Today, April 23rd, is St. George’s Day once again – I don’t know about you, but I’ve already celebrated by skewering the nearest Saracen and calling for the immediate reconquest of Jerusalem.
But is celebration of this all-English hero really appropriate in this wonderful new woke world in which we all now live? Twenty-five-plus years on from the Blairite Year Zero of 1997, it is debatable as to whether the country formerly known as ‘England’ even actually exists at all any more. Under such circumstances, perhaps the country now needs a new, more diverse, Patron Saint for a new, more diverse, era?
If so, how about changing St. George to St. George Floyd instead? In June 2020, not long after St. George II died from an act of police brutality/massive drug overdose (you decide!) on May 25th, the following petition appeared on the popular website change.org, addressed to the U.K. Parliament, from a Londoner named George Birch:
“With its history of colonialist atrocities and unequalled racist savagery, Britain needs to prove its commitment to equality and racial justice by changing the name of St George’s Day to that of [the] true saint of colour, George Floyd, a martyr for equality and racial justice,” said Mr. Birch.
Thankfully, this demand – which does not appear to have been satirical, although I guess you never know – only got 1,327 signatures of agreement from the website’s claimed global user-base of 500 million. Compare this to the 4,631,607 souls who much more sensibly signed up to the petition to “Remove Amber Heard from Aquaman 2” a year earlier:
Even less fruitful was the following petition, which also appeared on change.org in the wake of Floyd’s death in 2020, garnering a mere 159 signatures and asking the US Congress to make every October 14th (George’s birthday) into the new national holiday of America’s latest secular saint:
That tall filing cabinet on the left is where Mr. Floyd kept comprehensive copies of his lifetime criminal record, by the way – I believe it was quite extensive.
Medal of Dishonour
I recall some little girls once knocking on my door, holding a clipboard, and asking me to sign their petition for them. “What’s it for?” I asked. They conferred briefly amongst themselves. “We’ll decide later,” they said, collected my scrawl and skipped happily away. For all I know, my name may now be on record as supporting the transformation of April 23rd into St. George Floyd’s Day after all.
Scarily, this is actually the same basic pattern of public ‘consent’ nowadays pursued by our public officials to transform our entire society along racially ‘inclusive’ lines likewise – i.e., by just performing such unasked-for transformations upon the general population’s collective ‘behalf’ anyway, whether they actually want them to or not, then claiming their approval upon a wholly self-assumed retrospective basis.
For example, did you know that you wanted the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, an obscure medal handed out by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to distinguished diplomats, to be altered due to the incredible ‘racism’ of its time-honoured visual design? I didn’t, but in 2020, following Mr. Floyd’s death, yet another petition was launched on change.org, demanding this vile decoration be bowdlerised immediately:
That one got 20,622 signatures, which initially sounds impressive, until you consider that’s about the equivalent to the entire current population of Portslade-by-Sea – and how many people do you know who live in Portslade-by-Sea? Exactly. So, yet another not overly popular George Floyd-related petition, then.
But never mind how ‘popular’ or otherwise this demand to modify the medal was, the good folk who run the FCO these days (i.e., those little girls who knocked on my door some years back) had already anticipated the public’s ‘demands’ to censor the award’s design way back in 2011, almost a full decade before Fentanyl Floyd had even snuffed it.
New Order
The Order in question was first created in 1818 under King George (not Floyd) III, to reward good military service upon our Evil Empire’s behalf during the Napoleonic Wars, and shows an image of a white-skinned Archangel St. Michael standing atop a prone Satan, depicted as having a black-skinned head and upper torso, and a scaly green winged lower body, like that of a wyvern, echoing St. George’s famous legendary slaying of a big bad dragon.
