Alphen, Netherlands.
20 August. Is Britain the new
Afghanistan? What has become of my country?
James Foley, an American photo-journalist is beheaded by a sneering Jihadi
who speaks with a British accent. As per
usual the apologists appear on British TV and radio to talk about the need for ‘understanding’
and ‘tolerance’. And, indeed, it is
vital at this moment that the millions of moderate British Muslims are not tarred
with the broad brush of hatred these people wield. It is precisely division and mistrust such
people seek to sow in British society. And yet there is clearly a problem.
When I look back to my salad days the very idea of a British Jihadi would have been unthinkable. Indeed, even today it is hard for the bulk of the indigenous population to equate such killers with being British. Instead, most of we Britons sit in sullen, silent anger at how our traditional tolerance has been corrupted and look-on in tired aghast at the utter incompetence and inability of politically-correct elites to get to grips with what is fast becoming a dangerous Britain.
When I look back to my salad days the very idea of a British Jihadi would have been unthinkable. Indeed, even today it is hard for the bulk of the indigenous population to equate such killers with being British. Instead, most of we Britons sit in sullen, silent anger at how our traditional tolerance has been corrupted and look-on in tired aghast at the utter incompetence and inability of politically-correct elites to get to grips with what is fast becoming a dangerous Britain.
Instead of dealing with such issues by properly controlling who
can enter and live in Britain and then seeking to build an integrated society
government after government has retreated into failure-masking spin and
pretence. The entire population knows
that successive British governments has lost all but nominal control over
Britain’s borders and yet Londonistan
(as the French continue to call London) continues to trot out the same old
tired mantras that immigration is under control and that multiculturalism works.
It is not just a problem with politicians but the entire
London Metropolitan elite. Last week one
of the great over-washed masquerading as that towering Victorian journalist
Walter Bagehot wrote a piece in The Economist entitled “The Trials of life in Tilbury”. It was one of the most arrogant and
out-of-touch articles I have ever read about the poor, white working class of
Tilbury. These are people who in little
more than one generation have had their country taken away from them, their
old-fashioned values of tolerance, mutual respect and patriotism trampled on by
a sneering and incompetent elite, and the Britain they once-loved and for which
many fought and died torn apart.
And yet, according to ‘Bagehot’, who reduced the whole complex
issue to one of stupid, white people they are the ‘left-behinds’ who do not ‘get’
globalisation, the ill-will of whom is generated by “autochthonuous meaness”. Now, I have four degrees and a reasonable
facility with the English language and yet I had to look up ‘autochthonuous’. For the on-this-particular-planet people out there
‘autochthonuous’ means ‘indigenous’. In
other words the white population of Tilbury are intrinsically and by
implication genetically ‘mean’ for being concerned about the impact of hyper-immigration
on their town, their country and their lives.
In fact, it is the natural tolerance of the English that
politicians have too often exploited and then used against decent, ordinary people to
silence dissent. Indeed, as politicians
have repeatedly failed to get to grips with the dangerous society Britain is
fast becoming politicians have too often tried to use law and intimidation to
silence anyone who speaks out about what is now self-evidently a clear and
present danger.
Too often the political class have simply tried to wish-away the consequences
of their irresponsibility. Do not get me
wrong – I am of course not accusing all nor indeed the massive majority of
immigrants of seeking to de-stabilise British, or should I say more
particularly English society. Respect
and tolerance goes to the very heart of my DNA.
Equally, no longer can London go on trying to pretend that some
aspects of the hyper-immigration of the past twenty or thirty years have not
spawned what is now a very real and dangerous problem. Apart from
a very few pathetic people it is not the indigenous population that is being
radicalised.
Britain cannot go back and there is nothing to be gained from
nostalgia. British society today is what
it is and that must be the starting point.
However, the issues raised by ‘British’ Jihadis are fundamental. As the 2015 General Election approaches the
High Priests of Multiculturalism are already re-appearing and they must for
once be resisted. Indeed, for too long
been multiculturalism, i.e. the deliberate fostering of parallel, separate lives of different 'communities' on a
small island has been Britain's problem not its solution. It is multiculturalism that has created the dangerous
space that has allowed the extremes of separate-ness to lead to the kind of brutal extremism evident in the slaughter of James Foley.
Therefore, no more the kid gloves of political correctness which is destroying British society. Government needs to fundamentally re-think how it helps
to construct a re-integrated society in which all of its members irrespective of
race, religion or orientation believe they have a stake. If London fails social cohesion will progressively
fail, the making of foreign and security policy will become impossible and national
life itself will be at risk.
“Policy” means properly re-integrating Muslims and indeed all
other minorities properly into British society.
By all means be a hyphenated-Briton but to be ‘British’ and have the right
to share the benefits of British society must mean to be a part of that society
and to share its core values. The good news
is that there are a whole host of hyphenated-Britons out there who can help
lead the way towards the most important of social attitudes - respect.
Re-integration will take a long time but it must start
now. And for once Government must not dodge the issue in the face of the
inevitable barrage that will come from self-interested, self-appointed, single-interest
groups. This is because the threat posed
by ‘British’ Jihadis to British society and indeed the United Kingdom is far
greater than a few Scottish fantasists in skirts. No more pretence, no more appeasement and no
more dangerously self-deluding political correctness.
Sadly, the British people as a whole must be under no
illusions; even though they despise “British values” these extremists were bred
in Britain, their toxic views were allowed to fester in Britain, and sooner
rather than later they will seek to return to Britain to cause mayhem. Politicians caused the mess that is British
society today and it is politicians that must help fix it. If not then Britain will indeed become the new
Afghanistan – a threat to itself and to others.
Enough is enough!
