There is a reason why Malawi's acknowledgment of British's to save their people for Arab slavery is particularly satisfying.
It is a corrective to one of London Mayor Sadiq Khan's most despicable acts.
In 2022 he gave the go-ahead for the erection on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square of a statue to celebrate Malawian Joseph Chilembwe, who had his followers behead a white farmer in front of his wife and children (who were sprayed with his blood) and then preached the following Sunday with the severed head next to him on the pulpit.
Khan cleared this in spite of the fact that, as he must have known or at least guessed if he had actually cared about them, the victim's grandchildren, for whom this was an awful part of their family history, were STILL ALIVE and living in the UK.
It remained up for 2 years.
Can you imagine how they must have felt?
I spoke to one grandchild and they told me how distant their aunt, a little girl at the time of the murder, always seemed to be. No surprise, poor kid, poor woman living with that all her life.
details 🧵👉
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My son’s old school today!
‼️Allegedly a knife yielding lunatic‼️
Kids were apparently hiding under the fucking desks! PETRIFIED 😭
I’m sick of it 🤬
@andyburnham You got police at these asylum accommodations up and down the country!
Time you protect the children of this country!
Can someone please explain why people that raped a child were allowed out on bail & flee the country , yet a man that slashed an empty dinghy is being held in prison waiting his trial until Spring 2027 ? Political ?
Even Burnham got involved but stayed quiet on the pedophiles.
This is what happens when you import the third world. You end up with neighbors who just throw their trash anywhere because it was normal for them where they’re from
🚨MINDBLOWING: Sanctuary Connecticut mainstream media losing their minds after an 18-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, facing charges for raping a 12-year-old and then running over a grandma and fleeing the scene was released from jail and then arrested by ICE.
Bridget has also exposed Catherine King and Kristy McBain LIED about the Auditor's office ANAO approval. #AMAGENDA#MELBOURNE#NSWPOL
WOW. #THEIRABC might want to report that part as well? #AUSPOL
Labor are riddled with LIARS. #CANBERRA
‘It’s not working for the people of Piddington, they feel threatened.’
GB News presenter Anne Diamond pushes back against Defence Minister Luke Pollard over the Home Office’s consultation on the migrant camp in Piddington and local residents' concerns.
She takes a podium, calls out Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and Eric Swallwell. She gets a lot of cutting remarks in her comedic delivery. Great remarks and very poised, well dressed and speaks well! Self deprecating with her eyebrow remark.
She is SHARP! Sharper than a TACK!
You care about your people being outnumbered by foreigners in your homeland? Weird!
You prefer youthful attractive women to painted hags? Gross!
You identify with your ancestors? They have nothing to do with you however you should pay reparations for things they allegedly did.
You cannot change your ethnicity. Someone with no English ethnicity will never become English. This is a fact of life; it is as neutral as any observation about the universe.
People didn't think they needed permission to be Indian or Algerian, either, but when the power of the state that put them in those countries receded, they left very swiftly because the reality is that the nature of tribal belonging is unspoken, felt, and very real.
If you have to say it, it probably isn't true, and that you are saying it is a confession. You can make statements like "I, a Pakistani woman, possess Englishness beyond the authority of the English people", but that won't make it true and you can't speak this into existence. No amount of legislation can make it so, and that this is the topic of conversation, as I said earlier, reveals the precariousness of your position.
I'm not trying to be rude, and there are many ways by which you could modulate your claim in order to respect the English people so that you do not drive up these hackles, but you seem to want to deliberately provoke so that it takes on the aspect of a shit-test.
Don't be surprised when this all backfires because of your lack of respect. The tribe decides if you belong or not, it isn't something you can demand or dictate.
Thanos, you've managed to write an entire essay about English ethnogenesis whilst seemingly misunderstanding what ethnogenesis actually is.
You acknowledge the Angles, Saxons, Britons, Danes and Normans, yet somehow conclude that because these populations contributed to the formation of the English people, English ethnicity is merely a social construct that anyone can acquire through residence.
That is an extraordinary leap in reasoning.
Ethnogenesis is precisely the historical process through which distinct populations develop into a people, establishing shared ancestry, language, traditions, cultural inheritance and a collective consciousness of themselves.
Nobody is suggesting the English emerged fully formed one morning, genetically identical and untouched by history. Quite the opposite. Our formation was an historical process, and those origins remain part of our inheritance.
Your reference to Æthelred in 1002 is particularly amusing because the English were already recognised as a people centuries earlier. Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People around AD 731.
The English did not suddenly materialise under Norman rule, nor did the Norman Conquest somehow abolish the people who preceded it.
Conquest, assimilation and cultural development are not evidence against ethnogenesis. They are part of the very historical processes through which peoples develop.
Then we arrive at your polling argument.
YouGov tells us that people hold different contemporary understandings of Englishness. Fascinating. But since when did public opinion determine historical ancestry?
If 84% of respondents adopt a civic or cultural understanding of Englishness, that tells us something about contemporary attitudes. It does not retrospectively alter the ethnogenesis of the English people.
Interestingly, the same YouGov research found that approximately a third of white adults in England considered English family heritage necessary to English identity. You conveniently overlook that distinction when presenting your figures.
And your argument concerning seventy years of elections is equally questionable.
Voting Labour or Conservative is not an individual referendum on every immigration decision, constitutional development or demographic consequence of their governments.
You're treating electoral outcomes as proof of collective philosophical consent. They are nothing of the sort.
The distinction I've repeatedly made is quite straightforward.
Englishness can be discussed as a national, cultural or historical ethnic identity. These meanings overlap, but they are not necessarily interchangeable.
A modern state may recognise different forms of national belonging. That does not give it the power to alter the historical ancestry of the people from whom England takes its name.
You are perfectly entitled to advocate a civic conception of Englishness. What you cannot reasonably do is pretend that the historical ethnic dimension ceases to exist because you prefer a different definition.
You have confused the historical formation of a people with the contemporary politics of belonging, and then mistaken public opinion for historical evidence.
That is not a refutation of English ethnogenesis. It is a failure to distinguish the very concepts you are attempting to discuss.
2 Muslim men who have just been convicted of raping a child 20 years ago have gone on the run.
I did not take much interest in Russell Brand but the authorities made a big show of the fact that he was convicted AND THEN HELD ON REMAND until he was bought back to court for sentencing.
Why is it not the same for everyone?
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