The Nation is the new God.

Throughout my lectures on Nationalism, I am becoming increasingly aware, that if you were to substitute the word “Nationalism” for “Religion”, the context and the surrounding wording, wouldn’t have to be modified, and we’d still end up with a perfectly rational statement.

Like Nationalism, religion relies on the rather solipsistic idea that we as a species are somehow special and important. Nationalism narrows the field down, to those who exist on a specific land mass, sometimes using religion to attempt to strengthen its otherwise weak premise; but religion, whilst casting its net further afield, nevertheless clings to the same arrogant notion that we are indeed special. To illustrate this point, I would ask you to try and locate the August 2010 edition of Scientific America, in which Kate Wong (an evolutionary specialist) shows that around 195,000 years ago, Homosapien became as close to extinction as we’ve ever came. Climate change, she argues, meant that our species had fallen to just 600 breeding couples. Somehow, beyond all comprehension, we survived, and we thrived. Around 50,000 years ago, we left Africa. We ventured into a vast unknown, and we conquered it. We suffered deaths by teeth, deaths by easily curable maladies, we suddenly hit a new phase in human and social evolution, when, on top of the simplistic tools we were devising alongside other species in the homo genus, we began making art, and tools that appear incredibly complex. Humanity, was suddenly starting to show signs of brilliance. But we were still under threat. Climate, Neanderthal, awful disease. They all played their part in bringing us to the edge of destruction many times over. These early humans didn’t care what land mass they were born on, or the colour of skin, or what happened to be your first language. And yet, Christianity seems to suppose that all of that hardship, that hundreds of thousands of years of exploration, disease, creativity and the brink of extinction, was all because the divine wanted to get us to the point where we could be Christians. It seems strikingly awful a presumption, that for 199,000 or so years of our history (it varies, whichever scientist you subscribe to) heaven looked on with indifference, as humanity struggled to survive… by the way, for those 198,000, the most testing in all our history, we managed to get through it without any divinely proscribed ‘objective moral basis’… and only in the last 2000 years, having ignored 198,000 years did it decide to get to know us, by giving a book to a bunch of illiterate warring desert tribesmen, on the same plot of land as huge oil reserves. Did Heaven not think ahead? It seems massively incompetent. The Chinese could read and write at this stage; why not given them the most important book known to man? Silly little myths in an attempt to attract a following.

Nationalism similarly uses easily discredited constructed and largely false myths to attempt to bind people. The rhetoric is very similar to religious rhetoric. It is exclusive, not inclusive. It is divisive, not binding. It can be threatening and forceful when it doesn’t get its own way.

Nationalism requires the individual submit to the will of the Nation. The Nation takes the place of God. The Nation becomes the reason to live. Prior to 1517, Europe cared little for national unity, and more for their submission to the God of Catholicism. Luther changed that, and suddenly people started to question things they’d never questioned before. They had never read a Bible in English. They had never questioned why they had to pay to save their souls from purgatory. From the moment Luther attached those The Ninety-Five Theses to the Church door in Wittenberg, the questioning began; and over the next couple of centuries, religious dogma took a knock that it couldn’t come back from. But people still desired something larger than themselves. This desire started the building of Nations. And the Nation; once drastically unimportant, now became a sort of spiritual haven for people who need to feel like they ‘belong’ to an exclusive club. Suddenly, humanity had a new abstraction that many of its members were willing to die for. The Nation replaced God.

It is both odd and a magnificent appraisal of the brilliance of our species, to me, that humanity desperately needs to look up to something abstract and beyond our realm of understanding, to cope with trying to understand what is essentially a chaotic, uncaring, and amoral universe. We create order, where order cannot be found in reality.

John Armstrong, writing in “Nations before Nationalism” argues that one influence on the emergence of Nations, was the nostalgia for a power beyond the simple State; the religious power of the past. Nations are of course vastly different, to Nations of the past. People try to cling to the idea of a Nation from what they’d consider a Golden age; the defeat of the Armada. The bravery of Boudica. It just so happens that these events took place on the plot of land we were all born on. We had no direct say or participation in them. Boudica certainly wasn’t fighting for England, she was fighting for a tribe. There has never been a time when the Nation wasn’t dynamic and ever changing. And yet Nationalism tries to grip on to a fleeting static moment. Capitalism means that the Nation State will always be at risk. Two competing concepts; Nation States and Capitalism, fighting for the same ground, will always produce division and resentment. Capitalism relies on open markets, on open borders, on little to no regulation. Nation States rely on tightly controlled borders and regulated markets for the sake of the ‘Native’ population. It is a continuous tug of war. The free movement of labour is a disaster for the Nation State.

The open flow of labour is to Nationalism, what the open flow of ideas and free thought is to Religion. Until very recently, free thought was considered heresy.

Religion is used at a very young age to indoctrinate early. The Palestinian Authority in 1994, reissued copies of a textbooks that were just full of anti-Jewish sentiment. A PA TV show for kids, based on Mickey Mouse, called Farfur, teaches kids hate. Kids are taught to pray until there is:

“world leadership under Islamic leadership”

And until that day comes, they must oppose at all times, the:

“oppressive invading Zionist occupation.”

- At my own secular primary school, we were made to say prayer every day and sing hymns. If we refused, we were sent out of the room. We were never taught to question what was being said, and I certainly didn’t hear the name “Darwin” until I was at least 12. Nations, in their quest to fill the void left by a dying God, also indoctrinate kids at a young age; the pledge of allegiance comes to mind. The celebrating of Columbus Day; a day to honour a violent thug who introduced mass genocide to an entire population. A strong educational framework, is vital for the perpetuation of weak National and Religious myths.

We have Deified our National Flag.
The Prophets of the Deified American National Flag, are Jefferson, Madison, Adams and Washington. They are almost worshiped. Their shortcomings and their obvious hypocrisies are ignored. The imagery of “Washington at Dorchester Heights” by Emanuel Leutze, shows an heroic-like stance of the young Washington, like a new age Saint, to be worshiped by everyone as they pledge allegiance. As a young America grew, in a World where religion was still key to political success, we see a whole host of literature combining religion with the new Republic, as if the new Republic were divinely ordained. The marching song of the Continental army, as it fought the British, happened to be:

Let tyrants shake their iron rods
And slavery clank her falling chains,
We fear them not, we trust in God
New England’s God forever reigns.

- Young Nations, in the 18th Century, needed God. But gradually, the Nation replaced God as the abstraction of choice among men.

To back up the authority for their myths and fairy tales, for their incomplete nonsense, and their, quite simply, invented bullshit, both Nationalism and Religion seem to point to an abstract concept, that is largely, and for the most part un-falsifiable. The problem with anything that is un-falsifiable, is that by definition, it is not testable. So, for something to be unable to be put to the test, and yet still used as a way to ‘bind’ and ‘divide’ humanity, it is dangerous. It deserves no power. A good theory is one that is falsifiable, and still manages to stand up to scrutiny….. like Natural Selection. Saying “there is an invisible monkey sat on my shoulder” is not falsifiable, and so any claims on morality, or to authority, should absolutely be considered ludicrous. Nationalism is similar, in that the concept of that which binds us as a Nation, is built on non-falsifiable abstractions. It is a passion for pedigree that has very little evidence to back it up. No nation is a stock of a single blood line, and it is perhaps more true to say that we are separated far more by economics than we ever are binded by Nationality. I can relate far more to a Pakistani gentleman of lower middle class origin, than I can with a a multi-millionaire member of the Tory cabinet, despite being born in the same Country, or even the same city.

The myths – take the legend of St George and the dragon in England – are quite evidently untrue, but for some reason Nationalists will use the imagery to conjure up passion for the ‘motherland’. Religions do the same. It is pretty obvious to any right thinking person, that given the intense lack of evidence other than a book, Jesus was not born to a virgin, nor did he rise from the dead and walk around for a few days. Sam Harris in ‘The End of Faith’ writes:

We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When those beliefs are common, we call them religious; otherwise they are likely to be called “mad”, “psychotic”, or “delusional”.

- I cannot argue with this.

Nationalism and Religion; the EDL and the MAC; the British National Party and Extreme Islam; are all far more similar than they’d like to believe. Both thrive, by presenting anything that doesn’t fit the very narrow spectrum of their exclusive club, as ‘other’ and ‘other’ as ‘bad’. The rhetoric is identical, the targeted victims (be them people with slightly darker skin, or people who wish to marry someone of the same sex) will always be presented as a danger to society, whilst the religious or the Nationalistic will always present themselves as the saviours.

The Nation is the new God.

THEY BAND ENGERLUND SHIRTS N STUFF!

There are a ridiculous amount of Facebook groups (such as this one) and pages dedicated to telling me that the police have banned people from wearing England shirts, and flying England flags, incase it offends foreigners. An example, of one of the comments in that group, shows just how perfectly English and proud of their culture, history, and especially their language, they truly are:
“England till i die… And know 1 will tell me what to do with my flags or tops to wear, fuck the pakiz!!! Dont try and take over OUR country OK.”

“know 1″ will tell him what to do with his flag!!! Know 1!!!!

It is obviously bullshit.

Every year, people tend to shout, pathetically; “OMG THE MUSZLIMISTS R TRYNA BAN CHRISTMAS CUS ITZ OFFENCIVESE N STUFF!!!11″. It is rubbish. It always amazes me that the majority of people in those facebook groups who claim to be “standing up for England“, manage to quite effortlessly rape the entire language. Or, of course they claim St Georges day is being banned, because it might offend people who are either gay, muslim, black, or anything that doesn’t fit into their narrow vision of what makes one “English” (which apparently, is simply limited to being racist, angry, ignorant and supremely illiterate). For example, I have decided for the next ten seconds, I will embrace what it means to be English, as perceived by a very select few idiots:
“DER WEL BAD!!!!11 TRYNA BAN ENGERLUND FLAGS N TAKE OUR WOMAN N DEY DONT EVAN TALK ENGLUSH ON DA FONE OR ANYFING. WERE GUNNA LOOSE SHACKESPERE TO DA MUZZIES!!!!11″
Sadly, ignorance is pretty damn easy. I might get used to it. Let me just let off some steam first.

No one, anywhere, has ever told you that being proud of England, is racist. Never. What I will tell you is, if you claim you’re proud of England because it’s for white people who aren’t muslim, then yes, you’re a racist. I find it ridiculous that people try to define what it means to be an abstract concept. I find it even more ridiculous that people will join groups like the EDL, thinking they are defending their weak and rather ugly version of what it means to be English. I didn’t realise it was “English” to join violent racist groups of hooligans, who threaten Journalists for printing negative columns about them. What amazes me, is that EDL and BNP supporters, can actually read.
The NUJ recently showed that a few journalists received death threats from the EDL. The police are currently investigating it.
One of the EDL’s chief strategists is a man called Alan Lake. He advises the Sweden Democrats on immigration policy. His immigration policy isn’t simply “extremists are evil”, it’s “anyone who isn’t like us, is evil”. Much like the EDL, who claim to be anti-extremist, yet will sit protesting outside mosques, that have no connection to extremism whatsoever. It’s just a group that people can say “LOOK! A SIKH JOINED!!! THAT MEANS WE’RE NOT RACIST!!!”
I don’t particularly care if they suddenly become non-violent (which is impossible, far-right organisations have a bit of a history of violence). They are still vicious, nasty little shits.
It is one of those groups, that appeal to the stupid, by using “clever” language to manipulate political and social discourse, make people feel they are a part of something, and to sustain itself, there must be an “other” an enemy, who they can direct their hate at. Muslim extremists, Christian extremists, and now Nationalist extremists are doing the same thing. And if people fall for it, so be it. I’m proud that i’m not as idiotic as them.

