I'm not sure whether I've read it
somewhere, or if it's entirely a product of my own imagination, but I have a
recurring idea in my mind that one of these days we're all going to wake up and
find that good old tolerant, peaceful and multicultural Britain, isn't going to
be so tolerant, peaceful or multicultural any more. I imagine that, not because
of any sort of wishful thinking on my part, but simply because I question just
how much tolerance, peacefulness and community spirit any single country can
bear, before it starts to fragment and fall apart, because of the stresses and
strains that are applied to its very social and cultural fabric.
In so many ways we are already a
deeply divided nation, whether that's in terms of the old North South divide,
the rich versus the poor, the haves versus the have-nots, the employed versus
the unemployed, the young versus the old, the Scots versus the English, along
with any number of other divisions or classes that actively separate certain
elements of our native population, one from the other. In fact, were it not for
those traditional ties that unify us, our shared history, our common language,
our cultural heritage, our legal systems, our inherited freedoms, our mutual
defence and our system of central governance, then it would be difficult to see
how our country has or could survive in the modern age, given the immensity and
variety of the divisions that have been allowed to spread throughout our
society.
Those fundamental things that
bind us, our shared history, our common language, our cultural heritage, our
legal systems, our inherited freedoms, our values, our mutual defence and our
systems of central governance, these are the pillars on which our country has
been built over the past two thousand years. Yet, within the space of the last
forty years or so, we have allowed governments of all stripes, social
commentators of all hues, political advisers from all persuasions, scientists
from all backgrounds to both fatally undermine and erode all of these
supporting pillars, ostensibly in the mistaken belief that such fundamental
changes were necessary for making our lives, our society, our democracy better
and stronger, which they almost certainly weren't.
Today, thanks largely to these
small, but highly influential groups of politicians, advisers, commentators and
scientists our shared national history has either been trashed or forgotten,
our common language is in danger of being subsumed by a myriad of foreign
tongues, our cultural heritage is being diluted or even in some cases legally
outlawed, our legal system has become subservient to foreign courts, our
inherited freedoms are withdrawn or overlooked, our values are altered and
amended to suit our newly imposed multicultural and European identity, the
means of our mutual defence is diminished, undermanned and under-funded, whilst
at the same time our systems of central governance is not only devolved, but
fractured and left generally toothless, as real executive power is relentlessly
released to the various regions, or worse still, freely handed over to a
foreign parliament based in Brussels.
As a direct consequence of this
surrender of executive and legal jurisdiction to foreign based courts and
assemblies, the individual rights and lives of Britain's own indigenous peoples
have been seriously blighted, not only be the arrival of millions of foreign
migrants, but also from the increasing amounts of burdensome European
legislation, the rules and regulations enacted by foreign politicians in
foreign parliaments and in foreign courts. The resulting explosion of highly
intrusive, ugly and extremely expensive wind turbine farms, along with the
closure of coal-fired generating plants, will both ensure that British energy
consumers will end up paying much higher fuel bills throughout their lives.
Stringent and unrealistic environmental targets that will make little or no
difference to overall global pollution levels ensure that UK customers continue
to pay the price for unregulated Chinese and Indian consumption. Only today,
Britain's years of cost cutting austerity measures were somehow rewarded by
European demands for an additional payment of £1.7bn from the British taxpayer
to the EU's coffers, simply because the UK had been relatively successful in
managing its national economy. It is worth remembering too that such new
measures and demands are not being imposed on us through force of arms, or
implicit threat, but rather by our own nationally elected politicians, who
having sworn a sacred oath to Queen and country, then surrender their personal
allegiances to foreign powers in the form of having accepted the EU's
shilling.
And these previous matters are in
addition to the thousands of foreign criminals who regularly pass from the
continent to our own country, to rob, to rape and to murder our citizens, or
indeed those who ultimately end up serving lengthy sentences in our prisons,
before hopefully being deported to their homelands, always assuming of course
that they can be removed in the first place. Where is the justice for the
victims, families, or indeed for the British people, when foreign criminals,
ne'er-do-wells and wrongdoers, often the very dross of humanity, can
legitimately claim an entitlement to remain here, purely on the basis of their
"right" to a family life, when little or no account is given to the
victims rights, not to be robbed, raped, or murdered by a foreign born
criminal, who shouldn't have been in the country in the first place? Is it any
wonder that the British law is held in such low regard by the people of
Britain, when the law itself pays such scant regard to the inalienable rights
of the people that it purports to protect?
Crimes against the person or
even property aside, why would any
right-thinking British subject have any regard for a judiciary that regularly
supports the legalised punishment of people who dare to speak freely, where
publicly expressing a personal opinion can lead to legal sanctions being
imposed by the courts? What sort of judiciary is it that allows a national
government, local authorities, or even a state-owned broadcaster to
purposefully misuse anti-terror legislation to pursue what are often civil
matters? What sort of independent judiciary is it that deliberately defers their
authority, their duty of care, to what is first and foremost a foreign based
power? Why should the British people have any respect or regard for a judicial
system that has little or no regard for them? The answer is they shouldn't!
