A Cultural Fait Accompli

In recent years, a tiny minority of highly influential folk from inside the Westminster (or Strasburg) politico-media Bubble have decided that many of our most dearly-held British values are incompatible with the future they have decided is best for us all and have vigorously set about undermining such 'evils' at every turn. So whilst the media clique has busied itself broadcasting ubiquitous propaganda trying to separate us from a sizeable chunk of our instinctive and happy beliefs and desires, the political clique has been busy not merely passing laws designed to separate us from our inalienable rights (to a meaningful vote, free speech, a country etc.) but also imposing an 'on the ground' (ultimately the only place where it really counts) multi-cultural cultural fait accompli by allowing millions of people from totally different cultural backgrounds to permanently settle in Britain. Our political and media leaders have done this — as everything else EU — not merely without consulting the British people but knowing full well that if asked, a majority would not be in favour of such a change. Sadly, our leaders hold the great mass of British people—the very ones who elected them to office — to be unworthy of the right to determine the cultural direction of the very land of their birth, life and death.

So, faced with such a far-advanced fait accompli—with millions of cultural newcomers now settled in this country — what realistically can and should be done ?

A 'No Borders', 'No Limits', 'No Restrictions', 'Make No Demands', 'Anything Else Is Racist' Approach Is Undemocratic, Irresponsible, Extremist Politics

Sadly, the public cultural 'debate' in this country has for many years been dominated by those self-righteous social innovators that equate even the most moderate questioning of completely uncontrolled immigration or the mildest of concerns over cultural issues with brick-throwing racism. Such unfair and extreme invective sets a very poor example for the rest of society — encouraging minorities to adopt a moral 'cop out' culture of assuming that any personal conflict they experience with anyone from the majority culture is always simply due to racism or xenophobia (rather than for e.g. the natural social and moral conflict that is how we all learn from each other), whilst saddling the cultural majority with a miserable, cult-like, open-ended guilt-trip for just honestly being themselves.

This long-term extreme invective and the political attitudes that go with it, has also inevitably meant that public policy has failed utterly to deal with the real issues, and so has made no positive contribution to building the reasonable consensus and compromise policies that are the the best — maybe the only — way of creating the unity-with-diversity those engaging in such cartoon criticisms claim to believe in.

Those imposing massive and rapid cultural change upon us would have us throw up our hands and just 'go with the flow' — wherever that may lead. Yet given the democratically illegitimate basis for the policy, its lack of popular support to this day and its permanent and unprecedented nature — such a 'head in the sand' and 'hope for the best' approach is just not good enough. Those who damn as 'racist' everyone merely adopting a position on these delicate matters that respects the wishes and cultural concerns of the majority, set a very poor example for the rest of society and treat democracy and most of the law-abiding population in this — one of the most open and culturally tolerant nations on the planet (which is largely why so many cultural minorities wish to settle here) — WITH UTTER CONTEMPT. For the majority, it seems, any meaningful sense of their own cultural identity is 'impermissible'.

Adopting such blatantly unjust double-standards is a grievous error. One that produces the very racism of which those making such unfair accusations are so fond of complaining.

Britain Is A Better, Broader More Vibrant and Interesting Place For Having Racial and Cultural Minorities

Although a multi-cultural society has rather been imposed upon us all, Britain today is certainly a more vibrant and interesting place for the introduction of its more recently acquired cultural groupings, and with the right policies in place, current cultural tensions can be made a thing of the past. The aim must be to steer a course between the reckless 'no-borders', 'no-limits' brigade on one side and the 'we are superior' strife-mongers on the other — necessarily making a few tough choices along the way. It is up to this nation's political and cultural moderates to do all that they reasonably can to ensure this happy and settled land continues its fair, democratic, tolerant, stable, peaceful and prosperous course, for the mutual benefit of all.

