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01/04/2009: "Huge areas of Britain have become foreign colonies."

What most struck me while watching BBC television news reports of the Christmas sales in the West End of London, was firstly obvious, and secondly, it was something that no-one with the BBC would ever have remarked on. It was this. The shoppers - and there were thousands of them - were overwhelmingly of Asian or African origin. In the vast throngs of faces, there was barely a Caucasian face to be seen; and when there was, of course, that was no guarantee that it was British.

Actually, I didn't need to see those TV pictures of the London Boxing Day sales to be aware that London has undergone a demographic transplant unlike that experienced by any European capital since the Fall of Constantinople in 1483. A couple of years ago, while on a trip to London, I bought a rover-ticket, which gave me unlimited travel on the public transport system. I wandered for miles upon miles through the east end, which bore the blitz in 1940-41, which is the heart of Cockney culture, with the Pearly Kings and Queens and which is, of course, the setting for the television soap.

But in Whitechapel or Stepney, to judge from the shops and the faces and the clothes and the people around me, I could have been in a Middle Eastern city. What does "England" mean to these people? Do they know about the months that an earlier generation spent in the air-raid shelters? Do they know about the 40,000 Londoners who perished in the winter of 1940-41? Do they know anything about the history of the streets they now occupy, and could they ever be prevailed upon to care about it?

[ No they won't know or care about that. All those lives lost in WWII just to make sure Britain would be the sort of nation that commits racial suicide. And there is no gratitude! ]

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/huge-areas-of-britain-have-become-foreign-colonies-that-could-be-tomorrows-ireland-too-1589227.html

Replies: 3 Comments

on Sunday, January 11th, nationalist said

It doesn't matter if they were gods in human form - we want to have our own land and our people to have our own existence. Do you think Africans should let whites over-run their continent and outbreed them if whites happened to be "superior" in any way. The LNSG supports separatism and Brits are facing what amounts to genocide.

on Friday, January 9th, V said

Apologies for my spelling error. Honestly, though, as individuals, the majority of Muslims I have met are well meaning people, much like our more traditional christian followers of faith. The problems come with the imams.... salafis ( apologies for the lysdexia ) seem to be the problem.

on Friday, January 9th, V said

Indeed, you are correct. Have you tried life in Blackburn? The Islamists are not bad people... but to asume my caffine drink was booze...Hmmmm.