British Citizenship Tests in a country where we’re legally subjects?A Story by COLLYMOREFrom a personal point of view it's not only a grotesque misnomer but one that is also dishonestly embraked upon.By What a grotesque misnomer, eh? As someone who’s been actively involved in Academia for a significant part of my life and who despite my specific forte being English have a great love for and interest in history, I nevertheless unequivocally support the notion that residents, and not just citizens, of every country should know not only the history of the country that they’re residing in but also that of other countries as well, regardless of whether it puts their own country or others in a good or bad light; since the important issue at stake is the truth and by knowing that and understanding it can, in my view, lead to a better understanding between peoples and nations. Significantly too moving to another country for whatever reason and hoping to live and work there permanently should also be a necessity to learn as much as possible about that country, its people, history and way of life. For it not only gives one a true feel of what they’re getting themselves into but can equally pave the way for social cohesion as well as other forms of integration on the part of that migrant to the land of their choice. That said, if the leaders and other influential parties within that host country don’t approach this particular matter in the same straightforward manner but choose instead to embark on xenophobic and revisionist attitudes to those who enter their midst never mind their own penchant, past as well as ongoing present, to migrating to and even taking over wholesale and/or exploitatively the lands that these immigrants come from, then that isn’t only hypocritical but also downright pernicious, and can and invariably does sow the seeds of resentment and antagonism. So I’m all in favour of people getting themselves informed, but the information that’s churned out to them or which they explore and find out for themselves should be based on facts not fiction. The current 2013 British government aided and abetted by many MPs and comparable legislators in the House of Lords along with the licence fee propped up BBC, other corporate and so-called mainstream media together with significant sections of the brain-dead: those whom these vested interested media organizations recurrently, collectively and all so easily manipulate and brainwash think that we should have a Citizenship Test for those who want to come and live in Britain. What they don’t say however is that this test should be restricted to others not those that come here because one or both of their grandparents left or were carried from these shores when they were infants, never returned to Britain having lived the life of Riley in stolen lands and continents like the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand, for example, instigated and propped up the apartheid system in South Africa or Zimbabwe or ruled large chunks of the globe without the consent of its indigenous people. In other words people they don’t consider to be like them or who aren’t their so-called kith and kin. The stark irony being that many of these people as well as those that are championing their cause to have no restrictions placed on them coming here, is that few of them have any clue whatsoever of the real history of this land we call Britain and furthermore as several empirical and independent tests have already and repeatedly shown would individually and collectively be quite hard-pressed to answer correctly or even know the answers to the same questions that they arrogantly demand that immigrants to Britain should know. Now this doesn’t in itself negate the fact that immigrants of all descriptions: and the definition of an immigrant is someone who migrates to a country or place that he or she wasn’t born in or hadn’t been to before and has absolutely nothing to do with one’s ethnic background, racial origin, skin colour, or a perverse and selective choice of where this immigrant/non-immigrant, based entirely on prejudice, comes from. And if you ask me the overwhelming majority of white Britons living in countries abroad, whether these were brutally and often savagely stolen from their original owners or are simply the choice of living space for expatriate white Brits, would be flummoxed and even terribly pushed to give even the most rudimentary account of the history of those countries they’re living in. But what the hell; nothing wrong on their part as they see it or for that matter that of their kith and kin in the Out of curiosity and for the record David Cameron: how many white Britons to the US, the latest one in the offing being David Miliband brother of the Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition in the House of Commons, and both of them the sons of World War II Jewish refugees to Britain; or come to that any of our other Caucasian subjects, as we don’t have citizens in the UK as you well know David Cameron, to white colonialist outposts like Australia or Canada have any requirement placed on them to take a citizenship test or have ever been obliged to participate in one in order to go to these enduring remnants of a past British history that is far from exemplary? Moreover So tell me truthfully what’s Europe’s problem and specifically that, from the perspective of what I’m outlining here, the But these altruistic “immigrants” although they were very much themselves under the colonialist and imperialist jackboot of the British Empire, no different in my view from what Nazi Germany was blatantly doing across the European mainland, didn’t adopt Eire’s stance did they? Neither did they charge In the meantime, Britain’s much admired bosom pal, the United States which continues to use the United Kingdom for its own selfish and imperialist ends, having belatedly entered the war but