2024-08-16
A long and sometimes noble, sometimes ignoble history, has brought us to where we are today.
So where are we?
Joshua Trevino published in the Daily Sceptic reviews our current status, and finds it ... dire, tragic, but perhaps not quite yet ... terminal.
The English, once (largely) confident, inventive, self-deprecating, and trustworthy ("my word is my bond") are now downtrodden, brainwashed, distracted, and assailed on all sides by all manner of attacks upon our self-confidence, sense of purpose, morality, tradition, religion, family values, and national heroes - attacks that are clearly initiated and supported by our own governing elite ensconced throughout our institutions. One suspects that the only reason Nelson still stands atop his pillar in Trafalgar Square is that it would be thought by our elites demeaning for any alternative figure (George Floyd perhaps, or Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus) to stand so high and so out of sight for so long.
And it doesn't stop there - will we shortly be starved for lack of farm produce as "our" government pays farmers to take land out of production, denied heating in our homes due to "our" government's obsession with achieving a never-to-be-defined "NetZero", and dragged through the courts into already overcrowded prisons by "our" government for exercising our right to freedom of expression (or wrong-think as some might have it)? The signs are all there.
And the list of insupportable statutes that need repeal before we can hope to regain our national identity grows ever longer each year; oh, and our health service grows ever more bloated and remote from the people it is supposed to serve. Some traditions never change!
Enough already, to the word-face!
