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Shop Local This Easter! (2)

To get hold of a FREE pdf of the NLPs Shop Local This Easter leaflet, simply e-mail natliberal@aol.com

THE National Liberal Party is calling for everyone to Shop Local this Easter!

As we have noted many times, it is absolutely vital that local shops, small businesses and the self-employed not only survive, but actually prosper.

We believe that local shops are vital to the community. They provide good choice, reasonable prices and excellent customer services. They are the ‘glue’ that binds various communities together.

In our previous Shop Local This Easter! article, we suggested that “local shoppers” should “stand in solidarity with their local shops, small businesses and the self-employed. Simply forget the multi-nationals and just spend an extra fiver in your local shop!”

We know that times are tough but we feel that everyone can put a fiver in the direction of their local shops. All you have to do is keep a fiver over from your ‘big shop’ and spend it locally.

Activists handing our 'Shop local at Easter' flyers to shops and shoppers whilst campaigning in Pinner

If you can’t afford £5, why not spend just £1 in your local shop? This can work two ways. Firstly, if you already use your local shop, just spend an extra £1 in it. Secondly, if you don’t usually do any shopping in your local shop, just drop in and buy something for £1.

We know that a couple of people doing this won’t make much of a difference, but imagine if 100 people spent £1 each in their local shop. That really would start to make an impact!

As we’ve said before in respect of local shops – use them or lose them!

You can also support your local shops, small businesses and the self-employed by simply following these four simple steps:

1. E-mail natliberal@aol.com and ask for FREE pdf copies of our This Easter … Put Local Shops FIRST! leaflet. Print a few out and distribute them around your area – and don’t forget to give your local shopkeeper a copy. Also, send the pdf of the leaflet to your friends, realtives and work colleagues and ask them to do the same.

2. Copy this article and put it on your Facebook page. Ask all of your Facebook friends to like and share it!

3. Copy the link to this article and put it on your Twitter account. Ask your followers to RT it.

4. Do exactly the same with our This Easter … Put Local Shops FIRST! e-poster which featured in our previous article here: http://nationalliberal.org/shop-local-this-easter-1

Date: March 31, 2015

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Shop Local This Easter! (1)

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS the National Liberal Party is putting a huge effort into its General Election campaign. Indeed, regular readers will have already noticed an increased empthasis on the subjects of National and Political Self-Determination.

However, we’re still intent on promoting another of our core messages – and that is supporting local shops, small businesses and the self-employed.

So with Easter just around the corner, we’d like to remind everyone that they should Shop Local This Easter!

With this in mind, we’d like all members and supporters to help promote out the above Shop Local This Easter! e-poster. To do this, simply copy the link to this brief article and viral it out via Social Media like Facebook and Twitter.

This is vitally important as all local shops are under threat. High business rates, the recession, excessive red-tape and the growth of out-of-town superstores have forced many local shops to close down.

The NLP believes that local shops and facilities are really important – especially for the elderly, young mothers and those without cars. For instance, they provide the setting for meeting neighbours and friends – thus providing the ‘glue’ that helps to maintain any community.

This Easter we’re asking local shoppers to stand in solidarity with their local shops, small businesses and the self-employed. Simply forget the multi-nationals and just spend an extra fiver in your local shop!

A fiver less will never be noticed by the multi-nationals – but it’ll make all the difference to a corner shop. Shop Local This Easter!

• KEEP your eyes peeled for our next Shop Local This Easter! article which’ll be coming soon.

Date: March 28, 2015

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Say No To US Imperialism!

Date: March 26, 2015

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Mass Immigration Makes Slaves Of Us All!

Globalism = Mass Immigration = Slavery

THE NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY is opposed to mass i.e. largely unrestricted – immigration.

Our opposition is based on grounds of sustainability, a democratic deficit (in that ordinary working folks were never asked if they were in favour of our immigration policies) and the fact that immigrants are used as slave labour and tax fodder to keep the the super-rich elite in their plush lifestyles.

We’ve noted several times that mass immigration is a direct result of globalisation – itself an extension of capitalism.

This is because globalism allows for the free movement of capital and labour between various states. This means that any industry can ‘up sticks’ and chase – and exploit – the lowest wages anywhere in the world. At the same time some nations see massive influxes of foreign workers, who understandably want to improve their lives, but the result of their movement places enormous strains upon local services and can suppress wages.

