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THE BETRAYED NATION April 2019 ​ News and Views from the Freedom Association Theresa May’S Treachery Goes On THE BETRAYED NATION April 2019 ​ News and views from The Freedom Association Theresa May’s treachery goes on . and on THE BETRAYED NATION J’Accuse . ! The duplicity and treachery of Theresa May appears to know no bounds. Yes ​ she is dishonest, yes she has betrayed both her party and her country, yes she is the worst Prime Minister ever. But her deceitfulness has been aided and abetted by her fellow travellers in the Conservative Party. Her betrayal of Brexit could never have been achieved without the complicity of those who willingly do her bidding. For nearly 30 years, the Conservative Party has betrayed and undermined almost everything that its members and voters believe in and care about. It took us into what was then the EEC, it signed away so much of our independence at Maastricht, it cut our armed forces to the bone, it has undermined the fight against crime, it has increased taxation to record levels and has interfered in our lives more than Labour ever did. We were expected to swallow this because we were told that a Labour Government led by Jeremy Corbyn would be even worse. Now even that has been shown to be a cynical ploy to justify Brexit betrayal. Appalling though Theresa May is, a majority of her MPs have kept her in place, seemingly more fearful of the prospect of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister than they are of a woman prepared to go cap in hand to Jeremy Corbyn, whom the Jewish Labour Movement has declared, “unfit to be Prime Minister”. There is something of a French theme to this edition, which includes a report on the shocking violence that President Macron’s Government has been using against Gilets Jaunes ​ protesters. Last month our group of thirty Freedom Association supporters visited Strasbourg, where, out of respect for our hosts, we sang the stirring, bloodthirsty French national anthem, the Marseillaise, which was composed there. The chorus runs, “Aux armes, ​ citoyens, Formez vos bataillons, Marchons, marchons!” It’s time we learnt from our French ​ friends across the channel how to stand up and fight for what we hold dear. We certainly cannot rely upon the Conservative Party to defend our country or our values. Simon Richards Chief Executive, The Freedom Association THE BETRAYED NATION is The Freedom Association’s newsletter for Members ​ ​ only. If you receive it only quarterly (Red masthead) months (January, April, July and October) and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ would like it sent to you by Royal Mail every month (i.e. including the Blue masthead issues in ​ ​ ​ ​ February, March, May, June, August, September, November and December), simply complete and return the form on page 10. Please send any letters, articles, news etc. (by email or post) to Simon Richards - see contact details below. Copy deadline for the next (May) issue is Tuesday 7th May. The Freedom Association, 122 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham GL52 2NW Phone: 01242 235333 (office hours: Monday to Wednesday) Email: [email protected] Website: www.tfa.net ​ ​ ​ 2 of 16 The Greatest Spendthrifts In each issue, I include an extract from ‘Take Upon Retiring’, an anthology by our Patron, Lord Vinson, because I think that its contents deserve a wider audience. Here he quotes from Adam Smith about the way that those in government misspend other people’s money. This certainly applies both to the present ‘Conservative’ Government and to the Opposition. Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public, prodigality and misconduct. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people. For kings and ministers are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Adam Smith The wit and wisdom of Jacob Rees-Mogg “If a long extension leaves us stuck in the EU we should be as difficult as possible. We could veto any increase in the budget, obstruct the putative EU army and block Mr Macron’s integrationist schemes.” Tweet on @Jacob_Rees_Mogg ​ 5th April Listen to Jacob’s weekly radio show on LBC at 6 p.m. every Friday. QUOTE TO NOTE “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” Oliver Cromwell quoted by Leo Amery in 1940, ​ ​ at the conclusion of a devastating speech attacking Neville Chamberlain’s Government. Please send me any quotes you would like to be considered for inclusion in future issues. A site for your eyes: https://twitter.com/verumandverus ​ ​ ​ ​ Statisticus Collegium is a Twitter account with a title of which Jacob Rees-Mogg would doubtless approve. It performs one simple but