The hopeless optimism of the Right
We never learn
RUSSELL DAVID
I’ve just been listening to SDP leader William Clouston on a New Culture Forum podcast outlining his proposals to radically cut immigration into the UK. While I support practically everything that he said, there’s a catch: none of what he proposes will happen. None of it. It follows a pattern of delusion that has been practised on the Right for several decades.
Not only is Britain too ruined to ever be repaired, the Establishment will never allow policies to be enacted to heal it (I’ve written previously how this will be a major problem for any Reform government). It’s not just ‘the Establishment’, it’s the satellites of the liberal order too, whether they be the media, the entertainment business, the Church, charities, the banks, the NGOs, and more.
Having worked in the media for more than thirty years, I know that around seven out of ten people in editorial positions lean Leftwards. These are the people who control the channels of communication, most notably in the broadcast media and online.
But, in many ways, it’s my friends on the Right who frustrate me most. As I once detailed, I’ve been in the fight against the transformation of the UK by a Third World invasion for several decades, and in that time I’ve witnessed great naivety from my fellows. All while their country continued to slip away from them.
When I started widely travelling around the country in the 1990s, for various reasons, it was largely British everywhere, except for pockets in the Birmingham and London areas. When I was in Bradford in 1999, I was actually surprised that the town centre still seemed to be extremely white (this was the place that Bernard Manning joked would send the Bengal Lancers if you called 999). Leicester, too, in the same year, seemed pretty native. I haven’t personally visited either of these places again for around 15 years, but my understanding is that that’s anything but the case now. Manchester and Newcastle were pretty much all white except for a few small areas (like Manchester’s ‘curry mile’), Liverpool even more so, Glasgow too.
How things change. And will go on changing. Some of us are seeing the beautiful Britain we once knew receding into the rear-view mirror.
When Blair (re)opened the immigration floodgates soon into his reign, the issue began to flare up again. Enoch Powell died in 1998 and Simon Heffer published his peerless biography of him shortly after, reigniting interest in his ideas. The likes of Conservative MP John Townend spoke out against multiculturalism. And those of us on the Right became optimistic (I include myself here): popular sentiment was rising against continued immigration. Surely, in a democracy like ours, there was no way our leaders would continue to invite the Third World in, because it wasn’t popular.
But they did. 9/11 came in 2001; the London 7/7 bombings in 2005 – surely now our betters would stem the tide of Muslim immigrants into Britain and the West, given that a not insignificant portion of them hate the West, and a not insignificant portion of those people would like to literally kill us. The BNP became a major political force, winning scores of council seats up and down the country. Surely even a Labour government would see sense? If not them, then the Tories, arriving in office in 2010 with the Lib Dems on hand?
Oh, of course they promised to do something. The blue wing of the Uniparty said they were going to cut immigration to the tens of thousands (still too high). And said the same in 2015, 2017 and 2019 – and ramped it up to record levels. This how democracy dies. Many of us hope that the Tories and Labour permanently perish in the next few years (though that is probably being overly optimistic), but that wouldn’t stop the rot.
Individuals who notice are pilloried. The sequence is as follows: a public figure will speak out against some aspect of immigration. They will be lambasted by the liberal political and media class. They will apologise and be afraid to go near the subject again. This has been happening for decades. It happened when Mrs Thatcher came out with her ‘swamped’ comments in 1978, it happened last year when Reform’s Sarah Pochin make the legitimate point that non-whites were massively over-represented in advertising, and it happened recently with Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘colonisation’ comments. If the person utters just one clumsy phrase or word, the wolves on speed are unleashed. The BBC – that toxic institution that has been complicit in so much misery inflicted on Britain – will give the ‘controversy’ more column inches than, say, the slaughter of thousands of innocent people in Iran.
But this is the result of the conditions created by mass immigration. This is the model in action, this is the natural end point of the unhappy, divided and febrile society puked up by porous borders. In 2100, a child might say to her elderly liberal relative: ‘Grandma, what did you do in the battle to save Western civilisation?’ ‘I called everyone who tried to save it nasty names.’
A heavily racially mixed country, especially one with millions of adherents to Islam, will struggle to do democracy properly; will struggle to support free speech; won’t have a properly functioning welfare state; will be unlikely to provide equality before the law for its citizens; will have warped employment laws. A billion micro-incidents will accumulate over the decades in which lives are blighted, people are physically and mentally hurt, and the fabric of a nation is irrevocably damaged. You couldn’t have done a worse experiment than the British State has been doing since 1948, you couldn’t have more royally screwed up what was probably the most content, peaceful and high-achieving country ever seen in the entire lifespan of the planet if you’d tried.
That’s why I’m sick of hearing ‘things will get better if we only do X, Y and Z’. They won’t. Carl Benjamin says he’s full of optimism for Britain’s future. Why? Those demographic predictions never overestimate the growth of the non-native population, they always underestimate.
The activists are in place. The weaponised minorities are propped up by money and grievance. The courts have been breached. The ‘diversity is our strength’ narrative is curated by everyone from the Royal Family to the trade unions. Each year, more and more Muslims take positions of power (and places in our jails, where they radicalise other inmates). The situation is hopeless.
I’m fed up of hearing the otherwise excellent Lord Toby Young claim things will be alright if we tweak a few laws and promote free speech more. Has he properly looked into the multi culti war zones that are London’s schools? The dietary requirements, the religious observances, the metal detectors seeking knives? It didn’t used to be like this before unfettered immigration. What’s going on in schools up and down the land is Britain’s future.
The less said about Fraser Nelson’s rose-tinted view of the situation the better – although I’m not sure I’d class him as being on the Right. Nor the likes of Finkelstein, Barwell, Kirkup, Parris and all those other Wet Tories living in DelusionLand.
For a change, I’m not going to end this article on a light note – because there isn’t one. Everything is going to get much worse on a multitude of levels, with every facet of existence you can imagine being negatively affected by the cataclysmic demographic transformation of Britain. It’s a horribly grim, civilisational tragedy. I’m sorry.
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