In a nutshell, globalism forces the poorest to escape their own counties (whether they be ‘poorer’ nations within Europe, which have unlimited access, or nations outside of Europe) to seek work in, what has been termed, a ‘supposed European Eldorado’.

However, this has made slaves of us all!

Indeed, mass immigration has created a new ‘war’ between the poor of all nations. Here, indigenous workers (the ‘old slaves’) find themselves un or under employed as capitalism indiscriminately exploits immigrant workers on an industrial scale. These immigrants have become the ‘new slaves’

Capitalists will ‘justify’ their actions by claiming that British workers are lazy and don’t want to work anymore. They also say that immigrants do jobs that Britons don’t want to do anymore.

This is a lie. The truth is that many Britons will not accept the starvation wages they are offered. Would anyone actually work for wages that are below their survival threshold?

The National Liberal party once again calls for an end to mass, inorganic and unrestricted immigration.

We have no problem with immigrants per sae (as apart from political refugees who are always welcome) who can bring much-needed skills to the workplace. However, we accept that unlimited immigration can put an intolerable strain on our social support infrastructure. We need to strike a healthy balance. We have to block unrestricted immigration (which is largely EU driven) before it goes well beyond the tolerance threshold.

We need to stop such levels of immigration before we all – indigenous as well as immigrant worker – become absolute slaves to globalism!

Date: February 18, 2015

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Ulster Voice Says Save Our Jobs!

OCTOBER 2014 saw the devastating news that nearly 1000 jobs will be lost when the JTI Gallagher tobacco factory in Ballymena closes. This will come as a real hammer blow to the Co. Antrim town. The factory is a major employer and it’s believed that it contributes £60m in wages to the local economy.

Neither does it help the overall unemployment level in Northern Ireland which (according to the most recent figures available http://www.bbc.co.uk

/news/uk-northern-ireland-

19570394) stands at 8.2%.

Thus, Northern Ireland still remains one of the UKs main economic blackspots. Also – and in some respects more worrying – the unemployment rate for 18 to 24-year-olds is at a staggering 23.5%. This is well above the UK’s average rate of 19.3%.

With nearly one-in-four youngsters out of work and with little prospect of well-paid jobs, young people across the nation are in a dire situation. Many believe that if things don’t improve rapidly, the country faces the prospect of having a lost generation.

(Added to the mix is the probable loss of around 6,000 public sector jobs – Tory cuts approved and administered by both the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin!)

As well as being absolutely devastating news for the ordinary workers of Gallaghers, the closure of the plant also illustrates both the madness of globalism and the toothless nature of Ulster’s 108 local politicians (known as Members of the Legislative Assembly – MLAs) and its parliament at Stormont.

One of the main features of globalism is that governments bend over backwards to attract multi-national corporations to a particular area.

In a classic example of the tail wagging the dog, governments surrender their sovereign powers to attract big business. These governments also seem happy to tear down borders the sole benefit of big business. Yet they have no loyalty to people or nations.

Globalism also allows for the free movement of capital and labour’ between various states.

This means that any industry can ‘up sticks’ and chase – and exploit – the lowest wages anywhere in the world. At the same time some nations see massive influxs of foreign (at the moment mainly Eastern European) workers, who understandably want to improve their lives but the result of their movement places enormous strains upon local services.

The madness of Globalism also sees various countries offering vast multi-national corporations all sorts of tax breaks and help with infrastructure projects. Some ‘lucky’ areas are then bulldozed and transformed beyond recognition without any real say from locals. All this to help the richest 1% to maintain their status!

In comparison, a few breadcrumbs are thrown at small shop owners, local businesses and the self-employed. Meanwhile governments institute a draconian policy of austerity that favours globalised elites at the expense of the people. Talk about a double whammy!

The job losses in Ballymena also illustrates that Ulster’s local parliament (at Stormont) is nothing more than a neo-colonial talking shop. As our above artwork notes, any government that really cares for its people would nationalise any large concern that got into economic difficulties. This would both preserve jobs and keep money flowing in the local area.

Sadly, Stormont is (in many respects) wholly subservient to Westminster. And Westminster is incapable of ensuring a fair economic system. As a previous article – see here: http://nationalliberal.org/another-economy-is-possible – has noted:

“To ensure real prosperity we need a system that benefits people – as opposed to one that robs them blind. Thus we need a system of Monetary Reform whereby publicly-created, debt-free money is the norm as distinct from privately-created, debt-based money.”

