Carved-up, stitched-up ... Labour's plan for England

WORTH RECALLING

Published: 10 May 2002

IT’S difficult to take seriously a promise of “joined-up” government from a man who can’t manage joined-up sentences.
By getting Two Jags to announce plans for regional assemblies in England, Blair obviously thought he was making us an offer we couldn’t understand.

Because, for all the nonsense about extending democracy and accountability, the new bureaucracies are not what they seem.

As I pointed out on Tuesday, they are specifically designed to break up England into administrative units in preparation for our absorption into a federal Europe.

The regional assemblies correspond exactly with a map drawn up by Brussels for the government of a fully integrated European Union.

Stage One was devolution in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

This is Stage Two.

Stage Three is the abolition of the English counties.

Stage Four is the abolition of England.

To draw parallels with what has happened in Scotland and Wales is deliberately misleading.

These were countries with their own cultures and own identities being handed back limited powers.

If Labour was sincere it would have established an English parliament at the same time.

But Labour hates England and the English. While pandering to Scottish nationalism, Welsh nationalism and blood-stained Irish nationalism, Labour has ruthlessly set about eradicating English identity and undermining our institutions and traditions.

The English are caricatured as a bunch of wicked, backward racists in speeches by ministers and supporting editorials in the fascist Left press.

Instead of bringing communities together, multi-culturalism has been used as battering ram to drive wedges between us.
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Pledge ... Blunkett
When David Blunkett sensibly suggested making all immigrants learn to speak English and floated the idea of an American-style pledge of allegiance for new citizens he was howled down by the Guardianistas as if he had made the Nuremberg Address.

But then, Blunkett is a rare animal among Labour politicians in that he is prepared to challenge the orthodoxy.

Most of them are careerists prepared to go along with the whole agenda.

Top of that agenda is a policy of divide and rule intended to fragment widespread English resistance to the ultimate goal of full European integration and scrapping the Pound in favour of the euro.