Bill Sykes' - In Retrospect.
(August 2006)
Bill Sykes
looks back in retrospect at material which has been published
in previous editions of "View from America",
in an attempt to determine whether the subject matter
written then is still applicable in today’s world
Preface:
As most of you are aware I took the months of
July and August 2005 off in order to try and get a break
away from reporting upon the sordid acts of politicians
and the ever increasing worldwide violence of the human
species, but to no avail as seven days before Sheena and
I headed for a months vacation in Europe the violence spread
to London and their underground rail system was hit with
a particular violent terrorist act that killed many innocent
people. Once again religious hatred played a part, and
certain brain washed youthful members of the home grown
Muslim community were the perpetrators of these particularly
dastardly acts of violence against innocent British people.
Article 2C: Britain - "An integrated society"
- A
controversial subject?
From our annual visits to UK we have observed what appears
to us to be a rapidly deteriorating national identity
of the British people. The people of Britain appear to
be becoming an alarming mixture of various nationalities
who are not the cohesive workforce that the British Government
would like to have us believe but more of a segregated
mish-mash of foreign entities who have migrated into
localized ghettoes and instead of becoming integrated
citizens of Britain are retaining their own particular
customs, identity, and mode of dress.
May I suggest
that it is the duty of each and every immigrant to assimilate
into a new culture and make any and all the necessary
changes in order to be accepted as a new citizen in the
country to which they have emigrated, and certainly not
vice-versa.
British industry has been provided with the cheap labour
that the economists stated that Britain required, by
the introduction of a foreign labour force who in the
beginning took the lower paying jobs that the British
workers apparently would not tackle.
In my opinion the new workforce in many cases have diluted
the personality of British society by the introduction
of certain problems in the areas of hygiene, potential
health conditions, overcrowded housing, and lowered educational
standards.
In many cases this could be due to language barriers
and a desire to retain local customs and their own particular
national identity, and on top of that they have congregated
in localized areas nationwide which in certain instances
have become "no-go" communities, where the
local people who once resided in those areas and are
now warned to enter at their own peril.
So, has integration, (as toted by the British Government
as being a huge success), been accomplished. In my opinion,
far from it - I would suggest that in many towns and
cities segregation is a more appropriate word for the
current situation than integration.
I have said a number of times in previous news letters
that in my opinion the people of the UK would, if the
current situation of mass immigration into the country
continues, (for good or for bad), become a coloured race
within the next fifty plus years.
From what we saw during our recent visit this year
that dateline may be rapidly diminishing in a downward
spiral due to the legal and illegal entry into Britain
by hordes of foreign nationals seeking opportunistic
rewards of a better life by taking full advantage of
the British socialist giveaway programs, which in my
view are placing a very heavy and unsustainable financial
burden upon the middle class British citizens.
The
mass of immigrants entering Britain may have provided
the cheap labour that many of the leading economists
stated was a growing necessity in the world markets,
but it has come with a price which in my estimation is
lowering the standards of the British way of life and
unfortunately placing a once great nation in the precarious
position of attaining a designation as a third world
country.
I’m very much aware that a number of the immigrants
arriving in Britain are highly intelligent people with
excellent educational qualifications - but the ratio
of this type of person to the lower echelon cheap labour
leaves a lot to be desired.
Late breaking news: Dateline 15th July 2005. London.
The British Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, has discussed
with European Ministers the setting up of Joint Charter
flights, (already dubbed "Migrant Air" by
the national press), upon which illegal immigrants located
in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain will be
returned to the countries of their origin. The reason
for establishing an Air Charter Company is that the Commercial
Aircraft Companies balk at accepting deportees who are
seen as a security risk.
Can one say that it’s about time that some action
was taken? Well done Mr. Home Secretary.
British immigrant history from World War Two
onwards.
After World War Two there was a considerable
shortage of unskilled labour in Great Britain and when
an advert appeared in the Jamaican "Daily Gleaner" offering
passage to England on the troopship SS Empire Windrush
for the relatively small cost of 28.10 pounds sterling
some of the people of Jamaica saw this as a chance of
a lifetime to emigrate to a better way of life.
On the
24th of May 1948 the Empire Windrush, which was on its
way from Australia to UK, left Kingston Harbour, Jamaica,
with 300 passengers below decks and 192 passengers on
deck, a number of whom were British ex-servicemen and
women being repatriated home to Britain.
Due to some civil disturbances which broke out in Britain
at that time with respect to the recruitment of foreign
labour, there were suggestions that the ship should not
be allowed to dock in a British port, but finally the
Labour Government’s Colonial Secretary at that
time, Mr. Creech Jones, said that only settlers who possessed
British passports would be allowed to land and then only
for a limited time period of one year!!!
The SS Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks on the
22nd of June 1948, and 236 settlers from Jamaica and
Trinidad were allowed to land and provided with accommodation
at the Clapham Common deep shelter, which previously
had been used to house German and Italian prisoners of
war. As the shelter was less than a mile from the
town of Brixton many of the settlers found places to
live in that locality and so the great escape to Britain
came about. As there was still a vital need at that time
for as many as 11 million additional workers, (5% of
the British workforce), London Transport started in April
of 1956 to recruit more and more people from the West
Indies.
In 1986, British politician Enoch Powell who had very
controversial views on immigration spoke out against
Britain’s large scale acceptance of black people
as immigrants and predicted, "rivers of blood",
if non-white immigrants were not repatriated to their
countries of origin. He then went on to describe Britain’s
role in absorbing so many foreign immigrants as an act
of "building one’s own funeral pyre".
The way that things have turned out, can one say that
maybe Enoch Powell was right after all?
Disclaimer:
Some of the information gathered for this newsletter
has been gleaned from British and International media
sources, (including the Internet), and as such is quoted
as accurately as possible. I try to obtain confirmation
on each subject from several outlets, so the text is
a mixture of composite news items and personal comments
and therefore the reader must make his/her own judgment
as to the reliability and degree of accuracy of the subjects
discussed.
Note: To view the complete September 2005 Edition of "View
from America" please click HERE.
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