only doing so after Japan at Germany’s behest had attacked Pearl Harbour, and with its own population, which prior to that Japanese attack wasn’t only pro-Nazi in sentiment but knew that these opinions were rife and shared universally across the USA, charged Britain an arm and a leg for its so-called help; the capital and exorbitant interest of which consecutive British governments didn’t manage to finally pay off until 2002. Some friend in need; I must say! I’ll help you buddy, but it’ll cost you! In marked contrast, how much did India that raised armed forces totalling two million in number, the largest ever assembled armed forces in the history of mankind or the other colonies of the then British Empire that like India also voluntarily contributed hundred of thousands of armed farces of their own to fight on Britain’s behalf charge for their services and sacrifices? ZILCH! Yet any white yank, even though the US armed forces though officially racially segregated, a state of affairs which their racist top brass in several instances were able to cajole some local authority, Home Office and even Ministry of Defence officials within Britain to emulate, weren’t exclusively white can to this day saunter into this country of ours as they like, Black Americans can’t though, and even run it, as the US administration routinely does; with our buffoon legislators obsequiously acting as their eager surrogates, and not a word of Citizenship Tests for them is ever contemplated let alone crosses the subservient lips of our brave and noble legislators. Which brings me to my history lesson in order to put a true perspective into actual British history and at the same time let the colonialist architects of this Citizenship Test: posh, rich and in politics, know that there are some of us out here who’re actually conversant with the true history of Britain. Admiral Nelson features in it and quite rightly so in my opinion, but Nelson’s Column in The first ever Nelson Column and That original statue was erected in 1813; and the first ever Some time after the original Nelson’s Column was established in Barbados the people of Bermuda, another English Caribbean colony, followed suit and honoured Admiral Nelson as the Barbadians had done; the second country to do so. But it wasn’t until 27 years after the original Nelson’s Column and But what fundamentally pisses me off about this is that successive British governments, including the current one which is pushing these British Citizenship Tests and using Nelson’s Column and Trafalgar Square as one of their core questions of archetypical Britishness that is evidently not the case in respect of either Nelson’s Column or Trafalgar Square, and furthermore arrogantly as well as ignorantly doing so without any reference whatsoever to the origin or real history of either of these two monuments, have deliberately done absolutely nothing to dispel the myth that that both of these creations were sheer “indigenous” British ingenuity and patriotism at work! And I’ve even come across white Britons on holiday in Which begs the rather relevant question: who the hell is David Cameron or for that matter the other British xenophobes kidding? Twenty Seven Years Later! And not even the second but actually the third such Nelson’s Column to be erected!! Either Britons at the time weren’t as patriotic as those historical revisionists in our midst are trying to make out or else with wars between Britain and its perennial old enemy France such a commonplace feature it wasn’t that newsworthy an issue to be celebrated in the manner that the Barbadians saw fit to. But it’s not just the Nelson Column thing that bugs me or the complete dishonesty which clearly surrounds it; it’s the entire revisionist project which is at play here by racist xenophobes who to be charitable to them in dumbed-down Take Winston Churchill for example: the architect of the concentration camp used for the first time ever in South Africa against the Boers and in turn used quite extensively by the Germans in their two holocausts against the people of their then colony of South West Africa, now an independent Namibia; and was the precursor for the Germans’ later holocaust in Europe that ad nauseum we all know a great deal about but bugger all by the majority of British people of what happened in these two African holocausts, which the Germans at the turn of this century belatedly apologized for but made no compensation in respect of as they did relative to what occurred in Europe. This despite the fact that the entire Witbooi people of In 1910, as Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, a staunch eugenicist all his life, put forward the proposal that a minimum of 100,000 Britons to start with: namely from among the working class but who he termed “mental degenerates” should be dispatched to state-run labour camps and there be sterilized. This action he maintained would take place in the name of saving the “British Race.” His sort that is from inevitable decline, as these “inferior” specimens, his labelling of these people, breed profusely and his proposition would preclude this from happening. And while our leaders and so-called mainstream media: stenographers rather than journalists who regurgitate everything that they’re told because they’re too bloody lazy to get off their sedentary asses and actually do some proper investigative journalism and fact checking enthusiastically take to castigating Saddam Hussein for gassing the Kurds of Iraq, guess who was there first? Good old Winston Churchill whose gassing of these same people by the RAF was the first of its kind and predated Saddam Hussein’s by 70 years. In fact Saddam wasn’t even born at the time. And in 1944 Winston Churchill was at his murderous preoccupation again when he seriously asked his military chiefs to consider using poison gas on the Germans,” or any other method of warfare we have hitherto