I also notice the BNP put up some wondrous candidates for MP and council elections this year.
Ken Booth, who referred to Auschwitz as a holiday camp for people, much like Disneyland.
Lynne Mozar, who when confronted by someone who simply questioned her economic policy, replied “fat slag”
Mathew Tait, who said that the the Equality and Human Rights Commission court case had forced the BNP to accept “people who we would wish to not have in our country really to be members of our party”. Damn them, for making you accept black people.
Mike Shore, who left the National Front in 2003, to start up a British version of the Ku Klux Klan.
Richard Hamilton, the BNP said they’d suspended him because he is a known Hitler supporter, who hates “niggers“. Apparently they didn’t suspend him for long.
Chris Beverley, refused to condemn Hitler, and said he doesn’t dislike him.
Ian Meller, fined £400 after being caught with a chair leg, threatening a gay guy, simply for being gay.
Barry Bennett, who said recently “I believe in National Socialism, WW2 style, it was best, no other power had anything like it,” ‘he wrote. “The ideology was fantastic. The culture, nothing like it. If it was here now, I’d defect to Germany.”
Tess Culnane, was National Front candidate until 2008.
Jeffrey Marshall, when asked about David Cameron’s son who died, said “We live in a country today which is unhealthily dominated by an excess of sentimentality towards the weak and unproductive. No good will come of it.”

The Nation State is very much a part of this whole Nationalist debate, something that goes back over four hundred years.

The Nation State came around about 16/17th Century. It actually evolved through Protestantism. As Henry VIII started to question the legitimacy of the Pope, the Parliament of the day granted full power over the Nation of England, to the King. Something that hadn’t ever been done before. Thomas Cromwell was the key to it all. It was his legislation. He also completely reformed the way politics was conducted, by introducing a sort of bureaucracy and departmental governing and National institutions, which had never been done before. Protestantism was the basis for an emerging Nation State. To build that Nation State among the minds of the Kings subjects, required building a sense of National unity. Which was odd, given that Kings and Queens of Europe were marrying and producing children who were half English, half Spanish. Or Half French, half Italian, and so on. It was also odd, given that whilst the King and the Nobles still lived in luxury, the majority of the people, including the army, lived shit lives of squalor. The King and Court didn’t seem to give much of a shit about their people for most of the time. The problem was, that most people felt a sense of connection with the rest of Europe, due to their Catholic roots. They felt a strong bond with the Papacy. That now needed to change. The King and Court needed to direct that sense of loyalty away from the Pope, and toward the Crown. But the King is simply someone who lives and then dies. So basing a sense of loyalty on something far greater was needed. The State was born. The idea of England as a unified set of principles, was born. The King had to use a psychological weapon of some sort to persuade the people, that when they go to war, they are going to war for the good of England. What difference would it make, who was in control of England? Whether it be a French King, a Scottish King, a Spanish King, or an English King? They were all the same, with the same system. They were merely using the lower classes, to protect themselves and their wealth and status. And so with the onset of Protestantism (which wasn’t down to any religious reason, and was entirely down to a King and his council getting a little too power hungry), the government of the day, now had a complete say over the way their Country was run. Europe was governed by the Papacy in Rome before that. Even England, up until 1534 was pretty much governed by Rome. The Holy Roman Empire stretched across Germany and Austria and Belgium. It was one big nation. And it worked for Centuries. In fact, for the majority of British history, as i’ve stated before, from the year 0 to 2010, we were a strict Catholic country. Catholicism, is our traditional connecting value.

Fast forward 470 years, and America and Britain are now telling their people, especially those in the lower classes that they should put their lives on the line, in a war for the good of England and Britain and the rest of the World. When, on the contrary, those ridiculously brave men and women are dying, for the good of American and British business interests, and in fact, merely perpetuating the problem of Islamic extremism World Wide. I’m only surprised that it’s the extremist Muslims who have been the first to snap. I would have put money on it being the Latin Americans.

National Pride created by an elite set of rulers has never been about celebrating a common ancestry, or a common ethical standard. It has always been about Imperialism, either by force, by economic means, or by a mixture of both.

Nation States evolved during the colonial era, and are simply a left over of the colonial days. We drew straight lines on Africa. Go look at a map of Africa. It is divided almost into perfect squares. Do you think that is biological? It REALLY isn’t. We didn’t care about the tribes and who they identified themselves with. We just needed an easy way to know what land we’d decided were ours, and which were French owned plots of African land, for the purpose of slavery and exploitation.

Thomas Paine writing in section 3 part 2 of “The Rights of Man” over two centuries ago, says of the difference between the old Monarchical past and the new Globalised, democratic future;

“The one encourages national prejudices; the other promotes universal society, as the means of universal commerce.

The Nation States in Europe worked fine when we could strictly regulate trade, and capital and the influx of slaves. When economies were National. It embedded itself into our way of life, pretty quickly. It helped build our economy, so when we eventually became far more capitalist, we had a strong basis to work from, we had a massive advantage. Now, if you want the benefits of a globalised economy; cheap imports etc, then Nation States are hugely contradictory to that aim. If your borders are pretty much fully open to goods and to capital and are not rooted to their Nation of origin, and that capital is always looking for the best return on investment, then saying things like “British jobs for British people” is so unbelievably 17th Century Colonial reasoning, it’s not even worth trying to argue against. If capital and goods are able to flow freely across the World, then it stands to reason that labour should not be chained to it’s nation of ‘origin’, and so with labour comes different philosophies and cultures from Countries that have been colonial and protectionist for centuries. If you are the owner of a company, and you are looking for the best return on investment, and a Pakistani man applies for the same job as a white British man, and the Pakistani man is clearly better at the job, far more likely to raise profits, which in turn helps to create new jobs, why on Earth would you choose the Pakistani man? National identity is not compatible with Capitalism, because building a wall around popultion, is like building a wall around capital. It isn’t compatible with the aims of a globalised economy. It is only going to damage the country in the long run.

Our impact on the World, is quite real. The decisions that are made at the Bank of England, or at Westminster, can and do directly affect people in places like Afghanistan and African Nations. We call them “developing” because we assume that unless they follow our economic structure and accept that our way is the best way, they can never be “developed“, even if they are perfectly happy with the way their World is. We demand that they open their markets by lowing tariffs and removing any support for local farmers. We then flood their markets, and given that they don’t fully understand what a market based economy actually means, they are forced to give up everything they know, and succumb to our ways. We then put their wives and their kids in factories under appalling working conditions, for little or no money, working most of the day and night, so we can buy cheap shit from Primark, and then say “Well at least they’re earning” as if that’s justification. We cannot get away from the fact that we have a huge impact on the “developing” World, for our own benefit, and those people have absolutely no say over it. Illegitimate power. So who are the real victims of some abstract culture war, you dumb xenophobic, racist fucking idiot.

I do think National Identity is a human creation. And so, an abstraction. It isn’t real. We have assigned land masses to groups of people, and are deeply suspicious and unwilling to accept people who were born on other land masses, as being similar to us. We think that others, who were born on the same land mass as us, are the same, share the same beliefs and ideals and that no one else could possibly understand, and so they are “other”. It is nonsense. An abstraction.

The real social connections between people are based on ethical standards, but they are not rooted to a particular land mass indefinitely. Nor is it based on biology. If you identify your ethics, your standards, and your reasoning, to a particular culture, if that particular culture is the way you live your life, then yes, you are apart of that culture.

Pride in your Country, especially at times of international competition like the World Cup is great. I will be wearing my England shirt, for much of it. It is a time when people should indeed feel a real part of society in an increasingly individualist World. However, that sense of shared identity should be open to all who consider themselves a part of it, not just a few who happen to be white, and xenophobic.

There, now that I’ve got that off my chest, back to being an idiot:
“OMG DEY R SAYIN DAT ITS WRONG 2 SMEAR POO IN A MUZZIES FACE NOW INKASE IT OFFENDZ DEM!!!!!1 FUKIN POLITICAL CORECTNESS!!!1″

The Abstraction

Around the year of Muhammad’s birth, the Arabians within the central penninsula were actively resisting the Byzantines and the Persians, and in fact organised religion and empire in general. They did not however, escape the pull and the “meaning” that comes with abstract concepts invented by humanity, plaguing the West at the time. The Arabians instead practiced the concept of “Muruwwah”. This idea stressed the importance of courage and patience, endurance and honour. It kept the tribes going. It was a concept that penetrated every aspect of their lives. They were taught that society would fall apart without it. And yet, when logic prevails, Muruwwah doesn’t actually exist. It’s a subjective man made concept.

Man has always confined itself to abstractions. The problem with abstractions, and in particular abstract philosophies and concepts, is that whilst they attempt to provide dogmatic objectivity, they are by nature, massively subjective.

Humans have always placed an unattainable goal ahead of us, a goal that throughout our lives sucks up our hopes, our desires, our dreams, our human decency, like a sponge. The concept of Heaven, which is largely derived from the concept of an eternal World of Plato and other Greeks, tells us that this life is going to be a bit of a disappointment, but your dreams are going to come true in Heaven. Heaven acts as a sponge for positivity whilst the World we live in is a reflection of negativity. There is no Capitalism in heaven. There is no poverty in heaven. There is no climate change in heaven. And yet, the majority of us do not care to see our fantasy of a Heavenly World reflected on Earth. Why is that? Heaven is a man made fantasy ideal, and yet we place it in a box labelled “other“.

The Nation State is a product of colonialism. The Europeans carved up Africa into Nation States as a way of control. We could control the labour force, we could control slavery, we could control information, we could control the movement of capital. Nation borders are meaningless. They always have been. They are meaningless, because they exist in the collective mind of humanity only. The Nation State did not exist before humanity, it did not exist for the majority of the time humanity has been on the planet, it will not exist after humanity, and it does not exist to anything else other than humanity. And so therefore, it is meaningless, because it doesn’t exist. Like organised religion, the Nation State was used as a method of control by humanity over humanity.

As Capitalism took hold, Nation States no longer had the control over labour, slavery and capital that they once had. Nation States are entirely at odds with Capitalism. In fact, Nation States only really work when an economy is entirely protectionist, and Empires exist. Nation States were never about race, or identity, or culture, or anything of the sort. They have always been about control. Control previously lay at the feet of the Monarch. The State, was the Monarchy. Man and State were the same thing.
Israeli historian Martin Van Creveld says:

“What made the state unique was that it replaced the ruler with an abstract, anonymous, mechanism.”

Nationalism by logic then, is less than 500 years old. Racism grew with colonialism, and whilst the cancer of racism has largely been destroyed, remnants still remain and people are still quite unapologetically racist, with no actual reasons for their racism. Nationalism is an “other”. It is something we think is larger than ourselves, it is largely pathological because before human beings, and after human beings, England will not exist. A land mass that we once inhabited will exist. But England, and it’s abstractions that work simply to disassociate ourselves with the rest of humanity in the same way as Christianity and Islam and America and Pakistan and sexuality does.

Corporations today have more rules, more regulations, more limits on information, labour and capital than any Nation has. Corporations and their laws are just as abstract and nonsensical as Nation States. Corporations are the modern day Nation States. You all look a certain way, talk a certain way, waste your life trying to obtain this subjective and abstract concept of “success”. We are now governed by Capitalism or a form thereof. It tells us if we work hard enough, we can achieve anything we wish. But that simply isn’t true. Capitalism is the dome that we are living under, and it’s promise of ‘everything’ is in the same box as Heaven…. “other”. It is religion.