Shockingly, however, back when the Order’s medal had first been designed, its creators had unaccountably failed to foresee that, several centuries later, a random black man would die after an equally random white policeman (assisted by several other non-white policemen, incidentally) kneeled on his neck in a city in the middle of a whole other country an entire ocean away. As a result, whoever had first produced the thing had recklessly shown the blue-eyed, blonde-haired, deeply Nazi-looking, St. Michael standing with his foot atop the black Satan’s head and neck area, thus ensuring that the Devil too “could not breathe”. He was furthermore holding him by a sturdy chain, supposedly carrying echoes of the dark days of slavery.
This all proved highly triggering for certain commentators (including, disappointingly, Michael Palin, himself a former recipient of the medal, who called it “inappropriate and offensive” – didn’t Monty Python once sing a race-baiting song called Never Be Rude to an Arab?). Bumi Thomas, described as “a Nigerian-British singer, activist and specialist in visual communications”, told the Guardian that:
It is not a demon [even though it has wings, a snake’s body and a tail, and is enveloped within the blazing flames of Hell-fire, so clearly is a demon]; it is a black man in chains with a white, blue-eyed figure standing on his neck. It is literally what happened to George Floyd and what has been happening to black people for centuries under the guise of diplomatic missions: active, subliminal messaging that reinforces the conquest, subjugation and dehumanisation of people of colour … It is the definition of institutional racism that this image is not only permitted but celebrated on one of the country’s highest honours. Whilst statues are being pulled down and relocated, emblems and symbols of this nature also need to be redesigned to reflect a more progressive, holistic relationship between Britain and the Commonwealth nations.
Sir Simon Woolley, meanwhile, Director of the Operation Black Vote organisation – is there an Operation White Vote allowed to operate anywhere freely in Great Britain these days, I wonder? – added that “it is easy to get rid of an image, but I would like root-and-branch restructuring [of the FCO and British society as a whole], because most of the institutions created by Empire are still there”.
So, there you have it. Just as with the proposal for replacing St. George’s Day with St. George Floyd’s Day, the idea of getting rid of the image of St. Michael on the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George medal really just stands in as a metonymic proxy for getting rid of everything else worthwhile and traditional about this country which once made it so great, too.
How amusing, therefore, to find that the black-skinned race-Marxists had already been beaten to it by the white-skinned race-Marxists who today run the FCO anyway, who had long anticipated the post-George Floyd criticisms of their medal by changing the prone Satan to a much more pale-skinned individual back in 2011. Yet even this still wasn’t enough for some professional malcontents, such as someone posing as “The TAOBQ (The African Or Black Question)”, who posted the following petition on change.org during Black Pseudo-History Month in October 2020:
Right, so now the FCO’s post-2011 whitewashed Devil just isn’t “light-skinned” enough, and as such may be intended as a subliminal slight against “both olive-skinned people and those of multiple heritage”, rather than of outright coal-black people like George Floyd? When will these people ever actually be happy? Only when the complete medal has been subject to a wholesale race-reversal redesign so as to have a black man standing with his foot lodged very firmly upon the windpipe of a prone and gasping white man, I suspect.
Making George Cross
When it comes to the specific issue of replacing St. George, just as the true Foreign Office diplomat these days now sees his or her true task as looking after the interests of foreign nations rather than his or her own, so it is that certain elements within the Church of England likewise now see it as their natural mission in life to get rid of England’s national saint, not to protect him.
As long ago as 2006, the CofE’s General Synod considered proposals to swap St. George for St. Alban. On the surface of things, this idea was justified upon the cheeringly patriotic-sounding grounds that, unlike the presumed Middle Easterner St. George, who never actually ever set foot upon English soil (possibly because he may never truly have existed), St. Alban was actually a genuine native of these shores, the nation’s first known Christian martyr from the era of Roman Britain.
Peering below the surface, however, this idea was also being proposed on the alternative grounds that St. George, as a Patron Saint of Crusaders (his inspirational apparition had supposedly appeared to Western warriors during the Battle of Antioch in 1098), may also have been “too warlike” and as such may “offend Muslims”, none of whom have ever been known to be warlike themselves at all.
