Band of Brothers – Recovering the English Nation
June 14th, 2012
As recorded by Bede, and never successfully disputed by modern historians, the Anglo-Saxons were conquerors and settlers in England, which takes its name from them (not the other way round). The Vikings (chiefly Danish) were ethnically the same people as the few thousand Normans who came in the wake of William the Conqueror and both were virtually the same as the Anglo-Saxons. To all intents and purposes the English were a completely defined people by the 12th century, living within precisely defined national and even county boundaries, which barely changed from the 10th century to the 20th.
Such immigrations as occurred after were a tiny trickle by current standards: Flemish in the 13th century, Huguenots in the 17th century, perhaps 60,000 in total or 1% spread over 400 years, north European people, almost the same ethnically as the English, speaking languages which constitute the two main ingredients of modern English and after one generation assimilated into the English population.
Despite these undoubted and easily ascertainable facts, there has been an audacious, shameless, concerted attempt in some media and educational circles to disrupt the native English people’s sense of their own identity – as I have illustrated with one example from literally hundreds I have noted over the last 30 years – in favour of an all-powerful multiculturalism, which means in practice depriving English children – the great majority – of their inheritance.
In November 1939 the Cabinet was provided with an estimate of the total number of non-European people in Britain amounting to 7,000 or 0.015%, mostly around the ports. In fact even allowing for the 50,000 or so Russian-Jewish refugees in the 1890s and the 40-50,000 German-Jewish refugees in the 1930s, England and the British Isles as a whole constitute, over the 10 centuries up to 1939, 30 generations, one of the most stable, least immigrated of all nations, matched in this regard only by Japan, another island nation. Since then, the non-European population has been allowed to grow from this miniscule figure to around 10% today and 20% projected for 2050.
Multicultural divisiveness
One of the dramatic victories notched up by the multicultural warriors was the ruining of the career of a Bradford headmaster who had dared in 1986, in a relatively obscure journal, to question the motives and methods of those who would champion the supposed identity needs of Pakistani Asian school children at the expense of their learning about British life and specifically Britain’s history, its constitution, laws, even its language.
The multiculturalist view is that immigrants need to be reminded of their racial and national origins at all times and that British laws should be changed to accommodate their differences from the native population. In fact English/Western culture is so colossal in literature, science, industry, design, the arts, public life, that it would take a lifetime to absorb. There is no space in English state education for non-Western cultures.
Here we may note how the most successful immigrant country of all time – the United States of America – handled these matters over the 134 years of its unrestricted immigration period (1787-1921). At all times the US and individual State governments sought to limit the fissiparous effects of having a multitude of languages and races, by grounding state education in the English language, the laws inherited from the English colonies, and an undivided unhyphenated American patriotism[25].
In fact the certificate of naturalization required an oath not only to support the Constitution of the United States, but also a renunciation of “all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate and sovereignty whatever, particularly Queen Victoria” in the case of British subjects.