Catholicism, Protestantism, Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Communism, Materialism; they are do not exist. They are ideals that soak up hopes and dreams and say “YOU CAN HAVE THEM IF YOU……. work hard enough/are white/keep buying shit you don’t need/own nothing because the State owns it for your benefit………. but eventually you’ll be the perfect happiness.” They are the “other“. The concept of Heaven is very similar. The concept of Plato’s eternal realm is very similar. Abstractions that don’t actually exist in anything other than man’s mind, are used to control man. The men who create these concepts have created them for the purpose of control. Feudalism was a system of control. Capitalism is not much different. There are still Lords who suck up the majority of the wealth at the behest of the many. The U.S Constitution protects a certain class of person. The USSR protected a certain class of person. Whether or not it was designed with that specific goal in mind is debatable, but perhaps subconsciously a certain class of people always assume they are best placed to rule.

The Catholic Church was set up to spread the word of Jesus, yet ended up being perhaps one of the wealthiest institutions on the planet. In the 16th Century, instead of helping the poor that Christianity swears to do, the Catholic Church took money off of the poor, to finance St Peters. They found ridiculous ways to justify the selling of indulgences because the abstract concept they were attempting to spread, which they had inevitably corrupted, demanded obedience, even though the entire doctrine was based on conjecture, dodgy history and man made abstractions.

Catholicism created a culture of idol worship with the creation of Saints. We in the modern era have took that idol worship that the Bible strictly forbids, and our new idols are National pride, pop stars, sports stars, TV presenters, authors. They are also in the realm of “other“. Their public success is largely fatuous, worthless, and offers very little in the sense of the progress of humanity, but they’re worshipped as idols. We salute a flag that we invented, We wear the clothes that the stars wear, we recite their words, we want our bodies to look like theirs, we concentrate far too much energy on being like them, than being like ourselves. Why is that? Is that natural? Perhaps so. Humans have always created an abstraction that we place above ourselves, perhaps because we cannot cope with the notion that we as a species are the height of intelligence. And yet, we are. We created God. We created Nations. We created all other abstractions, the very same abstractions that today hold us all back and group us together into ridiculous categories.

To break away from these abstractions, and concentrate on reality, is in a sense Anarchism. Libertarianism evolves from the idea that we must break away from abstractions, and whilst I think Libertarianism goes too far to the right, I understand it’s principles. But then Anarchism itself, is dogmatic, and an abstraction……and…………… ARGGGH!!!! I don’t know how to end this blog.

Life, Work, Love and 2010

I haven’t blogged at all recently, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, my computer died, and i’m forced to use a disastrously primitive piece of computing equipment, which could blow up at any given second. And secondly, I don’t really have much to say. So, given that it is fast approaching the end of the year, I thought i’d sum up my year, for those who happen to be interested.

Life:
I discovered a significant amount about myself this year. I appear to be both growing up, and becoming what some would describe as immature. According to the unwritten rule, to be mature means to accept authority without question, to accept the framework on which we are all born, without question, and to give in to a chase for money, without question. To be mature, means to join a race for more, never satisfied with what one already has, we only reach maturity when we have accepted that we are greedy by nature (which, I do not accept). Therefore, I am immature. I would also argue that the most enlightened minds on the planet, exist for those very few seconds after birth, when we see the World as it supposed to be seen, with wonder; untouched and unnamed by humanity.
I like the idea that when a new born baby sees an ocean, he or she has no idea what it is, they do not have a word for it, they do not understand it’s characteristics, they do not know who put it there, what it’s purpose is, they don’t even have a concept of “purpose”….. which, to me, means the new born baby, is the purest and most Worldly form of life, they see the World with a beauty that you and I lost a very long time ago. When we grow up, we concoct these silly little absurd concepts, like “purpose” to suit our economic needs. Along with “purpose” other concepts, that just did not exist before human beings ridiculously invented them to suit certain economic, money making needs, include “race”, “Nationality”, “religion”, “self discipline”, “Sir”, “Boss”, “deserving”, “work ethic” and hundreds more. Who invented these terms?

Anyway, I digressed a little there. As you can probably tell, Philosophy played a huge roll in my 2009. I took a bit of a depressed stage, not understanding the point of me, earlier this year. I struggled to understand why people and friends can live life comfortably, and securely, blindly acquiescing to the notion that those who do not question, or think, or criticise, or employ a sense of reason and logic to the World around them, or even read a book at all in their lives, are able to live an uneventful, secure, blissfully ignorant life. I have no practical skill, no practical skill that is worth anything to the community that I live in interests me in the slightest. I do not want to manage a team, nor do I want to run a bar, or sell houses, or offer legal advice. In fact, I have no real idea what I want from life. I just know that when I’m at work, behind a bar, selling alcohol to rich people, there is a constant voice in the back of my mind saying “what the fuck is the point of all of this? What good is this? Why do you care if someone complains that their coffee isn’t warm enough? Where is the incentive to make money for a socially shielded man who doesn’t know your name and does nothing but criticise you? How fucking absurd is life. ” Yet, those who do not question, and just accept that “that’s just how it is“, will get on just fine throughout their lives. Then, I discovered Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, two beautifully eloquent and logical Existentialist Philosophers, who taught me in 2009 that the little voice in the back of my mind, was searching for meaning and purpose, in a Universe void of meaning or purpose. They taught me that the entire notion that a bigger picture exists, is so horrendously arrogant of humanity, that to embrace it, means we will never be happy, we will always want something more. And so, there is no black and white, no objective realities, just a mix of meaningless, dead, redundant ideas.

Work:
I started University this year. So far, so good. I study Politics and Journalism and Italian language on the side. The one issue I have with University, is it doesn’t seem to be teaching me much. Lecturers appear to be reading out loud, something that someone else has said. They seem to expect our essays, to be full of things someone else has said. Nothing is original, or requires original thought. Even a question titled “What do you understand by the term…….” does not particularly want to know what I understand by a term, instead wanting me to write down what somebody else has said about a specific term. Any form of subjective thinking, and critically analyzing an idea or concept, feels somewhat forbidden.
Despite this slight issue, I do really enjoy University.

Love:
I’ll simply copy exactly what I wrote in my previous blog entry, for those who missed it.
I want to meet someone, who makes me feel like Byron felt when he penned “She Walks in Beauty”. That’s not to say that I haven’t already met her, i’m pretty sure that I have. But, it’s far more complicated than not.
I worked out this year, that my own slightly promiscuous past was the result of my horrendous desire to feel wanted. It wasn’t an attempt to impress friends with my list of “shags“. I’ve never been one to give a shit about impressing people. I have spent the past six months going on date, after date in an attempt to figure out what it is I want. And i’m only human, I have my flaws and my insecurities. One of which, as already mentioned, is my need to feel wanted. Which, I accept is disastrously arrogant of me. But, on a deeper level, feeling wanted does not just resign itself to intimate encounters with nameless blonde haired brown haired black haired blue eyed green eyed tall short thin fat women from nowhere and everywhere, it’s a need to feel that as I person, my existence is not completely pointless, or absurd (blame Camus and Sartre for my assumptions on absurdity).
I do miss having someone to talk about my day with, or to cook with. I miss affection. I miss the feeling of not remembering how life existed without that person. I miss watching a film together, or becoming addicted to a TV show with or play fighting with. I miss planning holidays together. I miss spending weeks before her birthday trying to figure out what she wants and panicking right up until the last minute that she might not like it. I miss it all, especially the bond which certainly doesn’t exist with one nighters. But, in the search for that lasting feeling again, the tendency to let my guard down has crept in, which has never happened before. I discovered in the past couple of months, that I have a fickle heart, in that a simple smile from a beautiful girl gleamed in my direction, has the ability to make me think I’m in some sort of romantic comedy in which we’re going to end up happily married together by the end of the movie.
I do not want to end up like the couple who don’t trust each other. Or the couple who ban each other from talking to exes. Or the couple who claim to love each other within a few days of getting together. It is extraordinarily rare that I meet a couple who appear to actually belong together, often my instant reaction in my mind is quite pessimistically: “they wont last long“. This feeling of rarity affects my own life. It’s incredibly rare for me to see someone, and smile simply because they’re there. I’m constantly dating people I know just don’t suit me, or maybe it’s my fussy nature finding flaws.

Entertainment:
I discovered quite a deep love for poetry this year. Lord Byron, Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Keats, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Dylan Thomas, among many more.
Plath, for the way she dealt with turning a tortured mind, into the work of genius, is by far my favourite poet of all. To have the ability to turn ineffable feelings into beautiful language, is something I’m in awe of.
Lord Byron, Wordsworth and Keats, for the ability to romanticise the World on a level that speaks to me quite profoundly.
On January 9th, I intend to make my way down to The Tate Britain in London, to view the Turner and the Masters exhibition. To have works by Turner, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and Canaletto in the same place at the same time, is far too good an opportunity to pass up.
On a more superficial level.. I have a horrible addiction to The Sopranos and Lost. Seriously addicted. I could talk about them both, for hours on end. I’m counting down the days until the final Season of Lost begins. I want a Dharma tshirt!

Beliefs:
When two or three Muslim men blow themselves up in England, we suddenly decide that Islam itself, and it’s believers should be viewed with a degree of suspicion. Yet, when two, three, four, five, or more white British middle aged men get convicted for child abuse, we do not practice that very same logic, and decide all white middle aged men should be viewed as potential paedophiles. Why is that?
I’m not entirely sure why the City that I live, is very much more racist and Nationalist than it’s ever been before. The war cry of the stupid: “I’m English! I was born here! I’m a second class citizen in my own Country!” Is more and more common. Why? For what reason? White British, or Pakistani Muslim, it’s all a social construct, it isn’t based on science or fact or anything other than divisive mechanisms that humanity put in place. Cut us open, and we’re all red, the same red. Science has pretty much proven that biological determinism just doesn’t exist. We cannot distinguish intelligence, or work ethic, or a need to be criminally active, with a race. What we consider to be distinctive “races” are simply social constructs that we as humans, have invented. Therefore, racism and nationalism are largely futile, pointless, and fantasy, as well as being moronic, meaningless, useless, and childish.
We now in fact, put working man against working man. The BA strikes have left most working people deciding that the workers are in the wrong. They chose to ignore the fact that greedy incompetent management is solely to blame, instead choosing the blame the workers. Another social construct designed to keep the masses obeying whatever the top guys say.
It’s a new phenomena. For Centuries, the whole concept of white and black, did not exist. It was used as a tool of Capitalism in the early days of the USA and Colonial Africa and India, in order to divide white working class people and black/Asian working class people from forming alliances and challenging the powers that be. Before that, White Brits were killing each other, because one section was Catholic, the other was Protestant. Or one section was Royalist, the other Parliamentarian Republicans. We have always found pathetic excuses to hurt each other. Race, religion, and ethnicity is relatively new in that regard.
The cry of “They’re taking all our jobs!”. For every one Pakistani gentleman that gets a job over you, another ten White Brits will be given a job ahead of you. Are you starting from the rather moronic premise that White Brits deserve first consideration for a job, before any other colour or religious belief purely because they were lucky enough to be born here? If you owned a business, and a Muslim candidate for a job was far more suited than his White counterpart, why on Earth would you chose the White Brit? Why is colour, ethnicity and race even an issue? What the fuck is your problem? There is absolutely nothing British or English about the EDL and the BNP. They are utter scum.

Religiously:
I disregard all organised religion as highly divisive illogical myths filled with flaws, that just would not exist, had an all powerful, all knowning God actually created them.
That said, I do not disregard the idea of spirituality. In fact, I find the essence of humanity to be at odds with the essence of the materialist World that we inhabit, and so spirituality; as a mechanism to take ourselves away from that materialist nightmare, is a wondrous thing.
To find out just who we are, our strengths and weaknesses as human beings rather than good little workers, has been of monumentous importance to me over the past year. I’ve submitted myself to books on Taoism and Buddhism, I fill my bedroom with candles and incense sticks, which have a profound relaxing affect on me, much like the feeling I get, with the mellifluous nature of a serene mind, when sat overlooking an ocean void of all human touch, on a warm summer evening. The feeling of carelessness, unattached from reality for a tiny moment is so incredibly important to me. And so spirituality, and getting to understand myself has worked to both relax me, and paradoxically, make me more conscious of my shortcomings, unable to figure out (as of yet) how to correct them.

