In the wake of the publication of my latest book, Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, I have been contacted by someone who is still involved in radical politics but who has recently been received into the Church. I thought that my reply to his e-mail, in which I outline my current political position, might be of interest to visitors to the Ink Desk:
I´m delighted to learn that you have recently been received into the Church. Welcome home! I note also that one of the leaders of the English Defence League has also been received into the Church recently. An intriguing development …
My political position is clear:
I consider the 1948 British Nationality Act to have been an unmitigated disaster. Mass immigration has effectively destroyed England and has created a balkanized state of divided cultures and peoples. It has destroyed social cohesion and has rendered the very concept of “Britain” incoherent.
I´m as opposed as ever to the ethno-masochist “left” (though I dislike the Enlightenment invention of “left” and “right” and try to avoid discussing politics in these terms).
I´m also as opposed as ever to the European Union and other unholy marriages between Big Business and Big Government.
I despise globalism and its inherent threat to national and individual freedom.
I am, however, also opposed to all forms of racism, i.e. the diminishment in the eyes of one race of the human dignity of another race. All differences between the races of man are transcended by the equality of all men inherent in their being made in God´s image. Chesterton stated that all men were of equal value in the same way that all pennies are of equal value, both of which derive their worth from the image of the King that they carry. Much of my political philosophy is evident in Race with the Devil, and in my book Small is Still Beautiful. It is also evident implicitly in all of my other books.
Tommy Robison real name Stephen Lennon from an Irish catholic background has quit as leader of the edl because it has become too extremist. He says he wants to fight immigration/ islamisation with ‘good, democratic ideas’.
Hope there.
If we could only get him your books-he might see the truth and lead others to it.
I see in my new job as an esol teacher in Sheffield-teaching English to unemployed immigrants both sides of the issue.
Provocatively, I will say Sheffield is not an English city any more. It is full of foreigners-from Chinese to Eastern Europeans, to sub-Saharan africans.
These people are a delight! I will say-just to wrong-foot people.
But there is a sadness in me for the loss of England.
The immigrants MUST turn up to this teaching or else their dole money is stopped. A coercion very un-English to me.
And it is stopped regularly for two months or so. I do not how these people live.
It is almost impossible for them to get a job.
A woman said to me the other day-‘I feel I am in a prison’
A phrase of yours Joseph-‘ethnic experimentation’. there has been. The ‘ethno masochist’ left want to destroy Britain.
Just to wrong-foot people again. I wouldn’t be bothered about that!
It’s England I am bothered about. Not Britain. Britain always sounds brutish to me.
I was outside where I teach the other day. I am in a shopping Centre (Mall in America). Many of them are 50 and 60 year old male Slovakian Roma. With absolutely not one word of English-living on the dole, getting their houses paid for, children’s education, free health care-the anger directed at them is open, palpable
Should there be in ANY country a sizeable minority of foreigners? It is surely obvious that social cohesion is going to be almost impossible to achieve.
By the way the Slovakian Roma make me laugh. And indeed all these people often mention the Bible and that they pray and they trust in God.
It’s the poor English who have lost everything.
I spend my life in confusion. Trying to work out what the immigrant wants (clutching some document) , trying to work out what the impersonal job centre wants, trying to work out the teacher jargon means, trying to work out what to do….and no-one has a clue.
It’s a mess. And the causes of it are many and various but behind it all is the supreme monster that is International Capitalism.