Band of Brothers – Recovering the English Nation
June 14th, 2012
Notes
[1] Sunday Telegraph, 20th and 27th July 1986.
[2] E.g. Rule Britannia, Hibernian (rugby) Club.
[3] Because of reciprocal voting rights which apply to Crown subjects, some British in Australia and vice versa may opt to retain their British nationality and continue to feel British, but their children may not.
[4] Historia Eclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.
[5] Tacitus (AD98) appears to have been the first to record ‘Anglii’ in work which has come down to us.
[6] Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, ABCANZ for short. There are 12 other countries, mostly small islands which continue to owe allegiance to the British Crown, but these were not ‘countries of primarily British settlement’.
[7] Lower Canada (Québec today) was of course originally settled by French people who have tenaciously held on to their culture in the form of the French language, pre-Napoleonic legal system and until recently (around 1970) the Roman Catholic Church (“notre langue, loi et église”).
[8] Around 8% of people in England are from Afro-Asian minorities: possibly 8% of other European stock including other British of course. In Scotland, about 7% identify themselves as English with about 2% from Afro-Asian minorities.
[9] The definitions in this article would logically require the United Nations to be named the United States, but at the time of its setting up this appellation was already taken.
[10] Lord Curzon was British Foreign Secretary at the Versailles Peace Conference and the “Curzon line” was Britain’s preferred eastern boundary for Poland – some 200 miles west of Poland’s claim. Ironically Stalin at Yalta claimed the Curzon line as the Ukraine’s western border – and there it has remained.
[11] Many came from England and Scotland in the 19th Century to work in the newly opened up coal mines.
[12] I.e. through the ‘Peace Process’ formalised as the Belfast ‘Good Friday’ Agreement, April 10 1998.
[13] E.g. in Ronald Reagan’s speeches about the “Special Relationship”.
[14] As described for instance by Martin Wiener in “English Culture and the Decline of Industry”, CUP, 1981.
[15] Britain’s entry into the EEC was seen by its leading proponents such as Prime Minister Edward Heath as a way of smothering British nationhood as a hindrance to the “modernisation” of Britain. Ironically, the EEC, now EU, has always seen Britain and especially England , as the main obstacle to achieving Jean Monnet’s vision of an internationally recognised state, subsuming Britain’s and France’s permanent Security Council seat and NATO Council representation. Which is why de Gaulle (who died in 1969) opposed our membership.
[16] BBC-TimeLife co. production, 13 episodes from the British Film Institute Archives, 1/11/72-4/4/72.
[17] There are too many to list in full – one will suffice. A sequence of photos purporting to show British ill-treatment of Black Africans was readily identified as originating in the Belgian Congo.
[18] AMGOT – the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories followed immediately behind the liberating armies until local democratic administration could take over. Only in France itself and French-claimed Allied liberated territories were there problems – in Syria, Algeria and French Indo China particularly.
[19] E.g. Singapore, Malaya, the Philippines, Libya as part of Independence processes.
[20] To the widespread dismay of the literally millions of Britons, countries owing allegiance to the Crown wee not exempted from controls, even though India and Pakistan, who were the main targets of the Act made no objection to such a move. Why should they have? They had become entirely independent countries, shorn of any allegiance to the British Crown like the USA.
[21] Daily Telegraph, 6th March 1969.
[22] This allowed immigration officers to reject an applicant if they suspected their purpose was to marry in order to obtain British residency.
[23] Daily Express, 27th January 2010. This was a claim by Andrew Neather, a former Labour Parliamentary Party advisor, that a secret government report in 2000 called for mass immigration to change Britain’s ethnic and cultural make-up “for ever”. The article in the London Evening Standard can be read at www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/dont-listen-to-the-whingers-london-needs-immigrants-6786170.html.
[24] “Spinning Out of Control”, given at University College, London on 22nd May 2007. The text is available at www.britain-watch.com on the Governance of Britain page.
[25] The effects of mass immigration have been felt overwhelmingly in England. The proportion of African and Asian people in Scotland is given for 2010 on the Government of Scotland’s website as 2%, slightly higher in Wales and somewhat less in Northern Ireland. The figure for the UK as a whole is now probably around 9% (8% in 2001) which, given that England’s population is around 52 million (out of the UK’s 62 million – estimated for 2010) means that ethnic minorities make up about 10% of her population, overwhelmingly concentrated in Northern industrial districts and inner cities. See “Population Trends” at www.statistics.gov.uk. Mr Neather was assistant to Jack Straw when Home Secretary and a speech writer for Tony Blair. Labour has denied the report was ever accepted as the basis of their policies.
[26] ITV Channel 5, 14th May 2007.
[27] The march of the Marxists through British institutions from the 1930s onwards, especially in the Education, English, Economics, Politics, Sociology departments of our universities, is long overdue for comprehensive exposure.
[28] BBC Publications, 1981, ISBN 0 563 17835 3.
[30] D P Kirby, “The Making of Early England” Batsford, 1967.
[31] From literally hundreds of guides to the great houses, castles and gardens of England, W G Hoskins, “The Making of the English Landscape” 1977, is a good summary.
[32] In 1960 there were 12 Deutsche Marks to the Pound Sterling, in 1972 about 8, in 1980 less than 4, today (2012) 2.4 (translating the Euro back to its 1999 DMark equivalent of 1.95), a five-fold depreciation over 50 years.
[33] Jean Monnet memoires, translated by Richard Mayne, Collins, 1978 (p.43).
[34] S F Bush, “No Middle Way”, Prosyma Research Ltd, 1990, ISBN 0 9517475 1 7.