April 2022 edition
In the UK at least, all Covid-1984 restrictions have now been lifted, and the Boris Johnson Government has stated “Britain must learn to live with Covid-19”. We fully agree! Our only criticism is that this statement should have been made in early 2020, rather than early 2022!
It should never be forgotten of course that the Covid-19 virus is simply a variant of the standard influenza virus, and that has been with us ever since human life began on earth! It should also not be forgotten that prior to the fancy name of “Covid-19” being coined for this current variant it was simply known as “Wuhan Flu”. It may have been slightly nastier than other flu variants and somewhat more contagious, but at the end of the day it was just another strain of the influenza virus, something which mankind has lived with for millennia, without any tyrannical authorities demanding that people wear ridiculous face masks or stand 6 feet away from their fellow human-beings – let alone a closedown all facets of human activity!
A more worrying aspect of the paranoia being peddled by the authorities over the past two years has been the recent revelation following a Freedom of Information request that from the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020 until 31st December 2021 only 6,182 people died in England-and-Wales from the virus. The much-bandied figure of over 150,000 deaths referred to those who died with Covid, not from it. These deaths include many who died from heart attacks and strokes where the presence of the Covid infection clearly didn’t contribute in any way to the death, and in at least one notorious case a death from a road accident was also recorded as a “Covid death”! This revelation of course simply confirms the observations of undertakers up and down the country that there had been no noticeable increase in the seasonal totals of deaths - in spite of all the additional deaths caused by the direct effects of the “lockdown” restrictions, most notably increased suicides.
Quite clearly therefore the severity of the Covid-19 virus has been wildly exaggerated – indeed we have been totally lied to about its danger by the medical authorities. By so doing Britain and the rest of the West have endured two years of economic disaster, and our children have been denied two years of proper education. The current cost of living crisis and increased taxation have been directly caused by all this lunacy, and this is going to take decades – if not generations – to be rectified. Those responsible for all this scare-mongering, all the way from the medicrats at the top such as “Sir” Chris “Dim” Whitty, right down to all the self-appointed “Little Hitlers” who have confronted law-abiding citizens asking why they aren’t wearing ridiculous face-masks or standing 6 feet away from their fellow human-beings, must surely one day be held to account.
Much play has recently been made of the fact that staff at No.10 Downing Street held work-related parties contrary to the lunatic Covid regulations. Unlike many we do not condemn those who participated in such parties – indeed we say “Good luck to them!”. Our condemnation is reserved for those scumbags who introduced such draconian and totally irrational restrictions in the first place. Not only do we support the rights of the No.10 party-goers, but we also DEMAND that all those who have been charged and fined for breaking the unjustified “lockdown” laws should be given unreserved pardons and awarded appropriate financial compensation!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
The Springbok Club’s 2022 AGM, held last month, proved to be quite a successful occasion, in spite of the fact that the venue had to be slightly changed at the last minute and the turnout was consequently somewhat lower than hoped and anticipated. A replacement committee member was elected following the sad death of a long-standing committee member last year, and a number of minor motions were debated and voted upon. More importantly, however, a schedule of activities for the next few months was decided upon, which are detailed below. After the business side of affairs was completed Mr. Gary Vincent gave another of his fascinating PowerPoint presentations, this one being about the history of our brother Commonwealth country New Zealand from the first voyages of discovery by Capt. James Cook until the establishment of the New Zealand Company and first colonial settlements in 1839/40.
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On Saturday 23rd April – St.George’s/Sigurd’s Day – the Springbok Club will be staging a visit to the Museum of London Docklands, No.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London, E14 4AL. The main reason for this trip is to pay our respects to the memory of that great British hero, Robert Milligan, who planned and financed the construction of London’s West India Docks. Disgustingly a statue of Robert Milligan was removed from its historic position outside the Museum by enemies of our country a couple of years ago, but happily other commemorative memorials to the great man still remain near-by. The Springbok Club party will be assembling at “The Ledger Building” (a Wetherspoons pub) which is situated next-door to the museum at 4 Hertsmere Road, West India Quay, London E14 4AL (nearest stations: West Ferry and West India Quay on the DLR) between 13.30 hrs and 14.30 hrs. ‘Phone: 07711188430 if you have any problems finding this location. After the visit to the Museum of London Docklands the party will be returning to “The Ledger Building” for a convivial celebration of St.George’s/Sigurd’s Day.
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The Kent Branch of the Springbok Club will be staging a trip to the Rochester Sweeps Festival on Sunday 1st May. Assemble in “The King’s Head”, 58 High Street, Rochester, Kent, ME1 1LD (nearest rail station: Rochester) between 12.30 hrs and 13.30 hrs. If you have any difficulty finding this location then ‘phone: 07711188430.
