Bermuda has effectively been invaded and annexed, and what have we done? Nothing.
The situation there, where the population has always expressed its desire to remain British when asked but where a political cartel wants to be an “independent” American vassal instead, is not in principle any different from if a British Overseas Territory, or a Crown Dependency, or for that matter a part of the United Kingdom were taken over by Islamist militants, or were taken over by agents of China, or had been taken over by Soviet agents during the Cold War. Not because America is our enemy. Of course, she is not. But she is a foreign power.
Not only have the Americans wanted, ever since 1776, to annex all the then British possessions in the Americas, but they have plenty of quite recent form when it comes to British Overseas Territories all over the world, from Ascension Island, to the Chagos Islands, to supporting the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands.
No wonder that, while Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago abolished the monarchy years ago, the latter at least (I’ll have to check about the former) retains appeal to the Privy Council, and numerous parts of the West Indies remain either Commonwealth Realms or simply British. No wonder that there is barely any anti-monarchism in Canada. Much like New Zealand, in fact. Is it a Scottish thing? After all Scottish Nationalism is also the dog that never barks, and its party is monarchist anyway.
But then, the dingo (or is it the Irish wolfhound?) in these matters also appears to have had its vocal cords cut. And over and over again, the question of secession is put to the voters of the New France that is in fact the Old, Old France, ever loyal to Throne and Altar, so that, over and over again, they can say no to it.
If these ties were ever going to be broken or even loosened, then they would have been during the period of decolonisation. That was a long time ago. These things are here to stay. So the Americans should, ever so politely, be told where to go. Over Bermuda. And also, since the matter has now been broached in Bermuda, over Ascension Island and over the Chagos Islands.
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All your little islands are belong to us.
ReplyDeleteNo, at the very least they belong to English-speaking people.
ReplyDeleteI can see there's no fooling you.
ReplyDeleteThere's a limit to what I can reveal, but yes, our efforts to draw Bermuda into our orbit have succeeded. This is something we have wanted very much for a very long time, as you have figured out.
Bermuda is only one little island, though. There are others. We will get them all, eventually.
Why? Because we like your little islands. They are cozy, unlike this drafty huge continent.
We will Americanize them all, starting with yours.
It's not a conspiracy. It's a policy, freely stated as such for well over three hundred years.
ReplyDeleteAscension Island, being on the equator in the mid-Atlantic has the potential to be the world's space base. If that were not wanted it has the potential to be Britain's Tenerife. It takes active work by Britain to stop it becoming developed all for the sake of a base whose military implications disappeared with the cold war.
ReplyDeleteDon't I know it.
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