Comments on: Urgent memorandum for the next election http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/ News, features and comment from Britain's left-wing magazine Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:44:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Durotrigan http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/comment-page-1/#comment-8553 Durotrigan Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:41:50 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/#comment-8553 There is a solution: nationalism. Not national egoism. Not national expansionism. Not imperialism. Just straightforward nationalism, i.e. placing the rights and interests of indigenous Britons at the forefront of your policy agenda, which as an alleged democrat, you and the Labour Party always should have done. Instead, you have made us native Britons the helots of an international financial oligarchy, pumped full of Islamist petro-dollar poison. The sooner that our dependence upon oil is done away with, the sooner the barborous imperialist Islamist outburst of recent decades shall be doomed to extinction. No more mass immigration. No more encouragement of pullulating population growth. We need economic sustainability and more investment in a productive agricultural sector offering meaningful jobs to a significant proportion of the labour force. Revitalise our countryside and breathe life back into dying rural communities. We need a sensible demographic policy focusing upon social solidarity, encouraging the gradual realisation of a national population of circa 20-25 million in line with OPT estimates of what is sustainable in these isles. Those who in future choose to have three or more children should receive no benefits. It is our burgeoning numbers that are the root of almost all of the crises that we face. No to the objective of perpetual growth. No to the debt slavery upon which this is predicated. Yes to distributist economic principles. Yes to worker share ownership in the companies for which they work. Subordinate the economy to the needs of the nation, not the nation to the needs of the economy. Cast off the shackles of your dead ideology. "Left" and "Right" have ceased to possess meaning. There is a solution: nationalism. Not national egoism. Not national expansionism. Not imperialism. Just straightforward nationalism, i.e. placing the rights and interests of indigenous Britons at the forefront of your policy agenda, which as an alleged democrat, you and the Labour Party always should have done. Instead, you have made us native Britons the helots of an international financial oligarchy, pumped full of Islamist petro-dollar poison. The sooner that our dependence upon oil is done away with, the sooner the barborous imperialist Islamist outburst of recent decades shall be doomed to extinction.

No more mass immigration. No more encouragement of pullulating population growth. We need economic sustainability and more investment in a productive agricultural sector offering meaningful jobs to a significant proportion of the labour force. Revitalise our countryside and breathe life back into dying rural communities.

We need a sensible demographic policy focusing upon social solidarity, encouraging the gradual realisation of a national population of circa 20-25 million in line with OPT estimates of what is sustainable in these isles. Those who in future choose to have three or more children should receive no benefits. It is our burgeoning numbers that are the root of almost all of the crises that we face.

No to the objective of perpetual growth. No to the debt slavery upon which this is predicated. Yes to distributist economic principles. Yes to worker share ownership in the companies for which they work. Subordinate the economy to the needs of the nation, not the nation to the needs of the economy. Cast off the shackles of your dead ideology. “Left” and “Right” have ceased to possess meaning.

]]> By: Commodities Broker | Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | Commodities Options | Commodities Futures | Commodities Prices http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/comment-page-1/#comment-8407 Commodities Broker | Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | Commodities Options | Commodities Futures | Commodities Prices Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:53:33 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/#comment-8407 [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election - Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil – the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines – ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasn’t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...] [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election – Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil – the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines – ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasn’t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...]

]]> By: Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | EcoSilly http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/comment-page-1/#comment-8399 Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | EcoSilly Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:39:21 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/#comment-8399 [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election - Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil – the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines – ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasn’t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...] [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election – Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil – the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines – ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasn’t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...]

]]> By: Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | FollowGreen.com http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/comment-page-1/#comment-8398 Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | FollowGreen.com Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:02:56 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/#comment-8398 [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election - Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil â?? the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines â?? ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasnâ??t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...] [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election – Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil â?? the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines â?? ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasnâ??t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...]

]]> By: Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | FollowGreen.com http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/comment-page-1/#comment-8392 Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | FollowGreen.com Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:29:03 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/#comment-8392 [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election - Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil â?? the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines â?? ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasnâ??t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...] [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election – Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil â?? the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines â?? ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasnâ??t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...]

]]> By: Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | The Oil Report http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/comment-page-1/#comment-8391 Drumbeat: April 7, 2009 | The Oil Report Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:15:11 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/04/07/urgent-memorandum-for-the-next-election/#comment-8391 [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election - Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil – the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines – ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasn’t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...] [...] UK: Urgent memorandum for the next election – Michael Meacher identifies four global fronts on which Labour should go to the country in 2010 Nor is peak oil – the point at which the world achieves maximum annual production before it declines – ever discussed publicly by governments. Yet it is widely believed by oil industry experts that this will be reached within the next five years, if it hasn’t happened already. Since oil over the past 150 years has underpinned a six-fold increase in the population of the world and is mainly responsible for the enormous industrial and technological productivity of the modern age, its virtual disappearance within the next few decades is sure to mean a dramatic alteration of the parameters of the international economy and human civilisation itself. [...]

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