Bill Sykes' - In Retrospect
II.
(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.
Please note
that Bill Sykes had the first of these retrospective
articles published on the "Open
Writing" website.
Preface:
The politicians and religious zealots of this world are forever instigating brutal
wars which are started under all kinds of pretexts, excuses, lies, and of course
religious bias, which kills and mortally wounds great numbers of the civilian
population whilst at the same time demolishing much of the infrastructure.
The headlines may have shifted currently from the wars in the Middle East,
Israel versus Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the long drawn out vicious, and uncontrollable
chaotic civil war in Iraq which has got completely out of hand
during the American occupation, where chaos, mayhem, and the inevitable killing
of many innocent civilians still continues on a daily basis - but I’m sure
that the Middle East war headlines are not over by a long chalk and will re-appear
as and when a new crisis comes upon the scene.
A potential terrorist
crisis recently occurred in Great Britain where home
grown terrorist factions, who possibly were born in Britain
and currently reside there, are said to be suspected
of plotting to destroy several aircraft somewhere over
the Atlantic Ocean, (en route from London Heathrow Airport
to the United States), with the loss of all passengers
onboard.
This alleged act of a potential terrorist nature, by
certain individual who are said to be of a Pakistani
background, now dominates the world media headlines and
I therefore thought that it was relative and appropriate
for me to take a look back in retrospect to previous
articles that I have written over the years in which
I have discussed what I consider to be a radical decline
in stature of the British nation.
Surely it doesn’t take an octogenarian ex-Brit,
who spent the first forty years of his life in England
and the last forty years in the United States, to be
able to analyze Britain’s decline over the years
into what appears to be a powerless vacuum as a world
leader. My crystal ball maybe a little dim these days
but it still presents a picture illustrating reasons
to believe that Great Britain could be doomed to the
indignity of becoming a Third World country if it continues
to support an unsupportable immigration problem which
has become a financial drain upon the British people.
This analysis will of course be challenged and refuted
by the liberal minded amongst you on a basis of
outmoded thinking that Britain is still a powerful nation
upon which the sun will never set, as they, (the liberal
minded), will never fully recognize or accept that the
potential downfall of their country has been brought
about by a lack of parliamentary leadership which has
miss-handled and failed to curtail the extraordinary
number of immigrants who have been allowed to set foot
in and remain in Britain, without assessing the current
and future cost to this once great nation of housing,
and sustaining the everyday life of many of these individuals
and their families.
"England my beloved England - Oh what
has become of you?"
The articles in this edition have been extracted from
previously published editions of "View from America",
and on this particular occasion the articles that I have
chosen will be centred in general around a comparison
of life as I saw it in postwar 1948 Britain, when Britain
started to become a haven for foreign immigrants, and
the situation that I now observe to exist in today’s
Britain. Just in case any readers may say, "What
does this American know about life in Britain?",
perhaps I should remind them that my family was born
in Great Britain and we as a family lived in Britain
for forty years before emigrating to America on the last
day of December 1965, and further more we have revisited
England for at least a minimum of couple of weeks practically
each and every year since the year that we left for the
United States.
My information has generally been gleaned from personal
discussions with family still residing in Britain and
other British born citizens, on subjects that affect
their daily lives and also a close scrutiny of the British
media, (newspapers and television), plus personal observations
of the British way of life and the political atmosphere
that now exists - so it cannot be said that I don’t
know what I’m talking about.
Well I suppose it can but I’m sure that there
are many amongst you that understand and may agree with
my observations, and for those that don’t, and
who have constructive criticism on the subjects discussed
in the following articles, you can always express your
feelings by contacting me at the E-Mail address provided.
The articles included in this edition are entitled as
follows: "The
old home town, she ain’t what she used to be",
which has been extracted from the August 2003 edition
of "View
from America", and this will be followed by a story
extracted from the Summer 2004 edition entitled: "Observations
on current day Britain", and I will finish up these
observation with one from the September 2005 edition
entitled: "Britain
an integrated society?".
We welcome feedback about any of the contents
of these articles. Please send all correspondence
to bill_sykes@huddersfield1.co.uk
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