It's Time Government Stopped Trying To Legislate For Inevitable Human Foibles and Let People of All Races and Cultures Relax Sufficiently To Find Their Genuine Common Ground And Move Forward Together — As Themselves

It is high time government stopped playing religion and vilifying decent law-abiding citizens who struggle to accept those from a different racial and cultural background—after all, such commonplaces of human life are very widespread on all sides (even between different minorities themselves) and can never be completely overcome. It is time government let everyone relax a little over their almost inevitable racial or cultural emotional foibles, which after all are actually little different to the cultural 'them' and 'us' 'class war' that has been going-on in Britain for decades and that defines so many of the average Briton's attitudes towards themselves and fellow citizens to this present day.

Many, maybe most, issues surrounding inter-cultural and inter-racial tension are also more to do with general yobbishness (on both sides) and simply the display of general attitudes perceived as being unpleasant — fear of anything new, cockiness, being stand-offish, moral or religious superiority, being judgemental, etc — and that are perceived as similarly unpleasant when exhibited by anyone from any race or culture. Yes, such emotional wrinkles and foibles are less than perfect but it is no business of government to seek to reach inside every human heart and pluck-out every offending impulse. It is high time government stopped playing religion and allowed law-abiding citizens the room to be imperfect. With a more mellow approach all around, the different groups that make up the modern multicultural Britain of today will at last have been given the opportunity to relax sufficiently to enable them to explore and find sufficient areas of genuine common ground to move forward together in a real and relaxed way for the mutual benefit of all.

Modern-Day Politicians Owe It To Past, Present and Future Generations To Do All They Can To Ensure That Britain Remains A Free and Democratic Land

Given current and likely future demographic trends it is a simple numerical fact that present-day minority races and cultures may become a majority at some point in Britain's future. The government should be relaxed about that prospect. What it must never be relaxed about however, is the scenario where Britain is allowed to progressively just drift under the control of religious extremists who then set about turning the democratic and cultural clock back a thousand years to a sad, mad medieval world where everyone in society is required to submit to daft and inhuman laws and can never again live as free men and women, never again simply go about their own business unchallenged and never again live life as they believe and not as someone else tells them to. And where a Britain of the future ceases to be a beacon of freedom, democracy and justice in the world and instead itself becomes a political and cultural wasteland, a rogue state, ever at war with itself and democratic, freedom-loving nations across the globe. Many are quick to enlist the sacrifice of the millions of war dead to their cause, but by any reckoning they died to save Britain and its people — of whatever race or religion — from such a fate. Those that are 'relaxed' about such a prospect or are not prepared to acknowledge and confront its possibility, betray both themselves, and past, present and future generations of Britons (of all races and cultures) wanting to live as free people in a free, peaceful and prosperous land.

The public culture of Britain needs to be one capable of holding radically different cultures and world- and life-views together in a harmonious, genuine and stable unity. This is no small task. For such a prize to be achieved give and take will be required from all sides. Only then can we, together, model the moderate, free and fair society that is able to accommodate both the secular and the religious life and begin to woo the would-be extremists from the doctrines of disaster that have destroyed so many lives, cultures and countries across the world. By doing this too, we each can recommend our own particular religion to others in the truest way of all, not by violence, intimidation, angry rhetoric and extreme codes of dress, but by good deeds done from a pure heart.

Starting From Where We Are and Who We Are

Accommodating minority cultures should never mean, must never mean and does not need to mean turning the cultural and political clock back to a world of inferior animal welfare standards, impoverished freedom of speech, special legal favoured groups within society, quotas, differential sentencing, special helmet rules, impoverished freedom of choice for employers and landlords, the religionisation of education, the politicising of academia and education, the requirement that everyone accept values they don't believe in and the creation of a sectarian, divided Britain consisting of a patchwork of regional cultural ghettos and more than one legal system.

Rather, successfully accommodating minority cultures means incorporating them into the very fabric of British society. Accommodating minority cultures means integrating minority cultures, which means starting from where we are and who we are.

