be to the chagrin of any globalist liberals who bother to look into the origins of their ideology, Darré's work can be seen as the blueprint for the sensible aspects of the Green movement.  Mass migration is damaging to the planet, destroying the ecology of each place that the locust like mass of people moves to.  A sustained environment needs a constancy of population, not the addition of millions of outsiders who are an extra drain on natural resources, and who add to the criminal waste of agricultural land through the increase in building of accommodation to house them.  Borders are beneficial to nature. Open borders allow for global exploitation and the ruination of the planet.

Socialism is International because it supports the continuity of free Nations, as opposed to the nation destroying fraud of the globalists.  International cooperation is beneficial to everybody involved.  We support a free Europe of free nations, in which each country acts in the way which best suits its own people.  Peace is beneficial to the people, war is only beneficial to the Capitalists in the armaments industry and speculative markets.  We would abolish the EU and after that the UK.  We support a Europe in which England sits side by side with our neighbours (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, the Netherlands, Flanders, Wallonia etc), as free and mutually respectful neighbours, not as inmates of the same prison cell.

We oppose the free movement of people and goods because both undermine the ability of each country to be self-governing.  The Strasserites were anti-war and favoured International cooperation.  Hitler was a Capitalist Imperialist who favoured a war of aggression to build an empire in eastern Europe on the corpses of the rightful peoples of that area and the Germans he would use to secure it.  The hated EU is Hitler's legacy and like the real National Socialists who Hitler had murdered, we want nothing of such anti-people entities.

The National Socialists post-1934 betrayed the Socialist Revolution of the previous year, and adopted a Germanised version of Italian Fascism.  We are not Fascists - we are anti-Fascists, understanding that Fascism is Corporatism, which means the rule of the corporations over the people (which is what we have today in what many term the New World Order).  Because Hitler was a Fascist and a wrecker of the original (national) Socialism of Germany, we have no truck with his distortion of Socialism.

The Strasserites were good people who paid the ultimate price for staying true to their ideals.  They held fast to the principles of Socialism as a means of overthrowing the usurious exploitative system of Capitalism.  The much slandered Ernst Röhm was amongst those murdered in 1934 - officially for his homosexuality (which was blatantly hypocritical considering many of those around Hitler were of the same sexual orientation), but really because he was a danger to the Capitalist backers of Hitler, and unlike the man who ordered his brutal murder, a genuine revolutionary.  The Strasserite faction was heavily influenced by the works of Ernst Niekisch, who we also have points in common with, but that doesn't make us National Bolsheviks or Strasserites!

Our ideology is rooted in the English soul, and in the greater European family, which is why we are proud of the Germanic, Nordic and Celtic strands which make up our people.  We do not limit ourselves to just Englishness, but we do see the need to keep ourselves anchored in our heritage.  This again steers us towards Strasserism, as the ideal of the Revolutionary National Socialists was for Germany to be restored to a federation of free nations which existed before the German State was created.  We propose the return of the ancient nations of Mercia, Kernow, Kent, Northumbria, Anglia and a federalised pan-Saxon nation including Wessex, Essex and Sussex, all under the umbrella of England.  Hitler went so far as to abolish Austria and the Sudeten territories, crushing native diversity in a drive for uniform obedience to his 'thousand year empire', which under close examination would have become something similar to the EU had it succeeded.

We don't use the term National Socialism, because to do so is to needlessly duplicate two terms which are really indistinguishable:

Nationalism which doesn't put the people first, is not Nationalism, and the same can be said for Socialism - the two are one.  Hitler was a Capitalist who wore the clothes of nationalism but made the people in his care into servants of the global war machine.  Corbyn claims to be a Socialist but wants open borders which will crush the Working Class under a flood of parasites who we will be forced to pay for, whether through taxes to pay their benefits lifestyle, or in jobs taken by them at our expense.


Further Reading:

Blood and Soil, by Anna Bramwell: http://aryanism.net/downloads/books/anna-bramwell/blood-and-soil.pdf
Hitler and I, by Otto Strasser (complete text): http://mailstar.net/otto-strasser-hitler.html
Otto Strasser's "New Europe", by Kerry Bolton: http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/05/otto-strassers-new-europe-part-one/ http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/05/otto-strassers-new-europe-part-one/
Ernst Röhm: http://spartacus-educational.com/GERroehm.htm
The Anti-Hitler Underground within the German Conservative Revolution, by KR Bolton: http://inconvenienthistory.com/archive/2015/volume_7/number_2/the_anti_hitler_underground.php