Alternatively, of course, you could always just cunningly keep St. George in name only, rebranding the notorious Crusader-lover entirely as a kind of St. Diversity instead. That is the preferred path chosen by Ekklesia, a Scotland-based religious think-tank filled with trendy vicar-types of the of the basic ‘Jesus was a big fat Lefty’ variety, whose cringeworthy online report ‘St. George’s Day in a Changing Global Era: A Positive Proposal’, misleadingly attempts to reclaim St. George as “a dissenter against the abuse of power”.
How so? Well, his legend states that, after bravely confronting the anti-Christian Roman Emperor Diocletian, who was both very abusive and very powerful, and telling him to stop martyring all the Christians, Diocletian immediately, um, martyred him. In this spirit of championing the underdog, St. George should now somehow become “a post-Christendom saint”, one who embodies and champions the new replacement Blairite political religion of Blessed Diversity.
Instead of our national saint, George should henceforth become our post-national saint, as “he belongs to those who are persecuted, to ‘the awkward squad’, to Black history, to many nations and regions, to those who sojourn and travel” – i.e., to illegal immigrants. After all, “to consider St. George a symbol of ‘England alone, above, better’, is narrative nonsense, as well as extremely damaging to the English as a people with a delightfully mongrel heritage”. As he is also the Patron Saint of various other places on the planet, not just England, “on closer examination, St. George turns out to be a global icon, not a local hero”.
Rather than celebrating narrow nationalism, every April 23rd should become a national “Day of Dissent” when we should honour “conscientious objectors and peacemakers, anti-racism campaigners, human rights activists, those struggling against debt and poverty and many others” who give Jeremy Corbyn nightly wet-dreams. Freeing St. George from his unfortunate past associations with the “far-Right” (e.g. England football fans, medieval Crusaders, Henry V), the semi-deity should henceforth become indelibly associated with the following qualities instead:
- Our role as global relations, [sic] not narrow nationalists.
- The need for dissenters to call power to account.
- Black Britons as vital contributors to our culture.
- Shared values of social justice arising from the past.
- Hospitality to migrants in an interdependent world.
Personally, I much preferred it when he just pranced around the desert, stabbing dragons.
Under assault as he is from all sides, then – as racist, as imperialist, as militaristic, as Islamophobic – St. George’s future as England’s national saint seems likely to come under continued threat in years to come, as our islands’ demographics and institutional control continue inexorably to shift. What hope for his continued presence as our national protector remains in decades and centuries to come, then? How can we make sure that our sacred St. George never dies?
Simple. Just tell all those currently trying to replace him that, according to the standard version of St. George’s legend, he is in fact a Palestinian.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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Every member of the British empire was a British subject. Seems pretty inclusive to my eyes saying all those Africans and Asians were actually British. Given the empire was created largely on a contract of free trade/law rather than violence ordinary ppl in empire were likely amongst the greatest beneficiaries financially in % terms. Also the empire didn’t exist because “slavery” it came into existence because the British economy ran a giant trade surplus thanks to the spinning Jenning, flying shuttle, steam engine etc, the excess capital had to be invested somewhere.
A good comment, and it was Arthur Wellesley whilst in India in about 1795, insisted that the rules of governance and law extended to all with equal effect. A principle that was utilised throughout what is now referred to the British Empire.
Until HMG sent lefty academics to guid ethe decolonised governments on how to arrange their “democracy” and how to arrange a free market.
We have known for more than a century that prosperity follows a few simple requirements:
Private property rights
Access to fair justice
Open markets
All else will fillow.
The consequences are not conducive to dictatorship or socialism. They do result in uindividual liberty and prosperity.
Indeed, every citizen of the British Empire was a subject of the monarch, each one, pari passu. And nearly all of the countries which gained independence in the second half of the 20th Century wished to become members of the British Commonwealth. That says something, but the wokerati won’t listen, they’re deaf to reason and probably too ignorant to understand it anyway.