2010:
I want a weekend in Paris.
I want a weekend in Venice.
I want to fill my brain with relatively useless information, about Roman history, and Art, and Tudor history, and Political Philosophy.
I want to love someone.
I want to continue to question everything around me.
I want to read more Sartre.
I want to embrace romance much more.
I want to eat healthier and become a bit fitter physically.
I want a better job, that I actually enjoy and involves helping those who need it, rather than those who don’t.
I want to take up Photography again.
I don’t want to turn 24.

Too much to ask? One can dream.

A symbol

It is horribly easy to hate. It’s much more difficult to think.
Apparently, residents of the City I live, Leicester, are objecting to a statue of Gandhi being erected next to a main road. These incredible facebook groups; I will deface the Gandhi Statue and English nationalists attending Unveiling of Gandhi Statue Leicester, have decided they cannot possibly lead a normal life, when their City has an International symbol of peace and hope as a Statue. It is they, who have turned it into a battle of cultures and Nationalities, rather than an acceptance of a concept.

Fat Nazi chav, Lee Ingram, has been on TV recently suggesting that a Gandhi Statue is simply politically correct Britain gone mad. Of course, to those of us who aren’t ignorant, the phrase “political correctness gone mad” is usually used to describe a situation, where the ignorant have a bit of a tantrum that their obvious racism or xenophobia simply isn’t acceptable. I’ve actually heard people say “Well, calling someone a paki, is like calling me a Brit”….. I’m not entirely sure it’s possible to exist on a more ignorant plateau than that.

This genius has created a facebook topic entitled “whoes up for it”. Which in itself, is beautiful. An English Nationalist with such a slender grasp on the English language, could not have created a more ironic topic, if he’d have tried. He goes on to embarrass humanity in general, by showing his weak minded, pro-violent attitude toward life, with “im going to paint it fucking wjite. then a week later blow the bastard up.” I’m sure all us White British folk are delighted we have this idiot to “stick up” for us.

Now, I’m not sure what the problem is. Gandhi is a World wide figure of peace, of spiritiuality, of non-violence, he is a symbol, he is not simply a Nationality or a Religion. The politics of hate is slowly creeping back to the minds of those who consider themselves “indigenous British”. I’m not about to succumb to the notion that I’m supposed to respect deeply racist groups dedicated to the White power movement. I don’t. I don’t care if they suddenly have BNP representation. They disgust me. They’re scum. They do not deserve the respect of anyone. I do not need thugs claiming to “stand up for me“.

The Nationalists want a statue…………… of Gary Lineker. Simply because he was born in Leicester. A footballer. A commentator for the BBC. Apart from kicking a ball, i’m not sure what contribution Linekar has made to the Planet, and to society as a whole, but then, I’m just a “loony leftie“. I’d go as far as to suggest that by Nationalist logic, St George, their hero, is an odd choice, given that he’s Palestinian. Hypocrisy is a wondrous thing.

The Gandhi statue is funded by Indian Charity, Samanwaya Parivar. The charity has said “We have never said that there should not be any other statues in Leicester. This particular statue of Gandhi will be entirely funded by our charity as a gift to the city. It will add to the vibrant and multicultural elements of this city since Gandhi’s philosophies of truth, peace and non-violence had no boundaries.” They’re right. Very much so. If someone like Ingram who quite ridiculously claims that Gandhi… “has no connection to English culture or the English” wants a Gary Lineker statue in the City then i’m sure both Samanwaya Parivar and the loony lefties such as myself, would not have a problem with it. In fact, it’d look great outside the Walkers Stadium. I’d fully support it. However, if it’s a choice between the two….. I’m going for Gandhi every time.

If these absolutely crazed Nationalists insist on reflecting back to a period when Britain was “great” it will be hard for them to ignore the fact that Gandhi (who studied and lived in England for a while) is Indian, and India contributed over 1,000,000 troops to the British cause, during World War I. Hundreds of thousands died, whilst at the same time, Britain controlled trade by sea to India, which certainly helped Britain’s Sub-continental dominance and thus our wealth and overall standard of living. India, has been interlinked with Britain for the past four centuries. From 1600 onwards, the East India Company, a British owned monopolistic company for trade, had such strong dominance in India, exploitation for our benefit, was their main weapon. If Nationalists want to “protect our culture”, then they must realise just how widespread our culture actually is. It certainly isn’t restricted to our four walls. And given the struggle that Gandhi went through to gain Indian independence from English rule, to protect millions of people, and given he pioneered the philosophy of Satyagraha (the concept of non-violent demonstration), which went on to influence Martin Luther King and help toward to founding of American Civil Rights, I’m not sure why Gary Lineker (although, he does make a pretty good Golf commentator, I give him that) deserves a statue over Gandhi, simply because he was born in Leicester? However, Gandhi was technically British, having been born in British India. He was as British as St Margaret, whom our Leicester Bus Station is named after, and whom happens to be Scottish. Of course, he was Asian by heritage, and so, he stands no chance. If he were American, these English Nationalists would not give a shit.

I support a Gandhi Statue in the City I was born in, because I vehemently support the philosophy of Gandhi and the impact he had on the World. He will be remembered forever, as a 20th Century cultural icon dedicated to non-violence. I’m not all that bothered about what Gary Lineker achieved as a footballer. It’s not all that important.

To sum up, Gandhi helped influence the Civil Rights movement in America, one of the most important movements in Western History, he influenced a philosophy of peace and respect, A UN general assembly resolution recognises his birthday as International Day of Non-violence. India helped finance luxury back in England, and contributed over 1,000,000 troops to our War effort, thousands died so that the “indigenous Brits” back home could continue to live happy peaceful lives. But then, Gary Lineker was the leading scorer of the 1986 World Cup. Perhaps I need to get my priorities in order.

Hope not hate

Unite Against Fascism

Hope Not Hate

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Love Music Hate Racism

I’m sick of bigoted Hitler-esque BNP rhetoric. Aimed at making the white British people feel as if we’re the victims of some vast foreign conspiracy, an us VS them mentality, an exclusion philosophy that has no place in the inclusive modern World. A World built on difference, celebrated for that individuality, regardless of ethnicity. We do not need a fundamentally backward and vicious organisation polluting minds. Let the BNP bitch about their rights being suppressed, and the “liberal” media just because the BBC doesn’t spew white supremacy bullshit.

I’m sick of anti-Islam fanatics joining with Hitler sympathisers and football hooligans in a Nationalist Party, whilst claiming to be “non-racist“. Are we going to make Muslims, England’s version of the Jews in 1930s Germany? Nationalism is just as deadly as Religious bigotry and intolerance.

I’m sick of the BNP hijacking the British flag, creating a racist aura around the Union Jack. The flag should be a symbol of diversity, culture, innovation and unity, not of “you’re not white? Get the fuck out“. Nationality and colour are the superficial, man made obsession with segregation, competition and superiority.

I’m sick of the slow rise of the far right. Of evil; hatred, intolerance, separation, suspicion and violence. Infecting the minds of the easily influenced and manipulated. The belief that you’re not racist if you support the BNP, whilst their leader is free to say “we affirm that non-whites have no place here at all, and will not rest until every last one has left our land“. Not racist? Seriously?

I’m sick of feeling like being White and British is an achievement, above any other, rather than out of sheer luck. Cooperation, and a mutual respect with all religions and colours is the way the World should work. If you choose to hate because others hate you, you’re no better.

I’m sick of how many people are buying into it.

I’m sick of being told that I hate my Country if I have no problem with a Pakistani gentleman getting a job ahead of me. Britain helped to defeat psychotic Nationalism in the 1940s. I wont stand by whilst the legacy of hope and unity left by our grandparents is destroyed by a bunch of bigoted idiots.

I’m sick of this “ indigenous white race” bullshit. Didn’t we defeat Nazism? Aren’t we past that regressive phase of human existence? You aren’t telling me what it means to be British, i’m British, i’ll come to my own conclusion.

I’m sick of hearing every year, “They’re banning St Georges day!“…. i’ve never seen anyone arrested for celebrating St Georges Day. Put on a party, go celebrate it. Who’s stopping you? Perhaps you could go find an article in the Daily MFail, but not in the real World. And here’s the shocker….. St George was Palestinian. An immigrant!

I’m sick of hearing them tell me that they are not racist……. the fact their party does not allow black people in, is contrary to that claim. The fact that Mark Collett of the BNP, is on record as saying that Nazism was the best solution for Germany in the 1930s (you know, the regime that killed 6 million Jews including children), suggests otherwise. The fact that Stewart Williams, a BNP candidate in the local elections is seen on film saying “All I want to do is shoot Pakis” suggests that claiming to be non-racist, is a little misleading. No matter how many times they say “We’re not racist, we’re not fascist“, it doesn’t deviate from the fact that they are racist, and they are fascist.

I’m sick of being told that the BNP are “sticking up for British people“…… I don’t need far right racists sticking up for me, nor do the largely liberal and tolerant population of Britain, fuck off. Stick up for the thugs who line the streets on a Saturday night demanding fights, don’t stick up for me. I’m better than that.

I’m sick of the underhanded racist attitudes hidden under a web of deceitful claims coated with pictures of Churchill, as if he’d ever be part of a Party whose leader once called interracial children “tragic“.

I’m sick of the fact that decades of struggle, war and peaceful demonstration aimed at gaining liberation and rights for those less fortunate, for different cultures, for homosexuality, is threatened by a bunch of hate filled thugs.

I’m sick of hearing the suggestion that Muslims are trying to turn England into an Islamic State. Where the fuck is the evidence? An article from the Daily Mail highlighting one Muslim Lady’s concerns that Christmas decorations might offend her children, is not an indication that the entire Muslim population of Britain is trying to replace the Queen with a Sultan.

I’m sick of the BNP telling me that by “sending them home” they will be able to put all British people back into work ending unemployment. What sort of pathetically ridiculous claim is that? What about the businesses owned and run by foreigners? What about McDonalds, Starbucks, and American owned franchises? Surely by the BNP logic, those places will be shut down? So where do those workers go? BNPDonalds? The pool of unskilled, semi skilled, skilled, and highly skilled workers out of work would be huge.

I’m sick of hearing BNP supporters spout “i’m not racist but….“, usually a pretext for an indescribably ignorant and racist statement to follow.

I’m sick of hearing “they take all our jobs” – the laws of supply and demand suggest otherwise, you neo-nazi moron.
I’m sick of the BNP lurching on to discontented voters in working class communities, promising them the World, sparking up hatred, as if immigration is to blame for the problems we all find ourselves in.

I’m sick of BNP supporters demanding their right to free speech, moaning constantly that the Liberal media tries to oppress their right to free speech, and yet paradoxically the BNP do not believe in freedom of speech for anyone other than White Brits.

I’m sick of the people suggesting that calling someone a “paki” is fine, that it’s like calling someone a “brit”. No it fucking isn’t. You use paki in an abusive way, and so it’s connotations are not friendly and tolerant. It isn’t a term of endearment. It’s ignorance at it’s best.

I’m sick of Nick Griffin trying to defend his views, whilst the BBC filmed him saying of Muslims, to BNP members “do something for the BNP because otherwise they will do someone in your family” … suggesting all Muslims are plotting some form of attack against the white families of Britain. Where’s your evidence? Where’s your proof? Why doesn’t he talk to my Muslim friends about that? Instead of providing evidence for his pathetic views, or apologising for his parties violent past, he says that the documentary was from the “institutionally anti-white and Islamophile BBC“. Anti White? Why is anyone who isn’t a bit of a Nazi, anti-white? The utter utter cunt.

