Politik

Matt Goodwin, Blogger auf Substack, hat den Text seiner Rede vor EU-Parlamentarier in Strassburg aufgeschaltet. Daraus die ersten Paragraphen. Beängstigend.

Why is British politics experiencing a historic political ‘realignment’ that will, if the polls are correct, deliver a Reform-led government, headed by Nigel Farage?

To answer this question, let me first set out a few facts about what is currently underway in Britain.
By the year 2063, white Britons will be a minority in the country.
Among the under-40s, this will happen much earlier, potentially as early as the year 2050 —only twenty-five years away.

By the year 2079, the foreign-born –people who were born outside Britain— and their immediate descendants, will represent a majority in the entire country.
In England, already today, more than 40 per cent of all babies have at least one parent who was born outside the country, with the most common including India, Pakistani, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ghana, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

By 2100, by the end of this century, one in four British adults and roughly one in three young people, unless we change the direction of travel, will follow Islam.
Today, more than one million people in Britain do not speak English, while in more than 2,000 schools a majority of children do not speak English as their first language.
Muhammad, including variants of the name, has been the most popular boys name in Britain, since 2016.

And in many areas of the country, somewhere between 20 and 40 per cent of people from minority backgrounds openly reject an English, British, and UK identity.
All these things points to the answer to the question of why British politics is currently in a state of profound and historic change —a political realignment.
We have an immigration crisis, a demographic crisis, which nobody in Westminster is seriously responding to. And this crisis has two key elements.
The first is the illegal migration crisis.

According to the Pew Research Centre, there are more than one million illegal migrants living and working in Britain, today.
They are now being joined by nearly 200,000 additional unvetted illegal migrants, who are arriving on the small boats from France.
And if the current average trend continues, they will soon be joined by another 181,000 illegal migrants on the small boats by the next general election.
More unvetted migrants have now crossed into the country on the small boats than we currently have people serving in the British armed forces.
Nobody voted for this. Nobody wants this.
Yet once they have entered Britain illegally, they are then sent by our current Labour government into the very heart of our local communities –next to families, next to schools, next to synagogues, next to children.

The cost of this absurd police is some £5.7 million a day for the hardworking British taxpayer, or £15 billion over the next decade.
We don’t know who these people are.
We don’t know where they are from.
We don’t know what they believe.
We don’t know why they are here.
What we do know is they have included supporters of Islamic state, murderers, rapists, and “alleged” Iranian terrorists and that Islamic state has been using Europe’s migration crisis to infiltrate Western nations.

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Paris: Kein Bobo-Aufstand, keine Lehrer, Sozialarbeiter, Studenten, Professoren, sondern die Leute vom Land. Nicht das Kleinbürgertum, die Proletarier melden sich, mit ihren Parolen und Methoden, und das Kleinbürgertum, welche die Meinungsdominanz ihr eigen nennt, ist entsetzt. Interview in spiked mit Christopher Gully.

Back in 2014, geographer Christopher Guilluy’s study of la France périphérique (peripheral France) caused a media sensation. It drew attention to the economic, cultural and political exclusion of the working classes, most of whom now live outside the major cities. It highlighted the conditions that would later give rise to the yellow-vest phenomenon. Guilluy has developed on these themes in his recent books, No Society and The Twilight of the Elite: Prosperity, the Periphery and the Future of France. spiked caught up with Guilluy to get his view on the causes and consequences of the yellow-vest movement.

spiked: What is the role of culture in the yellow-vest movement?

Guilluy: Not only does peripheral France fare badly in the modern economy, it is also culturally misunderstood by the elite. The yellow-vest movement is a truly 21st-century movement in that it is cultural as well as political. Cultural validation is extremely important in our era.

One illustration of this cultural divide is that most modern, progressive social movements and protests are quickly endorsed by celebrities, actors, the media and the intellectuals. But none of them approve of the gilets jaunes. Their emergence has caused a kind of psychological shock to the cultural establishment. It is exactly the same shock that the British elites experienced with the Brexit vote and that they are still experiencing now, three years later.

The Brexit vote had a lot to do with culture, too, I think. It was more than just the question of leaving the EU. Many voters wanted to remind the political class that they exist. That’s what French people are using the gilets jaunes for – to say we exist. We are seeing the same phenomenon in populist revolts across the world.

spiked: How have the working-classes come to be excluded?

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