TELEGRAPH BLOGS – DAMIAN THOMPSON: There’s a YouTube video doing the rounds which “anti-fascist” campaigners against the English Defence League don’t want you to see. It features a couple of young middle-class supporters of Unite Against Fascism sniggering as one of them describes a “horrible tattooed woman” at a demo being punched in the face “before someone kicks her up the arse”. In the words of Telegraph blogger Brendan O’Neill, these well-bred kids admit that it’s not normally OK to hit women, “but you can make an exception when it comes to female EDL supporters because they aren’t women – they’re dogs”.
You might think there’s nothing new in this. The street battles between the Anti-Nazi League and the National Front in the 1970s pitted white middle-class students against white working-class thugs: in both cases there was a sense that the ethnic minorities they were fighting over were almost irrelevant. Actually, the similarities are misleading. The EDL isn’t the National Front or even the British National Party. It’s not a fascist party, more of an angry white rentamob. And the racism is different, too: not so much about colour, more about culture.
But here’s the worrying thing. The EDL and its sympathisers appear, at first glance, to be more representative of a section of the English working class – especially in London – than the old “far Right” ever was. » | Damian Thompson | Friday, September 16, 2011
The EDL strikes a chord with the white working class precisely because nobody in the ruling élite stands up for this country's indigenous values. If the parliamentarians were to stand up for British, Christian values, there would be no need for a group like the EDL, and they'd wither on the vine, so to speak.
It used to be so that the aristocrats of this country stood up for Britain too. But those days have gone, it seems. Now, they are too busy making money out of cheap labour provided by the mass immigration which has taken place in recent times, mass immigration which no electors gave them permission to bring about, by opening the floodgates.
Immigration can, to a certain extent, be a good thing for any country. But it must be controlled, and it must also be in proportion to the size of the country and its indigenous population. If immigration is allowed to get out of control, the culture of the indigenous population is liable to be swamped by the values and culture of those immigrating into the country. And when this occurs, the people become scared. The working class become particularly scared because they do not have the wealth and resources to insulate themselves from what is happening around them.
In this case, they are able to see that whole neighbourhoods are becoming Islamised and ghettoised. The ruling élite can afford to live in expensive areas and thereby isolate themselves from the ill effects of the laws they have passed. Poorer people cannot do this.
If the emergence of the EDL is obnoxious to us, then it behoves us to do something to stem the tide of immigrants (legal and illegal), and to reverse the clear Islamisation of this country. Muslims in this country need to be told in no uncertain terms that they are welcome here only if they abide by the laws of the land. They should also be told that there is a leading culture, a guiding culture, aLeitkultur here.
Then, and only then, can we hope to do something meaningful about this growth in thuggery (on both the side of the EDL and the Anti-Fascist League).
Might I also suggest that for our part, we start to sharpen up our act. For when I look around me, all I see is a culture which is degenerating before my eyes. If we want these immigrants to integrate, and we certainly should do, then we must give them something worthwhile to integrate into. – © Mark
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