I only became aware of all peoples of the Empire being British Subjects when I watched a fascinating interview from the 1960, with Dick Cavett and Enoch Powell. (Search for them. Its half an hour of a Masters.) Dick was looking for the ‘racism soundbite’ I think, and Enoch made the history very clear.
In any case, the countries that were of the Empire seem to have done well against the fortunes of those of the French, Belgian and German Empires. Perhaps a note of thanks to the British is in order..?
I’ve watched that it’s an excellent interview.
“Despite Britain’s pre-eminence, at least during the first half of the 19th century, as ‘the workshop of the world’, the available statistics show Britain generally running a visible trade deficit only partially offset by a surplus in services.
The reason why Britain had a major overall current account surplus during the 19th century was that the country enjoyed the benefit of a huge accumulation of net assets abroad, which generated a massive net income.”
The beginnings of the British Empire – actually English – were with the East India Company during the reign of Elizabeth the first. That trading empire grew as gold was traded for commodities such as spices, tea, coffee, silks, chinaware.
Britain was a huge importer.
The empire only grew spectacularly once the trade surplus became so enormous courtesy of the industrial revolution. Please don’t say you think empire would have grown so large without the industrial revolution, the east India company initially was simply overseas adventuring for privateers and toffs. Once vast accumulated wealth from things like the mill trade was injected into such things spectacular growth followed.
‘The British Empire contained both goods and evils, which are of such disparate kinds that they cannot be weighed against each other rationally to reach a utilitarian conclusion that one exceeds the other’
Nigel Biggar, Colonialism, A Moral Reckoning
My Uncle Willie was torpedoed twice by U Boats in the Atlantic and rescued twice from the sea. With the freedom that he and others fought for during the war he went on to live in Mt Isa Australia in the Mineral Mines and had 5 kids. He died aged 90 a few years ago. ——-Why did he even bother? Little did he realise at the time that today’s ideological idiots would be chucking all of that freedom away.
My preferred solution:
Deport every person working for The Key to Rawanda. Might as well put the facility to some use after all we’ve paid at least £290 million for it.
People advising others about education and imparting knowledge who are themselves devoid of both.
The stupid/talentless teaching the ignorant.
Whenever the conversation moves onto politics I now say that I’m “far-right”. That I believe that children shouldn’t be mutilated, that women don’t have a penis, that a child needs a mother and a father, locking people in their homes is tyrannical, and that importing millions of people with a different set of moral and cultural values might, just might, lead to problems. Yes, I’m a bloody extremist.
I think there are a lot of us on the extremities. The words of Marcus Aurelius come to mind, “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Off-T
It looks like Kneel and Reeves are coming for pensioners.
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1920670/Labour-plot-means-test-state-pension-Starmer-tax-raid-Rachel-Reeves
They also came for the pensioners in 2020. Pathways. NG163. State sanctioned democide .
Indeed.
This is probably good news. ——-It means labour will be obliterated at the next election assuming the phony Tories can at least return to being 20% Tory.
Reform will mop-up so many votes!
If it quacks like a cultural revolution, then maybe it is.
“… teach colonialism as ‘invading and exploiting’…”
I agree.
Nowadays it’s called ‘immigration’ or ‘asylum seeking’.
Yes I think that’s a fair assessment. This comment from a local resident makes the exact same point, and the link to the Daily Mail gives more context, but it’s from 2016 so God knows what Dewsbury’s like now. I don’t know how many towns or cities that is now that have been successfully colonised in England, where white indigenous folk are now a minority, but I wouldn’t choose to stick around. I’d sell up and get the hell out of Dodge. Maybe commenters on here might be familiar with this particular area or others that they know have been ‘claimed’;
”In Dewsbury pro-Palestinian supporters hold collections, aggressively soliciting from members of public. It also contains Savile Town a virtually entirely a Muslim community. One of my followers tells us what happens there.
“I live locally & every time it was local elections they would knock on my door & demand to know why it wasn’t a Pakistani family living there.