Contrary to the line peddled by much of the media, 'Britishness' is not at all hard to define—and is in fact little different to the identity values dominant in any modern, freedom-loving democratic western society. Settled core British values include :

NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION — a belief that we are a separate and identifiable 'we' politically and geographically in distinction from the rest of the world

NATIONAL UNITY — a belief that even though we may differ with one another across a whole range of fundamental issues, and have been at mild class-war with one another much of the time, we are in this thing together to the end. A non-sectarian approach to civic life.

OPEN TO THE WORLD — although separate we are genuinely fascinated by the differences of race and culture and interested to see and learn from what others make of life. In business, we have always quite naturally looked to foster partnerships and trade with the wider world

DEMOCRACY — although many don't vote at elections, we instinctively acknowledge parliament as the lode star of civic life and that which enshrines the fundamental dignity and equality of all British citizens

JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN ETHICS — in spite of becoming an increasingly atheistic society, in their atheism most British people still implicitly acknowledge the trueness-to-life of the core Judaeo-Christian values and even the existence of a mono-theistic God of some sort, with 46% even describing themselves as Christian in the 2021 census.

FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY — something of a British distinctive, as politicians have found to their cost, Britons are profoundly and acutely attuned to what is fair and what is not.

FREEDOM IN BUSINESS — Chided by others for being a 'nation of shop-keepers', Brits like to do their own thing in business, so much so no fewer than 8 million Britons are currently self-employed (even though many would be better-off working for someone else). Even with something of a flirtation with the far left at times, the vast majority of Britons working as employees have also always instinctively understood the importance of a healthy economy to wider society and national life. In the workplace the tradition has always been a pretty hands-off (by the government), and a 'just getting on with the job', 'secular' approach to business and working life.

INDIVIDUALISM — although able to co-operate with others, millions of Britons are at their happiest just pottering about doing their own thing, busy trying to make their mark in life or just happily, gloriously 'odd'.

PRIVACY — we reserve the right to have dominion over ourselves and our boundaries and do not take kindly to those who feel they have some self-appointed right to involve themselves in our affairs.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH — we have never needed to consciously even think about this one before, since we are such a nation of instinctive 'spout-offs' about anything and everything that the thought of living without that right is simply absurd.

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE—whether a particular Briton's own conscience is Christian, Middle-class or an instinctive 'calling a spade a spade' way of thinking and seeing, we all are very protective of our right to live as we believe, and not as someone else thinks we ought to.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION — the right to practise a religion of choice in an open way is fundamental to a free and open society and has been established in Britain for centuries.

LIVE AND LET LIVE — whilst fiercely holding to our own way of doing things and reserving the right to pursue and live life on our own terms, we are quite naturally and easily able to extend the same privilege to others, so long as their freedom doesn't curtail mine and they don't expect me to agree with them.

ANIMAL WELFARE — something of a nation of animal softies, millions of Britons think of their pets as genuine family members and any cruelty to animals is instinctively understood to be abhorrent.

The traditional British civic values outlined above have proven themselves to be a sure basis for a stable and prosperous society for centuries. Although the world is changing, neither the world nor the people in it have changed so much that all that has gone before has suddenly become irrelevant.

Traditional British civic values are also the values still widely accepted amongst the vast majority of the British population today — and to which other nations across the world aspire — and it is these same values that provide the best basis for the successful, peaceful, prosperous multi-cultural Britain of the future just as they have done for the largely mono-cultural Britain of the past.

Modern-Day Multicultural Britain Has The Best Chance of Success By Continuing To Require and Inculcate In Its Citizens of All Races and Cultures The Civic Values That Have Proven To Be The Best Basis For a Settled, Free and Prosperous Society For Hundreds of Years

The approach of government must therefore be to test the claims and practices of all minority cultural groups within society against these proven state-building values in precisely the same way they are applied to everyone else, and expect and require all minority groups and individuals to conform to those values in exactly the same way that everyone else within society is required to conform to them — this is equality, anything else isn't.