This corrosive mindset

On 1 February 2011, Simon Heffer said this in The Daily Telegraph:

“Despite the enterprise and valour of our citizens, our leaders seem set only on managing the country's decline...

Since 1945, the institution that has come to characterise Britain is not our disciplined and professional Armed Forces, but the welfare state… the something for nothing society. Welfarism has always had at its core the sentimental belief that living beyond our means is simply something that a humane society has to do. What happens when the bills come in will always be a later generation's problem. That generation is ours…

Most of Europe is a basket case… America is woefully misgoverned, with vast pockets of incompetence and corruption, and a toxic political class…

Our public services are poor not because of the sums spent on them – which have been vast – but because of their appalling management. Labour destroyed the ethos of our Civil Service when it was in power by politicising it. A similar problem has occurred in local government and the quangocracy.

Part of the problem is that these institutions are run by the products of our pitiful education system, in which our rulers continue to resist the creation and promotion of an elite. As we have seen in the past couple of years, the politicians whom such people support and advise are often themselves devoid of any ethic of public service, and indeed pursue their own interests to the point of criminality. It is little wonder they take such bad decisions...

The conscious decision to accept decline rather than to fight it can only have terrible consequences for us… All of us are confronted by evidence every day of the determination, enterprise, industry and valour of our fellow citizens. We do not sense acceptance of decline; we sense instead a frustration that so few opportunities are afforded us for improvement, that the tax system thwarts us, and that the unproductive and the defeatist are treated so lavishly at the expense of the productive and striving… If we do not now resolve to break out of this corrosive mindset, it will be nearly impossible for our children to do so.”

Bear with me for a moment. The 2010 Conservative Manifesto stated:

“IMMIGRATION HAS ENRICHED OUR NATION OVER THE YEARS.”

The 2010 Lib Dem Manifesto stated:

“THOUSANDS OF BUSINESS, SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS IN MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTY RELY ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE FROM OVERSEAS.”

In a major speech on 31 March 2010, Gordon Brown said:

“I call on all those in THE MAINSTREAM OF OUR POLITICS to stand together in the coming weeks and present a united front against those who don't value THE DIVERSE AND OUTWARD LOOKING BRITAIN THAT WE STAND FOR; and WHO WANT TO END IMMIGRATION simply because they don't like migrants.”

On 23 October 2009, Andrew Neather, a former government advisor to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett amongst others, dropped this revelatory bombshell in The Evening Standard:

“THE DELIBERATE POLICY OF MINISTERS FROM LATE 2000 UNTIL AT LEAST FEBRUARY LAST YEAR… WAS TO OPEN UP THE UK TO MASS MIGRATION…

MASS IMMIGRATION WAS THE WAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS GOING TO MAKE THE UK TRULY MULTICULTURAL... THE POLICY WAS INTENDED… TO RUB THE RIGHT'S NOSE IN DIVERSITY…

In 1995, 55,000 foreigners were grnted the right to settle in the UK. BY 2005 THAT HAD RISEN TO 179,000... In addition, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS HAVE COME FROM THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES SINCE 2004, MOST REQUIRING NEITHER VISAS NOR PERMISSION TO WORK OR SETTLE… THE GOVERNMENT HAD CREATED ITS LONGED-FOR IMMIGRATION BOOM.”

So, all three mainstream parties are wholly committed to the Globalist Multicult and mass immigration will continue no matter what the indigenous majority want. Here are the questions then:

i) How much of the 'something for nothing society' is represented by the 'truly multicultural… immigration boom' bit?

ii) If all the beneficiaries of the 'diverse', 'outward-looking', 'enriching' and 'reliant' ideologies of the mainstream parties had their benefits taken away tomorrow, how much less 'decline' would the rest of us have to 'manage'?

P.S. 'Our leaders', those who 'seem set only on managing the country's decline', were quite happy to see 8.7 BILLION OF OUR POUNDS spent upon the foreigner in 2011. Next year, 'overseas aid' will see £9.1bn of our declining nation’s wealth similarly disappeared. £12bn will be handed over in 2013 and £12.6bn in 2014.

Can anyone out there explain to me how it helps, in a time of austerity, to give away so much of the little we have left to farway strangers? It just doesn’t.

Those who favour the foreigner have ruled our lives for a long time now. They are just doing what they’ve always done, taking what is ours and giving it away to others. Or putting it in their own pockets.

Or, because the tinpot dictator benefits most from the great ‘international development’ giveaway, both.