refrained from using.” Unlike 1919 however his proposal was declined. I wonder why? As if I didn’t already know! Because the Germans, you see, even though they were acting as barbarically as they were, were WHITE and the Kurds were not? But it didn’t stop the firebombing and “war crime”, something that quite ironically the British at the end of World War II instituted to indict and execute German leaders and military personnel for but not their own war criminals like Winston Churchill who were deemed heroes, by the RAF of Dresden, even with Germany already on its knees and about to surrender. Speaking about the Aborigines of Australia, and I find this most appropriate in the wake of David Cameron’s British Citizenship Test, this is what Winston Churchill had to say: “I do not agree that a dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a long time. And I do not admit for an instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of There’s much more elsewhere, if you’ve the balls to research and check it out, of this nauseating stuff from a man that many in Britain are still gutless apologists for and see as some kind of noble icon , like the letter he wrote to his close soul mate the Italian dictator and fascist Benito Mussolini in 1927; an extract from which reads: “If I had been an Italian I’m sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.” And after World War II Winston Churchill still found room in his heart for the Italian dictator; this despite Italy’s close alliance during the war with Hitler’s Germany against Britain and the Allies, explaining his attitude the British Parliament in 1940 in these words: “I do not deny that he [Benito Mussolini] is a great man but he became a criminal [but only then] when he attacked England.” Benito Mussolini’s “criminality for attacking Even when the outcome of the war was inevitable and independence for India and the rest of the Indian sub-continent was an inevitable conclusion it was Winston Churchill who still vehemently opposed India’s independence and that of the other countries in the region, regarding the retention of colonial India as essential and an integral part of the British Empire as well as vital to England’s sphere of influence globally. Likewise it was Winston Churchill who lobbied enthusiastically for and succeeded in persuading Roosevelt and Stalin to create the UN in its present guise and block the entry of newly independent states, which were all non-white, from being part of that organization on the specific racist pretext that “the UN wasn’t for subject peoples.” Furthermore throughout his entire life up until his death Winston Churchill was an active supporter and fervent member of the eugenicist movement; the same supposedly inherent white-Caucasian and specifically European, racial superiority perception with its automatic entitlement to global domination of the rest of the world’s population and their natural resources; attitudes that were also passionately shared and espoused by fascists and Nazis alike across the European continent and formed a central plank of Germany’s Third Reich’s political and social doctrine. And how very ironic that the inspirational poem which Winston Churchill used in his propaganda speeches was written by a BLACK Jamaican, with Churchill apparently unaware of this not only at the time but throughout the rest of his life! Some great leader!! Nothing more in my opinion than a bloody robotic mouthpiece who either didn’t have the intellect, commonsense or even the curiosity to research what he was so copiously plagiarizing for his own aggrandizement, and from someone belonging to a race which he asininely regarded as immeasurably inferior to his own? But that’s And these are the kind of so-called leaders then and now with their perverse sense of entitlement that the rest of us should bow and scrape to, put on pedestals and fashion into laudable icons. Well, be my guest and proceed in this manner if you want to, but no prizes for guessing who definitely won’t be joining you in this loathsome enterprise. Since from my personal perspective Winston Churchill like many of his British prime ministerial successors are on a par with the likes of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Pinochet and all the other barbaric hooligans who at some time or other have regrettably in their regional or even global sphere of influence discernibly exerted undue influence in this world that we all must share but because of our own mortality can never, no matter how powerful, rich or influential we become, ever own it. And it would be wise to remember that!! Returning to David Cameron’s British Citizenship Test let’s not forget for a moment that this sort of thing is grist to his personal mill and very much in his political and racial DNA. For this was the very same man who as the public relations guru and campaign manager for Michael Howard when the latter was leader of the Conservative Party and essaying to be PM of Britain that came up with this couched but unequivocal racist and xenophobic slogan about immigrants: “Are you thinking what we’re thinking?” Interestingly enough David Cameron has never apologized for it although it was widely criticized; but then why on should he? After all, does the Cosa Nostra ever apologize for being mafia criminals? What tickled my sense of humour then and still characteristically does whenever I see the likes of David Cameron getting atop their dishonest soapbox is their rampant and blatant hypocrisy. For in Michael Howard’s case two things unhesitatingly come to mind. He’s of Romanian stock, the very same people whom David Cameron and his privileged, posh-boy and financially exclusive, fellow xenophobes are now rather relentlessly targeting as unbefitting immigrants to In fact, having been discovered to be an illegal immigrant Michael Howard’s father was kicked out of But repulsive b******s like Michael