Passed through Heathrow early this month. I usually find the Yookay multicultural and gender diverse posters risible and naff, but this time I felt I was looking at propaganda from a regime that has no legitimacy and that hates me. Worst of all was the picture of a clearly Arab Muslim man in full floor length robes and turban that bore t…
Passed through Heathrow early this month. I usually find the Yookay multicultural and gender diverse posters risible and naff, but this time I felt I was looking at propaganda from a regime that has no legitimacy and that hates me. Worst of all was the picture of a clearly Arab Muslim man in full floor length robes and turban that bore the caption 'Faces of Britain'. I'm a professional middle class man, a Christian, married to someone from another country who wouldn't be characterised as 'White British'. I have two daughters in their tweens and I love my country and want it to have a great future - but the rage that regularly arises in me when I see all this shit makes me either want to burn it all down and start again or flee somewhere else. The water has finally got too hot for this frog not to notice.
Hello Paul, I also have a young daughter and a foreign wife. And also prone to episodes of rage.
I walked home from school aged 7 onwards. It taught me independence, and I wanted the same for my daughter.
But once she starts school I will need to be at the gates as she enters and leaves, in order to deter the very credible threat from predators cruising these places looking for girls, while the police look the other way.
In other words, she now needs a male chaperone while outside.
How we got here, I don’t know. Boiling frog indeed. Little by little, browbeaten by small humiliations, until we lose the courage to resist.
I would probably have left by now, but family commitments keep me here.
But there is another reason too. This is the only place on the planet we can truly call home. We can move somewhere else and call it home, but that doesn’t make it so.
This little patch is all we’ve got. If we lose it we are homeless, like the last kid in a game of musical chairs. We don't seem to get that.
I was in the UK recently and saw the "Faces of Britain" in passing... one was literally a woman in a niqab. Couldn't even see her actual face 🤣 I really thought, wow, you can't make this sh*t up. I laugh but I don't even find it funny, it feels like a large-scale, extremely cruel trolling of the population. I think this kind of stuff is going to radicalize more and more "normal" people.
You sound like my husband. We are also a couple, he's white English and I'm of dual heritage. White German mother and Black 1st generation father. My parents met whilst my father was serving in the Army and was stationed over there. We live in Birmingham which I would describe as one of those cities Matt discusses in this podcast, I can't remember the exact term. The instability is clear here. Our Council is effectively bankrupt, there are sections of the city that are self governed, which I would argue are now no go zones and there is no shared idea or culture. Needless to say, we are planning to move within the next 18 months.
My husband loves his Country and is clearly not a racist but when he sees the day to day bastardisation of Britain, he is enraged. He feels not listened to and refuses to have our 2 daughters grow up in a city where our Local MP Tahir Ali is asking for blasphemy laws. It's a appalling and based on the information in this podcast it won't be a surprise when the silent majority will feel it necessary to take things into their own hands.
Until recently I just cynically gave it the side eye y’know. But since Southport and the resurfacing of the grooming gang stories.. man it feels like I’m being goaded. I don’t want to leave this land - my ancestors fought and died for it. I’m Lancastrian (north of the sands) but I’ve got Manx, Welsh and Scots ancestry as well as Cumberland and Westmoreland. I don’t want to leave, why should I? I’m living in Surrey and there is a different sense of Englishness here, but it’s still a land that somehow calls to me as home.
Passed through Heathrow early this month. I usually find the Yookay multicultural and gender diverse posters risible and naff, but this time I felt I was looking at propaganda from a regime that has no legitimacy and that hates me. Worst of all was the picture of a clearly Arab Muslim man in full floor length robes and turban that bore the caption 'Faces of Britain'. I'm a professional middle class man, a Christian, married to someone from another country who wouldn't be characterised as 'White British'. I have two daughters in their tweens and I love my country and want it to have a great future - but the rage that regularly arises in me when I see all this shit makes me either want to burn it all down and start again or flee somewhere else. The water has finally got too hot for this frog not to notice.
Hello Paul, I also have a young daughter and a foreign wife. And also prone to episodes of rage.
I walked home from school aged 7 onwards. It taught me independence, and I wanted the same for my daughter.
But once she starts school I will need to be at the gates as she enters and leaves, in order to deter the very credible threat from predators cruising these places looking for girls, while the police look the other way.
In other words, she now needs a male chaperone while outside.
How we got here, I don’t know. Boiling frog indeed. Little by little, browbeaten by small humiliations, until we lose the courage to resist.
I would probably have left by now, but family commitments keep me here.
But there is another reason too. This is the only place on the planet we can truly call home. We can move somewhere else and call it home, but that doesn’t make it so.
This little patch is all we’ve got. If we lose it we are homeless, like the last kid in a game of musical chairs. We don't seem to get that.
I was in the UK recently and saw the "Faces of Britain" in passing... one was literally a woman in a niqab. Couldn't even see her actual face 🤣 I really thought, wow, you can't make this sh*t up. I laugh but I don't even find it funny, it feels like a large-scale, extremely cruel trolling of the population. I think this kind of stuff is going to radicalize more and more "normal" people.
You sound like my husband. We are also a couple, he's white English and I'm of dual heritage. White German mother and Black 1st generation father. My parents met whilst my father was serving in the Army and was stationed over there. We live in Birmingham which I would describe as one of those cities Matt discusses in this podcast, I can't remember the exact term. The instability is clear here. Our Council is effectively bankrupt, there are sections of the city that are self governed, which I would argue are now no go zones and there is no shared idea or culture. Needless to say, we are planning to move within the next 18 months.
My husband loves his Country and is clearly not a racist but when he sees the day to day bastardisation of Britain, he is enraged. He feels not listened to and refuses to have our 2 daughters grow up in a city where our Local MP Tahir Ali is asking for blasphemy laws. It's a appalling and based on the information in this podcast it won't be a surprise when the silent majority will feel it necessary to take things into their own hands.
Until recently I just cynically gave it the side eye y’know. But since Southport and the resurfacing of the grooming gang stories.. man it feels like I’m being goaded. I don’t want to leave this land - my ancestors fought and died for it. I’m Lancastrian (north of the sands) but I’ve got Manx, Welsh and Scots ancestry as well as Cumberland and Westmoreland. I don’t want to leave, why should I? I’m living in Surrey and there is a different sense of Englishness here, but it’s still a land that somehow calls to me as home.