January 9, 2010 - By News Team

Based on their declared polices and past behaviour, the Conservative Party will cut public spending and services, wages, encourage mass immigration from the EU as “cheap labour” and put the interests of the global economy and before the interests of British workers, predicts the British National Party’s legal director Lee Barnes.

Writing in a new economic policy discussion document called “Building the Creative Economy,” Mr Barnes points out that the Conservative Party “whole heartedly endorses the Thatcherite tradition” of economics.

“Between 1979, when Thatcher took power, and 1982, Britain’s manufacturing output dropped by 18 percent,” Mr Barnes wrote.

“Between 1978 and 2008, British manufacturing lost nearly 4 million jobs and its share of GDP dipped to just 13 percent. Manufacturing once accounted for almost 40 percent of the UK’s output. It now represents less than half that,” he said.

The Labour Party has continued with the Tory economic plan, he pointed out. “Since April 2009 we have seen the steepest decline in British manufacturing since records began in 1968. There has been a fall of 6.5 percent in the three months to February 2009 while the economy has shrunk by 1.9 percent this year.

“Car production in the UK has also fallen by more than 50 per cent in the last 12 months and the Engineering Employers Federation predicts the loss of 140,000 manufacturing job this year alone.

“While the British car industry is dominated by non-British marques such as Honda, Toyota, Nissan and GM, other European nations have protected such industries as they regard them of strategic national importance.”

France, for example, has Renault, Peugeot and Citroën.

Mr Barnes went on to make a number of proposals for rescuing the British manufacturing industry in his paper, which is reproduced below in full for discussion.

* It is important to note that only the BNP’s Annual Conference has the right to determine party policy, and the following is a discussion piece only. Comments are invited.

“Building the Creative Economy — By Lee John Barnes.

The primary dynamic in British politics since Thatcherism, and one continued by Blair and Brown under New Labour, has been the surrender of the powers of the British state to supra-national bodies such as the EU, international corporations,  globalist institutions like the WTO and World Bank and to secretive and unelected politically correct QUANGOs within Britain.

At the same time, the British State has devolved and surrendered much of its powers to act directly in the interests of the British nation, the British people and British companies. It has also created the vast entity of the Nanny State which in its turn has created the most pernicious surveillance society in British history.

As the British State has withered away, the Nanny State has risen to replace it. The Nanny State is based on political correctness and putting the interests of minorities before the majority, creating what we define as the Tyranny of the Minorities.

This includes the race relations industry, the health and safety industry, the immigration and asylum industry, the human rights industry, the minority lifestyles industry and the rest of the politically correct lobby and legal groups funded by the tax payer and the National Lottery which act in order only to subvert our nation from within.

This trend must be reversed and all sovereign powers repatriated from these bodies and returned to the British state, thereby re-empowering the British governments that the British people elect so that the power of the British State can once again be used to act in the interests of the British people.

We must dismantle the Nanny State in its entirety end all the tens of thousands of useless parasitic jobs that feed off of it.

We will withdraw from the EU and end the £6 billion paid to the EU per year and also remove the EU regulations that cost British industry £150 billion per year.

At the same time we must use the power of the British state to develop the internal national industries that are essential for our long term National Security. These include autarchic agricultural, energy, defence, health and essential strategic manufacturing industries.

Such Economic Nationalism and Economic Patriotism is common across the world, except for in Britain where the greed for foreign capital has ensured the selling off of every strategic industry.

Today the power of the British State to act in the interests of Britain barely exists. Nor does the will to act in the interest of the British people even exist in the mainstream political parties.

Legislation from the EU takes precedence over legislation enacted in Parliament and foreign companies can make a decision in the boardrooms of New York, Beijing or Berlin to close down British factories and the British government can do nothing to stop them.

Foreign companies can asset strip UK companies via the international stock exchange as British companies export their jobs and services to India or China. While the bosses grow rich, British workers are thrown on the dole.

When Thatcher began the dismantling of our national manufacturing base, she took us deeper into the EU and at the same time closed down national industries in order to open Britain up to the global economy. This process has been continued by New Labour who wholeheartedly embraced Thatcherite Free Market Globalist Neo-Liberal economics.

Between 1979, when Thatcher took power, and 1982, Britain’s manufacturing output dropped by 18 per cent. Between 1978 and 2008 British manufacturing lost nearly 4 million jobs, its share of GDP dipping to just 13 percent.

By the beginning of the 21st century, banking, insurance, business services, and other service industries accounted for almost three fourths of the gross domestic product and employed 80 percent of the workforce in Britain.

Whereas manufacturing once accounted for almost 40 percent of the UK’s output, it now represents less than half that. Since April 2009 we have had the steepest decline in British manufacturing since records began in 1968: a fall of 6.5 percent in the three months to February 2009 while the economy has shrunk by just 1.9 percent this year.

Car production in the UK has also fallen by more than 50 percent in the last 12 months and the Engineering Employers Federation predicts the loss of 140,000 manufacturing job this year alone.

