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Friday 15 May 2015

IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA GUILTY OF ANGLOPHOBIA?


IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA GUILTY OF ANGLOPHOBIA?


One of the things that has been interesting about the General Election is that the British media's reaction to any discussion of English interests and rights has been often hysterically anti-English In article after article David Cameron and the Tories have been accused of “whipping up”, “stoking” or some other pejorative verb with regard to raising the question of English national interests.

This reaction is when, to any sensible observer, Dave “I’m a Cameron and there is quite a lot of Scottish blood flowing in these veins” is a ludicrously unlikely candidate to be described as an English nationalist or even in any way personally interested in raising English nationalism.

We know from all his remarks about “fighting the little Englanders wherever he finds them” and his hostility to an English Parliament, etc., etc., that he is by no means an English nationalist. In fact he is an outright enemy of English nationalism, yet the mainstream media’s hatred of England, the English and English nationalism is such that however mild and minimalistic a proposal is made to correct the blatant unfairness of the current devolution arrangements, nevertheless many mainstream British media commentators can be found rushing forward to howl their disapproval!

Over the years we have heard enough about homophobia and Islamophobia and various other alleged "phobias" which the politically correct wish to make utterly unacceptable. I propose an addition to this list, since it is a hopeless task to get rid of it altogether, and that is:- ‘Anglophobia’. I accuse the mainstream British Establishment Media of persistent and blatant Anglophobia!

The response of our people to Anglophobia needs to change radically if we are to make any serious headway as a Cause.

Any expression of Anglophobia should be treated as a “Hate Crime” and should be reported to the police.

If the police refuse to accept the report or decline to take action, then those of us who do the reporting should make sure that we have obtained the relevant police officer’s name and number and a complaint to their force's police complaints department should be made against that police officer (or officers) alleging that they have failed to act or have acted in the way that they have out of Anglophobia, which is of course a branch of racism and is a "hate crime".

Over the years I have heard people say that you cannot be racist against the English. Anyone who says this simply doesn’t know the law, as legally speaking racism isn’t only about race. It does include national identity, national origin and nationality. It is on this basis that any Anglophobic comments or actions, or inactions, should be challenged in a way that brings it home to journalists, police officers, officials and political opponents that Anglophobia will no longer be tolerated and that instead will be “sanctioned”.

I suggest that, as a first step, we make contact with whichever police officer in our local areas is charged with dealing with political and electoral crimes and let them know what is intended.

Every time a complaint is made we need to issue a press release, not only for the purposes of putting journalists on notice that they will be sanctioned, but also with a view to getting it reported.

Even if it is reported in a hostile way, which is, of course, very likely, we should remember that politics is a zone of conflict and therefore any actions involving conflict and taking the fight to our enemy will in the long run be well worth it.

I suggest that our mottos, adapting the anti-racism sloganizing, should be “Unite against Anglophobia!”, “Say no to Anglophobia!”, "No to Anglophobic racism!".

44 comments:

  1. 200,000 postal votes have been dumped for marginal seats. Cameron? Farage seems to think so. Have been thinking of a new name for the EDs and arrived at the Traditional England Party or Traditional England. What do you think Robin? This would match the Traditional Britain Group which mostly means Traditional England who would support it. The tag line is Pledged to preserve England's national identity. We are being turned into an Afro-Asian colony and rich orientals are being encouraged to tear down our capital for their and Cameron's chums' profit. And Robin, all leaders need to be aggressive now as Cameron is a vicious little rat who has seen off mild-mannered opponents in Labour and the Lib Dems.

    I worry about northern devolution as I think it is all to do with the Europe of the Regions and another thing to con the sheeple. But London was lost to the English between 2001 and 2011 and the ethnic cleansing continues. It has nothing to do with the rest of England as even the Beeb has said. Our capital has been stolen from us and its hinterland is all going the same way. The whole of the South East is now not England, not anywhere.

    Interested to hear that the US senate has rejected TTIP and the TPP.
    Mark Carney of Goldman Sachs (all roads lead back to that bank) has said that the referendum must happen soon. They seem in a great rush as they are aiming to con the sheeple and rush it though before the opposition can mobilise.

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    1. 'English People's Party' is the best name and that has been bagged by Andrew Constantine. The hope of owning that name is that Mr Constantine is willing to do the patriotic thing and give it to the leading nationalist party.
      In the meantime, 'The English Democrats - the English people's choice'.