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In June the Springbok Club will be holding a meeting to be addressed by a prominent South African expatriate, and in July the organisation aims to hold a braai in order to celebrate Rhodes & Founders Day. The organisation is still looking for an ideal venue to stage such a braai in the Greater London area however, so if anyone can help in this regard please let us know.
In August the Kent Branch of the Springbok Club will be staging a trip to the Hythe Venetian Fete, and in September the organisation will be staging the annual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony, this time hopefully at the grave of Lieut. E.C. “Teddy” Tindale-Biscoe RN, who of course first raised the Union Flag at the site which subsequently became Salisbury on 13th September 1890.
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
There has been much discussion within the Patriotic Forum committee about whether to pay the rather extortionate annual fee of £140.00 in order to renew our Zoom facility, or whether to forgo Zoom meetings and to resume “live” meetings in the London area instead. An AGM of the organisation is therefore being planned for May in order to discuss this matter and other subjects relating to future activities, and the full arrangements regarding this AGM will of course be detailed in next month’s SCN. If any supporter – particularly those based overseas – would be keen for the Patriotic Forum to resume Zoom meetings, and could help to raise the necessary £140.00 annual fee for this facility, then the details about how to make a financial contribution can be found at the end of this edition of the SCN.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
Copies of edition No.42 of The Imperial Patriot have now started to be posted out to all overseas subscribers, but alas there is still a long way to go, and further funds are therefore required rapidly in order to complete this task. Perhaps the best method of helping in this regard would be to purchase a supply of back-copies of the magazine, as this would also enable you to make a small profit by selling copies to your friends and work-mates. A selection of 50 assorted copies is available for only £25.00, and details of how to pay can be found at the end of this edition of the SCN. Please e-mail us at: springbk@netcomuk.co.uk to confirm that you have made such a payment however, and also let us know whether you would like copies only of The Imperial Patriot, only of the predecessor publication S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, or a mixture of the two.
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MESSAGE FROM THE FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION
We have recently received the following most important message from the Fauna & Flora International organisation about the plight of wild Lions throughout Africa. It reads as follows:-
“THE DOWNFALL OF THE KING OF BEASTS
“Panthera leo: lion. One of the most iconic animals on the planet.
“It is easy to see why they have been admired throughout history. Lions are formidable predators with extraordinary senses - their night vision is six times better than a human's; they can hear prey from up to a mile away; and they are the second fastest wild cat on Earth.
!We've fallen in love with them through some of our most famous fictional characters. Simba. Nala. Aslan. Lions are an awe-inspiring embodiment of strength, power and courage. But it’s not all magnificence and splendour. In the real world, lions are in trouble, real trouble.
There may be as few as 20,000 lions left in the wild. In fact, lions have disappeared from over 90% of their historical range.
“As the human population increases, these magnificent mammals are being crowded out of their homes - boxed in by human settlements - unable to roam as far and free as they need to survive.
And this pushes them into ever more dangerous situations.
“Where humans and lions live in close proximity, there is a risk of lions preying on livestock, which can cause lions to be tragically targeted in retaliation. It's a loss the species can't afford. This is why lions need your help.
“FFI is protecting some of Africa's crucial areas that harbour lions. With your support, we can make sure that these areas are safeguarded for the future. Safe from conflict with humans. Safe for the lions to hunt and thrive in peace.”
To contact the Fauna and Flora International organisation, or to make a donation, visit their web-site at: https://www.fauna-flora.org/
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RUSSIA’S SPORTING SITUATION
One of the worst side-effects of the current tragic military conflict between Russia and the Ukraine has been the way in which Russian and Belarusian sportsmen and sportswomen have been victimised by many international sporting authorities – in some cases by not allowing them to compete under their national banners, and in others by barring them from competing entirely! This surely is contrary to all tenants of natural justice. It is the politicians and military leaders who are responsible for the present tragic crisis, not the sportsmen and women!
Furthermore, why is it only the Russian and Belarusian sportsmen and sportswomen who are being victimised in this way? Why not the Ukrainian sportsmen and women also? By taking such a biased one-sided stance regarding the sorry conflict the authorities in question do themselves no favours whatsoever, and indeed probably harden attitudes even further. Either competitors from both sides should be restricted, or none at all. Needless to say we would far prefer the latter!
But alas this hasn’t been the first recent example where Russia has been singled-out for sporting punishment. During the past Olympic and Paralympic cycle Russians have not been allowed to compete under their national flag and national anthem in all major global sporting competitions. This has allegedly been because Russia was accused of state-sponsored dopping violations, even though nothing more than circumstantial evidence has ever been produced, and Russian competitors haven’t exactly been producing consistent world-beating performances – certainly not in comparison to competitors from the old GDR during the Cold War!