I’m sick of their website, it’s “news” page, which at the top shows a billboard advertisement and tells me that muslim gangs have threatened to destroy it. Where’s the news that BNP’s Tony Lecomber, their Group Development Officer had been convicted for possessing home made hand grenades, and attacking a Jewish man for peeling off a BNP sticker. Or Mick Treacy, The Oldham organiser who has five convictions for violence, theft, and handling stolen goods. Or Robert Bennett, A BNP activist in Oldham, Bennett has served five years in prison for the gang rape of a woman, served seven years for armed robbery and has over 30 convictions in total. Where’s that in their news? When have they ever acknowledged any of that? Why mention the banning of one white man from the UK (Geert Wilders) and suggest it’s disgusting because it goes against freedom of speech, yet not complain about the banning of Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi and Amir Siddique, Muslim activist Abdul Ali Musa, Hezbollah terrorist Samir Al Quntar and Kashmiri terror group leader Nasr Javed? Racism cuts both way right? Of course those muslims should have been banned, but so should Wilders. We don’t want him here.

I’m sick of hearing from white ignorant British people, who can barely speak English themselves, whose lives consist of drinking, fighting and a bit of racism on the side, insult others for “destroying our culture“; logic would that these thugs must know all about our culture, and the history surrounding it. Logic is wrong on this one.
Let’s stop pretending you’re sticking up for British people, and start admitting you’re deeply prejudice, deeply disgusting, deeply pathetic, deeply ignorant, and so anti-British you couldn’t be more so if you tried.

Unity, tolerance, togetherness, respect, education, love and a feeling that no matter what you’re colour, no matter what you choose to believe in, no matter where you were born – we’re all people.

Watch this video. If you agree with what Griffin says on here, it’s probably best you never talk to me again.

Hope not hate

Gurkha Justice

I refuse to accept the typical comment that “This Labour government is allowing any immigrant in, and yet wont let the Gurkhas in!” simply because the argument is flawed. Firstly, it is true that the Gurkhas deserve to be here above any foreign worker, foreign businessman and family of the foreign worker or businessman. That’s true in the World of misplaced Nationalism. We do not know each individual immigrant. It is the same people who suggest that all immigrants are destroying Britain, as if they’ve acquainted themselves with each individual immigrant. And so by that very same logic, the Gurkhas deserve to be here more than I do, more than most British born people do. I’ve never put my life on the line for this country, I’ve never been in a combat situation. I’ve never wondered whether my life is about to end in defence of England. The Gurkhas did just that. And so they deserve to be here much more than I do by the “immigrant” logic being thrown around, as just another reason to insult anyone who isn’t British born. I was merely born here by luck. Immigration and Gurkha retirement are two very different subjects. They cannot be compared logically.

According to The Gurkha Justice Campaign 45,000 Gurkha’s died during World War II fighting for Britain. They have long been viewed as less important than British born soldiers. For example, those Gurkha’s who retired before 1997, can earn a pension six times smaller than that of their British counterpart. Also, only those discharged after July 1st 1997, were eligible to apply for British citizenship.

Actress Joanna Lumley, whose father served with the 6th Gurkha Rifles, has been campaigning to secure full British citizenry rights for Gurkha’s who fought for Britain, discharged before July 1st 1997. In September 2008, the High Court proclaimed that immigration rules denying 36,000 Gurkha’s the right to stay in Britain, was unlawful. Mr Justice Blake described the feeling Britain feels toward the Gurkha’s as a “moral debt of honour“, and I couldn’t agree more. And so it seemed that victory for the Gurkha’s, was more likely than ever before.

New rules however, set up by the Government, on the 25th April 2009, stipulate that the following Gurkha’s would be allowed to stay in the UK:
Three years continuous residence in the UK during or after service
Close family in the UK
A bravery award of level one to three
Service of 20 years or more in the Gurkha brigade
Chronic or long-term medical condition caused or aggravated by service

After months and months of campaigning for the rights of all Gurkha’s who have fought for this Country, The Gurkha Justice Campaign have said that this ruling will help only around 100 Gurkha’s. The Government should be ashamed. It’s as if we’re saying “You’re free to die for us, protecting us, but if you only serve 19 years, you ain’t living here!!” Not forgetting that the typical Gurkha signs up for 15 years service anyway, and that only Officers tend to achieve 20 years service. It’s appalling. If you serve Britain, you should be given an automatic right to live here, regardless of ethnicity, or land of birth. It shouldn’t even be questioned. It shouldn’t be a talking point. It’s quite a simple moral issue. Joanna Lumley said of the announcement: “They’ve given five bullet points that virtually cannot be met by the ordinary Gurkha soldier.” There is no excuse.

It strikes me as inconceivable, the idea that you can put your life on the line for another Country, and then be entirely ignored by that country in the future. Unless, you serve 20 years, or were discharged after 1997. What about those who were discharged in 1996? Why are they any less deserving of citizenship? It strikes me as utterly disgusting, that it took a High Court ruling to force Jacqui Smith to accept the need for a review. She had to be told to look into it further, otherwise the Government just wouldn’t have cared. When did Labour become the Tories? After the review, we then have a bunch of new, weak rules which in fact amount to nothing more than a total betrayal on the part of the Government.

As much as I (and millions more like me) would despise a Tory government come the next General Election, I really cannot imagine how Labour intends to actually win any seats, let alone enough to secure a majority. It is acts like this, the injustice served to the Gurkha’s by the Home Office under the advice of Jacqui Smith, whilst Jacqui Smith thinks it’s acceptable to use tax payers money to fund £116,000 worth of improvements to her 2nd home in Worcester, which will so deeply hurt Labour come the next general election. I think the phrase I’m looking for, is “a moral vacuum“.

Sign the Justice For Gurkha’s Petition by clicking here.

The exciting New World Order

THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS COMING!
I swear they were a wrestling group in WCW about fifteen years ago? So it’s not surprising that conspiracy theorists aren’t happy with Gordon Brown describing a “New World Order” emerging yesterday at the close of the G20. Quite what Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan can do to solve this economic crises, is beyond me. But hey, i’m not the expert here.

Gordon Brown used the phrase “New World Order” in the context of the economic crises. He was referring to the new powers and funds of the IMF and the way it’s going to be run. He was referring to the entire economic package with it’s rules and regulations. He was referring to leaving the old order of irresponsibility into an era of sustainable growth. An era of less Nuclear weapons in nations like America and Russia. A new era of energy efficiency and responsibility. A New World Order. That’s it. That’s the meaning of the phrase in the context of the summit. And to people like me, the phrase New World Order is exciting, because it means the old days of Right Winged economic and environmental nonsense, is over.

Politicians unfortunately, do not seem to be aware the a few American college kids refer to a bunch of shadowy rich people like the Rothschild’s, Kissinger, the Bush’s, and the Rockefellers as The New World Order, or Illuminati, or any other fictitious name they can come up with. This “New World Order” they refer to, are all trying to create a new world order in which they control the World by orchastrating events like 9/11. Now, i’m not aware that the Rothchild family and the Rockefeller’s were lacking power in the first place. But apparently so. And given that this “New World Order” or “Illuminati” has supposedly been around for centuries trying to create a one World Government (which i’m in full support of given that I despise Nationalism), they haven’t done a very good job. And if they are behind the E.U, they could have created a better constitution and framework. It would seem that they’re pretty incompetent. We need a New new World Order to replace the New World order that tried and failed to replace the old New World Order. Or, we can just accept that this concept of the New World Order, doesn’t exist!!!

The genius’s over at Infowars don’t appear to take the line i’m taking on this, which isn’t surprising. A few examples of the quotes from infowars about this “New World Order” Brown quotation, include the rather frightening, yet completely unfounded and masterfully funny:
“The NWO Illuminati have darker goals in mind, eugenics,genocide and Third World War violence” – Quite why Hulk Hogan is wanting to commit Genocide, I don’t know. But hey, it’s infowars, these kids know their FACTS! They’re also very loving. One poster on infowars, named “Bob” echoes my thoughts quite eerily (even if he is being a sarcastic Conservative):
“I think brown is right. We need change, we need to evolve past this patriotism and national identity nonesense.”
It’s funny that whenever Conservatives are trying to take the piss out of Liberals like me, I actually end up agreeing with them. Sarcastic Conservatives speak sense…. they become Liberals.
His fellow Conservative Nationalists did not see the sarcasm, even after he suggested singing kum bi yah and signed off the post with “NWO“, they still failed to see that he’s actually attacking people like me (hippies) for our left wing beliefs. This is evident with one guy replying quite comically with:
“Your friend satan don’t tell you that he want to microchipping you?
You master satan have soo much love for you and your friends!!!”
You know what are preparing the Mighty God Savaot for you, your friends and your master satan and his demons?”
Clearly coherent sentences is beyond the capabilities of “Mighty God Savaot” and his followers.
Another wondrous reply comes from “Kim“. I’ve always liked the name Kimberley, it’s got a melliflous quality to it. Sophistication. Intelligence. So imagine my surprise when “Kim” writes:
“The Hebrew Money Changers LOVE the NWO since they are the synagogue of Satan.”
Of course, no where is safe from crazed Christians with warped readings of the Bible, and useless opinions seeped in prejudice. An internet opinion based forum just wouldn’t be the same without them. And so the poster “FED UP”…. i’m assuming that’s a fake name, otherwise that person has really harsh parents… is quoted as saying:
“The NWO freaks control the governments. What do the governments control if they have them? THE NUKES AND BIOWEAPONS. When they’re ready to go…. they’re not worried. They’re going to kill all of us. They make it no secret they want to decrease the world’s population by 80%. There won’t be much of anyone left to fight back when they really implement it. Haven’t you heard of the mass graves being completed all over the U.S? If you’ve not read Revelation in the Bible… it’s a good time to start.” – Where are these mass graves, and given that the global population is set to shoot past the 9 billion mark within the next fifty years, where is the source that says there’s a chance that 80% are about to be systematically wiped out? I must have missed the news that day.

Brown is quoted as saying:
“Today’s decisions, of course, will not immediately solve the crisis. But we have begun the process by which it will be solved, I think a new world order is emerging with the foundation of a new progressive era of international co-operation” – I’m not a big Gordon Brown fan, but in this short paragraph of transcript, in comparison to Infowars, he’s speaking sense, and infowars failed. Miserably.

I’m pretty certain that when Gordon Brown used the phrase “New World Order” he wasn’t using it to either describe a WCW Eric Bishoff creation, nor was he using it in the same way that infowars use it, nor was he advocating the deaths of 80% of the World’s population, but then that’s just my thought, i’m no David Icke!

If anyone comments on this, and tells me about the pyramid with the eye, i’m going to cry.

British Nazism

The sky is falling in England today. Our Country is painted white. Which, is relevant for todays blog.

Not too long ago, at the Labour Party Conference, Gordon Brown made the catastrophic mistake of using the phrase “British jobs for British workers“. You’d be under the impression that he’s bowing to Nationalist pressure. Especially given that the UKs terms for entering the EU in 1973 stated that workers from other member states have the right to work and live in Britain.
The Labour Unions this week, along with their members are on strike, due to key infrustructure work being outsourced to foreign companies, who are refusing to let British Workers in, choosing instead to use their own foreign workers.

As a Liberal, you may be forgiven for assuming i’m going to take the foreigners side on this. Normally, I would. But the fact that they are excluding British workers, purely because they’re British, is no different to the British National Party stating on their website … “.. the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin...”, and so it is my morality that leads me to support the British workers, not because they are British and deserve British jobs ahead of migrants, far from it. But because they are being discriminated against because they are British.