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    2. The US senate has voted against TTIP and TPP on the grounds that they involve the loss to global business of US national sovereignty, but that does not mean that TTIP and TPP will not come into being in one form or another. TTIP and TPP are a huge threat to the nations.

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    3. "the Traditional England Party or Traditional England. What do you think Robin? This would match the Traditional Britain Group which mostly means Traditional England who would support it. The tag line is Pledged to preserve England's national identity".
      I suggest that you either form your own 'Traditional England Group' of join the 'Traditional Britain Group' ("which mostly means England") and persuade them to change the name to the 'Traditional ENGLAND Group'.

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  2. From Traditional England we could join with our continental cousins and form the Traditional Europe Alliance, pledged to fight the loss of a European homeland through multiculturalism and genocide. Non-Europeans all have homelands why not Europeans? I think we know the answer.

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    1. Alternatively to forming another grouping , the EDs could affiliate to the existing Alliance of European National Movements and send an associate member or an observer member.

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    2. Must look them up. I have never heard of them but is that a surprise? You wouldn't hear on the Beeb except if they were slating them as Neo-Nazis.

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    3. Traditional England, We must get back to speaking true English without all the unnecessary foreign words which dilute our culture. See 'How We'd talk if the English had won in 1066' by David Cowley, ISBN 978-07552-1167-8, which describes how to make purified New-English from Old English.

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  3. From Traditional England we could join with continental parties to form the Traditional Europe Alliance so Europeans can have homelands like the rest of the world. Why not/ I think we know why.

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    1. Alternatively to forming another grouping , the EDs could affiliate to the existing Alliance of European National Movements (AENM) and send an associate member or an observer member.

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  4. Excellent post! This is exactly why we need English Democrats in government! You have my vote Robin!!!

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    1. I watched Britain's finest generation last night and the pro-multicultural Beeb was in overdrive. We know that there were non-whites fighting in the War with us all got on together. But this was when they were mostly in the ports and constituted less than one per cent of the population. This is different from the predicted one third non-white for Britain, more for England in a few decades. This is why I spoke of colonisation. And Heath is mostly to blame along with Labour. He was the bankers' boy who knew exactly that it was all leading to the multicultural EU of today. So did Powell know it.

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  5. How about some practical politics?

    Name it. Solve it.

    •The English Democrats will put an end to underfunding in the healthcare system.
    The welfare system (including sickness insurance) will be completely separated from the healthcare system.
    •We will develop an efficient health culture with an emphasis on prevention.
    • Paramedics and ambulance staff will receive hazard bonuses.
    •We will set up a national home care system that will allow for cost-efficient patient recovery at home or in convalescent homes, and free home care where appropriate.
    • English people will be ensured dental care free of charge.

    Name it. Solve it.

    •Key strategic energy supply services and hydrocarbon research projects must be returned to state control..
    •We will promote and endorse the utilization of solar and wind energy in terms of electricity generation.
    •10-12% of domestic energy needs could be supplied by a more efficient utilization of our rivers, therefore we will promote the construction of water power plants.
    •We will build pumped-storage hydroelectricity plants so that we could ensure the daytime utilization of power generated during night-time, thus reducing our energy dependency.
    •We will promote geothermal energy in the heating of residential buildings and institutions

    Name it. Solve it.

    •We will put a ban on land sales which do not offer legal and constitutional protection for the English land from being sold to foreign owners.
    •We will hold a referendum on our European Union membership as well as our relations to the Union. With regard to the latter, we endorse the Europe of Nations concept instead of the United States of Europe/Europe of the Regions agenda.
    •We will prepare an analytical balance of our ten-year EU membership, including all the benefits we gained and losses we suffered.

    Name it. Solve it.

    •We will put an end to the dumping of foreign products, and we will enforce the principle of "minimum 80% domestic, maximum 20% imported goods" in terms of the food supply in multinational shopping centres.
    •We will stop the agrarian oligarchs running amok and hold them accountable for any potential abuse of public funds and England's land.
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    •We will opt out of Britain's EU accession treaty in order to protect English land and markets.
    •We will keep the English land in English ownership, we will shift the focus of agrarian policy from large enterprises to small and medium, family-run farms. Similarly, we will protect small fishermen against the foreign fleets with their factory ships hovering up our fish.
    •Keeping the arable land in domestic ownership is a necessary but insufficient step, so we will implement food self-sufficiency in England.
    •We will ensure a supportive legal background for local money substitutes so that they could stimulate the economy.
    •We will reform vocational and higher education in order to enable our youth to extend their knowledge of eco-social rural economy, thus ensuring a supply of agrarian professionals.

