Fraser Nelson can easily be criticised for his hagiographic attitude to 21st century multiracial Britain, with his belief that we generally rub along fine, violent crime has never been lower and things are really pretty good, but his detractors miss the point. Nelson misses something far more fundamental about what we’ve become.
He’s not the only one. Lucy Connolly, when she came out of prison after her outrageous sentence, was interviewed by Allison Pearson, and said this:
“I’d explained to the police what my stance was on immigration and made it quite clear that I knew the difference between immigration and illegal immigration. I said, ‘I’m well aware of how important immigration is to this country. I’m well aware that if I went to Northampton Hospital right now, if I said I didn’t want to be treated by an immigrant, I’d probably be dead.’ I said some of my families that I work for, you know, [they are] Nigerian doctors, and I would have them treat me over any other doctor; they’re the most compassionate people I know. I’m well aware that the country needs immigration. I’m well aware that if we kicked every immigrant out tomorrow we’d be screwed.
So I explained this to the police and I explained it’s not immigration that I have an issue with. I have no issue with people’s skin colour, race, religion, any of that.”
The amount of work that Connolly has to do before getting round to condemning illegal immigration is remarkable. The NHS argument is one that’s frequently trotted out. But it’s nonsense. Not just because immigrants get ill too. Imagine if Britain hadn’t allowed a single foreigner to settle in the UK in the last 80 years (I’m not suggesting this would have been desirable or doable, it’s just a thought experiment). The vast majority of skills shortages would have led to higher wages, thus encouraging more applicants, or new technology being introduced to allay the problem and do the job. This is what happened in Japan.
It’s not just about the NHS or economics, it’s societal. While we shouldn’t have any issue with people’s skin colour, race or religion on an individual level, it is rational to be concerned about what a large amount of people different to the native population in any or all of these ways does to society at a broader level.
You hear such sentiments as Connolly’s all the time. The throat is cleared. The speaker can then say what they initially intended to. This is because we’re playing the game to the rules the Left have laid out. The Left, through its stranglehold on academia, the media and the entertainment landscape, controls the language and what is ‘acceptable’ to say; mass immigration has created fertile ground for this.
The word ‘racist’ has become ubiquitous, along with its offshoots, because of the path the leaders of this country – the Uniparty – have been pursuing since the end of WWII. (Every time the R-word is uttered a bit of Britain dies.) Yes, our country has been transformed demographically, but also in the way we discuss almost everything. We are frightened rabbits walking on eggshells.
It could be a fire in a London block of flats that had tragic consequences. It could be three England footballers missing their penalties in a penalty shoot-out at the Euros. It could be a respiratory virus that swept the globe. What the Fraser Nelsons of the world can’t seem to see is that a large immigrant or immigrant-descended population means that everything is racialised and politicalised.
Political and social blocks form, and grow, and harden. This is not the way to a more peaceful, more content, more agreeable, more prosperous land.
People say to me “I’m not racist, but…” And then go on to speak the truth as they see it, eg that NHS staff who speak poor English worry them. The ‘I’m not’ phrase is mocked by the Left, who will say it precedes the person saying something which is racist. I look at it differently. I see it as the phrase which says “I’m a nice, normal person, but my ability to speak truthfully has been hijacked by bad faith political actors, whose aim is to supress any criticism of the kind of multicultural society that I know in my heart is not conducive to the best way of living.” People can have their careers cratered if they utter the mildest of complaints against the new multi-culti belief system.
In a multiracial environment, race is the dominant subject; in a monocultural one, it is absent. In the former you might hear ‘he got sent to prison because he was black’, or ‘he didn’t get the job because he was white’. In the latter you wouldn’t hear those things. Can you understand this simple point, Fraser Nelson?
If things continue on this path, how on earth can, say, jury service survive? Decisions will be made along ethnic and tribal lines, in the same way that OJ Simpson was originally found not guilty by a biased jury in the US. That’s coming here, fast, if it’s not here already. Multiculturalism is the enemy of fairness.
Every future UK government is a damage-limitation exercise. Just when people think a nadir has been reached, there will be a new nadir.
