Political Economy

For nine years the English Democrats, under the slogan “Not Left, Not Right, Just English”, have been beating the drum about the importance of English culture, its values and its achievements in terms of democracy and human rights, not just to England but to the world. Because we do not need it the English Democrats will withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and repeal the Human Rights Act.

For nine years the English Democrats have been campaigning for the establishment of a Parliament and Government for England to promote the interests of the people of England as does the Scottish Parliament and government.

For years it has been enduring abuse about its policy of “Multiple cultures and not Multiculturalism”. The English Democrats have been attacked as racist because they are against mass immigration and want jobs in England for the people of England, not for the people of the rest of the world.

They have been taunted for their call for the protection of  English industry from takeover by foreign companies and the subsequent removal of jobs and tax revenues from our shores and the removal of political correctness.

But that is now all in the past!

It is some months since Cameron, Merkel and Sarkozy rushed to be the first to denounce multiculturalism. We have seen recently how the flawed European Convention on Human Rights cannot even stop you from being locked up without trial for four years in a Spanish jail! In England the Common law has guaranteed our basic rights for nearly 800 years. Chief amongst these rights is a prohibition on the State locking you up for more that four days (28 in the case of terrorism) without bringing charges against you, requiring that you are tried and judged by your peers and should not be subject to cruel punishments.

In a YouGov survey published today in the Scotsman newspaper (http://bit.ly/tC5O5u) an article headlined the move away from being British. The October survey questioned 1,700 adults in Britain about their identity. The responses were as follows:

English             63%

British              19%

Scottish             8%

Welsh                5%

European         2%

Irish                  1%

The population of Britain totaled 59.2 million in 2007 made up of England  51.1 million, Scotland 5.1 million and Wales 3.0 million (http://bit.ly/9jEWHj). In percentage terms this is England 86.3%, Scotland 8.6% and Wales 5.1%. This implies that 73% of the people of England now view themselves as having an English identity, 93% of Scots consider they have a Scottish identity and 98% of the Welsh a Welsh identity.

In the same survey in 2008, only 3 years ago, 41% of respondents considered they had an English identity and 42% of those polled considered that they had a British identity! At last the people of England are waking up to the fact that their quixotic loyalty to a British identity has laid them wide open to being scammed and subject to all sorts of chicanery by the political elite in Westminster.

The same article continues to emphasize the growing call for a Parliament for England reporting on Labour MP, Frank Field’s, motion in the House of Commons and  UKIPs sudden conversion to an English Parliament.

But the change is even more complete than that. UKIP a British party if ever there was one, has now accepted the inevitable. Its leader, Nigel Farage, in a letter to the Spectator of 19th November admits that Patriotic politics is here and is going to stay. In the letter Farage describes Patriotic politics as neither “left nor right” and that the common law is a better guarantor of our liberties than the Human Rights Act. Astonishingly he ascribes UKIPs recent advance in the poll to these factors despite the fact that UKIP is a British party that has never championed English issues before!

The English Democrats are in the process of being judged to have been comprehensively correct for the last nine years. Of having had the correct political policies for the last nine years. Of truly understanding the people of England and their needs for the past nine years.

Now they need to use this to make an assault on the high ground of politics and the people of England need to get behind them with their votes. Why? Because it is only the English Democrats who hold these policies because they believe them to be correct whilst other parties are coming to them for reasons of political expediency.

If elected will these other parties implement these new ‘expedient’ policies. You can bet your bottom dollar they will not!. Only the the English Democrats hold these policies from the heart. Only they will implement their promises because for them it is a matter of honour, not expediency.

So says the National Museum of Afghanistan. If you go and visit the current exhibition at the British Museum you will get some idea of how ancient this culture is http://bit.ly/fzBANs.

The Taliban famously tried to destroy the culture by destroying its artifacts and inflicting their strict version of Islam on the country. Whilst much was destroyed the curators of the museum secreted the objects away that are now on display. They were only able to bring them back on display in 2003 once NATO had driven the Taliban out.

Afghanistan has had numerous groups come and go over the millennia.  Some of the golden artifacts on display were over 4000 years old and belonged to a bronze age civilization with what appear to be links to Mesopotamia.

The Greeks arrived under Alexander the Great and built the great city now known as Ai Khanum. This city was lost in antiquity and was replaced by a local civilisation, then by Persia, India, the Mongols and so on.

But however courageous are the curators of museums the Afghan culture or for that matter the English culture will not stay alive unless it stays alive in the hearts and actions of the people.

The Labour plan to crush English culture by allowing wave after wave of mass immigration to swamp our schools, to change the way of life of the people of England, to denigrate the very name “England” will not be ended by the wholly inadequate measures of the coalition government.

The policies of the English Democrats will do this. Having a devolved parliament and government of England, with fiscal devolution on devolved matters, will allow the English culture to be protected and promoted just as the Scottish culture is in Scotland and the Welsh culture is in Wales.

A referendum to leave the EU and the end to all mass immigration will allow immigration on the basis of fitness for the job and for a limited period only when no local people can do the work.

The removal of all illegal immigrants and a strict application of the convention on asylum which requires refugees to settle in the nearest safe country to their own will reduce the excessive demand being placed on hospitals, schools and housing.

Giving local people priority in housing will not only return natural justice to the social housing market, it will make England a less desirable place to emmigrate to.

Putting an end to multiculuralism and expecting everyone in their public life to respect and follow English values and ways of doing things, including speaking English for all residents, will protect and expand English culture.

