Can history help us define British identity today, or is it part of the problem?

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Who do you think you are? Can history help us define British identity today, or is it part of the problem?

South Africa Rainbow Coalition seems to be working …….so far

President Thambo Mbeki of South Africa has consistent grown the economy for the last five years…. even after the Doomsday prediction that was the fashion then ,that the economy will collapse and the usual hurrahs from the Enlightened Right ,who always prevails with the status quo…Well so far..they are wrong. But really that is not the point.

This other weekend another bomb went off in Baghdad, some thousands of Iraqis died, 5 Americans and 2 Britons died, and the last two deaths is the news item. Iraqis body counts don’t matter in these things, but that is not the point, it is the pointless war, the(C) Prime Minister Tony Blair has dragged the British into in solidarity with her “senior” cousin across the ocean.

After the madness that was 9/11, The United States of America needed a war,any war, Afghanistan will not do, a big profile 4^th of July dance parade kind of War,Saddam walked into it, we all know that there were no weapon of mass destruction ,Saddam was just a two bit dictator with a bad p.r. department… heck what do you expect with clowns like “Chemical Ali” but Britain went into the War and are still bogged down in Iraq, with her master.

How times has changed. Britain the Empire that ruled over half the world at the height of her glory ,is now reduced to the lapping dog of neocon buffoons in Washington,DC ….

Britain was the last refuge of freedom loving people for the better part of the last 300 years, the Indians sent out of Uganda, the Hong Kong change over in 1997,the asylum seeking future prime ministers, the dissidents fleeing Russian now dismantled gulag, even the obnoxious French during Hitler’s War, name it ,Britain gave them succor and promptly betrayed them ,that obviously goes with the territory….

What about the colonies?

From Nigeria to Zimbbawe, Britain handed over to the parasitic elites in those countries, they empowered scoundrels, illiterates, unpopular candidates with the hope that they can always pull the strings of economic dictates from London (they still do); no colony was truly free of British manipulations

Take Nigeria ,a country of over 200 nations ,that had no reasons being together, with shoe strings it was bonded together and formed the largest black country on earth ,within seven years after her independence from Britain she fought a war and she has never been the same gain, her leaders (the ones agreeable to the British) were encouraged to loot the country blind………that may not be the point.

The Beatles were just four working class lads from the seedier side of Liverpool, they had to go to America to become royalties ,John Lennon, the Beatles front man was eventually gunned down in New York, not a few still think that he is a bona fide American hero…..even those who hadn’t seen Elvis in a while.

Britain in all fairness has done so much for the modern civilization as we know it more than any other people on earth ,she gave the world football and had only won the World Cup once ,Brazil where half the population go hungry daily had won it a record four times, a free country where human rights and the rights of individuals are a paramount pillar of the society but she runs a monarchy ,which is the basis for all inequalities on earth ,that people are not born equal …A lucky sperm and you are the Prince of Wales ,an unlucky sperm you are doomed in Finchley for generations, in Britain it is all about the rule of law but she has no written constitution.

by the way the Magna Carta was sealed by King John and his barons on a manic Monday of June summer of 15,1215

Her Oxfam has done so much for the Third World poor, but really they are poor in the first instances because the 3^rd World leaders are encouraged by The City to loot their treasuries in the first place, their leaders lived in the best neighborhood in Britain, but we give our widows mites to starving kids in Sudan, we encouraged Pinochet because he helped in the Falklands, but we hate oppressions and we cherish the rule of law……

Before the July bombings ,terrorism wasn’t such a big deal here, we somehow appease the Fundamentalists, we know some of those mullahs in those mosques were preaching intolerance, we were well aware that Heathrow was the gateway to the training grounds of Kabul, Sudan ,Yemen and other nearly failed states, but we believed erroneously and naively that by not antagonizing the fundamentalists ,they will never attack Britain ,we were wrong ,they attacked Britain.Afterall Maggie had Ronald Reagan to take care of such inconveniences ala Gadafi et al ,Blair now his Bush.

A nation that went to war in 1939, because some lunatic overran Poland, that lunatic would have been reined in much earlier if we had not been so British and wanted peace in our time, an ally that was aggressed, on her word of honour, to have descended to the depth of Clintonian speak politics, of polls and spins, where the end always justifying the means, we lost our moral banner as the leading light of the civilized world.

If Estonia overran Warsaw today, we would expect the US marines to help us with our press release, meaning waiting for George.W. mood swing and George W’s mood is an inverted fraction of Dick Cheney ,Laura and the twins and the old man in Kennebunkport.

We are really in a mess.

Britain couldn’t publish an ordinary cartoon ,which Denmark with lesser might militarily ,economically and politically did, Denmark choose honor over political expediency of the moment, if you must live in the West ,you must uphold the basic value structures of that society.

What exactly is our moral fiber as a people?

What has defined us most especially in recent times?

Maybe because of our need for unencumbered oil flow, Saudi Arabia, can annex the Cotswold.

Tony Blair will find a spin for it. We value our material comfort more than our spiritual and moral compass.

In recent past, Britain has acted like the 52^nd states of America, it has towed every policy double speak from White House, it might be more comforting if the politics of the present occupants of The White house has had the minutest tinge of statesmanship,but it usually diatribes of ill-thought ideas ,might is right WASP Virginia country state of mind of spoilt aristocratic oil capitalists, whose vision of the World is so narrow ,that they think Connecticut is West Of England. When Britain was under massive blitzkrieg of Hitler’s Army, she needed America but she still had values and respects, the World was readily behind Britain, because she stood for something, something intrinsically valuable to any civilized people of conscience and breeding, but can we say the same for today, even with having the Fourth largest economy on earth. Even with the FTSE doing so well, with the acceptance of Beckham and Posh Spice in high society, with Madonna speaking with an Etonian accent and being married to a local boy.

Something is still missing for such a matured civilization, we all agreed America is damned too young and too powerful ,Britain would have easily acted as a well mannered Uncle ,who has seen it all ,chaperon the mighty Joe around the china shop politics of oil ,two faced robbery of financial manipulation of Breton Woods and the obvious subjugation of every other race on earth, but she chose the role of a poor cousin ,always eager and ready for hand me downs .

Agreed most nouveau riche’ hardly listen to voice of reasons and restraints as the only World Super power is acting now, always towing the path of self destruction, but a firm word from most decent uncles has been know to do some goods, so if by 2050, China becomes the dominant power,we will all rush to learn Mandarin or Cantonese and our guy in 10 downing street say Euan Blair .will hurray every yeah of China?

The future look so near and it is ours to right it, if only ………… maybe that’s not the point.

Leonard Lawal,

Lagos, Nigeria.

+234-8068722749.