Then of course, we have the chief
architects of our country's ongoing demise as a sovereign state, the political
classes, those self serving individuals who choose to believe that they and
they alone are best placed, to not only instruct us how to live our lives, but
who are also content to undermine and destroy the founding pillars of our
society. They alone are the people largely responsible for the steady erosion
of our shared history, our common language, our cultural heritage, our legal
systems, our inherited freedoms, our values, our mutual defence and our systems
of central governance. It is the likes of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony
Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg who have led these wholesale
changes to our historic rights and entitlements, ably assisted by the likes of
Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, Iain Duncan Smith, Ed Davey, Andrew Lansley, in fact
almost the entirety of Britain's political elite over the past thirty or forty
years.
With every successive Labour or
Conservative government it seems the country becomes a little more diminished,
as step-by-step, drop-by-drop, people's traditional certainties and cultural
norms, the very things that make us the sovereign people that we are, or rather
were, are eroded, forgotten or forbidden by the prevailing political classes
and climate. Speech, thought, opinion, comedy, religion, community, history,
culture, language, laws, human rights, personal status and even government,
have all in one form or another been reshaped and reconstituted to conform to one
political ideology or another. Virtually every ethnicity, race, gender,
religion, nationality and age is now a highly protected subject, for fear of
offending someone or other and having the full force of the law brought down on
your head for having offended them. You are not allowed to speak negatively
about, think negatively about, or publicly express a negative opinion about
anyone or anything for fear of some form of civil or criminal litigation being
introduced. You cannot make fun of anyone, for fear of hurting their feelings,
nor can you criticise, question or oppose anyone else's religious beliefs.
Community in the traditional
sense is now widely regarded as an outdated concept for all native Britons,
unless of course it suits a specific political leaders personal ideology, as is
the case with David Cameron's "Big Society", which was simply a means
of having vital community services provided for free by the local citizenry.
British history has become largely selective, with only periods and events deemed
to be highly positive being taught in schools and mentioned in polite society,
while any reference to our "Imperial" past has to be avoided at all
cost. Our native cultures, including those of the English, Scots, Irish and
Welsh are perfectly acceptable, provided that they don't conflict with, or
cause any offence to those foreign citizens living within our numerous towns
and cities. However, if people are in any doubt, it now seems to be common
practice that if there's the possibility of causing any possible offence to
non-indigenous residents, then the general advice appears to be to cancel the
planned cultural celebration, just to be on the safe side, Christmas, Easter
and Birthdays included.
The English language it seems is
now optional, but where necessary and assuming that the individual doesn't
speak English fluently, then a translator will be provided for them
free-of-charge. In respect of the law, the authorities may use whatever means
they choose, to pursue British born miscreants, even if that means that
anti-terror legislation is used to prosecute TV licence evaders, remembering
that the ends justifies the means in any and all circumstances. However, in order to ensure that non-indigenous
suspects don't feel that they're being discriminated against, by virtue of
their colour, ethnicity, or religion, it is probably best to assume that
they're always innocent, have no case to answer and that their British accusers
are just inventing the allegations through their own intolerant attitudes, a basic
approach that has been seen to be successful in a number of places, including
Rochdale, Rotherham, Manchester and Sheffield, to name but a few.
As regards personal status and
the approach currently being adopted in modern Britain? The advice seems to be
as follows. If you are a white native born Briton, a member of the 85% of the
indigenous population whose opinions don't count for a great deal, then you are
required to abide by a highly stringent set of social rules and regulations,
designed to specifically regulate your inherently racist, xenophobic,
homophobic, whatever-phobic, intolerant and ultra patriotic passions. As a
member of this generally overlooked social group you implicitly agree to be
treated as a second-class citizen by any government, political party, pressure
group, think tank, social commentator, or adviser, that is advocating the
primacy of multiculturalism in the UK. By virtue of remaining in Britain, as
opposed to emigrating to another country, you have tacitly agreed to your nation
being governed by an un-elected foreign parliament, for it to become a region
within a larger United States of Europe, for your legal rights and protections
to be transferred to a foreign court, for your elected representatives in
Westminster to become mere "rubber stamp" functionaries within a
federal Europe; and for Britain to surrender its historic military, economic,
diplomatic and cultural independence, in exchange for it being subsumed by the
bigger, supposedly much more influential European Union.
Obviously, there have been other
significant changes to your status, if you happen to be a member of the
majority white British born population. If you're working and making a net
contribution to the economy of the country, then you can expect to receive no
special consideration when it comes to your ethnicity, religion, colour, or
indeed your cultural values, save for the fact that if you don't make a fuss
about them, the government won't bother you either. However, if you're a white,
British born citizen whose unemployed then you're going to be widely regarded
as a scumbag, a freeloader, a waste of time, so it's likely that the government
will pursue you until the end of time, or at least until you decide to get a
job, or go back into full-time education, which just might well saddle you with
an accumulated debt of £27,000, assuming of course you do a three year degree
course. Alternatively, you might well decide to take a full or part-time job,
assuming that they exist in your particular area, which pays the minimum wage,
in which case the government will happily top-up your measly weekly wages with
working tax credits, or housing benefits, or both, but at least you won't be
registered as unemployed any longer; and that's all that's important.