The benefits of Socialism make that which is demanded very reasonable

SWPE's vision of a Socialist future for England is one in which everyone is housed - not merely adequately, but housed well - and in addition it is a vision of a country in which the population will be redistributed so that nobody has to live in a town which has a population in excess of 5,000 people, and in which everyone has an acre of land which they can use to feed themselves, and also a workshop in which they can express their creative side.  The use of the land and workshop allocated to each family will be to the discretion of the family concerned.  If people grow more food than they need, or specialise in foodstuffs which they can trade with their neighbours, then that is a good thing.  Likewise, if artisans create things which they can trade, then that is their right.  Every family will be allocated land and property which will generously provide them with everything they need in order to feed themselves, and of course shelter.  Family will be the cornerstone of society, as is the natural way.

There is a saying that there is no such thing as a free lunch.  This is as true of Socialism as any other phenomenon.  In return for free housing, free land, free workshops, free supplies of essential services (clean water must be provided at no cost whatsoever), we would ask that the people recognise the need to work together to keep the wolf of capitalism away, and that they contribute to the advancement of society as a whole.

A four day week would be sufficient to cover the necessary industrial work to keep the standard of living high.  The basic essentials of food and shelter would be taken care of in the allocation of land and housing to each family.  This would still require people to work so that clothing and industrially produced goods would be available.  As part of our agenda of rooting out the Semitic religions which have wrought so much harm to our people, we propose that the working week would begin on Friday and end on Monday, leaving the days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as days to be enjoyed in the company of others or in leisure activities as suit the individual.

An environmentalists, we understand the damage of pollution.  We would limit the harmful results of industry by making the economy of each town such that commuting would be unnecessary.  Every town would have a range of shops which would provide for the needs of the population.  Every town would have a small number of small scale factories which would produce the goods required by the people.  In the case of larger industries (such as car manufacture, hospitals and power production), we propose that towns at the centre of each region would specialise and supply the region as a whole.  This would greatly limit the need for goods to be transported across the country and would eliminate commuting for the vast majority of the population.

Industry need not be laborious.  By employing modern technology we could keep the need for people to work in industry at a minimum.

The four day week would give the people three days of leisure.  The emphasis on the local town as the focus of economic activity would abolish the need to travel to work over long distances, giving back to the people time to spend as they wish, which would otherwise be lost in commuting.

SWPE policy does not mean uniformity and blandness.  Each town would be required to provide for the people living in it, and each region would be required to be set up in such a way that the centre would provide for what the general towns could not (to avoid unnecessary duplication of industry across the country).  Beyond this requirement, each region would be encouraged to create a style of building of its own and each town within each region would be encouraged to adopt and adapt the regional style further so that every town in the country would have a distinct character.  Local cuisine, local culture, local traditions, local art, would all be encouraged, abolishing the plastic coca cola culture currently ruling over England in which every town has the same shops and the same mass produced housing estates and differs only from every other by name.  We envision a reborn Wessex, a reborn Mercia, Anglia, Northumbria, each with a unique character, each reveling in its own cultural identity as a part of a free and federal England.

So what of the great architecture and museums of the cities?  What would become of them with the move away from urbanisation?  Our great buildings would remain and be made accessible to everyone.  For example, the urban sprawl of London would be returned to nature by the demolition of bland housing estates and indistinguishable streets (and of course such absurdities as mosques and modern eyesores like Canary Wharf), but in its place towns separated by open space would be born.  The great buildings would provide points of focus for the new towns.

Socialism doesn't mean faceless artless concrete jungles such as plagued Romania under Ceausescu.  Our Socialism is English and demands the preservation of our countryside and of our own unique culture.  By creating a four day week, we would give people the time to explore their country and to visit places of art and culture such as museums and art galleries cleansed of degeneracy.  At present people are forced to work for 5 days a week for 48 or 49 weeks a year.  We see no reason why we couldn't have  the working month reduced to 3 weeks of work with 1 week of leisure, organised in such a way that industry would operate all year but every week would be a free week for a quarter of the local population.  This would allow for tourism and leisure focused work, giving the people the ability to explore the their own country.

Socialism is a practical ideology which will see the country restored and reborn free of the shackles of liberalism and global capitalist imperialism.  Rise up Wage Slaves.  You have your Country to gain and you have nothing to lose but your chains of debt to global finance.  A Socialist future is a future of culture, of leisure and of joy.  All we ask is that in return for freedom each single adult provides 4 days work for 3 weeks out of 4 and that for married couple with children, one of the parents takes that responsibility while the other looks after the children (and does so in a paid capacity).  The benefits of Socialism far outstrip the demands, and for those who will not contribute, the safety net of a home and space to grow food mean that taking part in society will be voluntary, although encouraged.

