We had it lucky
At least the Romans had the good sense to go back to the warm South leaving this dismal island to
- The Fury of the Norsemen coming from the North
- The Angles, Jutes and Saxons from the East
- The Iron clad Normans coming from the South
- The famished Irish from out of the West
Perhaps this historic, mixed population still has no definableal identity save the stiff upper lip and plucky legends of Spitfires
The English have no national dress and only folk music being music hall escapes
Our so-called history merely centres around Sovereigns and warlords - the common folk are invisibly mute
Oh yes we have traditions - they say
Just look closely at the outrageous ostrich feathers worn by parading military, and so-called dignitaries
All that lavish, media friendly ceremonial being dreamt up by Victorian romantics .
Those 19th century Harvest Festival Hymns written looking backwards to a nonexistant golden age as the countryside mechanised.
Why do the subtropical Hordes gathering on opposite shores even want to come to a wet and windy island off the coast of Northern Europe
Someone should tell them that Julius Caesar called the place Ultima Thule - the end of the world
Radio Luxembourg beamed Allied propaganda into Europe So Third World Radio should propagate the message - that travelling across the planet to the clouds of Britain is plain crazy Why not tell all those esperate migrants - a few home truths
All our factories and banks went to Shanghai and Hong Kong in China.
All the Coal mines are shut
Agriculture is under Contract to a few highly mechanised Corporations
What will the large families of Foreign born workers do to earn a living
The country is bankrupt -
Just watch as the streets paved with gold fill with garbage -
Perhaps our children will tell tall tales of when every one was working
When there were buses and trains
When the binmen came
When the street used to have lights
Perhaps its just Karma
When our lads and lasses join the Services to travel to distant lands meet different people and
Trashed their country
Maybe just maybe the boot is now on the other foot
as
their Invasion has now Over
and so
The Enemy is inside our borders - fully intent on keeping their kith and kin firmly OUT
and in the meantime outbreeding the aborigines!
