Thank you so much Laura. A very fine piece -- an antidote to the bizarre self-loathing being expressed by certain members of our elite class. (A typo in your last line though?)
I think G K Chesterton's attributed as saying '"When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything."?
I see this as similar. There are those 'out there' who've worked hard over decades to see our English identity dismantled, so it can be replaced by - well, anything the Individual decides. ANYTHING goes: - 'I identify as...' - a Cat, a Trans, a Lurid Cacti,...' or whatever. But the last thing we're wanted to be is United - because then we're far-less able to be manipulated as a nation.
But, for myself, I believe we were far better united, in the past.
I am English and proud to be an Englishman. I don't care what woke folk think. If I'm asked what my ethnicity is, I proudly state a white Englishman. If they don't like it, it's their problem not mine.
Sorry luv but its a bit late now. We are being colonised not just with parallel cultures encouraged not to assimilate, but demographically through their higher birth rates. To see the future look at any primary school in cities and larger towns. It is already too late. The English will become a minority and the rump of our tribes may survive for a while, but eventually the English will cease to exist. Historians may marvel at how the English let this happen.
I loved this. I have so many thoughts about this. I have so many theories about languages and cultures.Your English roots run deep, but today they face relentless blows—genetic and cultural pickaxes chipping away at the very makeup of your national identity. In the Americas, we were once the fertile ground for blending and becoming something new. That experiment worked for a time. But when borders dissolved and waves of unchecked immigration flooded in, the melting pot began to boil over—no longer a harmony of shared values, but a clash of competing customs, laws, and, too often, a disregard for the moral foundations that once held us together.
You are, of course, right and the attacks on Englishness are so consistent, stupid and unpleasant that it is making me feel regret that I did not stand up more for England and the English earlier. As it is I can only see real civil war or our surrender and destruction (probably by the Islamists) as our future. Not a happy thought.
The English never surrender, so civil war it is. You can only yank the tail so much before the Lion turns and bites ya and it's coming. People are at the end of their tether, the politicians have been warned.
Thanks for a great piece, Laura. Be proud of being English. Connor Tomlinson, Matt Goodwin write and speak well about this. Frank Furedi just wrote a profound piece on this and alienation.
I think the aim of mass migration make people in the west feel alienated in their homelands.
Batya Ungar Sagon just spoke passionately about these cuckoos in the nest, in particular, the rape gangs, that they were citizens and citizenship is sacred. It was total rubbish. Citizenship is a privilege and involves leaving your previous allegiances and beliefs behind and embracing the ones in the chosen country. That is the nub of the problem. There is no desire to leave anything behind. The desire is to recreate what has been left behind.
People can and do travel frequently back "home" as well, for example, I read Theodore Dalrymple's description of how Muslim girls in Britain often leave school at puberty, then take a vacation to Pakistan or Bangladesh where they are married to cousins who then have rights to also settle in the UK. Not to mention instantaneous and constant ability to communicate with the people back home or with others of the ethnic tribe.
The European nations are being handed over to Third World people (and I include China in this--their migration into Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, and the United States is massive.
We need to stop apologising for our Britishness and the historic national identities our country contains. No-one else does, so why should we? Fact is there a class of people now who are actively TRYING to destroy Britain; and they simply DON'T CARE about fine arguments over ethnicity and culture. Until we realise this, we'll never be able to defeat them.
Thank you, Laura. An "identity" that I have become aware of in conservative circles, especially those that discuss mass migration (doesn't matter much if it's legal if we are talking about social cohesion through shared values) is that of being a parent. Vice-President J.D. Vance stated that destructive leftist social policies come from people who don't have kids and they shouldn't be allowed to vote because they don't care about the future. He must not know that Karl Marx had children, as well as Tony Blair, Stalin, and most of the Covidiot and Great Reset authoritarians. These same simple-minded conservatives then go on to praise servants of Western Civ such as G.K. Chesterton (no kids), T.S. Eliot (no kids), Beethoven (no kids), the Pope (no kids), and Jesus (no kids). They (and I) consider the Medieval time a golden age of Western Civilization art and culture (for me, the Gothic architecture is one of humanity's greatest achievements). And that culture was one in which a childless life, in religious orders, was lead by a high proportion of the populace (I might have read that it as about a quarter of the population?) who had a key role in the operation of society.
One of my favorite childless people and artists (and there are many) is Beatrix Potter. Her contribution to England through her books, agriculture, and donation of Lake District land to the National Trust makes her place in Western Civ is immense.
If we took the childless out of the Western canon, we would be so impoverished--and most of the bad actors would still be in power--Bill Gates, George Soros, the grooming gang rapists, et alia.
