As I just replied to Lord Somber, we watch America's self-destruction and Fani-Georgia in particular ... monumental waste of resources, not to mention the Ukraine but Lord Somber, hailing from Athens, Georgia, has his eye on us in turn ... and in this case, Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple):
https://www.city-journal.org/article/ill-served
And Dalrymple is spot on for the money, it's hard to fault his crit ... here's too much of it as it's hard to pare down:
And Dalrymple is spot on for the money, it's hard to fault his crit ... here's too much of it as it's hard to pare down:
Staying recently for a few days in a luxury hotel in London (not at my own expense, I hasten to say), I was struck, as in the past, by the fact that not a single member of the staff was of British origin.
We are at an odd, and not reassuring, conjuncture. Britain faces an economic recession, a labor shortage (as a growing proportion of the population no longer works), stagnation in productivity, and unprecedented levels of illegal immigration. Indebtedness, both public and private, is great and growing; a gaping commercial deficit exists with the rest of the world.
Current standards of living can continue only through further borrowing, which may not be possible for much longer. Both inflation and taxation are at their highest levels for nearly half a century. It is hard to see any light at the end of this long tunnel: the instinct of many, particularly of the most productive and ambitious, is to flee. They have seen the future, and it is impoverishment.Very difficult to argue. Over on Twitter, half of my tweeting is "nature" and "past history" tweeting, the other half political. On Gab, it's almost all political.
A situation like this does not strike like lightning: it takes years of improvidence and foolishness to lay the ground for it. Demagoguery and frivolity (though without accompanying gaiety) have proved a deadly combination.
We are certainly being overrun and even after a valid criticism of Dalrymple that London's hardly representative of Britain now, having gone under some years ago, with only the M25 bubble remaining of bizarrely naive English upper-middle ... my next thought is ... why? Why is it so? To be fair to Dalrymple, I also have been nowhere near London for years, nor do I have the slightest desire to go there ... nor Manchester proper, nor Liverpool, nor Leeds etc.
Out in the sticks here, up on my hillside, looking out, about a year back, this working class English society saw the house across the road taken over by blacks, with white council officers furtively looking around for possible opposition. Up the road, a hostel of illegals sprung up, let alone the takeover by the travellers further over ... but in one sense, they're "ours", not "foreign".
All major jobs in the lower rungs, i.e. the actual workers, the productive, are done by Eastern Europeans, with a smattering of blacks, Jamaicans, a few English dotted about. The English are not hard to spit ... surly, defensive, loud, tattooed, lazy and on benefits. The Romanian who's moved in on my floor smiled whilecwe were discussing it and immediately said the words "on benefits".
In the past four years, about eight troublemakers have been thrown out of this ramshackle, sprawling house ... every single one loud ASBOs ... impossible to live near them. The foreigners are employed, fairly quiet, they know the score and are watchful of both an indigenous neighbour further down who works, plus myself. Downstairs is a nest of indigenous ... on benefits, loud, up all hours through the night ... you know the type of thing ... drugged out of their skulls, belligerent just beneath the surface.
Now that IS ... meaning it exists ... that's the reality. Generation? I'd say from Gen X and Millennial, no post-Millennials yet.
Conclusions? Well that's an entire other post, innit.
Do you really mean 'Jamaicans' or is that your generic term for West Indians?
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