The trouble with being wholly under Westminster’s thumb is that all of the Old Gang parties seem unable to stop multinationals close down factories in England, Scotland Ulster and Wales, throwing ordinary workers on the scrapheap. However, should we be surprised? Westminster seems to worship the Banksters. And where money is king, individuals, families, communities and the environment come a very distant second.

Let’s leave the last word to our artwork:

“As soon as the news broke, Stormont should have immediately nationalised Gallagher’s. This would keep the factory open and secure jobs. After all, what’s the point of having skilled tradesmen and workers rotting on the dole?

Nationalisation will also stabilise the immediate Ballymena area. It would stop this part of Co. Antrim from becoming yet another economic blackspot.

Once the situation had settled, Gallagher’s could have been handed back to the workforce and run as a cooperative. Ultimately, this would mean that Ulster workers would own – and Ulster owners would work!”

• Look out for issue 1 of Ulster Voice – the voice of the National Liberal Party in Ulster. It will promote a position that is neither left nor right, neither capitalist nor socialist and neither unionist nor republican.

Date: January 1, 2015

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Liberal Future Debate (2) – Must The Earth Die Screaming?

ECOPOP is a Swiss ecological group. Its main objectives are to preserve non-renewable resources and to reduce overpopulation.

IN LATE November Switzerland held a referendum on immigration. As with September’s Scottish Referendum, Liberal Future – the youth wing of the National Liberal Party – found this latest referendum fascinating for two main reasons.

Firstly, we favour a system of small government based on true and direct democracy. As the NLP notes in its Statement of Principles “the personal liberty of a nation’s citizens is vital.” Thus we believe that governments should devolve power, wealth and arms down to the lowest possible common denominator (and to some extent, Switzerland does all of this.)

Currently major decisions are made by elected representatives – many of whom belong to a Politically Correct, metropolitan elite. This elite are well placed to put their own vested interests before those of the nation and people they are supposed to serve. We feel that this represents a democratic deficit and a form of intellectual dishonesty. Therefore, Liberal Future feels that major national decisions should be decided by people – via preferendums and referendums.

Secondly, we found it fascinating that the Swiss green organisation Ecopop (ECOlogie et POPulation, “Ecology and Population”) were the prime movers behind the referendum on immigration. Their initiative proposed two additions to the Swiss Constitution:

• Reduction of net population growth due to immigration to a maximum of 0.2% of total population per year

• At least 10% of Swiss federal development aid is to be invested in programs to encourage voluntary family planning.

Ecopop’s case against immigration was not based on race or culture but purely on ecological and environmental grounds. Switzerland’s population has risen more than 140 percent since 1990 and Ecopop are naturally worried about sustainability, current and future population growth and the destruction of land. They believe that by restricting immigration the environment would be safeguarded by reducing the need for new transport links and new housing.

Those who opposed this view – according to this BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30267042 – included all the major Swiss political parties who “argued that the proposals would be bad for the economy because business leaders wanted to be able to recruit skilled labour from across Europe.

They also feared that if passed, the measure could put the country in breach of its international commitments and damage its image.”

The vote was held on 30 November, but it was overwhelmingly rejected by over 70% of those who voted.

At face value it looks like Swiss voters put material comforts before their nation, the land, fellow humans, flora and fauna. To us it appears that everything is to exploited and/or killed in the name of mammon. Indeed, our folk seem to be mesmorised by material goods – witness the events of Black Friday!

Given that respect for the environment is a central tenant of National Liberalism, our question is how do we convince our people that long-term green issues should take precedenece over the short-term ‘get rich quick’ scheme known as capitalism? With the current focus on materialism will the earth die screaming?

• Check out Ecopop on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ECOPOP-Vereinigung-Umwelt-und-Bevölkerung/411791102166150?fref=ts

• Check out the Ecopop web-site here: http://www.ecopop.ch/

• CHECK OUT Liberal Future’s first debate here: http://nationalliberal.org/liberal-future-debate-1-%e2%80%93-should-we-lower-the-voting-age-throughout-the-uk

Date: December 28, 2014

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Shop Local This Easter! (2)

Shop Local This Easter! (1)

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Mass Immigration Makes Slaves Of Us All!

Ulster Voice Says Save Our Jobs!

Liberal Future Debate (2) – Must The Earth Die Screaming?