Howard are what one can best describe as gingo-narciscists; if it’s happening to them and they’re on the receiving end then the entire world must sympathize and assist them all it can but other than that they’re not ever going to expend their time, energy or their empathy on others whom they quite indefensibly and illogically despise even though these victims’ plight might be far worse than their own ever was. Even so Michael Howard isn’t alone in this and there are similar recalcitrant cretins, sadly many of them with Jewish backgrounds as well, who happily reside in this vitriolic and insidious cesspit. I think of course of the likes of Melanie Philips: an arch-Zionist, aggressive neo-con, xenophobe and racist extraordinaire, and those are her redeeming features, who works as a rightwing columnist for the Daily Mail, which for those of you who don’t know is owned by an elite British family whose Nazi and Fascist credentials throughout World War II coupled with their poisonous and unabashed antipathy towards Jews generally and their enthusiastic support for what was happening to them in mainland Europe and wanted to see the same happening to their kind here in Britain, is legendary and makes the statements and actions of Josef Goebbels look pretty anodyne; and in the process, I must say, literally causes people like me whose father and other close relatives fought, and in some instances sacrificed their lives ridding Europe of these scum-doctrines, to very much want to puke. The utterly sickening thing about Melanie Philips and her sort is that while they seize every chance presented them and waste no time regaling the world, or more properly put the like-minded cretins who pay any notice, that is, to what they have to say in regards to how terrible Europe’s holocaust was, which we all know as we have close family members that courageously fought against it, then dishonestly and venally wrap the mantle of this dastardly atrocity firmly around themselves to give a twisted and perverse credibility that as Jews they alone have the exclusive right to be perennial victims and to benefit in every way from that, they somehow can’t get it into their entirely selfish, narcissistic and egotistical skulls that other people can be and quite often are legitimate victims and also need the same kind of compassion, understanding and support, both from a moral and physical standpoint, that these odious Zionist clowns reserve for themselves. The same criticisms levelled at Melanie Phillips - who is quite asininely giving succour to a family and a newspaper that wanted her kind wiped off the face of the earth, with the sole difference now being that today’s victims for pragmatic reasons on the Daily Mail’s part are others and not Jews, (although leopards never or more appropriately can’t change their spots or the Daily Mail its DNA) is that were they still Jews that would undoubtedly in a Zionist run world be suicidal for the Daily Mail’s owners and they, believe me, are the consummate survivors " is also applicable to London’s Mayor Boris Johnson. For here is a man whose views are identical to those of Melanie Philips and who portrays himself as the quintessential Englishman: Eton and all the rest of it, when in actuality his roots are the most mongrelized of any which I’ve ever researched. For beginning with Russian Kazar they work their way through western central Asia, eastern, western and southern Europe and encompass The bottom line as I see it with these people is that everyone they xenophobically don’t like are immigrants, never mind their own specific ethnic roots or cultural backgrounds or where these are actually embedded. Previously anyone in possession of a black or brown skin, as far as these nerds were concerned, was routinely considered to be an immigrant regardless of whether they were born in the UK or how long they lived in the country, or even whether or not they were invited here by the British government to help post-war Britain back on its feet. Now several of these people have re-emigrated overseas, invariably back to their own countries of origin and in many instances have also been followed by children or grandchildren who were born, raised and educated in the So effectively and somewhat pragmatically prevented from mounting a credible xenophobic attack on Black or Asian British born men or women but still very much buoyed up with their pernicious hatred of strangers and those whom they deem as outsiders, and bizarrely so in a country that is the most mongrelized of them all in Europe, these xenophobes and racists, the latter expression being rather idiotic in itself since one cannot logically be racist against someone of their own race, quite conveniently change not their intolerable direction as they should but their emphasis to include the likes of Romanians and Bulgarians who aren’t only white like themselves but also fellow members of the European Union. And for no other reason that I can detect other than the fact that these quite odious xenophobes, just like drug addicts, need to have their xenophobic and racist fix. On Thursday night, 5 April 2013 I tuned in to watch the 10.30 pm BST airing of the Press Preview on Sky TV. The invited guests were Ken Livingstone former Mayor of London and David Mellor a government minister in a prior Tory government and an MP in the House of Commons. Inevitably what habitually and idiotically passes for informed discussion in this segment of Sky News turned to the issue immigration into Then implying, without a shred of evidence to support his grotesque contention, that they would all be scroungers of our welfare and other services without contributing anything in return to the UK, he then made the quantum leap into his perverse and somewhat perverted fantasy by assuring us all that these would-be Romanian and Bulgarian migrants to the United Kingdom weren’t like us or the Poles and weren’t