All these irrational and unjustified witch-hunts against Russian and Belarusian sportsmen and women must cease – for if such an olive-branch was to be extended then it might go some way towards halting the current tragic conflict in the Ukraine.
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PETITION SUPPORTING AFRIKANER RIGHTS OF SELF-DETERMINATION
A supporter from Pretoria has started a most praise-worthy petition campaign regarding the Afrikaner Accord of 23 April 1994 (which guaranteed the rights of the Afrikaner people for self-determination and their own territory), which the ANC regime had broken by 2001, - and nobody has had this properly investigated since! This petition can be accessed at :-
https://chng.it/j5xVchjsyf
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BBC PROGRAMME ABOUT MARY WHITEHUSE
The recent 2-part BBC2 programme about Mary Whitehouse, the doughty moral crusader from the 1960s and 70s, “Banned: The Mary Whitehouse Story” made fascinating viewing. Although on the face of it Mary Whitehouse was not successful, as she failed to stamp out the scourge of obscenity and sexual perversions which prevailed in the Western World at the time, as the programme vividly demonstrated she definitely came down on the right side of history!
Clearly Mary Whitehouse had the wrong image – that of a middle-class schoolmistress (which indeed she was!), and also surrounded herself with the wrong people, such as the Moors-murderess-apologist Lord Longford, the irascible Roman Catholic-convert Malcolm Muggeridge and – most sickening of all – the race-traitor and child-molester Bishop Trevor Huddleston. She also made a great mistake by linking her estimable campaigns too closely to her own Christian religion. All decent people, of all religions and of none, are of course equally opposed to the evils of pornography and sexual depravity.
But what was pointed out by this programme was that now – some 50 years later – it is obvious that the “permissive society”, which Mary Whitehouse campaigned so valiantly against, has been the direct cause of violence against women and child abuse. As she rightly argued all those years ago, pornography simply degrades and exploits women, and one sexual perversion such as homosexuality inevitably leads to another such as paedophilia.
It is strange therefore that at the time most feminists opposed and belittled Mary Whitehouse, whereas in reality she was the original stereo defender of women’s rights. If her campaigns against pornography had been totally effective then almost certainly Sarah Everard would still be alive today. We need another Mary Whitehouse to emerge today therefore – but this time with a better image and with none of her self-defeating faults.
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SEARCH SERVICES FOR THOSE SEEKING LOST RELATIVES
Find any South African, even those who have emigrated. We also search Botswana, Namibia and ex-Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
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CREST PUBLISHING BOOKS
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.281 - Ms. ROSEMARY SISSONS of Melbourne, Australia.
Rosemary Sissons ran an organisation called the National Fronts of Australia and New Zealand during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and also produced their interesting little publication. It initially seemed that their movement held similar neo-Imperialist views to our own, and so S.A.Patriot arranged a reciprocal exchange of publications with them. Alas copies of the NFANZ’s publication ceased to arrive after a while, even though we continued to honour our side of the agreement. Even more disturbing was the fact that an article in the final edition which we received seemed to suggest that they supported political enemies of ours. In spite of continuing to honour our side of the reciprocal exchange agreement the latest couple of copies of The Imperial Patriot which we’ve sent to Rosemary Sissons have now been returned to us, as she is evidently no longer known at her last known address in Melbourne. It would be very interesting to learn what has happened to her and the NFANZ therefore, and also exactly what their political position really was.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
Sir John Redwood, the Conservative MP for Wokingham and former cabinet minister (who spoke several times at meetings of the Swinton Circle, one of the component organisations which united to form today’s Patriotic Forum) now issues a most incisive and topical commentary on contemporary issues, which can be accessed at :-
https://johnredwoodsdiary.com/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LIFE STRUGGLE
Sir,
We must do all we can to protect and cherish our British way of life, not just from foreigners but also from our “fifth column” politicians, as well as the lackey press. Our way of life is under threat from foreign influence, in particular American. We are being weakened militarily, economically and culturally. The Johnson Government is impotent. The opposition Labour Party will continue to flood us with more Third World crap if they were ever to govern again. The Tories are a joke.
Yours etc.,
Adam Hiley, Upminster, London, U.K.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Sir,
Post Brexit Britain :-
1 After Brexit why is the government still complying with EU set targets on CO2 levels? I have just re-read Christopher Booker's Book "The Real Global Warming Disaster". In this he documents the history of the IPCC's total manipulation of statistical facts concerning global warming. it's publication of lies and untruths about global warming scenarios and its continuous rejection of views expressed by scientists with the authority and experience of their particular subjects which conflict with the IPCC's mantra of proving that AGW is a catastrophe that is about to happen. The government must abolish the mad rush to reduce CO2 levels which is totally non-achievable, un-workable, un-economic and unacceptable as soon as possible.
2 Another failure is the government's failure to delete VAT on energy prices and to close down efficient and cheap to run coal fired power stations - again, to meet EU standards.
