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“A Populus poll found that 48% of the population would […] support policies to make it statutory for all public buildings to fly the flag of St George or the union flag.”
Well, it would help the economy a bit, I suppose: flag manufacturers would contribute a few extra quid to the GDP at least … and flag-pole manufacturers — as Tesco say, every little helps.
Never mind all the ‘Dieu Et Mon Droit’ nonsense … (after all, God was, we must, therefore, assume, on Britain’s side during the American War of Independence and look where that got us) … maybe that should be the UK’s national motto: Every Little Helps.
In fact, it ties in nicely with the whole ‘Great Britain PLC’ theme, doesn’t it? Great Britain is treated like a company by our politicians … an asset to strip and sell off for a quick buck …
… our water owned by Australians … our electricity supplied by Electricité De France … the Spanish getting the contract for building the biggest wind farm in World off the coast of the UK …
… the money leaving the country … along with the taxes non dom finaciers don’t want to reinvest in the nation that brought them their enormous wealth in the first place
… our elected representatives fiddling the books and making fraudulent expense claims for hundreds of thousands of pounds a year … effectively, enjoying the ‘perks of the job’, just like any other employee stealing a stapler, or hole punch, from ‘the office’.
Yes, the more I think about it …
Napoleon called England “A nation of shopkeepers” after all.
Except that the British (or, at least, the English) don’t even run their own corner shops, letting immigrants do that job too — and, I mean, as everyone knows, ‘corner shop’ is just a ‘politically correct’ reinvention … by a conspiratorial cabal of handwringing, pinko lefties … of the old Anglo-Saxon ‘Pakkie Shoppe’.
Actually, what am I getting excited about?
God only knows who was here before the Celts, but they were almost certainly the ‘little people’ the Austrians (Hallstatt celts) and Swiss (La Tène celts) were so afraid of — the ones they slaughtered and drove into hiding when they invaded the British Isles.
Then came the Anglo-Saxons.
Anglo-Saxons?
People from Saxony who live in the British Isles?
Saxony?
Ah … Germany!
German immigrants then — just like the current Royal Family.
Then the French made a hostile take-over bid in 1066.
Great Britain PLC, run by immigrant owner-managers since around 500 BC.
Then we brought over African slaves and Asian and Oriental servants.
Cheap Eastern European labourers.
Who are the British, never mind the English!?
They’re immigrants, every man jack of them.
From start to finish, Britain has just been one big cross-roads market-place, populated by itinerants from all corners of the World, who found it a good place to settle down and set about doing so by plying their trade and/or wares.
In fact, it should come as no surprise to find that the UK’s Financial Services sector should be so prominent; gambling other people’s property without their permission (naked short trading) for a quick buck is just a fancy way of describing fraud … and ‘fraud’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘theft’.
A nation run by immigrant thieves and gamblers who stash their ill-gotten gains in offshore bank accounts … as effective a loss to the nation’s GDP as any immigrant worker taking a job sweeping the street, or lugging back-breaking loads of lumber and rubble, sending the money ‘home’ to another land … only in much, much greater sums than the immigrant working classes could ever hope to … the immigrant working classes, thanks to whose cheap labour the carpetbaggers at the London Stock Exchange are able to turn as high a profit as they do, because they don’t need to hire the expensive, British working classes.
48% of the population would support policies to make it statutory for all public buildings to fly the flag of St George or the union flag, would it?
Why?
How do they think it would help the nation?
Which 48%?
Where are they from?
And why should we care what a minority of the population thinks anyway?
What’s so significant about a minority viewpoint?
Methinks I smell a leading question on the survey questionnaire — but to what end?
39% of Asian Britons, 34% of white Britons and 21% of black Britons wanted all immigration into the UK to be stopped permanently.
So, once again, a minority of people think it.