I am part of an anti-Fascism, anti-BNP group on facebook in which arguments tend to arise quite often between us liberals and those Nationalists. Feel free to join it. Give your opinion. It would be amazingly appreciated.

The problem with statements Gordon Brown chose to make … “British jobs for British people”…. is it just isn’t feesible within a Global economy. And when it doesn’t work out the way it is suggested, disgruntled workers turn to parties like the BNP as a safe haven. Nationalist agendas, built around the flawed logic that one can be “proud” to be a Nationality, as if it’s an achievement rather than pure luck. It fuels the ridiculously weak argument that “Immigrants are taking all our jobs!!”. People start to support them based on their promise of British jobs. They fail to recognise the deeper problem underlining the BNP agenda. Interracial children are referred to as “immoral and tragic”. They do not allow non-white members into their party. They want to deport all non-white Brits whether born here or not. Their senior members include…

Nick Griffin, the party leader, given a two year suspended sentence for inciting racial hatred.

Colin Smith, the South East London organiser, has 17 convictions including armed robbery and stealing cars.

Tony Lecomber, the group development office, convicted of possessing home made hand grenades and attacking a Jewish school teacher for peeling off BNP sticker at an Underground station.

Kevin Scott, the North East organiser, convicted for throwing glass at a black guy, purely for being black.

Robert Bennett, BNP activist, jailed for gang rape. Also served time for armed robbery

Warren Bennett, chief steward, convicted of being a football hooligan and deported from France.
….. these people are starting to pick up support. They pray on the working class victims of New Labour’s shift to the centre. Racial hatred that did not serve in the lives of most working class people, is now being stirred up by neo-Nazis who claim only to be sticking up for White English people. I’m white and English and I certainly don’t need a bunch of thugs claiming to be sticking up for me.

We all have a common ancestor. We were all people before anyone drew a line on a map, and so i’ll always see myself as human before seeing myself as any flawed Nationality.

The paradox of Nationalist concept of freedom is bewildering at the best of times. They continually cite their right to free speech, to incite racial hatred, and yet they want to stop the right of a Muslim lady wearing a burkha. Who’s it hurting? In fact that Burkha is doing less damage to the social progression of our Nation, than a group of White Supremacists are doing with words. One Liverpudlian man went so far as to rip the veil from the face of a Muslim woman. I cannot imagine why a civilised human being would dare put their hands on somebody else and tamper with their freedom. The BNP, obviously, had nothing to say on the matter. Now, if it were the other way around, if that Muslim woman was preaching hatred toward white Brits, the BNP would have gone mad. The paradox of the Nationalist concept of freedom.

Immigrants are needed. Our economy works on the basis of demand and supply. Therefore, if a large number of new people enter the economy, they will need a new TV, Car, House, DVDs, Towels, Bedding etc…. which means demand rises, which means supply has to rise, which means new jobs are created, which gives us a better economic standing. Not only that, but according to the Home Office, a large number of immigrants come over here in their twenties, which means they haven’t used our free schooling system and so have cost us nothing. The moment they start working and paying tax, they are giving to a country that up until then, has given them nothing.
We also have an ageing population. The baby boom generation of the 1950s is getting old. They will soon retire. The ‘dependecy ratio’ , meaning the young generation who works to prop up the pensions of the old generation is becoming out of tune, which means we need immigrants to fill that gap.

Nationalists tend to talk constantly and hypocritically about how they love our culture, and yet I personally haven’t met one of them who can name a great British artist, or when the Protestant reformation that gave birth to the modern era happened, or a war hero from the two world wars, or a poet, or anything that actually resembles knowledge about the civil war; or for that matter, any thing that resembles knowledge about our culture, other than they’re white and born in England. It’s hypocritical bollocks. I’ve met Indian people who know more about our culture than most English Nationalists. It’s shameful. But I expect nothing more from neo-Nazis. It’s hypocritical because the greatest achievement of the past 150 years, was the victory over facism. And yet, these people preach a fascist agenda as being the cornerstone of ‘Englishness’. It isn’t. It’s a lie. It’s utter nonsense.

They also talk about our culture being eroded and how they want to put the ‘GREAT’ back into Great Britain. When were we ever ‘Great’? During the 1900s when children worked in mines? or during WWI when millions died for fuck all. Or the 1920s when we had huge economic difficulties and women couldn’t vote? Or the 1940s during the war? Or the 1950s when you could be banged up for being gay? Or the 1970s when we had the winter of discontent? Or the 1980s when 60% of Liverpools work force was unemployed?

Britain has never been “great”. Britain is ever changing to try to achieve Greatness, that is what is so Great about Britain. It’s ability to constantly update. Nationalists seem to possess a nostalgic feeling, pulling them back to a ‘better time’. I’m unaware of when Britain was better, and has as many opportunities and benefits as it does today, whilst at the same time, free from Government sponsored Gay bashing (Section 28 of Thatcher’s local governance act) and racial discrimination. We’re greater now, than we’ve ever been, because we have accepted that Culture is dynamic, ever changing and updating not static. That’s what makes it’s Liberal population; great.

It’s as if Nationalist would like Evolution to stop now. There stance on interracial relationships is despicable, and that’s even before you consider that we’re all interracial. Our ancestors intermixed over and over again to get to where we are now. It’s how the World has always worked. The mixing of cultures, brings new ideas, new technologies, new medicines, new foods, and new reasons for racial harmony. We are edging much closer to recognising that race doesn’t exist. That we were human before anyone invented the concept of Race or Nationality. Nationalists, do not accept this most liberating of facts.

Nationalists have been known to quote Dr Aiden Rankin, who was a member of the far right and was often quite critical of interracial relationships. They fail to notice however, that Dr Aiden Rankin renounced his far right beliefs, and has since become critical of Nationalism, and a strong supporter of equality of Liberalism. He is quoted as saying recently, in the Guardian…
“far-right racism and the scapegoating of immigrants or refugees, given voice by the British National Party, but believed in by many members of the UK Independence Party, the Eurosceptic groupuscules and the Tory party’s “traditionalist” right. This has always profoundly repelled me, both for its creeping totalitarianism and its simple-minded classification of individuals by race or group.
Soul theft is an accurate depiction of the experience of becoming right-wing. It starts as a vague impression, then progresses – if that is the word – into a world-view; it begins as a bad mood, then becomes a permanent, brooding anger. “
From an enlightened ex-far right winger, that is exactly how those of us on the Left have imagined the far right to be for a long time. Dr Rankin just confirms our apparent correct suspicions beautifully.

One the facebook group, not too long ago, a white supremacist is quoted as saying “If the election system were better representative, England would have a Nationalist government today”. This quote represents the core of the flawed arguments these Nationalists tend to make. According to election 2005 statistics….
Largely Liberal Parties:
Labout – 9,562,122 votes
Tories – 8,772,598
Lib Dems – 5,981,874
Green Party – 257,758
Nationalist Parties:
The British National Party – 192,746
UKIP – 603,298
I cannot imagine an electoral system that allows a combined Nationalist popular vote of 796,044 to take control over government, and do away with the ‘Liberal agenda’ given that the three main Liberal parties, gained a total of 24,316,594 votes. That would be an incredibly odd system.

Another guy in referring to the stabbing that took place in London this weekend, stated “I see the blacks are stabbing again”. As if he was proving somehow that all black people like to stab. I pointed out that…
Hitler was white and committed genoicide.
Musolini was white and committed murder.
Stalin was white and committed genocide.
Ted Bundy was white and committed serial murder.
Ian Huntley was white and killed two kids.
Roy Whiting was white and raped and killed a child.
Myra Hindley was white and murdered children.
Ian Brady was white and murdered children.
Rose West was white and murdered children.
Fred West was white and murdered children.
….. He then tried to suggest that although all races committ crime, the black race is the most consistant. I do not know what this means. Surely going on statistics, white people make the worst World leaders? And appear to be the most consistant paedophiles going by his logic? The point is, it highlights is just how disastrously unintelligent these Nationalists really are. However, it’s easy to see just how people are taken in by such Nationalist bullshit. And it becomes even easier to see just how people took so strongly to Hitler. Luckily, we’re a strongly Liberal country. It will stay that way for a very long time.

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” – Einstein.

Immigrants: We need them!!

This blog will argue that immigration is much needed. I’d appreciate genuine arguments against my blog instead of the usual “fucking muzzies coming to our country with their fucking burkas, fuck off, you terrorist scum”.

INTRO:
I’m becoming increasingly uneasy about the level of animosity toward anyone who happens to have an Asian skin complexion in this country, particularly in the City I live, Leicester. Whenever someone says “I’m not racist but….” you can guarantee they’ve been reading the Daily Mail, and are about to spew some disgusting out of date bile.

I’ve said before, the majority of British Nationalists, who insist that they love our Country and see immigration eroding our culture, have absolutely no knowledge of our ‘culture’ other than the fact that they like to drink a lot, fight a bit, and be a bit racist. Our culture consists of historical events like the Protestant Reformation during Henry VIII, Edward and Elizabeth’s reigns, the Civil War of the 17th Century, art movements like Gothic, Renaissance Realism, pop art and post-modernism, the horrors of the Great War that saw the deaths of millions of people for less than a square foot of land. The fight for liberalism, as Churchill’s army of warriors defeated the destructive force of Fascism. This is our culture, and the Nationalists are the ones responsible for trying destroying it.

We have a large Asian community in Leicester. One of my friends tried to suggest that the white man is in the minority in Leicester now. He went on to suggest over 70% of the City must now be foreign. I disagreed. He laughed and decided to insult my intelligence some more. It annoyed me quite deeply. He suggested that if I look around, it’s like “spot the white man”.
Firstly, even if that was the case, why is that a problem? If I were the only white guy living on my street, what’s the problem? As long as they don’t treat me like shit, why should I care? It’s a skin colour. It does not go deeper than that.
And secondly, I was fucking right. According to Leicester City Council, the White race accounts for 63% of the population of Leicester. So to sum that up, I was right, he was wrong.

I’d now like to argue against those who believe Immigration should be cut off, and we should “keep Britain White”.

AGE:
During the 1950s, after the War, we in Britain had what is described as the “baby boom”. Soldiers coming home and starting families. Between the 1980s and today, we have a “baby slump”. Hundreds of thousands of more women are starting careers early and not having children. Which means, we have an ageing population. The baby boom generation is getting old. The younger generation need to support the pensions of those ageing majority. This is known as the “dependency ratio”. Given that there aren’t enough younger people to deal with this, if we took the BNP line and stopped immigration completely, we’d have the worst pensions crises ever. If this extended to Europe, according to the author Philippe Legrain, the population of Europe would fall by 60 million by 2050. This creates a worker shortage, meaning businesses close, deflation sky rockets. An economic disaster. You need immigration.

The Welfare State:
I refuse to give a response to the awful “they come over here, taking all our benefits” whilst in the same breathe muttering “they come over here, taking all our jobs”, it’s an old outdated argument that no one has been able to prove.
The majority of immigrant workers come to Britain (according to Home Office Stats) in their 20s. They then start to work, they pay taxes.
Those workers have not been to British schools and so they have cost the tax payer nothing, whilst they pay back into the tax system. Which means more investment into public services like The NHS. So actually, we benefit, not them.
Many then start up a business, paying more into the tax system. Perhaps they’ll then have children, who will go to British schools, on the money pumped into the tax system by their parents, which is fair and just. All the time contributing to an ageing British population.

“GO HOME!!”
Many immigrants come here for a better life. If you lived in a Country where you feared for the life of you and your family every day, wouldn’t you jump at the opportunity for a better life elsewhere?
The Phillipines has began calling those people who leave the country, to work abroad “heroes”. This is because the workers, after paying tax in America for example, then send some of their earnings home, which boosts the local economies, allowing the National economy of these countries to grow, lifting millions out of poverty. It has no damaging affect on America. It’s a boost to the poor nation’s economy, and it’s much needed. Otherwise we get rich, whilst the poor get worse and worse, and that’s simply wrong. It also then means the poor countries are able to create new opportunities, new jobs, new exports, which benefit us directly.

