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One of the tasks of the first Nationalist government will be to implement a massive and far-reaching industrialisation programme, comparable only in scale to the industralisations that occurred in the industrial revolutions. There are three significant reasons why this is necessary, three significant goods - the good of the worker, the good of the entrepreneur and the good of the environment.

 

Good of the Worker

Over the last fifty years, the loss of mass industries in Great Britain has produced widespread unemployment, underemployment and welfare dependency. There are entire regions of the country (South Wales and the North-East being two prominent examples) where there have been generations of poverty as a result of the loss of large-scale industries. The opportunities not just for employment in the first place, but also advancement and growth of skills, have either been taken away altogether or hit with huge financial barriers to entry as a consequence of tertiary education requirements.

 

To implement a programme of industralisation, which would see the return of large-scale industries across a variety of sectors, would provide open employment to millions of our people, and would give people in the most deprived areas a better option than welfare dependency - namely, a chance to become productive in their own right. And the nationalist view of industry, free from the international capitalist, would prevent British workers from being undercut by what is effectively slave labour from other continents, safeguarding their incomes for the forseeable future.

 

Good of the Entrepreneur

The Nationalist Agenda must actively work to bolster innovation, creativity and productivity. To do this, it means actively supporting those who use their skills and talents to improve both their own lives and the lives of people around them. With a great industralisation programme comes immense opportunity for the British Entreprenuer for wealth creation. Since the development of industries also works towards national economic objectives, they could readily be assisted by the state in accomplishing this task.

 

The increased investment and growth in national industries would also provide great opportunity for existing small and medium business owners to enlarge their portfolios if they so desired. The nationalist perspective on the economy, which would limit their requirement to compete financially with businesses abroad, would be just as beneficial to the entreprenuer as it would to the worker themselves.

 

Good of the Environment

It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that industrialisation of Britain would be beneficial to the natural environment. However, we must understand the situation from a macro point of view, not just through observation of what is right in front of our eyes.

 

We know for certain that industrial demand only increases with time. Even with improved recycling and waste control measures, our people still demand industrial goods to, rightly, maintain their quality of life. And the suggestion that they should not do so is inherently hypocritical, since all people chase that same quality of life regardless of their views on consumption. So the only thing that we can control is WHERE industrial production takes place, and how clean the process is during the production.

 

The current globalised system of industry has seen British industries offshored to Asia and increasingly Africa, where they are mostly devoid of any measures to prevent wholesale air and water pollution (which by its nature eventually affects the entire planet). We have lost any ability to regulate or control these processes, because we have no political reach to do so, and since the demand at our end never falls, they have no incentive to clean these processes up.

 

By returning our industrial (and even mineral and mining) capabilities to Great Britain, so far as we are able, we place those industries in a geographic location where we CAN implement those control measures freely, and ensure that they are carried out in the least damaging possible way. We can use regulatory powers already available to minimise the waste and pollution.

 

Why a Nationalist Economy is necessary

 

In order to be able to reindustrialise our own nation, we must be able to ensure that the economy is managed for the benefit of our people, NOT for a globalist agenda. Which necessarily means imposing limitations on international free-market capitalism, and controls on trade, where it is necessary to do so. Some degree of economic control (centrally-directed as opposed to centrally-planned) is necessary in order to prevent such a system from being destabilised by outside influences.

 

The whole economic program of the Nationalist Agenda is ultimately about ending the concept of our people slaving away for the economy, and making our economy work for the betterment of our people.

 

By National Rebirth Party