Putting an end to political correctness will mean that the large amounts of money spent, and wasted, in this area can be directed towards the less well-off young and elderly.

The suspension of the European Human Rights act and its replacement by a sensible English variation will allow the deportation of immigrants and asylum seekers, who commit crimes, to their country of origin. In a number of cases this will cause those intent on criminality to think twice about their actions.

Policies like these are often branded as racist by knee-jerk anti-English groups. But actually not one of these policies is based on racial or ethnic criteria. English Democrat policies are based on a cultural identity. Englishness resides in the heart and so can be adopted by any person of good will.

If you want to preserve the culture of England as a living thing, as a matter of the heart, rather than an artifact in a museum, the Conservative party will not do this, the Labour party will not do this,  the Liberal-Democrats will not do this nor will UKIP, not the Greens and certainly not the BNP.

Only the English Democrats are wholly committed to the fundamental proposition that “A Nation stays Alive when its Culture stays Alive”. Vote English Democrats on the 5th May.

Mr Cameron will be the second leader of an EU country to say that multiculturalism is dead. The first was Angela Merkel.

Why is that? After all it has been the bedrock of government policy for 30 years. The reasons are simple and straightforward.

First, multi-culturalism means that for political purposes no culture is any better than any other. Whilst this may be true to an anthropologist it has never been true in political terms. A country that cannot point unequivocally to the values, history and beliefs that are the values, history and beliefs that guide it, is no country at all, merely a collection of disparate cultures.

In a society that collects cultures everyone will assume that the most important culture  is their own private culture and act accordingly. This means teenage white boys wearing an England shirt will be excluded from the corner store when they want to by sweets, as happens in parts of Luton. It means that arrogance holds sway and some groups will speak and act disrespectively about the host culture whilst reacting violently against similar action against their own.

In such societies no one know what is the correct action to take and this has led to tragedies in certain child protection cases. It has also led to the drugging, abduction, abuse and rape of, mainly, white girls because these girls come from a different culture to theirs, a culture that the men carrying out the attacks neither respect nor value.

But there are other problems. Without a clear distinction between public and private cultures public bodies spend endlessly on useless actions employing people in posts such as “Diversity Coordinator” or “Equalities Coordinator” or engaging in programmes such a “Luton in Harmony” – to name but one. None of these expenditures are worthwhile because they are aimed at propping up the indefensible and broken polemic of multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism has caused divisions in England where there should have been none. They have stopped all sorts of groups as being identified as English, which is how they should be identified after all these years. It means that the natural description of the people of England is still, wrongly, an ethnically based one with only one ethnicity being banned – English! It has led to a great deal of dissatisfaction as the English culture has been systematically downgraded, insulted and abused, despite the fact English culture, not Scottish or Welsh or Irish or British, is responsible for parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, toleration and (still) respect for peoples’ private lives and beliefs. It has led to the misallocation of large amounts of public money and the acceptance of many violent crimes, because to point them out would somehow insult a culture and that the many people physically and mentally harmed by this attitude are just going to have to suck it up and the rule of law be dammed. Notably the values of Political Correctness  means that this acceptance does not apply to the English culture

How then we should handle the errors and problems that multiple cultures bring? Well, very simply, by adopting a policy of multiple cultures. That is to say that the everyone must adhere to and accept the public culture of England, which is the English culture, in their public life. What they do in their private life, provided it does not break any law, is up to them. This immediately simplifies decision making, public expenditure, public services such as education, the maintenance of law and order and the emotional and political life of England.

We should remember that the flag of England is Norman and the patron saint of England is Palestinian. England has been handling multiple cultures successfully for a thousand years! It should be allowed to get on with doing so now.

Secondly, getting rid of multiculturalism is insufficient. We also need to get rid of large swathes of political correctness or PC. PC is borne of a natural desire to be polite and considerate to people. Unfortunately the blindness of its supporters  has led to many unnatural practices carried out in its name. Chief of these came to light in the cases of rape referred to above.

Many years ago in North Hertfordshire one of the local papers carried the story of a father and son team who, possessing a van, had the bright idea to park this outside a secondary school and proposition the young female students as they came out at the end of the school day. No time was wasted on PC. The perpetrators were identified as white by the paper and as a result parents, schools and the students themselves were alerted. Had this not been done there would have been, within a few years, queues of white vans with father and son teams outside every secondary school in Hertfordshire. Instead the story is now an inconspicuous item of local history.

Apparently the northern rapes had been going on for decades. Five years ago when the MP Ann Cryer tried to get the local communities to take the lead to stop them they refused, because they saw no particular reason to stop such flagrant breeches of the law. After all did not these girls came from a corrupt culture and deserve no better? When she went public she was viciously accused of racism by the PC brigade. She is no longer in politics. Had these attacks been publicised 30 years ago with the same  lack of PC as was shown in Hertfordshire the local communities would have ensured that they stopped and these activities too would now, also, be only a minor footnote of local history.

Instead PC has ensured that an important English community has been shamed in such a way and for such outlandish breaches of the law that, sadly, it is likely that it will always be a part of English national history.

Let us at least take some good out of this sad case by learning how damaging to society PC is and by getting rid of it forever. Alternatively we could throw the whole lot of the PC brigade into court and prosecute them for what they really did – actions that led to the cover up and aid the commission of  a series of vicious crimes!

And a final message to Cameron:

THE NATIONAL IDENTITY OF ENGLAND IS ENGLISH, STUPID!

Stop stressing and get on with it!