feb 15th 2007 -

Quality of Life Survey 2007 has just placed Britain a miserable 37th in the best places to live – it must make Tony Blair so proud. France and Australia came top while we languished behind such notables as Bulgaria, Panama, Latvia, Estonia and Slovenia. A recent survey by Bordeaux University of 2,750 Britons planning to move to France found the aim of many was to recapture the gentler lifestyle, sense of community, old-fashioned values and village markets that typified Britain in the 1950s. They are chasing a lifestyle that has been taken away from the average Englishmen by packing our small country with uncontrolled immigration that has shattered communities and fundamentally changed the very nature of huge swathes of our country. It has taken the kind of rural lifestyle that is still available in France far out of the financial reach of all but the wealthiest of English people.

Hot on the heels of the Quality of Life Survey came a further damming indictment of the policies of successive governments when a report delivered to the United Nations placed Britain as the worst place for children to be brought up out of the 21 richest nations in the world. The report took into account such things as family breakdowns, teenage drinking, drugs, education and sex but to me the thing that showed stark evidence of exactly what our country has become was the fact that our country was the one where the fewest children found others of the same age to be “kind and helpful”

This is exactly what happens when we are led by people who detest our history, have no affinity for the English people and place the needs of other people above that of our own. They measure our progress as a nation solely on the growth of the economy, on GDP, on how much we consume or how much we spend and everything else is subservient to this.

The English people have lost so much; given away by the likes of Tony Blair and his ilk who then have the audacity to sell it to us a progress. It is nothing of the sort. Who can look back fifty years and say that our society is so much better now than then. What price have we paid for their so-called progress when every other person is on anti-depressants and we have more children than ever before being brought up in homes where there has never been a father present? Is it acceptable that violent crime, teenage pregnancy, abortion and drug abuse have all gone through the roof? What good is it that people now live in fear of out of control teenagers and there are decent hardworking English people living on the so-called “sink” estates who feel utterly abandoned. The local councils can go on spending money on new youth clubs and pool tables but do you know what. It won’t make a blind bit of difference because not having a new pool table isn’t the problem. The problem is something that is deep rooted and social in character and stems from a lack of any notion of identity and the sense of pride and set of values that flows from it. It is about having an understanding of who you are and of feeling part of a community that values you and to which you in turn have obligations to. At a time when huge swathes of English cities seem to have adopted something more akin to American street gang culture it is now more important than ever for our English youngsters to have a clear and strong sense of their own identity and what it should stand for. All this is ignored because it does not fit with New Labour ideology so instead we continue to spend billions looking after newcomers to our land while our soldiers die on foreign fields because of lack of equipment and our pensioners die in their homes because they can’t afford to put the gas fire on.

We don’t need reports to tell us how bad things have got; we need only pick up a paper or walk down any high street and we can see for ourselves that England, and in particular the English have totally lost their way. Whole cities have had their hearts ripped out and have been turned instead into a soulless mish-mash of nothingness and yet our political leaders do not have the honour or integrity to admit their mistakes and that things are fundamentally wrong. Instead they continue with the big lie that everything that has happened is to be welcomed with open arms, that we are moving forward, that diversity benefits us all and that we all believe that it makes us so much stronger. These are just politician’s words that mean nothing, but which they believe people will come to accept as the truth if they repeat them enough times. Our leaders – the people who are charged with our protection – have instigated an open door immigration policy that has allowed others to come here who have nothing to offer the country but their diversity. It is immigration for immigrations sake and has inflicted on the English community a foreign crime wave that is here now but was not here before.

How can they call it progress when so many of our own people think that this country is finished and leave by the planeload, social cohesion is at breaking point, our entire sense of civic duty has gone and any notion of community has disintegrated? Our leaders political policies have allowed economic growth to ride rough shod over all other aspects of our society including the general well being and even the safety of the majority. They have been allowed to do it by using the dogma of political correctness to silence all dissenters and through 30 years of apathy by the silent majority who have allowed a liberal minority to lead us all by the nose They tell us how well off we now are and how business is booming and then tell us that we must now work till we are 70. Where has all the money gone? The search for economic boom times is a false economy for the vast majority of people when we take into account the sheer bloody cost of it all not only in monetary but also social terms. They tell us that we have so many more policeman, but we also have so many more criminals. We have so may more doctors and nurses but they also have so many more people to treat. One of the issues raised in the UN report on British children was that families did not benefit from British workers putting in far more hours than virtually everyone else but then we are told by our business leaders that the “work ethic” of our eastern European guests is far better than that of the "lazy" indigenous workers. So are we suppose to be working more hours or less? We are reaping what we have allowed to be sown and are seeing before our eyes the results of the tunnel vision of so many of our politicians in allowing the pursuit of economic growth at the expense of everything else to become the major contributing factor in the breakdown of social cohesion and the destabilisation of the very fabric of our society.

Some people may think we are being overly pessimistic but the danger is in the slow unnoticed downward spiral and not actually realizing the full extent of what we have actually lost. What can you name that was so bad about our society before and why is it so much better now?

Hey, but at least we’ve got the 5th largest economy on the planet. Progress I don’t think so...TC