As the hungry vulture sat to his mate whist waiting for a bit of random carrion to turn up : "Patience my arse, let's go and kill something".
There may be a parallel up and coming as the normally placid English bloke says to his mate:
"Tolerance my arse, lets (insert your own ending here, don't want to be locked up a la Lucy Connolly).
It would be interesting to see if the Marxist prediction that there would be a spontaneous uprising of the masses will come to fruition in the form of a Jungian collective expression of English nationalism, ooh what a terrible word that is; I just mind melded with John McTernan and he told me it is a evil wurd.
For John McTernan read commie pinko globalist Blairite blight on society. He can't help it though for he is a slimy socialist closet megalomaniac toad who rode the Blairite bandwagon for all it was worth.
If that character thinks that the concept of English ethnicity is evil then he has an incredibly warped sense of morals but hey ho each to his own.
An excellent piece Laura - very well written. There are some very ideological people in power right now and we, the people, must stand up against their sinister, insidious, creeping methods. At least many more are awake to the situation now than were during the pandemic, so it's a start but there's a long way to go to reinstate our Englishness. Oddly I always describe myself as British rather than English, I think on the basis that England, Scotland and Wales are false and arbitrary divisions of what is a tiny land mass and collection of small islands.
English and proud of it. I want an English Parliament but Brits like McTernan are scared of it because they want the bigger political stage England provides them with. The British establishment despise the English because most of them aren't English and would be set adrift if England had its own parliament.
As far as I am concerned, I ceased being British when Blair's devolution bill came in and England wasn't allowed to have its own parliament. England has no political identity or forum. Apparently the English only exists on the sports field, this is a grave injustice.
BTW English is an ethnicity, if it isn't, Scots Welsh and N Irish aren't an ethnicity either.
The problem with any ideology, even the English one, is that if I chose to follow it, it will become my master. And I will submit to it. Not just a little bit. I won't need to be nudged if I willingly submit to a master.
Thank you so much Laura. A very fine piece -- an antidote to the bizarre self-loathing being expressed by certain members of our elite class. (A typo in your last line though?)
Oh no! Thank you for pointing this out.
I think G K Chesterton's attributed as saying '"When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything."?
I see this as similar. There are those 'out there' who've worked hard over decades to see our English identity dismantled, so it can be replaced by - well, anything the Individual decides. ANYTHING goes: - 'I identify as...' - a Cat, a Trans, a Lurid Cacti,...' or whatever. But the last thing we're wanted to be is United - because then we're far-less able to be manipulated as a nation.
But, for myself, I believe we were far better united, in the past.
I am English and proud to be an Englishman. I don't care what woke folk think. If I'm asked what my ethnicity is, I proudly state a white Englishman. If they don't like it, it's their problem not mine.
Sorry luv but its a bit late now. We are being colonised not just with parallel cultures encouraged not to assimilate, but demographically through their higher birth rates. To see the future look at any primary school in cities and larger towns. It is already too late. The English will become a minority and the rump of our tribes may survive for a while, but eventually the English will cease to exist. Historians may marvel at how the English let this happen.
Are you not allowed weapons of self defence?
Are you not allowed to use them?
I loved this. I have so many thoughts about this. I have so many theories about languages and cultures.Your English roots run deep, but today they face relentless blows—genetic and cultural pickaxes chipping away at the very makeup of your national identity. In the Americas, we were once the fertile ground for blending and becoming something new. That experiment worked for a time. But when borders dissolved and waves of unchecked immigration flooded in, the melting pot began to boil over—no longer a harmony of shared values, but a clash of competing customs, laws, and, too often, a disregard for the moral foundations that once held us together.
You are, of course, right and the attacks on Englishness are so consistent, stupid and unpleasant that it is making me feel regret that I did not stand up more for England and the English earlier. As it is I can only see real civil war or our surrender and destruction (probably by the Islamists) as our future. Not a happy thought.
Last sentence has a significant typo.
The English never surrender, so civil war it is. You can only yank the tail so much before the Lion turns and bites ya and it's coming. People are at the end of their tether, the politicians have been warned.
That’s the spirit.
Let’s go!
Well they had better hurry up as it is only going to get harder.
Thanks for a great piece, Laura. Be proud of being English. Connor Tomlinson, Matt Goodwin write and speak well about this. Frank Furedi just wrote a profound piece on this and alienation.
I think the aim of mass migration make people in the west feel alienated in their homelands.
Batya Ungar Sagon just spoke passionately about these cuckoos in the nest, in particular, the rape gangs, that they were citizens and citizenship is sacred. It was total rubbish. Citizenship is a privilege and involves leaving your previous allegiances and beliefs behind and embracing the ones in the chosen country. That is the nub of the problem. There is no desire to leave anything behind. The desire is to recreate what has been left behind.