Job Creation:
“Stealing all our jobs” seems to be suggesting that there is a static number of jobs, limited in presence, and that immigrants are fighting the British born Whites for those jobs. This is simply ignorance.
When an immigrant comes to live here, he’s going to need a house, a car, a bed, a bath, a towel, a mug, a photograph frame, sugar, a carpet, and every other luxury you can possibly imagine. When 200,000 come here, there is a sharp rise in demand for such objects, which means production needs to increase, which means new jobs need to be created for supplies to meet demand, which means instead of stealing all our jobs, immigration create jobs. It’s basic economics. If we denied these people access to our country, demand would fall sharply, prices would deflate, wages would dramatically decrease because the pool of unemployed would get bigger and bigger as businesses everywhere shut up shop.
We’d all be worse off.

“This Country is a mess!!”
To suggest the country is now a mess, is to compare it to a previous time when it wasn’t a mess. I’m not sure that this has ever been the case. Was it the 1900s during a needless war in which parents watched as their children were sent to their deaths for no good reason? Or the 1920s during the Great Depression? Or the 1940s and World War, when kids were sent away from cities and their parents? Or the 1950s/60s when women were treated as 2nd class, gay people were imprisoned simply for their sexuality and racial prejudice was rife? Or the 1970s when our binmen went on strike leading to the winter of discontent? Or the 1980s when the miners went on strike and 60% of Liverpool was unemployed? Or the 1990s when The Spice Girls topped the charts?
When was the World and in particular Britain, perfect? It wasn’t.

My conclusion:
A Nation is simply a line on a map. A meaningless flag. A place where those who have deep Patriotic feelings can get together and proclaim just how wonderful their Country is compared to the rest of the World.
We are all citizens of the same Planet. We all benefit each other economically. We all bring with us knowledge and cultural awareness that can benefit each other both socially and for our own mental strength. Only by mixing and interacting, sharing and understanding, can there ever be anything near to peace.

Vote Jamie!!

I plan to put my name forward for President of the World. So thought it wise to provide you with reasons to vote for me.

Immigration: Should have a cap, i’d agree with that. The cap must be flexible and take into account, the cost of banning someone from the Country. Immigrants who are in this country, should be given full rights. If an immigrant is better at a job than a British born citizen, then the immigrant should get the job.
There should be absolutely no form of discrimination of the grounds of race, sexuality or religion. Why should an English company be allowed to exploit the World so you can afford cheap clothes, but those who are exploited, not be allowed to seek a better life for themselves and their families here?
Anyone seeking asylum for fear of their life, should be given asylum. We’re a liberal, caring country, it should stay that way.
I do not believe in a “British way of life” so the rapid cultural changes that occur, that have always occured, i’m very much in favour of.
The danger of capping immigration, is capping the number of perfectly able entrepreneurs setting up shop and creating jobs here in England, which we need!
And far from “stealing all our jobs!” they create jobs. More people means more production needed for the rising demand of goods, which means more jobs required to create those products. A sensible government realises this.
Immigrants also contribute to the pension fund of an ageing population, who could not be fully supported without immigrants.

Nationalism : Although Jamie-Land would remain a democracy, a Liberal education and a Liberal government hopefully would put an end to all the morons who spew “I’m proud to be English!!!” – as if it’s an achievement, as if they had a choice. Imbecilic idiots who bang on about how they see the British way of life being eroded, and yet can’t name a famous English artist, or when the Protestant revolution took place, or a great English war general, or an English poet. Fuck off with your hypocritical uneducated intolerant bollocks.
And although we wont ban parties who prey on those who do not understand Politics or Economics, or human compassion, like The BNP, we will work our hardest to undermine them and prove them very very wrong.
We will work for Humanitarianism, rather than Nationalism. It offends me, that groups like the BNP want to stick up for the colour of my skin, as if I care about the Colour of my skin. It’s an embarrassment that BNP leaders like Collett, are claiming to protect my interests. I don’t want little Nazi thug idiots protecting me.

Abortion: Should remain Legal on the basis that two doctors agree that it’s the right thing to do. Religion should not influence the decision of anyone. I fully support a woman’s right to choose. Up to 16 weeks.

NHS: Our National Treasure. Should be well funded, free from private investment, because that’s one step closer to a fully privatised healthcare system, which just cannot happen. The NHS should remain a strong British institution.
Cut wasteful paperwork and bureaucratic nonsense that strangles the NHS.
More NHS GP Practices in the most run down of areas. In the hope of cutting waiting lists.
100 more Walk in centres, by 2012.

Homosexuality: This is simple for me, homosexual couples should have exactly the same rights as hetrosexual couples. There is absolutely no reason for them not to have. Homosexuality shouldn’t even be a topic of debate in this age. If God still refers to Homosexuals as an abomination, then God isn’t allowed in my country.

Religion: Everyone should have the right to believe whatever they choose without anyone causing trouble because of it. A muslim should not be made to feel like a Terrorist by self righteous British Christians. A muslim woman should not be looked down upon for wearing full muslim attire, when a Nun can quite happily wear full Christian attire and have no negative comments thrown at her. Full integration. If anyone is caught inciting racial hatred, their locked up in my country. My aim would be to stop those horribly British Nationalists petitioning Whitehall the moment a new Mosque goes up in their town.
Religion though, will in no way affect policy making or law.

Education: State Education should be the place where the highest amount of tax payers money is spent. Schools should be fighting each other for the best teachers, who should be on massive wages. My government would not sit back and do nothing, we’d pump a lot of money into the system, to improve education.
I’d put an end to Faith schools. They teach segregation. I’d introduce “Culture” classes, that promote understanding and tolerance, in which mixed race classes teach each other, learn together, and involve themselves in team work together.
We’d create a class dedicated to helping children discover themselves as people, rather than a money making machine. Dedicated to Peace studies, humanitarian studies, and charitable studies.
Homosexuality taught as acceptable and not as taboo.
Evolution taught alongside Creationism, both as theories.
EMA is a great Labour achievement, and i’d carry it on.
Extra help for those who aren’t achieving standards that they are deemed to be able to achieve.
Compulsory councilling for those kids who misbehave constantly, to try to understand their problems instead of just chucking them out of school.
The idea will be to, along side an academic education, join people together, and let kids know it doesn’t matter if you’re artistic or academic, musical or mathematical, male or female, gay or straight, black or white, from single parent families or mother and father families or brought up by gay parents. A full Liberal, accepting, tolerant education.

Economy: Mixed. Keynesian. A lot of people are suggesting that Keynes theory is outdated, that it didn’t work the first time around. The first time Keynes theory was exercised, 50 odd years ago, we were in the middle of an economic boom. We’re now in Economic bust, so it’s a completely different set of circumstances.
In Jamie Land, Banks would be under heavy regulation, any smell of wrongdoing, and they’re out. The bankers would be unable to receive huge bonus packages if they haven’t performed as well as expected, and the sub prime market would have to undergo incredibly fine tooth combing before being accepted again.
A higher rate of inheritance tax introduced for the top earners. If you manipulate the free market you can’t then have your own brand of inter-family socialism.
I’d create a new department dedicated to weeding out corporate wrongdoing. Any tax loopholes found to be costing the system a fair bit of money, will be closed.
There must be a safety net for those less fortunate, there must be a sympathetic shoulder of Government that exists, compassion cannot be allowed to simply die. And so the Welfare state should provide for those less fortunate, but also must be regulated tightly.
Child benefit will be increased to £1200 a year, paid for by a 3%
increase in income taxes on the top earners; those earning more than £250,000 a year.
Those on low and middle incomes, will see their taxes dropped by 2%, in order to keep money in the pockets of those who need it most.
I fully support Labour’s new Savings Gateway Scheme.
Nationalise necessities such as gas and water. People should not be in fuel poverty whilst the head of British Gas rolls in a mountain of profit. We’re back to the compassionate side of Britain again. It’s not fair that although oil prices have dropped 29% since August 2008, the big Utility companies are not passing those decreases onto customers, and so are raking in a fortune.
Higher investment in Green Energy alternatives. In the hope of weening us off foreign energy.
Minimum Wage highered to £7 an hour from £5.73.
If we can afford to give billions of pounds to bail out greedy bankers, we can afford to invest extra money in helping small businesses through personal advisors, interest free loans, and grants.
National Insurance, for small firms will be cut by 2%.
Higher tax rate on cigarettes and alcohol.

Housing: There are estimated to be 750,000 vacant properties that Landlords are failing to rent out in Britain. The Jamie Government would invest in 1,000,000 new homes by 2012, in the hope of stabilising the housing market, which seems to be an ever increasing problem for first time buyers. We’d invest in many many more council houses, which would not come with the “right to buy” capability, but remain as council houses. All of which, would be far “greener” than the current stock.
We must be strong in our conviction on where we place housing. We cannot keep throwing up tower blocks of flats, we need to commit to new villages, new green towns.
Repossession is a final resort policy, after everything else possible has been exhausted, including financial advice from the bank.
There will be brand new Social housing for the homeless. They will be looked after, fed, and kept safe, they will have councelling to deal with any unresolved problems they may have, but all on the basis that they agree to be helped back into work when their program of rehabilitation is complete. Whilst undergoing this rehabilitation, they will be involved in Social projects. People should not be allowed to be treated like animals on the street.

Crime: Again, like education, I want to know what drives people to become criminals. There must be a catalyst. As well as much harsher prison sentences for the violent conduct of thugs, drug dealing, murder, rape, child abuse, theft, and other such crimes, they’d be made to undergo weekly psychiatric evaluations to attempt to understand the causes of such crimes.
Crimes such as possession of Cannabis will warrant a three strikes policy. First time you’re caught, a verbal warning, second time; a written warning, and finally, a two month prison sentence. However, the police will be advised not to focus much attention on people just having a bit of social fun, or trying to catch people speeding, and focus more attention on street gangs and thugs.
A ten year focused plan to put armed police units in the most violent areas of the country. Any one carrying a knife, will face a minimum two year jail sentence and rehabilitation.

Europe: Until Europe comes up with a well made Constitution, equal in quality to that of the United States of America, then we must stay at arms length, but we must also press the E.U for much tougher line on climate change, social welfare, and lowering economic tariffs. But until the Constitution and timing is perfect, we just cannot fully commit to the E.U.
Unlike the U.S, Europe should not have a centralised governing body, but a group of States who work together.

Transport: When it costs £40 for a crowded train journey from the midlands, to London, something is wrong. I propose a nationalised train service, to compete along side the privatised train services, in an attempt to bring prices down. If you’re going to tax drivers more and more in the hope that they’ll use public transport, then public transport needs to be better funded, cheaper, and more frequent services.
OAPs still travel free at peak times on buses.
Bus prices, to be regulated by local government.
Subsidised school buses.
And finally, a national tram system, similar to the one currently running successfully in Nottingham, like an overground Tube system, in every major city in the UK. If we really want people to get out of their cars and take public transport, let’s give an incentive to do it. Very costly, but ultimately worth it. Progression is the only way, regardless of the opposition it initially faces.

So that’s pretty much it.
VOTE JAMIE!

The British Culture War

The bandwagon at the moment seems to be, quite arrogantly and horribly misinformed, a version of…….
“Britishness doesn’t exist any more! It’s been destroyed by the immigrants and New Labour!”
About a year ago, I probably would have agreed, but i’ve got older, smarter, and above all, less cretinous.