If you white, British born and
have young children of school age, whose education is being regularly held back
by teachers and classroom assistants having to spend so much time dealing with
other kids who don't speak English as a first language, then perhaps you should
try looking on the bright side and possibly encourage your own children to pick
up a bit of Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Urdu, Punjabi,
Bengali, Gujarati, Arabic or even Romanian while they're in the playground. You
never know, the way things are going, they just might need such language skills
in the future, as there's clearly going to be a strong ongoing demand for
foreign translators and interpreters in the UK.
Although it's easy to be
facetious about such matters, the reality is of course that just as the current
immigration situation plays havoc with our country's native inhabitants, our
culture, our services, our jobs market and our language; and just as it makes
it easier for worthwhile migrants to come to our country, so too the current
system permits the worthless migrant to arrive and settle here. Just where
exactly is the net benefit in the thousands of foreign born criminals who clog
up our justice system, our police stations or our prisons and then can't be
deported for fear of infringing their human rights? Just where is the benefit
for our country in the dozens, hundreds or thousands of foreign born
"dossers" who turn up on the streets of Britain begging off
passers-by, pissing in shop doorways, or shitting in our public parks? Since
when did vagrancy become such a vital skill that we needed to import it from
the European continent? Since when did breeding & raising large families
become a legitimate form of labour for non-English speaking couples, so that
they can legally exploit our country's welfare system? Since when did selling
the "Big Issue" become such a highly skilled job that we needed
hundreds of foreign workers to undertake it, or that it became too technical
for homeless British citizens to do it in their stead? And most of all, how is
it that we have created a modern British society that not only actively
encourages and protects foreign born rape gangs, sex traffickers and organised
criminals, but then prosecutes anyone who might have the temerity to publicly
state that they're unhappy about the entire immigration situation?
Surely it cannot have escaped the
notice of the white British born majority, the 85% of the population who
inhabit these islands, that the entire concept of multiculturalism, the
imposition of largely unchecked foreign habits, languages, cultures and beliefs
is very much like the two sides of the same coin, where perceived benefits are
equally weighed by the cost to our own traditional British habits, language,
culture and beliefs. In reality however, multiculturalism requires the 85% to
compromise on virtually everything they hold dear, whether that's their
culture, their faiths, their traditions, their rights, their history, their
laws, their educational systems, even their food, simply in order to
accommodate part or all of the remaining 15% of the population, many of whom
hold absolutely no regard for this country whatsoever, never mind the priority
issues for the 85%.
Clearly there are those within
the white British majority who take the view that multiculturalism works and
has brought nothing but a net benefit to our country, whilst at the same time
being happy to accuse their fellow citizens, those who are opposed to it, of
being small minded, uninformed, xenophobic, racists and any other form of
personal pejorative that happens to spring to their mind. Of course, it is
often the case that it is they themselves who are both biased and uninformed,
being the sorts of people who see little value in retaining or protecting
Britain's traditional culture, its history, its language, its laws, its
inherent rights, its community, or indeed its everyday norms. It is precisely
because they hold no faith in, have no regard for such things that they are
content to discard them so readily, because if they don't believe in them, if
they don't treasure or value them, then why should anyone else?
If the quality of our country's
political representation and discourse reflects the level of protection
surrounding our nation's traditions, culture, laws, foreign influence,
individual rights, religion, inherited freedoms and values, then we are in deep
trouble indeed. Modern day political leaders such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown,
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have more than most been responsible for
undermining the very fabric of our country over the past two decades. Not
content with making most of our traditional freedoms illegal under a series of
pernicious new regulations, they have also actively encouraged the saturation
of our labour markets by migrant workers, to the extent that they have
purposefully created a third world low wage economy, in what is/was a first
world nation. Not only has this led to wage compression, the noted "race
to the bottom" for the traditional working classes, but has also created
virtually unmanageable pressures in associated service sectors, including the
NHS, housing, welfare, education, transport and social care. None of these
things were accidental or unforeseen, but were deliberately and systematically
imposed on the UK by the Blair, Brown and Cameron governments, not for any
economic, social, or cultural benefit, but purely for selfish ideological dogma
and party political advantage.
It is hard to remember a time
when Britain was so divided, either by region, by income, by status, by
political beliefs, by culture, by ethnicity, by colour, or by nationality, even
though we're all supposed to share a single overarching United Kingdom. With
many of the ties that bind us having been eroded or undermined over time, our
shared history, our common language, our cultural heritage, our legal systems,
our inherited freedoms, our values, our mutual defence and our systems of
central governance, then what is it that will hold us together now and into the
future? Above all else the greatest characteristic of the British people is
reputed to be their tolerance, but what happens if and when that capacity for
tolerance finally runs out, which it inevitably will if things remain the same
as they are now? Which rather neatly brings me back to where I started this
piece!
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