This is a difficult article to write. Because there is so much more I could write. The subject feels overwhelming. Perhaps for the remainder of this piece I will simply list some things that wouldn’t have happened had the Uniparty not decided to open Britain’s borders to the entire world:
- The decades long Pakistani rape gang scandal
- The Lawrence murder, followed by the Macpherson Report, which wrecked British policing
- The ‘pro-Palestine’ MPs
- The Manchester Arena bombing (and remember that a security guard did not stop the bomber because he feared he would be ‘racist’ for doing so)
- The horrific Southport murders (ditto: the sub-human filth who committed them would have been detained years before if it had not been for his colour)
- Sadiq Khan
- Muslim enclaves (where FGM is rife; where women are veiled; where English is barely spoken; where taxes are avoided; where a non-existent god is all-powerful)
- Sharia courts
- The Batley Grammar School teacher in hiding
- Diane Abbott
- Millions spent on translation services in the NHS (now up to £64 million a year)
- Valdo Calocane
- The National Black Police Association
- The murders of David Amess, Lee Rigby, Wayne Broadhurst, Thomas Roberts, Rhiannon Whyte, Harry Pitman and scores more names the media and political class keep quiet about
- Four out of five Somalis in London in social housing
- ‘Sir’ Lenny Henry
- Scores of terrorist attacks, including the London transport bombings of 2005
This list is nothing like exhaustive.
Russell David is the author of the Mad World Substack.
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My parents (born 1928 and 1929) were never asked whether they wanted foreigners to come to the UK after the war to replace natives. The Windrush era of bus drivers took them by surprise because there was no apparent shortage of bus drivers after the war. Likewise, the brand new NHS wasn’t collapsing immediately due to a shortage of nurses. The housing situation after the war was pretty dire for young couples like them so it was counter-productive to bring in foreigners to do jobs demobbed natives could do and then have to house them in crappy accommodation demobbed natives and new brides could live in. My parents assumed the Windrush people would stay a couple of years, earn a bit of money and then go home – why stay in a cold, wet, pretty broken country when you could go back to somewhere hot and sunny? My parents weren’t “racist” inasmuch as they didn’t have a problem with foreigners – the world is full of foreigners – but they did rather object to seeing the places they grew up in transforming into enclaves of non-natives where they were no longer welcome. To being told they were bad people if they objected. They would be totally baffled at the state of things now where the foreigners all get preferential treatment and get to do pretty much what they want at the expense of the native population. They would definitely be considered racist by the middle-class twats who support all the immigration and who are in for a nasty shock when it all goes tits up.
“Yes, our country has been transformed demographically, but also in the way we discuss almost everything. We are frightened rabbits walking on eggshells.”
Well said, Russell David. And I said “Well said” at the end of every paragraph of the above, thoroughly outspoken article including the list which, I agree, is not exhaustive – luxury hotels to house illegal migrants on arrival is absent for one thing.
I remember thinking exactly the same about Lucy Connolly and many others like her, who are so anxious not to “offend”, not to be thought “racist” that it takes them half an hour or so to get to the point, and say what they really want to say. I’ve sometimes said something like (taking an example from yesterday afternoon) “I know I’ll be regarded as racist but when I was in town the other day, just about every second person I passed was a Muslim woman in full garb – and with everything I’m reading and seeing in the news, it’s now making me uncomfortable.” Followed up with “If their dress and way of life is so important to them, and if they think we’re all racist here, why do they want to live here, why not move to one of the Muslim countries?”
That’s not racist. I’m a Catholic and if I could find a truly Catholic country, I’d move there – where (as used to be the case in Ireland) they rang the Angelus bell at noon and 6pm (including on TV and radio) with churches open all day for visits, and where, although anyone would be permitted to practise their own religion in private, non-Christian buildings like mosques would not be allowed. Catholic Social Teaching means that Christ is the head of every nation, so to encourage non-Christian religions would be a glaring contradiction in terms. It puzzles me, then, that Muslims want to live here when there are several countries which are Muslim majority with Islam as the national (so to speak) religion. Puzzles me, endlessly.
Gratitude to Russell David for an extremely interesting and thoughtful article. He speaks for most of the UK population, in my considered opinion.
Add to the mealy-mouthed approach to saying anything for fear of being accused of some ‘ism, the pathetic apologies that are now routinely issued in an attempt to redeem reputations when people have let their guard slip.
I agree with Nathaniel Spit now what about the BBC being run by leftie loonies.
It probably (BBC) always was, and proper entertainment apart – now no longer offered – even in its assumed glory days was always a state propaganda organ.