Both my husband and I will be voting Reform. Now let me explain why. (It may interest you to hear from the 'other side' in all this.) About two years ago, I noticed that I'd stopped watching TV. I also noticed that I was re-watching old British TV shows like Colditz and Brideshead Revisited and Monty Python, and films like Bridge on the River Kwai and Withnail and I. I was reading more as well. But instead of reading contemporary fiction, I was re-reading P. G. Wodehouse and Dickens and Jane Austen. And I was going on YouTube and watching endless clips of Stephen Fry and Blackadder and Fawlty Towers. None of this was conscious. I didn't decide to do it. Then it occurred to me that I was doing this because I was desperately clinging on to my English-British identity.
When immigration happens on a small scale, and the people who immigrate have an affection for the culture they are migrating to, it can work. If you are also highly selective, and only allow in the skilled and educated, it really can enrich your country. But when you have mass immigration, and the people who come in either know nothing about, or literally despise, the place they are moving to, that culture is finished.
Imagine an experiment. You take a country like, say, South Korea, and you move ten million white Germans there. What will happen to Korean identity? Obviously it will be transformed. Now imagine you move 20 million Polish people to Argentina. What is going to happen to Argentinian identity? Again, obviously it would be transformed.
No one asked for mass immigration. No one was given a vote on it. Multiculturalism has simply been imposed on us. The left have an iron grip on the BBC, the universities, the arts and the publishing industry, and they do all they can to promote immigration and make us hate and reject our own history and culture. If you can make people reject their own identity they will gladly embrace a new one. I remember once tuning in to a Radio 4 programme about the poet Tennyson. Within five minutes they'd linked him to colonialism and slavery, and that was it, that was all they talked about. You only have to look at the history section in Waterstones. It might as well be called the "How Britain Ruined the World Section". Let me give you just one more trivial example. A book was published a while ago attacking Churchill. The author claimed he'd advocated dropping poisoned gas on "native peoples". In reality, he'd advocated dropping tear gas on them, something used today to disperse rioting crowds. The author deliberately misrepresented him to make him look as toxic as possible. We are being taught to hate ourselves. It's like an abusive husband who tells his wife she's fat and ugly and useless. He breaks her self-esteem. Of course, once he's broken her self-esteem and made her hate herself, he can do what he likes with her.
I no longer feel English-British. I no longer feel like I live in a nation with a shared history and a shared identity. My ancestors fought and bled in both WW1 and WW2, but if there was a war tomorrow, I'd feel nothing. I no longer have a nation or tribe to defend. This 'gammon' will be sitting out the next war.
I have never met a Reform voter who believed in racial superiority or who hated all non-white people. I have a lovely Indian neighbour. It genuinely upsets me to think that she feels hurt or threatened by the English flags painted on the local roundabout. I don't hate non-white people, but I do hate the bullying, sneering globalist left who have destroyed my identity. I hate their guts. I hate people like Owen Jones and Stewart Lee and Will Self, and they hate me. The problem isn't immigration itself. It's the speed and scale of immigration, and the way the left use it to destroy people's old identity and impose a new one on them. Now that is fascism.
Let me end by saying that there are many, many non-white people I love and admire. There are many, many non-white people I consider 100% English-British. Quick example. I watched a documentary on the Falklands war in which they interviewed a British-Nigerian guy who'd fought in the Parachute Regiment. Amazing man. My husband and I both said what an incredible human being he was and both of us are proud to think we share a national identity with him. People are voting Reform not out of arrogance or aggression or a wish to assert superiority. They are voting Reform because they're desperately clinging on to their identity. An identity, let me add, that many non-white people also want to preserve.