There comes a time when the British finally wake up. And when they do, it doesn’t work to deny what they’ve woken up to.
For my whole life, immigration has been the key cultural and social issue in Britain, especially England. And it’s now the vital decider for how - and if - this country will survive, as grimly shown in the government’s refusal to do anything about the illegal crossings, other than fight for the human rights and luxuries of those arriving. Their numbers total about 174,000, since 2018.
Yet discussion on immigration has always been shame-faced, muted, dishonest, slandered and heavily censored, until now. So what’s changed?
For one thing, the bullshit ‘argument’ that economic logic necessitates vast immigration has vanished. It’s just too obvious that we’ve been importing cheap labour, to its advantage (and for the elite’s) while inflicting suffering and neglect on our poorest and wrecking social cohesion. British national policy (across the board) has been to replace our working class with cheaper alternatives - and demonise the former.
Because for anyone with a moral compass, the issue has always been cultural and social. Thank goodness that’s now centre stage. Small wonder, when 4% of this country’s population arrived here in the last two years! Since 1997, over 17 million immigrants have arrived, with net immigration alone of about 10 million. Above all, the social effects have so clearly been appalling, especially in our cities and towns. Two-tier attacks on freedom of speech - and imprisonment - are the nasty solution, for our government - of course with impunity for any who commit violent acts, if they’re on the left.
It’s difficult to see what they would do differently, if their policy was motivated by hatred of England and its people. Small wonder many believe this is the case - and that sectarian conflict has already started. What can one expect, given the terrible wave of sexual crimes - especially against children - that uncontrolled immigration has caused? The UK is now the rape capital of Europe, replacing Sweden.
Many ‘progressives’ will find all that ‘appalling’ and ‘offensive’. But most people are naturally and intensely protective of their children and their turf. The fantasies of internationalism and globalism mean nothing, in comparison. They naturally don’t want unvetted young blokes moving in - next door, down the road, into their country. Even less do they want this imposed without consultation, which is what’s happened - in Epping and other places. The illegal migrant crisis is emblematic of wider feelings on the whole immigration issue, since at least the 1960s. That’s why it’s so potent - it crystalizes everything.
Fuzzy arguments about diversity are for an ‘elite’, as are (sometimes correct) longer-term points about cultural evolution and intellectual advancement working across borders. Lectures about imperial guilt or welcoming refugees mean even less. There’s the correct impression that open-border advocates sit protected by unscalable walls around large houses and pots of money, secure and eager to assert supposed moral superiority, without suffering hits to their own lives. And everyone knows those arriving have come from a safe country.
So, the Overton window has been completely smashed, with just a few fragments of glass left in the frame. For decades, the reality of cultural replacement was a taboo. My mother’s parents were both Greek immigrants, arriving in London in about 1931, which means I can vaguely claim to have a very limited insight, into the issues facing immigrants. But those are so often discussed that I’m completely bored with them, the bullshit about diversity. I care far more about England and its long-suffering people - which of course is about identity, just not the officially celebrated ‘multicultural’ one. Who isn’t fed up with being lectured about the virtues of everyone who isn’t English?
In truth, most middle-class people have never been fair about immigration. They’ve gloatingly dismissed the social and cultural concerns of English working class communities as worthless, irrelevant - if not ‘racist’. As a result, the class hatreds within England seem beyond repair. In any case, this Labour government seems intent on widening them.
Yet they’ve a problem: Keith Starmer. He’s so reviled - and such a reification of all that I write! Incapable of changing or adapting, just doubling down and lashing out wildly. He’s the poster-boy for all that I castigate, and can’t see it. His Ceaușescu moment was telling a select committee that there’s abundant empty social housing across the country, just waiting for illegal immigrants to move in.
What sweet music for the 1.3 million on local authority housing lists, desperate for a home!
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