Last week I had the pleasure of travelling to Edinburgh for my work. The trip 'up north' inevitably got me thinking about our comrades in Scotland and the relationship between the different countries of the British Isles.
Detractors of the English Democrats, and in particular those in unionist parties who seek to denigrate those of us who put our hearts and souls into the English nationalist struggle, continue to try and claim that by focussing all our efforts on England that this demonstrates that we have somehow become anti-Scottish in our outlook.
Whilst it should be clear to all but the most blinkered that this is not the case, I do not take anything for granted and I think that it is worth stating in very simple terms right here and now just what my own views are on our relations with Scotland.
The first things to consider are the basic facts of the United Kingdom's current administrational arrangements. Within the United Kingdom there are four countries - Ulster, Scotland, Wales, and England. The first three have their own parliament or assembly, in addition to sending representatives to Westminster. England does not have its own parliament and this disadvantages the people of England in a variety of ways.
Ignoring or even welcoming this clearly unjust situation compounds this injustice. It is not anti-Scottish to point this out.
The English Democrats do not call for independence for England from the rest of the United Kingdom (though we would not stop the people of any of its constituent countries from voting for their own independence), we simply wish for England to have fair elected representation.
This may seem counter-intuitive to some, but correcting the democratic deficit expressed in the West Lothian Question through the creation of a parliament for England could well strengthen the United Kingdom as a whole by alleviating a major point of English contention and putting relations between the nations of Britain on a more sensible and equitable footing for the 21st Century.
It is interesting to note that my Scottish friends are fully supporting of me in my work for the English Democrats. They realise that being pro-English does not equate to being anti-Scottish.
You will no more witness me displaying anti-Scottishness than you will hear me being anti-German or anti-French. Small-minded xenophobia is for the gutter tabloids and those of the hard of thinking, not for nationalists, who welcome and celebrate the many differences, some minor, some more pronounced, between the peoples of Europe and the wider world.
Nationalists welcome the fact that humanity has developed from its common origins to become a diverse patchwork of tribes and nations, each with its own idiosyncrasies and affectations.
Celebrating and promoting one's own unique culture does not imply disrespect towards others.
My trip to Edinburgh gave me the chance to meet up with a number of Scottish comrades who I had not seen for a few years. It was a good opportunity to renew friendships and discuss the ongoing struggle of our people against the forces of unreason.
I hope you will forgive me for stating the obvious, for that is surely what the above text constitutes, but sometimes it is worth taking a step back and putting into very simply terms just what one's thoughts are.
To end of a very practical point, it should be remembered that the struggle for Britain will be won or lost in England. It is in England that the vast majority of our islands' population lives, and, crucially, it is England which bears the brunt of mass immigration.
Attention spent trying to hold back the rising tide of Englishness out of some misplaced sense of nostalgia for the imagery of an age which has passed is an intellectual indulgence which our children and grandchildren can ill afford.
5 comments:
Excellent piece, Chris. Yes, you are right that the battles will be won in England, but it is vitally important we have like-minded groups in all parts of the British Isles even if progress is slow at times. You also forgot to mention Cornwall, where a nationalist party is making progress as well. OK, they are not particularly on our wavelength, but every little helps, as they say!
I frequently cross the border, 50 miles away, into Scotland and now feel it is a foreign country. I can understand how the Scots feel. However,seeing the saltire at the border crossing does not fill me with the same warm glow that I feel seeing the St George's cross on my return.I have been watching Nigel Farage sticking up for the desperate Greeks. Let's us hope they do revolt and bring the terrible and unwanted globalist one-world state crashing down. They had true democracy first. Let them give true democracy back to all their fellow Europeans. I want to see Greece that is free and Greek, Holland that is free and Dutch, France that is free and French and England that is free and English as it used to be. We may moan about one another - like the English and the Scots - but we have a shared history, race, religion and culture in common. If the one worlders have their way Europe and the world will be one homogenised brown soup with no differing races, cultures and histories, just coca cola culture. What a nightmare. It bewilders me that we fight to preserve animal species and yet multiculturalism is just a stepping stone to the disappearance for ever of the different races and cultures of mankind. Homogeneous nations can live in harmony as we used to do in the 50s and 60s before the globalists, globalisers and their Marxist useful idiots sought to smash it all up for their evil or juvenile ends.
Quoting Chris Bev: "Small-minded xenophobia is for the gutter tabloids and those of the hard of thinking, not for nationalists, who welcome and celebrate the many differences, some minor, some more pronounced, between the peoples of Europe and the wider world."
"Nationalists welcome the fact that humanity has developed from its common origins to become a diverse patchwork of tribes and nations, each with its own idiosyncrasies and affectations."
"Celebrating and promoting one's own unique culture does not imply disrespect towards others."
Perfectly put Chris. Unfortunately their is far too much disinformation put out by the very gutter press you speak of.
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DL
OK, on a side note, in my last comment, "their" should be spelt "there". Just thought it best to mention it, is all ;-)
Neighbouring countries always seem to dislike one another but provided they do not go to war then there is not a problem. The Dutch and the Belgians do not like one another but have not fought since 1830. The Danes do not like the Swedes but do not go to war. The Scots and the English have not fought since the 18th century. The Welsh and the English since the Middle Ages. The one exception is France and Germany. Prior to German unification in 1870 the French caused all the trouble and the Germans none. In 1870 the Germans decided to get their own back with the Franco-Prussian War which then led to the First World War and then the Second. The EU was designed to bind them together to stop this and everybody else then got dragged in. Now everybody hates the Germans again as they are being paranoid and controlling as is their wont. Hopefully, they will soon get sick of others' ingratitude and go back to the Deutschmark - they are already meant to be printing them - and then the euro and EU can collapse. The French, too, are sick of being told what to do by the Germans. So the marriage may have been a mistake in the first place and all the relatives have suffered. If they get divorced then they could still remain friends without having to live under the same roof.
I have lived in three countries on the continent. There are things which I thought they did better than the English, others they did worse. They probably think the same way and why not. I enjoy visiting now but prefer England because I am English. Pluralism in any form it has been proved generally leads to the lowest common denominator. You only have to look across the Atlantic to see that where the only cement holding the USA together is the lust for money
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