important function - ​ listing the Brexit voting records of every MP, in alphabetical order, naming, shaming and - on occasion - praising each according to his or her voting record. It is an invaluable resource and clear, simple and easy to use. Conor Burns, for example is described as a Brexit Legend, whereas Steve Brine is listed as a Brexit Wrecker. Check up on your own MP’s voting record. The Freedom Association, 122 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham GL52 2NW Telephone: 01242 235333 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tfa.net ​ ​ ​ 3 of 16 Peter Mullen writes: Looking forward to the end of May I was about to type ‘The Free Nation, May’ when I realised ​ ​ it should be ‘The Free Nation, April’. When I got to the word ​ ​ ​ ‘May,’ an icy chill ran all down my back. But there’s no avoiding it and for thirty-one days ‘May’ will sit there on the front of the calendar like an accusation, like a vile expletive. Twenty times a day newsreaders will announce such as, “It’s . day the umpteenth of May.” So there’s no escape. I don’t know about you, but there’s no doubt in my mind that the Maybot is - I hope by the time this article appears it’s was - our worst prime minister ever. They used to ask the question of Richard Nixon, “How do you know when he’s lying?” And the answer was, “Whenever he’s moving his lips.” That was pretty unfair even on Tricky Dicky - but it applies to Theresa May with a vengeance. Let me repeat myself: more people voted Leave than have ever voted for anything in this country. Mrs May promised to deliver Brexit yet, even as she was speaking, she had no intention of keeping that promise. She was always a Remainer. She has lied through her teeth - not once but several times every day from the referendum in June 2016, and she is still lying today. Dear reader, you have been had, cheated, stuffed and betrayed by the woman who promised on oath to be faithful to our country and to its people. The worst prime minister ever? Well, let’s see . Worse than Michael Foot in his donkey jacket at the cenotaph? And there were rumours that he had more than a soft spot for the USSR. Was he a traitor? Well, he told us: “In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human ​ liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.” Yes, with the help of concentration ​ camps and the gulag. And yet for all that superior, patronising snobbery and the stinking hypocrisy of his Hampstead socialism, he never did the country as much harm as May has done. I don’t think that Michael stooped so low as actually to hold the British people in contempt. May does. There you are: despite my best intentions, I’ve written “May” again. I’ll be glad when it’s June - and we get some Ashes cricket! Then who can forget Sailor Ted Heath who suffered chronically from EU-philia and made our flesh creep with what he got up to on his organ. And in 1973-74 when he put the nation on a three-day week, we had to turn the lights out early. He called himself a Conservative but then deplored, “the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.” He too lied to us about our membership of the EU: “There is no question of any erosion of national sovereignty.” No, Ted, it’s quite definite; the EU erodes every bit of our national sovereignty. But at least Heath was in charge for only four years and then we got the mixed blessing of Harold Wilson back. Harold was half-redeemed by his sense of humour. Those were the days when, during election campaigns, leading politicians delivered hour-long lectures in town halls up and down the country. These were televised and they were terrific entertainment. One night, Wilson was speaking before a massed audience in Sheffield and a heckler called out, “Have The Freedom Association, 122 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham GL52 2NW Telephone: 01242 235333 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tfa.net ​ ​ ​ 4 of 16 you never read Karl Marx?” Harold was the king of cool and his reply came instantly, laconically: “Only as far as that footnote on page two of Das Kapital. A lot of readers fall there, you know.” For a short interval around that time, we were led by the shuffling, cadaverous toff Sir Alec Douglas Home - pronounced “Hume.” Wilson used to mock Home’s aristocratic mien, calling him, “The fourteenth Earl of Home.” Ah yes, but Sir Alec was quick off the mark: “Have I the honour of speaking with the fourteenth Mr Wilson?” Any one of these predecessors was worth twice as much as Mrs M who, you will recall, concocted a “deal” to get us out of - actually it was always meant to keep us in – the cursed EU.
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