Labor government asks: “How can we ruin Britain? / Let us count the ways.”

I believe that only a revolution can save the Lost Island. This is from the Mail:

Fury over £100million plan for hundreds of gipsy sites across the country

Towns and villages across England are bracing themselves for ‘bombshell’ news on the location of hundreds of new and upgraded gipsy and traveller camps.

Work on some of the proposed 7,500 extra pitches will get the go-ahead within weeks under a controversial £97million scheme.

Targets imposed by the Government mean local authorities must provide a specified number of permanent sites with rubbish collection, running water, electricity and other services. In return travellers will have to pay rent and council tax.

The pressure on councils has forced at least one to warn landowners of compulsory purchase. Others may follow suit.

Figures for January this year show that there are currently 4,902 pitches on local authority sites, accommodating 6,696 caravans.

But according to the charity Friends, Travellers and Families, there are around 25,000 gipsies and travellers who do not have fixed places to live.

Communities minister Iain Wright is due to announce before Christmas which projects have won grants, covering spending to 2011. Each region has been given different deadlines to achieve their targets for new pitches dependent on the current availability of sites and the number of travellers, and predictions of how many more will arrive. [cont.]

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Stephen T. writes:

Hate to say it, but this story has a familiar ring. Set it in the U.S., replace every mention of “gypsy camps” with “new schools to accommodate illegal aliens from Mexico,” and literally everything else fits, including the part about the “compulsory purchase” of land. To date, over 3000 American citizens in L.A. have been subjected to eminent domain seizure of their property or eviction from apartments to make way for these schools. Just like the Brits who nervously await decisions about the next gypsy camp, entire neighborhoods here tremble at the sight of LAUSD officials appearing on a street corner with blueprints in their hands. There have been two deaths—one a suicide, one stress-related—of senior citizens facing eviction from their homes of many decades.

And guess who’s being hired—to the total exclusion of all others—to BUILD these Schools For Mexicans? Hint: they’re not gypsies!

Kevin V. writes:

You write: “I believe that only a revolution can save the Lost Island.”

Funny you should write that today. I know I usually send you interesting items or an idea, but I wanted to share something personal with you after seeing this post from you. I hope you don’t find it too self-indulgent.

I was driving to work this morning in the pouring rain, in horrible traffic. I’m familiar enough with my commute to know when it’s going to be a really bad one. Visibility is low and I’m concentrating on staying safe and staying out of an accident. But I’m listening to the radio and a piece by Elgar comes up and I start thinking.

Imagine it: a world where the liberal order was over-turned, proper government restored, white Anglo men behaving and acting like gentlemen again, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, re-unified in a new order, a throne restored, dignity restored, our history restored, our community and culture alive once again. Imagine how quickly all this would fade away.

Imagine young white boys in school learning about “gangs” and “drive-by shootings” and wondering what the hell was wrong with those people.

Imagine what victory would look like.

For the first time in my life, I felt like a revolutionary. Would I fight for such a thing? Would I be willing to do almost anything to bring that about?

It’s not possible, I know. But, then, to the first believers in the Enlightenment, in a world of kings, priests and national culture, change of the magnitude now all around us must have seemed equally impossible.

I think you’re right, Larry. And not just about England.

Which means I’m either mad or very much ahead of my time. Or perhaps behind it. Anyway you slice it, I don’t like it.

I feel something must be done. But what?

LA replies:

Leaving aside the question of what practically needs to be done, for us to visualize the world as we believe it should be and could be, is a very good thing to do. It puts us in a different mental world. And more practical thoughts and steps may grow out of that. At the very least, it frees us from inner mental slavery to liberalism, helping us realize that the way reality is currently being presented to us is not necessarily the way it has to be.

I realize this will sound like silliness to some people, but thought precedes reality.

November 21

Jeff in England writes:

Your reader/commenter is somewhat off the mark to compare illegal Hispanics with traditional Travellers in the UK (whether they can be called “Gypsies” is up for debate).

First, many of the Travellers have been resident in the UK for generations though originally many were of Irish nationality.

Second, many Mexican illegals have a firm religious as well as moral framework in their personal lives while many Travellers simply do not. That is not to say there are no problems with Mexican illegals as neighbours but their religious and moral framework work to limit those problems.

Stealing, thieving, violence and living in squalor and a lack of basic morality are by far more prominent in UK Travellers than any other group I have enountered in the West. A week of living near UK Travellers would make anyone beg God for Mexican illegals to be your neighbours in huge numbers!

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 20, 2008 06:44 PM | Send