Nationalism:
I wonder if all of those who claim our ‘culture’ is dying could name, without searching on google, a great British Artist? A great British musician from the classical era? A great British commander from the War days? The date that India gained independence from the British Empire? The last ten Prime Ministers? The last four Monarchs? A great British war poet? The date that England became Church of England? A great battle in WWII that finally pushed the Germans back? I doubt it. Because “culture” in Britain no longer means any of that, “Culture” means getting pissed every Friday night.

Britishness to me:
To me, now, Britishness is changing every day. Which is a great thing. It moves with the times. We don’t allow religion to mix with our Politics. Belief isn’t “If you’re not Christian, you’re not welcome” in our Country. Although, this gives rise to a new hypocritical sense of Nationalism that is becoming an increasingly dangerous thing.
What you may find Britishness inside, I may see it differently, and so Britishness can never be a static, universal truth. I like it like that.

Places like Iran, stick to outdated religious principles. Unwilling to change with the times. The great thing about Britain is that the majority of us (I accept some remain ignorant) are happy to move with the times, to accept the different cultures that have contributed such a valuable amount to our society, and our economy.
We aren’t the culture of top hats and “how do you do”.
We aren’t the tea drinking nation.
We aren’t any other stereotypical view of Britain. We’re a huge cultural mixture. Who (regardless of how the media like to hype the situation) understanding of others beliefs and we’re willing to talk, relate to and befriend people regardless of their beliefs and opinions.
We’re White, we’re Black, we’re Asian, we’re straight, we’re gay, we’re men, we’re women and it has absolutely no affect on our every day life.
Britishness is not static, it isn’t like a religious belief that cannot be changed. Britishness updates every single second. It’s a constantly working mechanism that, if embraced, can cope with all the pressures of multiculturalist England today.

It would appear that the top hat wearing, tea drinking, small corner shop family run business owning,”cheery-o chap” speaking British ways have long since died. It isn’t because of immigration and it has very little, if nothing to do with New Labour. It has to do with the changing nature of humanity.
- You and I both don’t wear tradition British Clothing, because American jeans like Levi, and hoodies sporting “Greenday” logos are the fashion now.
- I don’t want to wear a top hat and say “Good day to you madam”.

New Labour didn’t open the gates. Conservative Open Market policies did that. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that when a rich prosperous country opens it’s gates to foreign investment, people are going to start to move country. If you want a wide variety of choice with regard to the products you buy, expect large numbers of immigrants offering that choice. You can’t have it both ways. PLEASE try and understand this, for the sake of intelligent thought.

The small family run tradition British businesses, the grocers, the small video rental shops, struggle to exist in a place where Tesco and John Lewis rule the waves. You can blame big business for this.

For the people who insist that “Britishness doesn’t exist”, I’d like to know what drastic changes have occured in your every day life, that have made you a little less British and a little more Polish, or Pakistani, or Indian? And then, go back into your ignorant minds and count all the aspects of your life that are actually American influenced.

And then of course, there are those who insist that England has gone “PC mad”.

Political Correctness:
Certain phrases that have found their way into our language in order to appear more “understanding”, for example if I were to suggest that because i’m losing my hair, in order to reduce the risk of offending me, instead of saying i’m balding, i’d prefer you used the term follicle regression, would indeed, take the piss.
If half the dirty old men in on the planet decided that they hate that term, and prefer the term “gender enthusiastic geriatric”, we’d laugh at them, because it’s ridiculous.

To me, that’s what political correctness is. Taking something that wasn’t offensive in the first place, and claiming it was TOO offensive.
Mankind, suddenly becomes Human Kind.
Housewife suddenly becomes homemaker.

When you use the term “paki” to describe anyone who happens to have an Asian complexion, you aren’t exercising a form of anti-policial correctness, you’re exercising ignorance, cuntishness, and above all, you’re starting to prove the case for the rest of the World hating us.
When you try to justify such ignorance as “well, it’s just like calling me a brit!!”, you have delved beyond the realms of ignorance, and infact, deserve to be shot.

When you use any kind of intended abuse, to personally attack someone, you cannot hide behind “omg, this country is so fucking politically correct!!” or “I’m just being honest!!” in a lame attempt to justify your ridiculous point of view…….. You cannot defend yourself.

When one Muslim woman complains that a British Flag offends her. That is one Muslim woman. It isn’t Islam on the whole. It’s like saying Ian Huntley is a white British man, so therefore all white British men must be paedophile child killers. If you then accuse all Muslims of being anti-British, then those same Muslims have a right to come up to you and express the view, through the media, across the World, that all British Women like to kill children and bury them on the Moors, because Myra Hindley did. I very much doubt you’d be banging on about their right to be politically incorrect then, you’d be disgusted.

People seem to think that “free speech” entitles you to be a cunt, and then not have to deal with the consequences. Free speech means you can say what you want, but you must deal with the problems inevitably faced by your ignorance. Don’t back away from it. And don’t hide behind a horrible cliche like “politically correct”. Freedom of Speech has consequences. You do indeed have the freedom to say whatever you want to say, there is nothing stopping you. But have to guts to deal with the subsequent problems you have caused.

Political Correctness hasn’t got “out of hand”, it isn’t worse than it’s ever been. Ignorance is on the rise. This new breed of arrogant Nationalism is on the rise. Too many people think they can be as offensive as they like and they’ll somehow gain support and not have to explain themselves deeper, not have to give it any intelligent thought, if they just use “I hate political correctness!” to justify their own unjustifiable prejudices. I don’t know if it’s a post-Empire thing, but it seems a high number of Brits have decided that Britain is the God of all Countries.

There is an odd thing happening. The British public seem to be paying an unusual amount of time to the Media, and so jumping on the bandwagon portrayed at the time.
The Sun – “Gordon Brown is wonderful”
The public – “YEAH! GO GORDON!!!”
The Sun – “Actually he’s a bit shit”
The public – “Yeah BOOO GORDON!”
It takes away any individual thought. I would like to see more people forming their own opinions, understanding that the media is controlled, they are private enterprises, and so, full of bias. I would like people to, instead of jumping to an illogical conclusion, research both sides of an argument and then come to a well rounded, well thought out opinion. It may agree with your initial jumped-to conclusion, it may change your mind completely, like the whole “Britishness” debate has for me. But it’s the only credible way you will answer a deep question such as the one surrounding the British Culture War.

It is people who think in this regressive, nazi-esque way, who destroy the country, no one else.

The rise of Nationalism

“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel” 
- Samuel Johnson

According to a publicly leaked document on the British National Party, members now include doctors, teachers, and police. Aside from the fact that you should not be entering public life if you have such strong, senseless prejudices, I cannot understand why a deeply racist person, would involve themselves in a line of work, where they have to protect those they hate. They cannot have an Us vs Them mentality, public services should have a “us” mentality, an “us” that incorporates everyone.
It’s the equivilant of Hermann Gorring getting annoyed because Jewish schools in Warsaw refuse to interview him.
If they have such fundamentally flawed beliefs, built on intolerance, they should not be allowed anywhere near the public sector.

They use St George as the symbol of Britain……… St George….. born in Palestine. Go figure. 

I got annoyed reading the BNP website. I’ll show you why.
From the BNP site…

“we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years. “ 
- This is a lie. A piece of, let’s face it, racist propaganda, scare mongering. It’s only purpose is to create an air of suspicion for anyone who happens to have a slightly darker skin complexion.

“the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question.”
- Why even suggest that? What’s wrong with them being here? By even saying that in the first place, it shows a deep dislike of those who aren’t of British origin. Racist. Xenophobic. Not to mention a beautiful way to destroy a community, close business, lose millions of jobs, and bankrupt England.

“We will abolish the ‘positive discrimination’ schemes that have made white Britons second-class citizens. “
- I sure as hell don’t feel second class. If a Pakistani who has just moved here, is better at the job than i am, then he should get it. If he puts himself down on the housing list before me, he should get a house before me. That’s fucking obvious.

” work to restore Britain’s family and trading ties with Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and to trade with the rest of the world as it suits us.”
- Yeah that’s just what we need, selfish take-take-take, whilst at the same time, taking the moral high ground by suggesting that all immigrants do is take-take-take, and so the hypocrisy continues. Notice that the nations we’d be trading with on our terms, are predominantly white.

“The BNP will crack down on crime and restore public safety and confidence. “
- So a Party built on crime, nazis, and creating racial tension, they’re now trying to reach social harmony? 
I smell hypocrisy in the air.

“Globalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that depend on them.”
- Under Blair, the country was more prosperous than it’s ever been. I very much doubt the criminal mind of Nick Griffin could better that. He’s completely out of touch with contemporary politics, in his own little bubble. His Britain would be the kicking and screaming child of Europe, prices would shoot up, unemployment would be rife given that only White Brits would be allowed the jobs, and racial wars would be taking place across the Country. Our ageing population would not be replaced, meaning pensions would be insecure, and the economy in general would be finished.

“Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. “
- Which would mean pretty much everything would cost a fucking fortune.

“unemployment in this country will be brought to an end, and secure, well-paid employment will flourish, “
- Ahahahahahaha, That’s all that one needs.

“We are against the ‘trendy’ teaching methods that have made Britain one of the most poorly educated nations in Europe. “
- What he means is, let’s bring back ignorant teaching, that catered to the clever kids. That ignored pyschological problems. And why are we so poorly educated? Where’s that stat from? Given that more people are going to university than ever before. My best teachers, the ones that got through to me the most, were the eccentric ones who dared to be different. Fuck the BNP for suggesting otherwise, they have absolutely no idea.

“We will also seek to instill in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the native peoples of Britain.”
- If the BNP do that with my children, i will teach my children the complete opposite. Respect for everyone, love, charity, empathy, compassion, and that above all, regardless of who we are, where we’re from, how we look, what colour we are, what sexuality we are, if we’re tall, if we’re fat, if we’re short and thin, regardless, we’re all the same, and not to be a slave to the evil the BNP spews.

“We reject the idea that Britain must forever be obliged to subsidise the incompetence and corruption of Third World states by supplying them with financial aid. “
- If we have £10,000,000,000 to bail out greedy bankers, we sure as hell have the money to prevent a child in the third world dying. If we can even help one person who’s only wish in life is that their child doesn’t die of starvation, who isn’t concerned with which country you’re born, then we fucking should. Yes it’s our responsibility! It’s the World’s responsibility, the responsibility of the civilised and decent. You can keep turning your head and ignoring if you want. But no far right racist agenda will change my mind on that one.

The suggestion that the BNP are sticking up for British people is so badly flawed, given that the majority of  those same British people despise the BNP. 
Britain is a liberal country.
Therefore, logic tells you, that if you want to represent the wishes and values of the British public, you must be liberal.
It amazes me that they seem to be suggesting they are truly British. Was Churchill not truly British, given that his goal was to wipe out the threat of Fascism from the shores of Britain? That very same fascism that the BNP now holds dear.
Mark Collett, leader of the young BNP, said “hitlers germany was a better place to bring up children, than oldham in 2002.”

Nationalism is nothing but an idea that makes the ignorant feel a little superior. A place where they can all get together, and hate foreigners, and yet ignorantly depend on them for most of the things we buy.

Being British has no static identity. It’s always changing. It’s always updating. It’s the beauty of England. We’re much more accepting than most other developed Nations, including The U.S.A.
People who want to stick to basic, ignorant principles, and not move with the fact that we’re living in a much smaller World, are the ones out of touch. The Government is a liberal government, the opposition, is a liberal opposition, of course there needs to be a better form of immigration control, but not to the extent that the BNP offer, which would kill Liberalism, it would kill human decency, it would kill the idea that we respect each other on the premise that we’re all people before we’re any Nationality.
 
I absolutely love this video. This is Russell Brand, with Mark Collett, leader of the young BNP, i’d strongly advise watching it until the end. It gets good, and sums up, in a few short minutes, why I despise the BNP.