The Real Anglosphere

The theory of the Anglosphere is gaining ground, not least in Washington: within neoconservatism, particular attention must be paid to the total Americanisation of Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

But in fact America has two founding peoples. One is indeed of Anglo-Celtic descent. This compels the strongest possible economic, social, cultural and political ties to each and all of the United Kingdom, the Irish Republic, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. But the other is of West African slave descent. That compels ties no less strong with each and all of the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean. And there is a vast common heritage shared by the Anglo-Celtic and the West African slave-descended peoples, throughout the world. Of course, it includes the English language.

But it is also includes blood ties. All African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans have Anglo-Celtic blood. Likewise, huge numbers of Anglo-Celtic people have African blood, not just in the Americas, but right here in the British Isles, and therefore also in later settler societies.

All but two of the English-speaking countries in the Caribbean freely retain the same Head of State as four of the six Anglosphere countries, and vice versa. Those in the former category thereby declare the latter’s Anglo-Celtic identity to be integral to their own, and those in the latter category (including Britain) thereby declare the former’s West African slave-descended identity to be integral to their own. (There is also a Pacific dimension, which is just as important.)

No wonder, then, that neoconservatives identify the Anglosphere in terms exclusive of the African dimension, and wish to Americanise, along neoconservative lines, the economies, cultures, societies and political systems of the countries thus identified. Americanisation must include the abolition of the monarchy, the standing contradiction of the whole ridiculous, racist theory. God Save The Queen!

And God save that other, not unconnected, set of characteristics binding together fully five of the six Anglosphere countries: the universal and comprehensive Welfare State and the strong statutory and other (including trade union) protection of workers, consumers, communities and the environment, the former paid for by progressive taxation, the whole underwitten by full employment, and all these good things delivered by the partnership between a strong Parliament and strong local government. All this, even in aspiration, the neocons would sweep away across these islands, Canada and the Antipodes.

Furthermore, God save God! The tradition common to the Anglo-Celtic and the West African slave-descended peoples, embodied by the monarchy and expressing itself as (among much else) social democracy, is profoundly Christian, contrary to neoconservatism's roots in Shachtmanite Trotskyism, in the writings of Leo Strauss and Ayn Rand, in Zionism, and indeed in the fiercely rationalist and Deist thought of the American Founding Fathers; it also has roots in extremely anti-British conspiracy theories about upper-class Anglophile networks in the US and elsewhere.

To all of this Shactmanite-Trotskyist, Straussian, Randian, Zionist and Jeffersonian racism, anti-monarchism, anti-Socialism, anti-Christianity and anti-British hysteria have you signed up if you sign up to any aspect of the cross-party New Labour Project, even by so much as voting for anyone who has done so. So, if you are not any one or more of a Shachtmanite Trotskyist, a Straussian, a Randian, a Zionist, a Jeffersonian (again, all three of racist, anti-Christian and anti-British), an anti-monarchist, an anti-Socialist, an anti-Christian, or an anti-British hysteric, then have absolutely nothing to do with any one or more of the Blair-Brown Tendency, the Cameron-Osborne Tendency, the Orange Book Tendency, The Henry Jackson Society, the Euston Manifesto, or any other aspect of neoconservatism anywhere in the world.

Above all, do not vote for such people; instead organise candidates against them. Thus can we begin to re-build the real Anglosphere.