What business has Elon Musk setting up a political party in this country? Where is the sovereignty there? North American, Antipodean and, whatever Andrea Jenkyns may say, Anglo-African accents are disproportionately audible at flag-raising and similar events. And why not? But those are immigrants, just as Douglas Carswell is an immigrant to the United States, the country whose flag is becoming as prominent at those events as Israel's always has been.
Carswell grew up at Charterhouse during term, and in Uganda the rest of the year. For that matter, his close associate, Daniel Hannan, grew up at Marlborough during term, and in Peru, not even a Commonwealth or an English-speaking country, the rest of the year. Ask them about the popular television programmes of Britain in the 1980s, when they were teenagers. Ask them about the pop music. Like Jacob Rees-Mogg, they are younger than Noel Gallagher.
Even before asking about things as niche as, say, Iranian monarchist flags, where did those British and English ones, often with specific slogans of the last few days on them, come from, and come from so quickly? At whose expense? How I wish that I owned, both part or all of that chain, and one or more of the migrant hotels. I would not be at all surprised if there were people who did indeed have fingers in both of those pies. They are licking those fingers at the moment.
We know about the white people on the streets of Australia to protest against immigration, we know that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has called them "The natives [who] have had enough of forced population replacement", and we have always known about the people who had been so sick of immigration to Britain that they had moved to Spain.
But in the midst of those and other amusements, we now have to welcome Richard Tice to our world as he is forced to "give an assurance" that protests would be peaceful and to disown violence that other people had already committed. And some of us know, know, that we have seen nothing yet. Just wait for the prisons.
"We know about the white people on the streets of Australia to protest against immigration"
ReplyDeleteThere's no irony there. Those who established modern-day Australia were not immigrants but colonisers, and since those European colonisers literally built Australia as it exists in its present form (an Anglosphere nation with constitutional monarchy, habeas corpus, common law, jury trial and a free press) its present-day identity is inseparable from theirs.
And, like all other peoples around the world, they don't want their nation changed into somewhere else by mass immigration.
And the indigenous people of Australia would surely understand that better than anyone....
Quite.
DeleteIf that's Australia right now, what are they complaining about?
DeleteOr if it is that awful, then why did they move there? There will be plenty of first generation immigrants marching in Australia. But they are from within the WASP "Anglosphere" that is the essentially imaginary patria of their purported patriotism. Again, then, why do people who do not like that where they are not just move to a different bit of it? They never used to find that a wrench.
Delete“If that's Australia right now, what are they complaining about?”
ReplyDeleteBecause it will cease to be that if mass immigration continues. Just as surely as Israel would cease to be the only liberal democracy in its neighbourhood if it opened the doors to mass Muslim immigration tomorrow.
"Immigration"?
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