imbued with the same social ethics or civilized code of conduct as the rest of us, but were in effect ingrained in, his words, “a criminal subculture” that would be inimical to the interests of Britain and those of us fortunate to be in it. As I listened to not in the least surprised but nevertheless dumbstruck by the remarks of this prized a*****e as he cheerfully but unchallenged mouthed off his opinionated and xenophobic prejudices, my mind flashed back to another Tory idiot, an oxymoron in itself as there are so many of them, by the name of Michael Howard: Ex-Conservative Party Leader, wannabe-Prime Minister and whose views, formulated as they are in the same Tory cesspit, are unsurprisingly indistinguishable from those of David Mellor who he was in government with and clearly knows very well. Isn’t Michael Howard I instinctively asked myself not of Romanian stock, with both of his parents, one of whom we know with absolutely certainty came here illegally, immigrants to So how the hell then is it perfectly OK for these people and many others like them not only to end up in the UK but also have their progeny not only aspire to holding prominent positions of power and influence in Britain but likewise assume such situations to be their God-given right when they had no historical or other connections whatever with Britain; yet Black and other non-white British Empire/Commonwealth immigrants from lands routinely plundered, ruthlessly exploited, as is still the case, and stolen by Britain to enrich itself and its so-called kith and kin, along with Romanians and Bulgarians who are lawful EU Citizens with all the entitlements of EU citizenship enshrined in their membership of the European Union should perversely be excluded from Britain to gratify the poxy prejudices of unctuous, xenophobic and racist morons like David Mellor? I’ll leave you to reflect on that and much more! But as my maternal Grandmother was always fond of saying s when I was a kid growing up and she assiduously embarked on teaching me the rights and wrongs of life: “Never confuse book learning with commonsense,” she warned, “as the former can always be gained by rote; the latter never!” That excellent piece of advice as many others from her have stayed with me throughout my life and will continue to do so; and unfortunately what we have far too many of in Britain, and indeed the world, who are running the show and ruining the lives of many people in the process are learned morons devoid of any modicum of commonsense. In the meantime you can, if you’re capable of doing so that is, exercise the brains God has given each of you by constructively employing them instead of wastefully and gratuitously using them to jump to unwarranted and/or ill-informed conclusions. Anyone with a functioning brain knows what the real motives behind this British Citizenship Test are, and we don’t have to revert to Winston Churchill’s remarks about the Aborigines or the Native Americans to comprehend why. And to round matters off I’ll like to put some relevant historical questions of my own to David Cameron, his fellow MPs and other legislators in the House of Lord, our media and the growing band of xenophobes and racists in our midst. We just witnessed the enthronement of Justin Welby as the new Archbishop of Canterbury: who was the first appointed Archbishop of that See? I’ll give you a clue. He was appointed in AD 668 by Pope Vitalien and is buried in What do you know of the West India Regiment that played such an instrumental role in conquering territories for the Who was mother of the Black Prince that historical revisionists claim was so named because of his armour but was actually of African origin? And which Royal House did Princess Sophie Charlotte: date of birth May 19 1744, wife of George III, Queen of England, and the great-great-great-great grandmother of our current Queen Elizabeth II of What residence close to St. James’s Palace did George III, as an indicator of his feelings towards and also an abiding love for his wife and Here’s a clue for you. This residence would subsequently become the UK’s premier palace, was elevated to the status of a palace which it wasn’t previously at its purchase or was it so for some considerable time afterwards, eventually becoming the official home of England and the United Kingdom’s ruling monarch and to this day, April 2013, still holds pride of place in that regard. Now even the most fatuous of dunderheads among our historical revisionists, empire loyalists or the growing band of xenophobic and racist Colonel Blimps should be able to answer that question correctly; but can they? And continuing on the theme of George III and Queen Charlotte, Edward Augustus: Duke of Kent (2 November 1767-23 January 1820) was their fourth eldest son but who did he father that went on to become and still is England’s longest ever serving monarch, is a direct ancestor of our present Queen Elizabeth II and for her part diligently ensured that her many children and grandchildren married into every European royal house? And while you’re at it perhaps you might also like to get hold of a copy of Peter Fryer’s brilliant and informative book: “Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain,” and pay particular attention to the opening chapter of that book. Likewise do some research on who Olaudah Equiano was and what role he played in England/Britain’s history. Finally, I’ll like to draw your attention to this article: “The http://www.politicoacademic.blogspot.com © 2013 COLLYMORE |
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Added on April 10, 2013 Last Updated on April 10, 2013 Tags: UK, citizenship tests, dishonesty AuthorCOLLYMORECambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomAboutAcademic, Journalist, Writer. I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instincti.. more..Writing
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