I am sure I am not alone in being fed up of the negative historical narrative being spread assiduously by the woke and Lefty UK political bloc about the values and achievements of famous figures in Britain’s rather splendid past. I am talking about the snide media, like the BBC, Channel 4, the Guardian, New Statesman, many thousand “clever” Dicks in academia and the Arts, countless morons on social media and large swathes of those in local government and the “caring professions” who love biting the hands that feed them. They peddle all manner of distorted tosh to fortify their view of Britain as racist, reactionary and in terminal decline. That view is ignorant, insulting and wholly untrue.
We Brits, like any self-respecting nation, are
proud of our history and treasure our heroes. We do not suppose our heroes were
without human fault – that would be absurd – but their achievements hugely
outweigh their faults. Yet, a North London Gladstone Park is reported to be
renamed Diane Abbott Park after the faithful stooge of Jeremy Corbyn, the
Labour Party leader whose greatest pleasure was taking cycling holidays in
Walter Ulbricht’s repressively foul East Germany. Dynamic W E Gladstone was
Prime Minister 4 times in Victorian Britain; he revolutionised the production
of national budgets, widened the franchise, introduced key reforms to the civil
service, to liquor licensing, modernised the armed forces and tried to overhaul
the government of Ireland and help its landless poor. His father, a Liverpool merchant,
allegedly made money out of the slave trade, enough for todays Lefties to
scream denunciations and cancel his very name. Compared to Gladstone, Diane
Abbott has achieved zero, famed only for issuing a fetid stream of mendacious
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Mr W E Gladstone Ms Diane Abbott
Our military heroes, Sir Francis Drake, Marlborough, Clive of India, General Wolfe of Quebec, Admiral Nelson, The Duke of Wellington, Douglas Haig, Dowding, Alanbrooke, to mention only the most prominent, stand comparison with warriors of any other nation. Our cultural heroes are giants of literature such as Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, Orwell for adults, or Tolkien, C S Lewis or JK Rowling for children. Our historians, our philosophers, our technologists and our scientists have led the world in many spheres. The point of these catalogues is to underline British excellence and remind the world that Latin America, The Middle East, Asia and Africa are at best in the second rank. Step forward and cheer the names of the world-class contributors from Brazil, Syria, Jamaica, Congo, Somalia, Vietnam or Pakistan. Yes, the silence is deafening! We hope others can improve their performances but at this moment the developed Anglophone world, (including of course the US), the French and a handful of other European nations are light-years ahead of the large, mediocre, straggling pack.
Britain is a highly civilised country and the
battle for tolerance of, and the bestowal of legal rights upon, immigrants into
this country has long been won. It is a given. Yet there are obligations on the
incoming. They must integrate into British society and adopt British customs.
Quickly they must forget about honour killings and vendettas, cease ghastly
practices like female genital mutilation (FGM), drop demeaning yashmaks and
burkas, ignore the agitation of some for a jihad or some other
convulsion, stop corrupting local elections and creating criminal rings to
abuse vulnerable girls. Such practices are “simply not done” in Britain and are
widely deplored.
We rejoice at the achievements of many first- and second- generation immigrants, not least in the Conservative Party. We are thinking of Dominic Raab or Rishi Sunak (both potential prime Ministers), Priti Patel, possessor of the Ugandan Asian work ethic whose family well knows the virulence of black oppression, James Cleverly, Kwasi Kwarteng, Sajid Javid, Nadhim Zalawi, Alok Sharma, Suella Braverman, all of whom have reached senior rank. Even notoriously anti-Semitic Labour embrace Sadiq Khan, David Lammy and Anas Sarwar to add lustre to their ranks. Other talented non-whites have flourished here - Trevor Phillips, Clive Myrie and Reeta Chakrabarti come to mind, including a horde of sportsmen and women. Britain is demonstrably a tolerant and meritocratic society.
Rishi Sunak, Tory Pin-up Sadiq Khan, Labour Pin-up
Of course, Black Lives Matter and similar activist groups complain that not enough is done for them. We are urged to be “inclusive”. Well, we are already plenty inclusive, see above, and many resent the over-representation of the non-white community in every TV advertisement or popular show. Britain is 87% white, 4% black, 7% Asian and 2% others. That is the delicate reality and distortions of that reality are patronising, intrusive and annoying. Leave us to live together in peace in our great country.
SMD
4.5.22
Text Copyright © Sidney Donald
2022
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