Britain commits ... grotesque form of national suicide

Leo McKinstry, Just what does it mean to be called British these days?

THE nation state is the greatest vehicle ever invented by mankind for the promotion of democracy and prosperity.

That is because it is essentially an extension of the family with citizens enjoying a shared sense of belonging, unity and heritage.

The tragedy of modern Britain is that our traditional identity is under remorseless political attack.

Mass immigration, the dogma of multiculturalism and the growing power of the European Union have conspired to undermine our British nationhood.

Our once unified country is in danger of becoming nothing more than a land mass filled with disparate peoples...

In the year to March 2011 no fewer than 586,000 immigrants were granted entry ...

... the Home Office had effectively granted an amnesty to 160,000 bogus refugees ...

... it cannot even deport even the most undesirable foreigners ...

What we are witnessing is a grotesque form of assisted national suicide...

All solidarity disappears, replaced by bewilderment and distrust...

... Britain was until the Seventies one of the most homogenous nations...

It was because Britain was so homogenous that it was so successful. But now we are a nation riven by ethnic divisions where patriotism is regarded with suspicion and all public policy is viewed through the prism of race.

In a land where the once uplifting ideal of national pride has been transmuted into nothing more than xenophobia decline is inevitable.

File under: it was because Britain was so homogenous that it was so successful.