On the 12^th January 2025, The Daily Telegraph published an article by Mark Sedwill, which argues that Britain should join with America in procuring regime change in Iran. His argument, cloaked in the language of moral responsibility and geopolitical strategy, is just more propaganda for a parasitic monied interest. This interest has now owned real power in this country for over a century, and the policies that served it have weakened the nation at home and muddied its reputation abroad.

If we are ever to climb from the mess in which we find ourselves, we need to begin from the understanding that our foreign and military policies are directed by men who find London a convenient base of operations, but have at best a marginal sympathy for the ordinary working people of Britain. They have profited greatly from war and from speculation and imperial overreach, while the rest of us have paid the costs.

A Century of Miscalculation and Folly

The roots of where we stand now lie in the Great War, a conflict that began as a calculated gamble but ended in catastrophe. There was an arguable case for encouraging a continental war between France, Russia, and Germany, to weaken those powers and allow the oil-producing regions of the Ottoman Empire to come under British rule. I am not saying this would have been morally right—but it would have been something that rational great powers always do when they can. There was no case whatever for the British Government to enter this war as a military principal and to sacrifice a million of our ancestors.

The Second World War compounded the damage. The decision to declare war on Germany in 1939, allegedly to defend Poland, had no justification in terms of legitimate British interests. Germany was no threat to Britain or the British Empire. Its internal policies were none of our business. The War bankrupted us and exhausted us, and left us a satellite of the United States. There was no British victory in 1945.

The Cold War continued the miscalculation. This ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union was irrelevant to British interests, yet successive governments allowed Britain to become a junior partner in America’s global crusade against Soviet Communism.

The Monied Interest and Its Marginal Loyalty

All throughout, the monied interest has been the primary beneficiary of this interventionist foreign policy. This monied interest, composed of speculators and global corporations, has little connection to the lives of ordinary Britons. Again, it uses London as a base for its operations, but operates largely outside the constraints of national loyalty. Its profits come from resource extraction, and financial manipulation, backed by armed force, not from the prosperity of the nation as a whole. Its rise has been wholly at our expense.

This interest has not only enriched itself but also engineered the destruction of other social and economic groups that might have challenged its dominance. The mixed neutering and effacing of the old nobility has robbed the nation of its natural leaders. Deindustrialisation—driven by policies that placed finance above manufacturing—has destroyed the old manufacturing and working classes. At the same time, the rise of a middle-class managerial interest, filled with neo-puritanical zealots, has created a new order that gives us all the poverty and tyranny of socialism without achieving any redistribution of wealth that would threaten the monied interest.

Iran: A Manufactured Enemy

Mr Sedwill describes Iran as a “destabilising force” in the Middle East and a threat to “our allies,” yet gives no evidence that Iran poses any danger to Britain. The truth is that Iran is a regional power with defensive ambitions, shaped by decades of sanctions and foreign threats. It does not seek global domination, and its actions are no more destabilising than those of Saudi Arabia, the ruling class of which our government continues to arm and support.

As for Israel, it is not only fully capable of defending itself, but does so using methods that are morally indefensible. We have no obligation to support a country that conquers and occupies by the mass-murder of civilians, and by terrorist assassinations without regard for civilian collateral damage. Certainly, it is not our business to intervene against the Israelis. But neither is it our business to help them.

The Real Costs of Intervention

Intervention in Iran would bring no benefit to ordinary Britons. It would cost billions and destabilise the whole world more than it is already destablised. Even if it was a success—and I am not sure Iran would be the same pushover as Iraq and Libya were—the only winners would be the speculators and weapons makers who profit from chaos. Meanwhile, the rest of us would face higher taxes, plus greater threats to our everyday security and more general barbarisation of our lives.

A Vision for Renewal

What Britain needs is not another war abroad but a revolution at home. The capture of political power by a self-serving alliance of financiers and moralistic ideologues must be reversed. We need a new and much smaller system of government that puts the interests of ordinary working people over the demands of global capital. This means rejecting interventionism and adopting a foreign policy based on peace and trade.

Conclusion

Mr Sedwill’s proposal for regime change in Iran is self-righteous propaganda for the polices that have brought about the collapse of Britain as a genuine great power and destroyed the internal balance of the nation. It serves men whose interests are fundamentally opposed to our own.

Our better future lies not in staying in bed with the more lunatic of the American neo-conservatives, but in bringing about an irreversible transfer of wealth and power into the hands of ordinary working people. We must break free from the grip of the monied interest and start on a new path of peace, free trade and progress. Only then can we hope to restore the real England—a nation of free men and women, secure under our ancestral laws, and indifferent to the different ways of other peoples.

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