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    1. You should be on the English Democrats Policy Committee! I entirely agree with all these policies especially your last "Name it. Solve it." Sensible, unique and easily understood policies are vital to the English Democrats' future not the short term gimmick of a change of party name as suggested by some.
      Steve,
      Ilminster.

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    2. I like the policy of not selling our country to foreigners and the policy of favouring the small man against big (increasingly foreign) business. All utilities and things we depend on which are natural monopolies should be owned by the English collectively, e.g., water - foreign owned, electricity - owned by the French nationalised EDF, all kinds of things owned by the Chinese government and Arab kings, rail largely owned by German national railways, our national health service increasingly American owned, etc. - Tory globalism in operation.

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    3. A Croatian gentleman called Hravko was on Sophie and Co on RT talking about the fact that the remaining nations of the former Yugoslavia are now lukewarm about joining the EU. On the Ukraine he said it needs to be given non-aligned status and the non-aligned movement needs to be revived as the only one of avoiding small nations becoming the focus of proxy wars for global superpowers and geopolitics. England is in a similar position to the Ukraine but at the opposite end of Europe. The Ukraine is torn between the superpower that is Russia and the EU and its American controllers. England is torn between the EU and for some America. We want to be free of a non-democratic EU but neither do we want, as some of the raving Atlanticists in UKIP, to be totally dominated and controlled by Wall Street and big American corporations. Neither do we want to be part of an increasing fragmenting Commonwealth. There is talk of Canada and Australia becoming republics. If, as Farage and his ilk want, we concentrate on the New Commonwealth then we will be further swamped by the third world. Better to stick with the rest of Europe. The aim should be to rebuild the countries in North Africa and the Middle East to stop the boat people. This will never happen as long as Israel is allowed to determined the foreign policy in the region as countries such as the UK, the US and France. As regards the New Commonwealth the aim should be to keep people in their own countries. Having them flood into England is just preparing the time of confrontation which is inevitable as the demographics shift so rapidly. Yes, an overbreeding New Commonwealth is just doing to England and Europe what Europe did to North America, Australia etc before birth control arrived. But two wrongs do not make a right and such colonisation was a matter of ethnic cleansing and genocide of a sort that we are now seeing in reverse. Two wrongs do not make a right.

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    4. I agree with the practical politics outlined above. All must be done to tackle the globalism of the last 50 years and to give power and control back to the ordinary Englishman and woman. It should be got ready for the next council elections.
      Pleased to see that the Greens and UKIP are now joining forces to press for PR. This is something the EDs should be doing as well.

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  6. Robin,

    I have been reading the "UN Delcaration of Rights For Indigenous Peoples" article dated 2007 and agreed by all but 4 nations in the world.

    I will send a copy to you shortly. Having read all the article we need to send this document to all judges in the land. All of our Equality and Human Rights Laws must now be interpreted to meet the needs of the indigenous peoples, not ethnic minorities and not immigrants. No wonder why Blair said the English don't exist ..... he therefore knows what is coming.

    Francis

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    1. Francis. Well done. I hope that Robin will heed your words pronto as we have just a few years left as do many nations in Western Europe and the US where white children are already in the minority. Who was that chap who preached white genocide?
      The Greatest generation were accused by AA Gill of being politically incorrect. Not surprised they are aggrieved, we would have survived better under Hitler our "cousin" than under those who used his name to commit genocide on us. As for Blair the psychopath, if the English don't exist then neither do his Irish and Scots forbears.

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  7. One definition of 'phobia' is - an extreme aversion to something. That does seem to sum up the media's attitude towards the native English.