“I wish I had kept the CCTV footage but they went to every single house.
“I think it’s a problem that people are slowly realising but it’s too late to do anything about it
“The local Catholic school has had to install a prayer room for the Muslims, my daughter’s infant/junior school had 2 Muslims & they had to serve Halal food so as not to upset them.”
In 2016 only 48 of 4,033 residents were white. A Daily Mail reporter went to investigate & asked directions to a mosque.
“His response was to spit at me & shout: “Go away, you shouldn’t be here. Don’t come back.”
A white resident was asked when she was gong to sell up to a Muslim.
They are colonisers, who have no-go areas.”
Someone in the comments agreeing;
”I was born and raised in Dewsbury, the town was a great place when I was a kid, people would come from all over the country on bus trips to the famous market. Absolute hell hole now, we left in 1999, I sometimes go back to visit family and the place is unrecognisable now.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1811804116072407431
Parasite Politicians created this hell on earth. I despise these squirming hand wringing SCUM
Idiots.
Time to bring back public flogging. Fact and reason don’t work any more.
Probably coming in the new crime bill as a penalty for misgendering.
Don’t worry, the colonisers are likely to do that. It’s in their law!
I suspect none of the “experts” who wrote this rubbish has lived in a British colonial country. I wonder do they believe that the citizens of Hong Kong are better off under China? likewise ordinary Sri Lankans have nothing but praise for the legacy left by the British, their education system still uses our Alevel system, you know the ones where the pupil had to have a good depth of knowledge about the academic subject, likewise the railways and administration, corruption in the country has been rife since we handed over the colony. The British left its colonies in a good state, infrastructure, administrative systems, infrastructure, education. But obviously that is not a story to appease the anti white, anti british racists in The Key organisation.
100% correct!
This has not happened in the past 2 weeks. It has developed with the permission of the “Conservative Party”.
Good riddance
I am only part of the way through the book, “The Making of India” by Kartar Lalvani but it really is an excellent read. Quoting from the book:
This story began in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, dispatched fragile sailing ships laden with iron, tools and workers over a distance of 12,000 miles on a six-month voyage via the Cape of Good Hope, in search of new opportunities. Over the next three centuries, the girders for every bridge, the track for every mile of railway, the locomotives and the vast array of machinery required at the outset to build every piece of infrastructure in India were all made in Britain and loaded on to countless craft and transported on a hazardous journey to the subcontinent, where they were assembled according to plans laid by the finest engineers of the time, who arrived by the same route. In the end they helped build a new nation, from dozens of kingdoms and languages, that became the world’s largest democracy.
The sheer audacity, courage and enterprise of such an endeavour have no parallel in world history. The sins of colonial rule are well documented, but now 70 years after independence, are we not obliged to look back dispassionately and to give credit where credit is due? It is worth pausing to consider what India would be like today if the British had chosen to stay at home.
The author praises three vital legacies left by the British: the all-important Indian Civil Service, the English legal system with its impeccable nationwide judicial network and the formation of the well-drilled, highly disciplined, unified and loyal Indian Army.
Some time ago I read another book written by the last governor of Bechuanaland (now Botswana). It was fascinating to read the effort made by the Colonial Service to improve living conditions, investigating the suitability of growing various crops there, and all the while trying to fairly solve tribal conflicts.
Those were fascinating times when ordinary British men and women could serve in many countries around the world. Of course mistakes were made, of course some were disastrous, but in general there was a will to achieve good in the name of the British Empire. And it was the same reason why the empire was gradually disbanded: the British sense of fairness and equality meant that an empire was actually untenable.
Was there exploitation? Presumably but the British also gave a lot, as is proven by the current economic situation of UK: definitely not the richest of countries!
Thanks for posting.
Excellent comment!
