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October 21, 2006
Trafalgar Day
Today, two hundred and one years ago, Admiral Lord Nelson won the famous victory that reshaped Europe and the history of the ninteenth Century. Had he lost, Napoleon would have had a clear run at invading Britain and Europe, and probably the world would now be predominantly French speaking. Mind you, our "friends" in the Labour Party and Scotland would probably think that "a good thing" since any enemy of the English must be a "friend". Certainly the Scots have never lacked for people who will side with anyone opposed to the English and the same can be said for sections of the Welsh and Irish communities as well. You do have to wonder why, two hundred years on from Nelson's victory, the English have managed to allow themselves to become the butt of everyone's spite, constantly denigrated by our trendy PC historians as freeloaders, slave trafficers and evil oppressors of everyone? According to modern revisionists we, the English Nation, have contributed no great inventions, no advances in science and no advance in civilisation. Men who, in their own day would have considered themselves (and did!) proudly British or English are now labelled "of French parentage" (Brunel), Cornish (Trevethick), German (Jenner- although I'm pretty sure he'd take offence at that!) and so on. Anything but English.
Gone is the national pride which saw the "United Kingdom" rise to be the premier world power for a full century. Gone is the pride that we justly felt at being a free, fair and decent society, a society which did its best to be fair to everyone and offered refuge to all in need. Gone is the pride in the work of Wilberforce and others who worked to outlaw slavery, or Sir Onesimus Paul who worked to reform the prison and justice systems. Frankly they would be appalled at what we have done with their legacy! No longer are we permitted to feel pride in the fact that two hundred years ago, we broke the ambitions of a revolutionary dictator on the rock of a navy now cut to a fleet (more like a "Squadron"!) smaller than that managed by our former enemy. The rattling sound you can here in church yards around the country and particularly in the crypt of St Paul's is every English Admiral, General and Leader that contributed to the greatness of the United Kingdom and ALL it's peoples whirling like dervishes in their graves!
The comment from ABC, a thirty something, to my post of Friday, sums it up. Every young man or women with common sense and the ability to see through the lies of Labour and the Politically Correct clone army is looking for ways to emigrate. English pride is gone, buried in the avalanche of Welsh, Scottish and "Worker" prejudice and envy that is the Labour Party's stock in trade and their desire for vengeance. It has been said of the Irish that they have experienced everything, forgotten nothing and learned nothing from it. I think the same can be said of the rising generation and of the generation that is currently in charge of government - with one exception. This shower have no experience, they live in a world of unreality, a world driven by mantras such as "institutional racism", "institutional sexism", "class war", "oppressed minorities" and "militarism" and many more related war cries all aimed at one thing only. Destroy everything the nation once stood for and whichj made it a great place and a great people. Reduce it all to the lowest level of mediocrity and entrench themselves and their cronies in power.
Look around us. The United Kingdom became great during an age when work was something everyone did. The best employers saw to it that employees had what they needed and looked after those who became infirm and unable to continue working. The worst, usually from among the nouvo riche - of which most of Blair's cabinet are prime examples - did not. But the combination of effort and productivity moved mountains - even Marx said that the worker needs take his or her skills to the market, to move to the workplace, not the other way round. Unfortunately the labour movement saw it in other terms. After all, if people are tied to an area - as any feudal Baron could tell you - they are much easier to influence, bully, browbeat and control. That is the birthplace of socialism. If the state is the sole provider of work, wealth, benefit of any kind, the state is the sole arbiter of where you live, where you work and how you may advance. So what has happened in the last two hundred years?
Education peaked under the immediate post war system, admittedly with a difficult choice between Secondary Modern (which wasn't!) and Grammar School which offered a very superior level. So what was the solution the Socialists devised? Raise the standards at Secondary Modern? Of course not - destroy the Grammar Schools and lower the whole standard across the board to the lowest level possible. Anyone who has seen the latest questions for A Level students will attest to that! Secondly the "full employment" mantra of the Labour Party throughout the 60's and 70's led to the complete collapse of British Industry. It simply became unreliable, uncompetitive and totally unproductive. Who ever heard of manufacturing cars that no one would buy, storing them and then sending them to the crushers to be recycled when they had gone out of style? The Soviet Union never tried it, but it was a Civil Service solution dreamed up and endorsed by a Labour Government to the huge stockpile produced under massive subsidy by one car manufacturer. Who ever heard of the same company actually having an internal price war between its own subsidiaries so that no part of the company could possibly make a profit? Well Labour thought it was a good idea - and encouraged the workforce to engage in almost continuous strike action at the same time.
Our once great shipping industry has also collapsed under competition from abroad while our own labour force was encouraged to "milk the toffs" with ever increasing wage demands while refusing to modernise and reskill. Again, to have done so would have removed the unions power base in the shipyards, because a better educated, better skilled workforce is much more likely to see the stupidity of voting for their own demise.
What have we done with Nelson's legacy? Sadly we have thrown it away.
Like the Irish we have experienced everything, achieved greatness, forgotten nothing - and learned nothing at all in the process. We deserve the dictatorship we are gradually descending into.
Posted by The Gray Monk at October 21, 2006 07:44 AM
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