After much deep thinkings I have come to the conclusion
that England is now nothing more than a collection of noble notions which exist
only in the half-remembered past. Did I really grow up in the land that
invented fairness and tolerance, the stoic endurance of hardship, make-do-and-mend and leaping to
the defence of the underdog? Or was the propaganda so good that the Albion we
were brought up on half a century and more ago was a mere figment of the
fevered imagination of several hundred years’ worth of deluded historians, writers
and thinkers?
Whether by the over-writing of that glorious history by
the Marxist destroyers of inconvenient facts, or by the constant erosion of
shared values in favour of a loose collection of un-earned entitlements, that
land, real or otherwise, is lost. English, British values are no longer prized
and the upcoming generations are being force-fed a utopic vision of a federal
super state which will deny them the freedoms that forebears so
vigorously contested. Theirs will be a future bland in substance but dazzling
in ubiquitous, mind-dulling technologies; the machines are winning after all.
I’m not really angry; more disappointed. The promises of
a future worth having are now torn up and thrown away, but there’s no point in
getting angry – the time for that is gone. Better, I think, to hang on to one of
those lost English values of stoicism, bide my time and time my exit. Yes, I can
kick up a fuss, if the occasion warrants, but ultimately it is easier to absorb
the slings and arrows and make the decision to rise above them. I do get exercised
about the loss of the country I used to belong to and that used to belong to me
but I realise that in the end England is really just a piece of land I have to
share with millions of others who are increasingly not like me at all.
The young? I never liked them. Foreigners? Not that I
dislike them for their origins, far from it; I applaud those who uproot and
travel to better themselves, but why should I personally attempt to accommodate
those who have no understanding of or allegiance to the scrap of land I used to
think of as England? The old? I never understood the old and now I’m nearing
old myself I still see nothing I have in common with them. Life can brutalise a
man, but not me. I‘m no brute. True I need little in the way of comfort but that
is simple resilience, not lack of sophistication. I’ve seen sophistication and
comfort and idleness and I’m not sure I want much to do with it.
'Urry up 'Arry!
I still have things I want to do but if I want to try and
do them while living in the UK I have to work seven days a week to merely stand
still financially. So in the end I shall leave it behind without much of a backward glance. I can take my insular
English self-reliance with me and I can retire elsewhere in the world.
My land may have been forfeit to the forces of political correctness and
uncommon sensibilities, but I can take England, my England wherever I roam.
