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Immigration by aliens who do not want to assimilate is as disruptive in England as in Western Europe and the United States.
My wife and I recently celebrated our wedding anniversary in the United Kingdom (UK), otherwise known as Great Britain. We love London and the Cotswolds, the Channel coast and Devonshire, where both our families trace back their origins. We freely acknowledge that we go there to commune with the Great Britain of history more than its troubled current state. This is expressed in where we make our base in London, the Royal Horseguards Hotel, founded in 1884. Located on the Thames just across from the famous “Eye” Ferris wheel, Number 10, Parliament, the Ministry of Defense, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, and the National Gallery are all within walking distance. But the hotel’s name comes from being only a block away from the Household Cavalry barracks and museum, which is a great place to watch the start or end of the famous changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.
Hanging in the lobby with its comfy chairs and fireplace is a large print of Lady Butler’s famous painting of the Royal Scots Greys charging at Waterloo. Titled “Scotland Forever,” it is a testimony both to valor and the integrity of the UK, which is now being challenged by socialists posing as nationalists who want the freedom to impose their dead ideology on a once proud land. The Scottish National Party will ruin the great success and renown the Scots won as energetic members of the larger golden era of British growth and expansion. An era of Union that created the world’s greatest power, economy, and empire for three centuries (see Scotland and the British Empire edited by John M. Mackenzie). The famous and vibrant Scottish image we all love would be lost if by “independence” they trade away the legacy of matching grey horses at full gallop for dull gray socialist housing units.
The new UK prime minister, Andy Burnham of the Labour Party, has made some positive statements, including strong calls for UK unity punctuated by a rejection of any referendum on tossing Northern Ireland into the Republic of Ireland. And as welfare costs have exploded, Burnham has used (without attribution) Ronald Reagan’s line that “the best social program is a job.” With a million young people aged 18-24 unemployed, it is imperative to prevent this generation from going directly from school onto the welfare rolls, perhaps for life. Burnham claims he does not want to cut welfare spending (as the Conservative and Reform parties have promised) but to prevent expansion by creating jobs, including rebuilding British industry, and expanding infrastructure in rural areas. Labour has a massive majority in Parliament (411 out of 650 seats) even though it won only 33.7% of the vote due to Conservative and Reform parties splitting the larger vote total on the right. So, Labour can ram through a radical agenda even as the national debt grows.
Burnham’s leftist instincts are to move backwards, putting larger parts of the economy under government control with higher taxes on wealth. In short, a return to a pre-Thatcher regime. His supposed commitment to re-industrialization and accelerated economic growth runs afoul of his commitment to fighting climate change. He has pledged to attend and support the notorious annual UN Climate Conference (COP31 in November), where more responsible national leaders have rejected UN doomsday rhetoric and crippling demands. That Green Party members are shifting to Labour is a worrying sign.
And there are leftists who want rural development to destroy traditional values and culture. At the Labour national conference, Nature Minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter claimed that the image of “warm ale, a black Labrador by your feet in a pub” was “a very far-Right nostalgic vision of Britain that we don’t want to have.” And the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is reportedly drawing up plans to make rural areas “less white” after Muslims claim areas like the Cotswolds do not provide them with a friendly atmosphere. They particularly hate dogs and pubs. Immigration by aliens who do not want to assimilate is as disruptive in England as in Western Europe and the United States.