Sign from the protests in Epping.
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Sign from the protests in Epping.
A Very Civil War
With Britain inching closer to mass civil unrest, it is worth dusting off the only sensible thing 1990s Conservative Prime Minister John Major ever said. Major was placed in Downing Street to placate a Tory Party – and a seething public – after Margaret Thatcher was seen to have gone beyond her brief and started actually acting like a Conservative. (more…)
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Britain’s Labour government has been in power for a year, but if there were any celebrations, they were muted. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has approval ratings at record lows, and his government has been mired in scandal, accusations of gross incompetence, and the introduction of a so-called “two-tier” justice system which discriminates against the indigenous white population. (more…)
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If a week is a long time in politics, as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is supposed to have quipped to lobby journalists in 1964, then a month is an eternity. In mid-February, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party was riding high, topping electoral polls and threatening both main wings of the British uniparty, Labour and Conservative. (more…)
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Here was a population not convinced that old England was as good as possible.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical
In October, 2009, I was ranked No. 41 in a list of the 100 most powerful right-wingers in Britain. I am not sure about the “right winger” bit, preferring to consider myself a Whig.
Nigel Farage, Flying Free (more…)
Moby Dick, courtesy of ianbeverdge on Deviantart.
Moby Dick, courtesy of ianbeverdge on Deviantart.
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There’s a meme about the upcoming election in Britain involving the simple slogan “Zero Seats.” The slogan relates to the impending wipeout of the Tory Party. It isn’t being used by British liberals, but by politically engaged people on the Right. Naturally, such a statement and goal immediately invites the counter-proposition: “Labour will be even worse.” Labour could very well be even worse than the Tory government, but the impetus to utterly ruin the Tory Party once and for all remains regardless. Similarly, given that we live under a “uni-party” system, the claim can also be made that it makes no difference which “cheek of the arse” sits in power, to quote George Galloway. (more…)
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Editor’s Note: This March 27, 2008, British National Party “stump speech” given in Tameside was transcribed by Hyacinth Bouquet. Sadly, the video is incomplete. If anyone has a complete version, or information about where it was filmed, please contact us at [email protected].
Every element that sustained prior forms of British English life is declining or has dipped down. Marriage and the family are in turmoil, and hardly anyone is marrying. (more…)