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  8. There can be little doubt that the British establishment's media hates the English, which is a good point to make, but it does suggest a misplaced emphasis. The voters do not wake up thinking, "Oh dear! the media hates us". Similarly, making St George's day a public holiday its top priority is not likely to win many votes for the party. It puts the English Democrats in the same category as Morris Dancers in people's minds.
    The English have always been ambiguous about St George who was imposed on them by a Norman king, replacing an English patron saint. There is no ambiguity about the flag.
    Try as they might, the Establishment, with Shakespeare's help, has struggled to get the English to warm to St George. Robin, as something of an establishment figure, is a bit out of touch with ordinary people's concern's, which are about their day-to-day lives and how they can survive to the end of the month. Many of the people the English Democrats need to target have used food banks themselves or know people who have used food banks. Talk of St George and the dragon, and hanging, drawing and quartering is enough to tell them that the English Democrats is not the party for them.

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    1. I remember in the early 1980s when the sainted Margaret Thatcher started talking about the poor, I thought, "What is she talking about? We don't have poor people in this country." Then I realised, "She intends to make people poor". That is the proud legacy of 35 years of Thatcherism and her globalist vision with its widening divisions in our England. Even she probably did not foresee the loss of social cohesion that her policies have led to under her successors. A break down in social cohesion which is likely to get worse.

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    2. Maggie said no to immigration from South East Asia and probably that sealed her fate. But she wanted no societies no communities to suit the bankers and the greatest community is the sovereign homogeneous European nation so she wanted England gone to suit her masters. Heath was worse. Why did the East African Asians come here? To speed our demise? How could India refuse to take her own?

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  9. Better slogans - "No to racism against the English", "End the media's hatred of the English". A lot of folk won't have a clue what "Anglophobia" means. Keep it simple.

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    1. Personally I have always thought that the greatest form of racism is the removal of a person's homeland and their being ethnically cleansed. It is time to turn the tables on the anti-racists. The greatest racism now is against Europeans who are under constant attack and threatened with total theft of their countries through mass capitalist and Marxist immigration. It is time to fight back and say who the real racists are.

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  10. The English Democrats must woo those who have grown distant from Labour, but could never vote Tory. I doubt if those people would be attracted to the English Democrats because of "anglophobia" in the media, even if they could be bothered to find out what the word means.

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  11. You would have got better votes if you campaigned as you did before for a devolved parliament or even several devolved parliaments for England. The English simply are not interested in 'independence' and never have been. As soon as people heard Robin Tilbrook agreeing with the SNP and with separatism they would have turned off you.

    This is a great shame in many ways because your immigration policies are FAR, FAR better than the Tory 'spare wheel' party of UKIPs (at least they are coherent) and your economic policies are far more balanced and far more likely as a result to appeal to people across the political spectrum rather than the globalist Thatcherite nonsense peddled by Nigel Farage and company.

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    1. Barry you are mistaken, as has been shown by polls (they got it wrong over this General Election, but they are usually right). They show increasing support for separatism among the English.
      There can only be one outcome of a devolved English parliament, and that is English independence. As for devolution to the regions, that was part of the Maastricht Treaty which set up the European Union, and is intended to remove the name of England from the map.
      You say that the ED's immigration policy is coherent. The same is true of independence. The ties to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are an obstacle to the English exercising sovereignty, e.g., over EU membership..

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    2. We do not want several parliaments as you have said. That is the Europe of the Regions. We want separation from London because it is no longer part of England and we do not want it spreading outside the South East which it seems to be engulfing.

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    3. I don't think London was ever part of England. Either way it has to be contained before England disappears under its spreading suburbs and tentacles, e.g., HS2.

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  12. Instead of slagging off the Scots at every opportunity, the LDs need to look at why the Scots are doing better than the English.
    Education needs to be a central theme of the EDs policies
    Tackling inequality in England is crucial. We need to adopt the Edinburgh model and reject the NYLON (New York-London) economics which is pushing the English down into low skills jobs. The Tories may have indeed created more jobs, but that has been at the expense of productivity. Lack of productivity is why Osborne's "recovery" is so shaky.
    The EDs have to be about the folk and what is in their interests not about re-fighting the battles of medieval times over Monmouth and Berwick. The 100 votes which the EDs got in Monmouth and the 88 they got in Berwick is a clear example of how far down among people's list of concerns is the matter of which country those towns are in.
    The EDs have to learn to address the REAL ISSUES that affect people.
    The EDs must make FREE UNIVERSITY TUITION a top priority in order to allow all strata of English society to achieve; rather than the shrinking pool of very rich at the top of the NYLON establishment.