Whilst the British car industry is dominated by Honda, Toyota, Nissan and GM (all non-British companies,) nations such as France still have Renault, Peugeot and Citroën and have protected such industries as they regard them of strategic national importance.

Britain has been the recipient of the largest amount of foreign investment in the EU simply for one reason, and that is because we opted out of the EU rules and regulations that protect workers and workers rights within the EU.

This has meant that whilst British bosses have been the highest paid in Europe, taking home over £500, 000 per year in 2001, at the same time the average pay of a British worker in 2001, and before the credit crunch lowered wages, was the lowest in any developed country in the world at an average of £20,000 per year.

British workers will receive an average pay rise of less than 1.5 percent this year – among the lowest increases in the world. That represents a pay rise of less than £2.

At the same time as we as a nation are in the grip of the economic crash, militants within the Trades Unions such as the RMT still have the power to terrorise the country and government into acquiescing to their demands for wage rises way beyond inflation through threats of strike actions and walk outs.

Whilst the Labour government is a hostage to the demands of the militant trade union bosses whose members fund the Labour Party via their political funds, the Tories are also hostages to the big business interests that are its major donors, and stuck between the two is the helpless British worker.

Neither Labour nor Tory acts in the interest of the British Worker, for both are hostages to their own sectarian interests.

The Labour Party puts the interests of the internationalists in the trades unions before the interests of British workers, as we saw during the walk outs over the ‘British Jobs for British Workers’ issue this year when the trades unions called their own members ‘racists’ for demanding the unions and Labour government put their interests first before the interests of Marxist workers co-operatives in Cuba or Eastern European workers from the EU.

The Tories when they get into power will follow the traditional Tory pattern of cutting public spending and public services, cutting workers wages, encouraging mass immigration from the EU as cheap labour and putting the interests of the global economy and the big bosses before the interests of British workers.

Only a new force in British politics that serves the interests solely of the British people can save us from this perpetual calamity.

We are no friends of the Marxist and Internationalist trade union bosses. They are traitors to our nation who ban BNP members from joining their trades unions, so we of course will not make the mistake of empowering the trades union militants who these days act primarily in the interests of Internationalism as opposed to the interests of British workers – ours will be a form of traditional British Nationalist Corporatism where the employer, workers and unions are balanced by the involvement of the re-empowered British State which acts in the interest of the British people, British companies, British workers, the British national environment and the British national economy.

Only when a British Nationalist government takes power will our nation rise once more.

We also need this Corporatist system for another reason. Our primary BNP development plan once we get into power is for a massive public works scheme to create a national energy independent production and supply system and this requires an extension of the powers of the British state to do so and an active involvement in wage levels.

We will also need a Bank of Britain to generate and allocate the public / private investment to create the national energy system, as the present economic system is predicated upon short term gain not long term investments. The economic collapse has also meant the capital once available in the markets to fund such a project has been squandered.

Therefore such a project if it is to remain a British National project, and not threatened by the vagaries of the international money markets and global economy, has to be undertaken via a new monetary mechanism involving a National Bank co-ordinating a network of regional currencies.

We need to use the national energy project to employ local people in local areas in new local industries and to develop the national energy independence project based on investment in regenerating local economies. The use of regional currencies will assist us in paying those people in currencies that also develop local economies and we can do this via the post office and recently privatised banks.

This will allow us to re-develop local economies and at the same time allow us to encourage the development of local industry, investment in local jobs and the creation of local agricultural businesses, farming co-operatives, energy production units and recycling units etc to wean local communities from agricultural produce, commodity products and energy imported in from abroad. This can only be done via local currencies that are specifically designed to create new local production and supply markets in national security areas such as food and energy production.

We will also save billions by ending all foreign aid payments, and this money will go straight into the National Bank of Britain to assist in setting up currency funds in regional banks.

We will need to create a new wages mechanism and a new form of state involvement in wages during this process in order to ensure that the local economies that are produced are not subject to the dangers of globalism via the pound or other speculative exploitation.

We will allow the bankers and the stock market to continue to play with the pound in the global markets as they have always done whilst we enact our nationalist project at the local level – and thereby ensure we keep control of the project out of the hands of the bankers and the global market entirely.

This level of national control over the whole process can only be done via regional currencies which are prohibited from being exported out of the country, that can only be held in local banks, that cannot be transferred to other people outside local areas and that can only be spent in local areas in registered British owned local businesses that must employ local people.

This creation of networks of regional banks with local currencies also allows us to say we will increase welfare benefits and pension payouts when we get into power as the extra money will be allocated to those people via their local banks and paid in regional currencies to be spent in local areas – and thereby will go straight back into the local economy instead of being shipped out of the country as billions upon billions of pounds are every year by immigrants in the UK.

These are just a few suggestions for the creation of the Creative Economy in action. This is not a policy statement. This is an article for internal BNP debate.

If you have any ideas or comments please feel free to contribute.