Warnings from History: 17th July 1936

A week or so ago, I was pondering the austerity protests that we've seen all over the European continent.

They have been going on for quite some time, especially in Greece.

The Irish are just the latest to the 'party'.

I discount our own student tuition fees protest, because these seem to be something more to do with the Labour Party having a few violent thugs amongst it's sympathetic ranks, rather than being a legitimate protest at an issue.

Anyway, back to Europe.

We are told that: "Nearly 60 percent of Germans wish they had the mighty Deutschmark back in their pockets and purses instead of the euro."

In this country, we've been so brainwashed with the idea that opposition to the European Empire makes us "Little Englanders" who are somehow backward...

...there is a risk that we might assume that the people of other European countries are similarly backward and actually love the European Empire because they enjoy being dictated to be a remote foreign power.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time.

But we do know that there is widespread discomfort about the European Empire all across the continent. The people are increasingly turning their back on the European Empire project and are starting to say: "We want our country, our currency and our democracy back."

Let us remember that our political traitors in this country have never let us have a referendum on the European Empire.

Those which did have a referendum said 'no'... including Ireland when they were voting at free will.

And talking about the Irish, wait until the austerity measures that come with the bailout really kick in.

Do we really think the Irish will sit there, subservient, and beg for MORE impositions from Brussels?

Will they buggery. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Brighton and Belfast still bear the scars of injury that come with pissing off the Irish by imposing political decisions on them.

So, I was thinking of the battle for hearts and minds that the European Empire has to win to keep the people onside.

Hasn't the European Empire already lost?

It seems quite clear that in most of the nations of old, Western Europe, the people have seen, heard, witnessed and felt enough.

These austerity measures everywhere... the politicians are completely clueless else darkly complicit.

Do we really imagine that the average Frenchman, the average German, the average Italian, the average Spaniard, the average Dutchman...

...do we really imagine that, just because they do not speak English as their first language, that they are all stupid?

Of course not. They are normal people, intelligent, expressive, capable of watching and listening and feeling the pain of experience in exactly the same way as we do.

They are capable of putting 'two' and 'two' together and making 'four'.

And it won't be long before they start coming together as a solid mass of united people and looking for someone to blame for their falling standards of living.

Now, the powers that be can put all the police state infrastructure in place that they want... what's going to happen? How is that going to keep the people of every single nation in Europe quiet?

How much pain will the people of Europe endure before they're provoked.

True, in Britain we have the X Factor brainwashing and fluoridated water... but the people of Europe still have spines and are not backward in coming forward when they're pissed off enough.

So, then we have Spain.

Just like we had problems with Irish terrorism, so too has Spain with terrorism from what we call 'the Basque country'... namely ETA.

I will assume that sufficient people have knowledge without going into back stories and motives there.

But ETA and the Basque Country are not alone.

To a much, much, MUCH lesser extent, the people of Catalonia (which is where Barcelona is) really want to take the governance of the region back into their own hands and away from Madrid. This is something that has been going on for quite some years.

...because people do not like remote Governments that get things wrong.

Spot that? Got it?

People do not like remote Governments that get things wrong.

And over the last few days, I was doing some thinking about Spain. Beautiful country, beautiful culture, wonderfully warm and welcoming people... if only the British people out there would integrate and speak Spanish, they might enjoy it rather than shaming us with their chavvy adverts for 'Pie & Mash' and 'big screen Eastenders'.

I digress...

A couple of years ago, my love of Spain and the Spanish culture led me to read more on the national history, and so I read Franco and the Spanish Civil War by Filipe Ribero de Meneses (ISBN 0-415-23925-7).

To save you worrying for now (but good book, well recommended), the first two or three chapters cover how the Spanish political scene at the turn of the twentieth century was pathetic.

The monarchy supported a dictator, the politicians who - when they had control of the country - were clueless, rudderless and inept...

...and the army got more than a little pissed off.

Step forward Francisco Franco Bahamonde... or, more simply, Franco.

It took a civil war for him to rise to complete dictator status, with a bit of help from Hitler who used parts of the Spanish Civil War as a training ground for his invasion of Poland...

...but, while none of us in England can remember civil war (we haven't had one for a few hundred years), there must be plenty of people still alive in Spain who remember it quite vividly.

It was, after all, a relatively recent seventy four years ago.

So, there are plenty of Spanish people - grandparents and great-grandparents now, true... but they lived through this.

Now, in no way am I saying that we're about to start seeing civil wars.

What I am saying is that, the political class can impose their will all they like, but if they do not carry the people with them, if they alienate the people enough... history tells us what happens.

I do think that the political elites everywhere have been too starstruck by the trappings of power and their fornicating friends of the Bilderberg Group.

Yes, they have used the pretence of boz-eyed cave dwelling terrorists as cover for bringing in a control grid.

But they can have all that...

...they cannot control the people who control the control grid.

In Spain in July 1936, it was the army - under Franco - that got pissed off enough and kicked the political class into touch.

Granted, he was an authoritative dictator, but that's besides the point...

The people controlling the control grid gave up doing their masters bidding.

Now, I'm quite in favour of a military coup d'état in this country. I wish they would. Which probably explains why David Cameron put our armed forces onto a timeshare deal with the French.

But the political class - at home and abroad - abuse and exploit the people at their peril.

They can monitor working class Joe all they like... but Franco might be stood right besides them.

Which takes us neatly into this from today's Daily Express:

"Spain's military has taken control of the nation's airspace after air traffic controllers staged a massive sickness walkout that stranded at least 330,000 travellers on the eve of a long holiday weekend, forcing the government to shut down Madrid's big international hub and seven other airports."