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    1. "The EDs have to learn to address the REAL ISSUES that affect people." I agree,, I watched an interesting programme on BBC Scotland 'The Rise of the SNP' the other day. It highlighted how the SNP were known as the Tartan Tories in the 1950's. The SNP were seen as quaint and irrelevant as they practiced their highland dances. By focussing their efforts in Monmouth and Berwick and failing to address people's real day to day concerns, maybe the ED's are seen as quaint and irrelevant. I agree with another poster who says that there is no real demand for English Independence amongst the English. The English just want a fair playing field and talk of independence puts more people off than it attracts. The ED's overtly traditional, conservative approach will put some potential voters off and in any case the traditional approach is already catered for in the form of UKIP and the Conservative party who are seen as 'English' parties by their voters.

      John

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    2. I agree. As I have said before, like the Front National, policies to help the poor and needy and destroy the hold of the oligarchic one per cent whilst re-establishing the sovereign nation state which is the normal grouping in which people want to live their lives; not grazing in a borderless Eurasian landmass like cattle on the prairies. By the way, productivity continued to increase in a straight line from the end of the War until now but wages were held down from the 1970s onwards so people were working harder and harder for the same money. So where did the profits go? to the oligarchic one per cent of course. The sheeple have been conned for 40 years.

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    3. John, You are right about the perception that Ukip is thought of as the English nationalist party. That impression is being pressed in the media by political commentators. It is a perception that has to be challenged vigorously, every time it appears in the media.
      The key part of Cameron's winning strategy was to play the England card. That gave the impression that the Tory party is pro-England, but now the election is over, Cameron has changed his tune.

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    4. Anonymous, there is no doubt that the media has a big influence on the publics mindset and every instance of media generated Anglophobia needs to be highlighted. England and English issues are marginalised by the media and greatly so by the BBC who have a vested interest in the continuation of Britain. But are the media solely to blame for the English Democrats poor electoral success? Many English people, particularly those in the south, do not seem to want to distinguish between England and Britain when they vote for UKIP or the Conservatives and surely the media is not solely responsible for this. English Independence is not at the top of English people's priorities at the moment, in my opinion. Fairness for the English should be the ED's main priority. Rather than just blaming the media, shouldn't the English Democrats also be looking at what the reasons were for the SNP's success and UKIP's success in terms of votes cast. I would suggest that UKIP and Conservative voters in the south of England are less likely to see the Westminster/British government as the problem. People in the north of England are perhaps more likely to see Westminster as part of the problem, and are more likely to be accepting of the need for an English Parliament. So the ED's should focus their efforts more on the north of England and emphasise their more people friendly economic policies as opposed to what Robin Tilbrook has described as UKIP's Atlanticist, free market, Thatcherite ultra, globalist, small state, low tax economic policies.

      John

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    5. John, You are right that people in the South (traditional Conservative voters, many ex-military) do not distinguish between British and English as their national identity. Folk in the North being geographically remote from Westminster are more likely to see Westminster and the London centric establishment as the problem and would welcome the English parliament being somewhere like Leeds or York (the Roman capital of the North).
      London (predominantly immigrants and Labour voters) identifies itself as British for different reasons from the Tory voting South.
      The English Democrats will never win over Labour in London nor the Tories in the rest of the South. The English Democrats' target has to be the disenchanted Northern Labour vote which in 2015 mistook Ukip for an English nationalist party.

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  13. It has been announced that there is a £30 billion black hole in the NHS's finances - Cancel Labour's Lord Adonis's HS2 (High Speed Rail 2) vanity project, estimated at £50 billion, and that deficit could be slashed at a stroke.

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  14. Watching the SNP’s phenomenal surge since the Scottish referendum defeat last September. Perhaps, the EDs wonder if something similar could happen to them: lose in May 2015, only to advance as the party of English nationalism thereafter. The English Democrats should have come second to Labour in at least 44 seats; that’s seats they should win in 2020, but won't. The English Democrats should advance in seats with the largest concentrations of white voters, working-class voters, voters with no educational qualifications, and where opposition to immigration and the EU is highest.

    The English Democrats should do especially well in declining northern towns, places that Labour have called its own but where the party often resembles a hollowed-out, ghostly presence from the past. Ex-Labour defectors in those northern towns would stay with the English Democrats.