People can and do travel frequently back "home" as well, for example, I read Theodore Dalrymple's description of how Muslim girls in Britain often leave school at puberty, then take a vacation to Pakistan or Bangladesh where they are married to cousins who then have rights to also settle in the UK. Not to mention instantaneous and constant ability to communicate with the people back home or with others of the ethnic tribe.
The European nations are being handed over to Third World people (and I include China in this--their migration into Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, and the United States is massive.
Yes China is a big worry to us in Australia. So many here already. How many sleeper cells?
We need to stop apologising for our Britishness and the historic national identities our country contains. No-one else does, so why should we? Fact is there a class of people now who are actively TRYING to destroy Britain; and they simply DON'T CARE about fine arguments over ethnicity and culture. Until we realise this, we'll never be able to defeat them.
Thank you, Laura. An "identity" that I have become aware of in conservative circles, especially those that discuss mass migration (doesn't matter much if it's legal if we are talking about social cohesion through shared values) is that of being a parent. Vice-President J.D. Vance stated that destructive leftist social policies come from people who don't have kids and they shouldn't be allowed to vote because they don't care about the future. He must not know that Karl Marx had children, as well as Tony Blair, Stalin, and most of the Covidiot and Great Reset authoritarians. These same simple-minded conservatives then go on to praise servants of Western Civ such as G.K. Chesterton (no kids), T.S. Eliot (no kids), Beethoven (no kids), the Pope (no kids), and Jesus (no kids). They (and I) consider the Medieval time a golden age of Western Civilization art and culture (for me, the Gothic architecture is one of humanity's greatest achievements). And that culture was one in which a childless life, in religious orders, was lead by a high proportion of the populace (I might have read that it as about a quarter of the population?) who had a key role in the operation of society.
One of my favorite childless people and artists (and there are many) is Beatrix Potter. Her contribution to England through her books, agriculture, and donation of Lake District land to the National Trust makes her place in Western Civ is immense.
If we took the childless out of the Western canon, we would be so impoverished--and most of the bad actors would still be in power--Bill Gates, George Soros, the grooming gang rapists, et alia.
Those particular childless people would not be voting for abortion though.
As the hungry vulture sat to his mate whist waiting for a bit of random carrion to turn up : "Patience my arse, let's go and kill something".
There may be a parallel up and coming as the normally placid English bloke says to his mate:
"Tolerance my arse, lets (insert your own ending here, don't want to be locked up a la Lucy Connolly).
It would be interesting to see if the Marxist prediction that there would be a spontaneous uprising of the masses will come to fruition in the form of a Jungian collective expression of English nationalism, ooh what a terrible word that is; I just mind melded with John McTernan and he told me it is a evil wurd.
For John McTernan read commie pinko globalist Blairite blight on society. He can't help it though for he is a slimy socialist closet megalomaniac toad who rode the Blairite bandwagon for all it was worth.
If that character thinks that the concept of English ethnicity is evil then he has an incredibly warped sense of morals but hey ho each to his own.
An excellent piece Laura - very well written. There are some very ideological people in power right now and we, the people, must stand up against their sinister, insidious, creeping methods. At least many more are awake to the situation now than were during the pandemic, so it's a start but there's a long way to go to reinstate our Englishness. Oddly I always describe myself as British rather than English, I think on the basis that England, Scotland and Wales are false and arbitrary divisions of what is a tiny land mass and collection of small islands.
The litmus test that always exposes the sheer hypocrisy of this is…
Ok, English ethnicity doesn't exist..
In that case neither does Scottish, Welsh, Cornish or even Irish…
You try & push that narrative & see where that gets you.
It's selective bigotry.
English and proud of it. I want an English Parliament but Brits like McTernan are scared of it because they want the bigger political stage England provides them with. The British establishment despise the English because most of them aren't English and would be set adrift if England had its own parliament.
As far as I am concerned, I ceased being British when Blair's devolution bill came in and England wasn't allowed to have its own parliament. England has no political identity or forum. Apparently the English only exists on the sports field, this is a grave injustice.
BTW English is an ethnicity, if it isn't, Scots Welsh and N Irish aren't an ethnicity either.
All true. But the talking must stop. We are at war and it's only the English that don't yet know it
Your elites have betrayed you. So now what?
The problem with any ideology, even the English one, is that if I chose to follow it, it will become my master. And I will submit to it. Not just a little bit. I won't need to be nudged if I willingly submit to a master.
https://www.northstokelife.com/2025/07/i-desire-master-i-am-slave.html