3 Why has the government not abolished the CPC for HGV drivers? This again was introduced by EU legislation and was and is totally unnecessary as all lorry drivers are full time professional drivers. If we have 250,000 lorry drivers in the UK the CPC requirement takes 250,000 delivery weeks out of the total.every 5 years. This amounts to 50,000 delivery weeks lost every year. With 50 weeks in the year this amounts to losing 1,000 lorry drivers from the workforce. The costs of all this lost manpower to the UK public must be horrific.
There are many more examples of stupid EU rules which are still being applied by our corrupt civil service.
Yours etc.,
“Concerned”, Salisbury, Wiltshire, U.K.
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LESSONS NOT LEARNT
Sir,
Following the Belgians’ overnight departure from the neighboring Congo, a large-scale cross-border invasion took place into North-Eastern area of Portuguese Angola by terrorist gangs intent on occupying the region. The area was poorly served by road communications and was thinly populated by small, hard-scrabble farms settled by Portuguese immigrants who had been enticed to Africa in the hope of making better lives for themselves. Servicing these agriculturalists were a number of [then] small towns and villages, all but the largest of which comprised a couple of general stores, a garage or two, police station and post office. Portuguese military forces in Angola at the time were relatively small and their internal and external military intelligence capability was both risible and negligent. Only the larger settlements held out desperately until reinforcements could be hastily thrown together and sent up-country. Portuguese men, women and children and their loyal African employees were butchered out of hand - typically using machetes. In one particularly shocking episode, Portuguese women were brutalized and fed through the circular saw at a sawmill. The events of the Congo and Angola can also be said to have helped to inform socio-political values among both Blacks and Whites in countries such as Rhodesia and South Africa at the time. Blacks - that violence is a viable alternative to negotiation. Whites - that anarchy and violence lurk just beneath the surface in Africa
Yours etc.,
Benny Sparrow, Durban, Natal, South Africa.
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THE END OF AN ATTEMPTED REBELLION
Long-standing readers of the SCN will no doubt remember the crisis which the Swinton Circle (one of the component organizations which subsequently merged to form today’s Patriotic Forum) faced in 2008. In a nutshell, certain trouble-making extremists started attending Swinton Circle meetings and caused great problems by aggressive (and in one case totally deranged) questioning of guest speakers, and also by verbally abusing other attendees. It was decided by committee members that the three trouble-makers in question should be barred from attending future meetings, but in July 2008 all three of them turned up, and when asked to leave caused a nasty confrontation .The then Organiser of the Swinton Circle, Mr. Allan Robertson, then commenced the meeting unilaterally with the three barred attendees still present, and it subsequently transpired that Robertson was in league with them and was attempting to facilitate their takeover of the entire organisation. After this he staged an unconstitutional kangaroo court in a ham-fisted attempt to remove the Chairman and some other Committee members (see August 2008 SCN).
A fully constitutional EGM was subsequently called by loyal members of the Committee in January 2009, whereat a motion to expel Robertson and two of his close associates from the organisation was passed (two abstentions, no votes against). Robertson and his two associates – who had all been invited to attend the EGM, though none of them turned up – were however given 30 days to appeal against their expulsions, but none availed themselves of this opportunity, and so in February 2009 their expulsions became absolute (see February 2009 SCN).
There the whole unhappy matter should have ended, but unfortunately Robertson ignored the EGM decision and started to live in denial, staging his own “rival” Swinton Circle meetings, though reviving the full official title of “The London Swinton Circle” in doing so. This rebellion of course caused the official Swinton Circle great problems and embarrassment, particularly when Robertson started to invite some very unsavory and extremist characters to address his meetings. Legal action against Robertson was considered, but alas the cost of such litigation proved to be prohibitive.
Robertson however died from a heart attack in February 2020 (see March 2020 SCN), but not before one of the extremist trouble-makers (the notorious Ian Anderson) and one of his fellow-expelled associates (Christopher Luke, an overt homosexual) had also died. Through various sources we learnt that claims were being made by the remaining backers of Robertson’s rebellion that they would be continuing activities, though nothing ever happened during the subsequent two years to support this claim. Now, however, we have learnt that the web-site of Robertson’s breakaway outfit has been closed down, and so at last, after 13 years, this irritating problem has been removed!
Now however is not the time for triumphalism or retribution. Although of course the two remaining trouble-makers and Robertson’s one remaining fellow-expellee would never be allowed to join the Patriotic Forum, we know that there were several members of Robertson’s breakaway outfit who either through naivety or through ignorance of the full facts were unaware of the true situation. To these genuine patriots we extend the warm hand of friendship, and invite them to join the patriotic mainstream in the form of the Patriotic Forum. After all, as the old South African motto stated: “Unity is Strength”!
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