If India was a seething bed of resentment against the British, how did they manage to control a vast population with a tiny expat army and civil service? And what happened when they left? Degeneration into bloodshed. Same in Nigeria. Slavery? Who sold Africans to the British? Other Africans (or Arabs). Business is business.Of course the propagators of this anti-colonialist nonsense forget the Tibetans, Uighurs, Hong Kong residents and the Pacific Rim countries that China has or is is trying to colonise. And Ukraine. Much of the rubbish is based on the simple fact that it is unwise to judge the past by the standards of today or, as with the Church of England’s setting aside huge sums to compensate for its investment in the South Sea Company, a failure to read the evidence..
I recommend “Last Man In” by John Hare, which describes his work in the British Colonial Administration in Northern Nigeria keeping warring tribes at peace. He suggests that while none of the factions would listen to each other, they would listen to him.
Do those teachers also talk about the Islamic Ottoman Empire?
Do they tell the children that European male children aged 7 to 20 were snatched and relocated to Turkey where they were forcibly converted, circumcised, assimilated and trained to serve into the fanatical Janissary corps or trained for palace guards?
Or, do they mention that special squads would kidnap beautiful European girls for the Turkish harems, specifically to whiten the race?
(or, that both were practices also favoured by wealthy Arabs.)
Or, the mass conversion using bribery in places like Bosnia and Albania, the two officially Muslim countries in Europe?
in contrast, the long-lasting effect of the British Empire’s influence has brought nothing but benefits, financial, social and scientific to the dominions.
It was so evil that every member nation of the Empire chose to join The Commonwealth.
And some nations which weren’t even part of the Empire chose to join as well.
How do the anti-British propagandists explain that?
In other words, “it worked against the Germans” (or so deluded people believe) and hence, it’ll certainly also work “against the English”, this being driven by the usual ahistoric perspective of your “friends and allies” (democrat faction) from accross the big pond, to whom the history of mankind started in 1492, at least mythically, and to whom nothing outside the anglosphere save “lost kingdoms of noble savages” really exists.
One should also note that this infantile moralizing of human history – the good and the bad, give me a f***ing break, life is not a hollywood action movie and humans invariably believe that whatever they’re doing is “good” and that what their enemies do is “evil” – comes straight from the Marxist playbook: History is the struggle of the one-dimensionally “good” oppressed against equally one-dimensionally “evil” oppressors. And as the “oppressed” proletarians unfortunately preferred working in their jobs in order to pay off their mortgages over world revolution, no matter how much students ranted and fumed about that, they’re now obviously the evil oppressors and their supposed victims interestingly coloured people living in delightfully exotic countries.
These ”Key” people need to do some empirical research. I lived in a Commonwealth country for 24 years and could see no evidence of the negative impact of Empire. I found very little evidence of resentment towards the British and most wanted Brits to teach their kids. In fact an Indonesian chap working there commented that the country was lucky to have had the British, his country got the Dutch! I’m not saying it was all rosy in every country, but overall, we brought good governance, the rule of law, fairness and stability and abolished inhuman practises, to every country we occupied and were one of the first colonisers to grant independence. Most opted to join the Commonwealth (even countries that were not part of our Empire have joined) and have continued to prosper and even overtake us. The ”Key” policy advisers need to visit Singapore, a country which has left the UK behind!
These people don’t do empirical research because they’re idealists, ie, believe that knowledge is gained through idea/ theories alone and that observable reality doesn’t matter that much. They have an essentially Marxist theory about the world and to them, the world is what this theory says it should really be, see comment about the oppressor/ oppressed dichotomy above.
Irish famine, Indian famine, Opium Wars to name but a few– really the advisory committee is being too generous.
As I already wrote above: Life is not a Hollywood action movie where “good guys” fight “bad guys”. That’s a puerile perspective for people TPTB want to keep dumb (and thus, more easily controlled).
Thw communist pigs are in charge. Save your children. Teach them the truth and teach them to disobey and push back. It will build their character and be useful in the coming communist sh1t hole we will inhabit.
God, I pray for the civil war to start.