Axis of Power

It is absolutely clear China with a developing independent space programme, including its own GPS system, having been highly proactive in buying up or obtaining primary access to most of the key materials and rare materials around the world and with most of the developed nations credit held by China, China has entered the World Stage in a major way. They are not bit players on the sidelines but has put itself in a position to dictate terms to the rest of the World. When the rest of the old Western former powers eventually pull themselves out of their stupor they are not going to relinquish their previous world dominance. We have the classic power struggle building up with China determining its allies to form its axis and the rest of the west developed nations lumbering into some coalition axis of opposition. The key questions are the buffer nations caught up inbetween these two axis, the Middle East and Australia/New Zealand, naturally a western alliance but too close to the China axis and too far for close support but perhaps most of all Russia sharing common borders.

We are not talking political arm wrestling, the west will not accept subservience to China without a fight. Can you really imagine the USofA meekly submitting to China's terms? I think not. We are talking about a walk towards WWIII. The only possible setback to China's progress to world dominance, planned or coincidental, is whether it can successfully continue to exercise total authoritarian rule and sit and contain the bubbling ferment of all their numerous minority racial groups. A resentment against the power and privilege the ruling Hans have surrounded themselves with.

Man the Stockade

Walking down the High Street that person talking loudly for all to hear into their mobile is speaking eastern european. The people standing in the middle of the pavement deep in some detailed account, oblivious to the inconvenience they cause to all passer bys, are talking in eastern european. The accents of all those people you encounter in public places, behind tills, behind bars, serving food or drinks or cleaning rooms, are all heavy european accents struggling for a minimal command of our language. It might be the 'Ford Factor', buy one and then every other car you see is also a Ford. Or just maybe we are drowning in a flood of immigrants. Alarmed? Resentful? Far from it, it is just yet another invasion of economic or political refugees coming here in the hope of a life and bettering themselves. A long trail going back into the mists of distant times, Turkish, West Indian, Ugandan, Chinese, Pakistani, Jewish, German /Swiss, Huguenots and so on.

We need these workers willing to fill all those lowly menial jobs which are beneath our contempt or so badly paid as to jeopardise the state handouts. We need them to do those jobs, and to do them better, as we will not deign to stoop to undertake them. Giving them a chance to make a new start give us in return those creature comforts we cherish. Their ardour to overcome whatever circumstances forced them to leave the comfort of home, the familiar, friends and family places brings them to us. Where once here they can maximise those opportunities we can offer but are ourselves blasé and blind to. We need them just as much as they need us.

If we choose not to welcome them into our open arms and go out of our way to help them to see and understand this strange new society they have landed in, who can we blame if they congregate for comfort and mutual support? To seek comfort, support and security amongst those that are familiar with your native tongue and background is natural. By congregating in enclaves they become prime targets for cultural resentment at best or abuse at worse. On a level playing-field the following now British born generation would assimilate into their born-in culture, and, driven on by their parents struggles, will seize vigorously the opportunities our society offers to make entrepreneurial leaps. We win win. New blood, stronger gene lines and the excitement of new ideas or slants on old ideas.

We have to rediscover tolerance and keeping our eye on the long game. No matter how irritating their flouting of our traditional reserve and public good manners we must realise they are strangers to our ways and need time to learn. To keep the playing-field level we must push back against over zealous PC correctness that wants to ensure an ethnic and cultural past for children born in this our country. Also resist vehemently all attempts at racial discrimination, stereotyping and racial intolerance. The key word is assimilation.The sooner they meld into our culture, adopt our ways and begin to vehemently defend our corner the stronger and more resilient we are as a nation and the closer we can grow as communities. Absorb not reject.

Coloured bar none

It is census time again. Governments opportunity to pry into the habits of its citizens. Having benefited from access to census returns from the past I am there in spirit, if not in detail. What riles me, yet again the government asks its citizens to judge the colour of their skin. I found it offensive when the South African government ran their country on that basis and I find it as offensive that my government should ask me to judge my degree of drift from olive to well beyond doubt brown, or should I really consider myself black?

If they were sincere then they would issue a colour strips that you could place against your skin and compare your actual colour with the colour our government decries it to be. But of course you may have just returned from a sunny holiday all tanned out. So there would need to be a lightening factor strip to compare with depending on how many weeks since your return from a trip of more than four days from further south than Birmingham. What is wrong is that colour is so subjective and is totally foundered on a highly racial premise. Black people come from Africa, brown people come from Asia and so on into the more indefinables.

I cannot deny that I come from a mixed racial background. It is factual on the record for all to see and arrive at their own conclusion. That I come from a mixed background tells no one anything significant other than to raise racial expectations and prejudices. It enshrines racial stereotyping and that is why it is offensive. We are a mongrel nation and have absorbed peoples from all over the world for hundreds of years. They have mixed with us and strengthen our Nation.

The only test the government should be legitimately interested in is which of its citizens regard it as their mother country and which have bonds or allegiances with another country. Which citizens have the ambition to adopt and reflect the British culture as a way of life and which citizens look elsewhere for their models.
That is the only real test but so hard to arrive at through questions and answers. That is no excuse for going for the knee-jerk reaction and revert to offensive racial questions of skin colour. When comnpared to a sheet of white paper, how white, really white are you?