The significance of the
peasantry and agriculture for the British people:
Our Nation meets much of its food requirement through imports,
before WWII we paid for these with income from our industrial
exports to foreign countries.
We pay for our food today primarily with borrowed monies, and
so, Britions are led ever deeper into debt-servitude.
By cutting off credit and importation of foodstuffs, by yanking up the
food basket, this servitude can force working-class Britons, to
work for starvation wages. This will end only when the
British people can feed themselves from their own soil
and an economically strong rural population with strong
purchasing power is vital.
Recognizing the overwhelming significance of the rural population, they
are principal source of national genetic health and the
backbone of our defensive strength.
Contempt and neglect of agriculture in modern Britain:
In contradiction to the vital need for agricultural production, the
present regime threatens the survival our rural population. A
significant increase in agricultural production is hindered due to;
- The international plutocracy which rules our 'parliamentary
democracy', which wants to ruin the national economy making
the population defenceless against exploitation.
- In the competition of foreign agriculture, which operates
under more favourable conditions than ours.
<>- In the intolerably high profits between the producer
and the user, set by the agricultural commodities trade.
- The small farmer eventually loses home and farm to the
owners of loan capital. The British people are being uprooted!
The need for a British Land Law:
An end to the crisis of the rural population cannot be expected as
long as international money lords rule, seeking the elimination of
our rural population in paticular.
Only in the new and fundamentally different Britain will
agriculture find its rightful support, therefore, we must make the
following demands:
- British farmland must be used only by individual landowners.
- Land rightfully acquired by Britons, is
acknowledged as hereditary property, however, this right is conditional
of obligation to use the land for the general welfare.
- Enforcement of this obligation should be the
responsibility of elected representatives of the Rural Community.
- Land must not be an object for financial speculation and
must not produce unearned income for its owner.
- It should also be forbidden to mortgage land to private
financiers.
- Farmers should receive necessary credit at favourable
terms through approved rural co-operatives.
- We must have have a large number of viable small
and medium sized farms. However, the large operation also plays an
important role, and has a right to coexist in a healthy relationship
with medium and small operations.
- The state shall have the right of expropriation (with
compensation) land that is not in possession of British Citizens or
portions of large holdings not used responsibly by their owners, for
settlement by new farmers.
- This must be done in conjunction with the establishment and
maintenance of viable rural towns through the redeployment of
industrial enterprise. This way, enough demand will be created to
support new farmsteads.
Cultural enhancement of Rural Britain:
Economic and cultural conditions must be improved so they
will be commensurate with their importance to the nation to remove
the principal cause of flight from rural areas, including:
- Additional debt must be avoided by lowering interest rates
to prewar levels and by taking firm steps against usurers.
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- The state must insure that farming becomes profitable again
and protect it protect with tolls, regulation of imports and a
national education campaign.
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- Farmers must be protected from exploitation and state
must take over the agricultural commodities trade and replace it with
farmers' cooperatives.
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- It is the responsibility of farmers
co-operatives to lower production costs and increase production.
- They will oversee the delivery of farm machinery, seed,
pest control, cost-free agricultural advice, soil analysis etc.
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- Through improvements in housing and wages for farm workers
for domestic farm workers to stop rural flight, and the importation of
alien farm workers MUST be forbidden.
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- This importance demands governmental support for technical
training of farm workers as well as revitalization of rural
British culture, with preferential consideration for poor but
talented youngsters.
The present
crisis among country folk is part of the crisis of the entire nation
and is rooted in political enslavement.
It must be fought by the entire nation.
Armed with a
full appreciation of the significance of the community and
agriculture for our entire nation, this
movement must unite true Britons of all classes and
vocations for the good of the nation.
