More Than One Holocaust - A Guest Post

A guest post from Edward Spalton.


The following is a copy of a letter I sent to my local paper. My original headline was "More than one Holocaust" - but the Derby Telegraph never will leave my headlines alone!  Dr. Saros Kavina is a retired apparatchik of the race relations industry who frequently writes to say how beastly and racist Britain is. A while  ago, he actually wrote that Stalin was preferable to Hitler because he was not "racist"!

SAROS Kavina gave us a timely reminder that we should not forget the horrors of the Nazi holocaust.

Many of the officials involved (called Schreibtischtaeter in German – desk criminals) went on to successful post-war careers in German and European politics, administration and industry.

Yet the notoriety of the Nazi horror somehow eclipses the far greater slaughter inflicted by Communist regimes in the name of the workers of the world and the brotherhood of man.

So far, nothing has outstripped the 70 million who were "deprived of existence" by the Chinese Communist regime, although Soviet Russia's executioners and starvation camp commandants far outdid the scale of Hitler's beastliness.

The historian Robert Conquest was the first to quantify the scale of the Soviet Terror and he composed a rather grim limerick as a reminder:

There was an old Marxist called Lenin,

Who did one or two million men in.

That's a lot to have done in, but where he did one in,

That old Marxist Stalin did ten in.

The French parliament recently passed a law making it an offence to deny the genocide of Christian Armenians by the Muslim Turkish Empire in 1915.

Oddly enough, Heinrich Himmler used this example to quieten his lieutenants' fears of retribution.

"Who remembers the Armenians now?" he asked in the thirties. Well, it seems the French do.

A historian or apologist for the Turks might deny the fact of this genocide in Britain.

He could then be extradited to France for this new offence under the European Arrest Warrant.

A crime does not have to be committed in the country issuing the warrant and you can be arrested and extradited to any EU country for offences which are not crimes under British law.

So much for freedom of speech in the supposedly democratic EU.

Edward Spalton

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Lessons We Could Learn From Our Entente Cordiale Partners

The Entente Cordiale is over 100 years old and was commonly thought to be a formal agreement between France and Britain although that was questioned as early as 1911:

The fundamental fact of course is that the Entente is not an alliance. For purposes of ultimate emergencies it may be found to have no substance at all. For the Entente is nothing more than a frame of mind, a view of general policy which is shared by the governments of two countries, but which may be, or become, so vague as to lose all content.


In recent years I've heard people of many political persuasions mention the Entente Cordiale, more in the context of a gentleman's agreement, when discussing European politics or policies yet I know, from living in England for many years, there is little love lost between the French and English.

The Scots tend to be less vocal, although when I mentioned to a friend I intended to write about France she said, "Don't forget to include the wonderful Onion Johnnies." She has happy memories of these French farmers cycling round the streets of Manchester - her home town - with big red onions dangling round their necks and speaking English with an alluring French accent.  I didn't disillusion her with my recollections of Onion Johnnies in Dundee. No red onions there (we had white) and no charming broken English. They spoke Scots and nobody seemed to care because their onions were a good price and quality.

Today, gas and electricity is a standard quality but prices vary wildly throughout Europe. The UK has just been informed of a massive second price increase for this year alone.

The French haven't had any increases this year and there is to be no gas increase says Sarkozy.  Their publicly owned electricity supplier has had its wings clipped by the government to a mere 1.7% rise this month and a further 1.2% rise next summer. The state run EDF requested annual increases of 5.1% for the next four years to take into account needed investments to upgrade France's 58 nuclear reactors.

Why can't the UK government take some lessons from our Entente Cordiale partners about controlling utility prices?  Because in the 90s the government sold off our publicly owned companies to the highest bidder and most are now under foreign ownership.

A few weeks ago politicians were raging about the excessive increases which will be foisted upon us this winter, but quickly forgot about the distress and health risks to the vulnerable, when it seemed likely that Murdoch would spill the beans on their behaviour.  Now Westminster is closed for business until September, when it sits for only 9 days before the Conference recess, after which it returns on 11 October. Ofgem are to probe Scottish Power's price rise; a fruitless task because we already know the outcome. Once Ofgem publishes their report the other 5 big energy companies (including the French EDF which also supplies the UK) will announce similar rises.

It's reported Sarkozy hopes his strong stance with his country's utility suppliers will deflect criticism that he is not protecting consumers' purchasing power.

Who protects our purchasing power?  It's time we had a look over the channel and acquired some hints and tips from our Entente Cordiale partners on how to express our anger. Thousands of vulnerable people will die this winter because they can't afford fuel bills.  Are we happy to allow that to happen without loud public protest?

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Nepotism French Style

British politicians aren't the flavour of the month at present, especially with all the 'I followed the rules' and 'Why should I pay it back?'

Think how you would feel about this if you lived in France.

According to Sarkozy's political party office, Jean Sarkozy 23,(pictured above), who is in his second year of a law degree at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, is 'the most legitimate' candidate to run Europe's largest office development

His possible - or even probable - appointment has caused a storm of protest and mockery in France, including an 8,000-name petition on the internet.

He'll get the job, no doubt about it.

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