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Alan Jurek's avatar

Great piece Frederick.

I am the child of Saxon soil,

Raised by rain and tempered toil.

The tales I hold, the songs I knew,

Are stitched into my marrow true.

I greet the world with open gate,

But walk my path with upright gait.

For though new voices join the throng,

I know what makes my backbone strong.

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Bettina's avatar

Great article - wholeheartedly agree with everything you say. You're fed up because of the contrast with your 90's youth - imagine what it's like having been a child in 1960's London! Depressed at the degradation of our country doesn't begin to describe it - I weep real tears sometimes at what has been stolen from us.

Note re. ai image of policeman stopping you: he doesn't look sufficiently like an armed binman. Ai needs to check its thinking.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Good to know AI is manipulative. Who knew? USA 'Tech Bros'. Oh yes.

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William Webster's avatar

I say old chap, steady on the Starmerfuhrer will clap you in irons.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Please do remember former DPP, former MP, former PM Mr KR Starmer is not only the son of a tool, but is also 'the law'. Other activist lawyers are available.

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Jennifer Hargreaves's avatar

Excellent article. Loved it. A metaphorical 'called to arms'. Although born in South Africa, dad was from Nantwich and mum from Nantyglo, I've been here for 33 years. Proud to be a citizen of this great country.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

A proper UK citizen - you know why you are here, and seek to maintain what you knew over the past 33 years.

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Alan Jurek's avatar

Well said Jennifer !

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Stuffysays's avatar

I agree!

Nigel Farage isn't Arthur - he isn't too bothered about the idea of England. Rupert Lowe says lots of the right things but it simply led to him being excluded. I think we probably need to rise up and slap the white middle-class Boomer who lives in that tedious Hugh Grant world of luncheon parties, Pimms, the Social Calendar, comfy jobs with trust funds to purchase nice homes with. It would be easy enough to do - simply ask people if they listen to The Archers, read The Guardian and have a holiday home. If the answer is yes then give them a handful of immigrants to live with them.

I am old. I grew up in the 1960s. I knew people who had actually fought in the first war. My grandmother remembered Queen Victoria's funeral. The people of my childhood would not recognise their country now. The massive uncontrolled immigration into England of people who really don't care where they are has made us natives unwilling racists. It is noticeable how "normal" people now say out loud that the immigrants need to leave, income tax needs to be spent here for England's benefit, all the Woke crap needs to be stopped and the politicians need to be replaced by old-fashioned types with morals and principles and backbones. They can say that because we all live in ghettos now and we are only talking with our own kind.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Well, a single article that encompasses so many thoughts.

Thank goodness Frederick Edward puts the whole point across so wonderfully.

I think the increasingly irrational output from the USA as it spools up for the 2026 faux hate fest against the UK (aka 250th anniversary of independence) does much to endorse the MSM view that the few know so much better than the many about what is 'korrect' and what is 'wrong headed'.

Indeed, the self-regarding few have to use made-up phrases such as 'wrong-headed' to portray their flawed imbecilic thesis.

Mr K Rodney 'son of a tool' Starmer KC is aged 6 and three quarters.

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Robert Smith's avatar

We are a meek and cowardly bunch now, though, as the article makes clear. I don't know what to do about it, but getting rid of the police and allowing the public to exact justice on those who oppress them might help.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Understandable, but difficult. Right now the PoPo are a shadow of what they should be, and policing by consent has turned into a private army directed by Marxist elements. The PoPo need - not for the first time - complete reform.

Before that, we need to endorse the idea of UK norms, and for those who's kultchahhh prevents full engagement, then they are welcome to take their unfounded hated elsewhere. I see no reason to dissuade such people. The door is open. Oh, and the tax-cash ATM is closed.

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Robert Smith's avatar

The regime must be razed and not one stone of any of its institutions left atop another. For that to happen, the pigs will have to be slau.. I mean, abolished wholesale, not merely reformed. All the ensuing getting-even from the public would be a beneficial consequence. But there is no prospect of this happening soon.

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Tally's avatar

The denigration of England and the English in recent times started by Blair and New Labour after devolution for Scotland and Wales in 1998. When Englands flag re appeared for the euros . Local councils persecuted any expression of English identity using the racist cosh and still do to this day .

What the establishment fear most is that an English flag means it will eventually lead to the calls for an English Parliament . Liblabcon are all guilty of ignoring England as country in our own right . Reform are not much better but at least they will fly Englands flag . I believe that unless England is invited to join the uk as a Nation and not just regions , England will eventually leave the uk .

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Kenneth Burnley's avatar

Make a start, as I have done, by emailing all companies based in England who use 'UK' in their address, to use 'England' instead. Similarly, in the Comments sections of Youtube videos and elsewhere where folk say that they live, for example, in 'Bournemouth, UK', to remind them that to use 'Bournemouth, England' is preferable. Do the same in conversations: often English folk coming home from holiday abroad refer to being 'back in the UK' - I say to them 'You mean, "back in England"'. And complajn to the BBC when they use 'UK' instead of 'England'. It's hard work, but very rewarding when you start to see its results!

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Victoria's avatar

I am a child of the '80s and remember when as a Brit you may get social housing, or at least you wouldn't be the bottom of the list. How have we got a situation where we pay in but we're too "priveliged" to take advantage of it when we need it? And we're not supposed to complain about this?

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