What now, after the Scotland NO vote?

SWPE firmly believes in the sanctity of National Sovereignty.  We oppose all forms of Imperialism and see the smallest viable Nation State as the best for the people.  To this end, we supported the Scottish Independence movement which promised to end the 300 year historical mistake which is called the United Kingdom.

The Independence Referendum was an opportunity for the peoples of Scotland and England to reach a new understanding as equals in free sovereign nations.  The anti-Independence propaganda was focused upon the personality of the SNP's Alex Salmond, but also pandered to the financial insecurities of the people.  We were appalled by the fear mongering of the UK nationalists, who argued that a free Scotland would be one in which the elderly people would not get their pensions and would be impoverished due to having to create a new currency (a nonsense argument which nevertheless intimidated many voters).  

The UK unity campaign only succeeded by offering unrealistic bribes of greater devolution if Scotland would remain under the UK yoke, backed by terrifying the electorate with imagery of a post-UK Scotland being a land of poverty and insecurity, as well as by suggesting that without London, Scotland would be swamped by mass immigration.  Why immigrants would seek to cross allegedly affluent England to live in poverty stricken Scotland, was not explained!

But for all this, the reality is that Scotland and England remain locked in the same prison which was forged for them by the Ruling Class in 1707.  Unlike the Act of Union, the continuing Union of 2014 has the approval of the electorate of the north of the UK, even if the approval of the rest is just assumed rather than verified by a popular vote.  The referendum to end or continue the UK was only held in Scotland, whereas there are three countries in the UK, plus the province of Northern Ireland.  For those of voting age in an area with a total of Seven Million people to have the say on the future of a group of countries totaling Seventy Million people, is clearly undemocratic.  Why were 90% of the people disenfranchised?  Possibly because the people of England could not be expected to support the Union, the people of Wales would most likely have wished to break away as well.  Northern Ireland is a more complex area, but would they too have wished to break from the UK (whether to unite with Ireland or to become a free Sovereign nation)?  All that is certain is that we were not allowed to have our say and our cousins in Scotland were coerced into voting for the status quo.

SWPE would have preferred for Scotland to regain full independence, but we have to accept that this did not happen.  Where does this leave us?  We hold to our conviction that a country of Seventy Million people is too large a unit to function in the manner which best suits the well being of the people.  We are federalists.  We support a return to the older nations which came before the creation of England, to a rebirth of Wessex, Mercia etc.  The Scottish NO vote offers the opportunity to join with our cousins in Wales and Scotland to strive for a federation of the British Isles which would end manufactured border disputes by allowing the people of each micro nation to have full control over their own affairs.  

We reject the narrow nationalism of those who pit Anglo-Saxons against Celts.  The UK has seen massive internal movement and mixing which makes the people of every corner of the British mainland and near islands united by blood.  One positive outcome of the Scottish referendum is the affirmation by many Scots of the bonds of kinship shared across the national frontiers.  SWPE does not oppose the single UK State due to any sympathy with outrageous hostility from some English, some Welsh, some Scots and some Irish to those outside their localities.  We support a return to smaller nations because we support the right of the people to rule over themselves, which is only achievable in smaller units of population.

SWPE recognises the cultural ties which unite the various peoples of England and set us apart from the peoples of Scotland and from the peoples of Wales.  We propose a federation of the English nations within a federation of the British nations.  The outcome of the dishonest Independence referendum is that the peoples of Great Britain must reassess our bonds and must take this opportunity to walk away from mutually destructive hatred of Sassenachs, Jocks, Taffies, Paddies, Woollybacks etc and cherish our familial ties.  We need to return to a healthy relationship with our cousins in different parts of the Isles, which enjoys jovial stereotyping but does not tolerate irrational hatred. 

On some levels the Referendum result is an opportunity lost, but in others it is new opportunities gained.  The desire for devolution in the North and West must be used to fuel demand for devolution to and in England as well.  The Ruling Class showed their despotism and disdain in the way they handled the UK dissolution vote (or lack of one!)  We must capitalise on this mistake and push for a new era of freedom in which the Ruling Class will have no place.  The money power had to bribe and intimidate to get its way. They had to deny 90% of the people a say.  They have no moral authority and can only rule by coercion.  The biggest loser in the Referendum was the Ruling Power.  The illegitimate elite is weakened and now it is time to kick this crippled scourge hard.