So, what’re you telling me for, so to speak? As part of the unreported majority, I clearly don’t think that and, therefore, couldn’t care less. What, exactly, are they trying to achieve by drawing attention to the minority viewpoint? Do they intend a silent revolution in thinking, in the way the greatly outnumbered Bolsheviks imposed their minority view in the name of the majority?
43% of Asian Britons, 63% of white Britons and 17% of black Britons agreed with the statement that “immigration into Britain has been a bad thing for the country”.
Did they indeed?
43% of one group and 17% of another in the same boat, who, thanks to both overt and institutionalised prejudice, know that they, themselves, are considered an immigrant group thought that, did they?
Was the question, perhaps, phrased in such a way as to suggest that, by ‘immigration’, what was meant was ‘muslims’?
Just over half of respondents — 52% — agreed with the proposition that “Muslims create problems in the UK”.
Oh, look … it was.
“Muslims create problems in the UK”?
What about “The young have no respect these days”?
Or “Gypsies curse you, if you don’t buy their lucky heather”?
And “Black cats are unlucky”?
“Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP who fought a successful campaign against the British National Party in his Dagenham and Rainham constituency in east London, said that the findings pointed to a “very real threat of a new potent political constituency built around an assertive English nationalism”.”
A very real threat of misleading the public by means of dramatised statistics, he means?
“The report identified a resurgence of English identity, with 39% preferring to call themselves English rather than British.”
Really?
A minority of people preferred to call themselves English, did they?
Were they all born in England? You know … one of five nations in the area, accounting for only part of the total population of the British Isles.
Were they all white?
Or were some of them, bizarrely, from parts of the British Isles with populations bearing historical antipathy to everything and everyone ‘English’?¹
If they were only born in England and were only white then they’re already not even a minority of the population, but only a minority of a minority of the British population.
Once again, the findings pointed to a “very real threat of a new potent political constituency built around” the misleading reporting of pollsters’ statistics, gathered on behalf of clients with political agendas.
“The poll also identified a majority keen to be allowed to openly criticise religion, with 60% believing they “should be allowed to say whatever they believe about religion.”
By contrast, fewer than half — 42% — said “people should be allowed to say whatever they believe about race”.”
In total, anywhere up to 102% of the population agreed that race and religion are separate issues.
Oh, alright …
But they are separate and, yet again, the questions asked in the ‘study’ would appear to have been leading, to say the least.
I mean …
What colour are atheists?
Do all agnostics have hooked noses?
So … what’s the agenda here?
At the most, a minority of the population … more likely not even a minority of the minority but a minority of a minority of the population … whilst busily getting on with their lives, possibly in a hurry and unable to give their full, undivided attention to the matter at the time, were coerced, deceived or otherwise persuaded to answer some (quite possibly leading) questions.
The resultant data, even when spun to dramatically misleading effect, cannot hide the fact that the majority of the population didn’t think immigration a bad thing or that flying a flag would actually be of benefit to anyone in any way.
So, what’s the point?
Why report on the findings of this poll?
What purpose does it serve to do so?
The data, even when presented misleadingly, do not actually lend weight to any argument in favour of immigration controls, but, instead, show the majority of the population did not hold xenephobic views nor, seemingly, even nationalistic ones — even if 48% is a sizable minority.
I can only imagine that someone, somewhere in the group of organisations making up the Guardian Media Group had some sort of agenda way back in 2011.
The question is: what?
I think we all know the answer by now.
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¹ Wales, Scotland, Éire and (if you include the disenfranchised majority population of Catholics ²) Northern Ireland — the Republic of Ireland plus the other two-and-a-bit nations making up the United Kingdom of England and the countries it subjugated first before also militarily and economically subjugating almost the entire rest of the planet, to create the largest empire the World has ever seen before or since ³.
² But that’s another story.
³ There are only twenty-two countries in the World that Britain didn’t invade and 25% of those (Andorra, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco and Vatican City) are smaller than my grandmother’s outside toilet … not really countries on anything more than paper and simply not worth the bother.