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  15. I was interested to hear Max Keiser on his RT programme last night actually sticking up for the English. The part-German/part-Scottish Max actually thought the Celts were doing alright at the moment. Of course, his sidekick is Stacey Herbert who, I assume, has Welsh blood. The reason for Max's coming to our defence was the news that in a street in Kensington 70% of the houses are second homes, presumably for wealthy foreigners who can spend as much time in what was our capital without having to pay tax before buggering off home again. In other streets are sitting on empty houses just waiting for the price to rise. What with others tearing down the city to build luxury flats for other foreigners it is becoming obvious that we have now totally lost control of our own capital if not country to Tory/New Labour globalisation. This is all in line with the manifesto points outlined above. Max's support stemmed from the fact that the English - especially the key workers - were being driven out of London by such foreign property owners and speculators. He did not seem to realise that this is a process that has been going on since the War and that the English now leaving are the last of their race. He slated the English for being so supine. He did not realise that the English have been ruled by the same Norman/British establishment for 1,000 years and just had to toe the line. On the other hand, Max would decry the likes of UKIP who object to immigration because of his leftist leanings. You can't have it both ways, Max.

    So the last English are now forced to buy or rent broom cupboards at exorbitant prices; rely on latter day Rachmans for expensive short-term lets with no security of tenure; or live in narrow boats on the canals..

    The thing is, who is going to stop this ethnic cleansing, this anti-English racism and how is it going to happen? Much the same problem is coming in France which, as Szarkozy said, will be Europe's first Muslim country. How is this process brought about by international fascist finance and international fascist Marxism going to be halted and reversed without bloodshed?

    I have just begun reading Rod Little's "Selfish, whinging, monkeys" about the failings of his and mine the baby boom generation. Little attended a Methodist Sunday School, admires the values of his parents' generation and pointed out that the removal of God by Marxist atheism and the placing of man at the centre of all things has led to the present mind-set and moral vacuum. This led me to the question of God's will as opposed to Marxism. The Marxists, even though mostly pledged to atheism, would maintain that if God does exist then their multicultural utopianist world is what He would want. Others have argued that God put the races around the world where he wanted them suited to their environment and separate; a view that is now anathema. Watching the final ten minutes of the multicultural, homophile Eurovision Song Contest semi-final led me to wonder if this is what God really wants. But then we have to wonder what Hitler would have thought of this sort of thing going on in his capital, his country represented by a bearded transvestite and one of the announcers being the black Austrian minister for integration. Who is right? Vienna now has same sex couples on their pedestrian crossing lights. The answer is that possibly both are to some extent. Numbers of non-Europeans have been absorbed by the European imperialists for centuries; a certain degree of tolerance is ok but the present liquorice allsorts approach will not work and some sort of backlash is coming; quite how and when nobody can foretell.

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  16. "Media" is plural. So the question should be, "ARE the mainstream media guilty..."

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    1. In this case word 'media' was being used as a 'mass' noun, as opposed to a 'count' noun. Robin was clearly thinking of the media as a single mass rather than as individual units. Meaning is more important than pedants' "grammar".

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    2. Medium - singular. Media - plural. It's that simple. The media include, newspapers, television, radio and they ARE guilty...
      Getting grammar right is not pedantry, it's getting grammar right.

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    3. Sir, It is pedantry..You are just following the lead of a long dead pedant.
      Media is a collective. Some languages such as Welsh, Latin and Greek form singulars from collectives, e.g. plentyn from plant, medium from media and criterion from criteria. The English plural of medium is mediums. It is possible to form plurals of collectives, e.g., shoals from shoal. There is no reason why we shouldn't talk of medias.
      It is 'the shoal is swimming by' (not the shoal are swimming by), and 'the media is guilty of anglophobia' (or the mediums are guilty of anglophobia).

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  17. This Wikipedia entry needs to be updated
    The references to 'English devolution' and 'Federalism' send out a confused message. You might also query the 'far right' description.

    "THE ENGLISH DEMOCRATS

    English Democrats Logo.png

    Chairman
    Robin Tilbrook[1]

    Founded
    2002[1]

    Headquarters
    Quires Green
    Ongar CM5 0QP[1]

    Youth wing
    Young English Democrats

    Membership
    2,500[2]

    Ideology
    English nationalism,
    English independence,
    English devolution,
    Euroscepticism,
    Federalism"

    Political position
    Far-right

    National affiliation
    Alliance for Democracy[1]

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