As part of the London Tube system’s long-running ‘Poems on the Underground’ initiative, a series of politically approved Left-wing compositions appeared in large, unmissable type above the windows in carriages this last summer – one of which caused controversy amongst certain commuters, as it appeared to be celebrating the ethnic cleansing of white Englishmen from their own capital city:
The poem Colonisation in Reverse came from a 1966 collection by black Jamaican poet Louise Bennett, and was displayed to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the docking of the SS Empire Windrush, carrying what is often claimed to have been the first meaningful number of non-white Caribbean immigrants to settle in the UK back in 1948 – the exceedingly exaggerated founding fairy-tale of British multiculturalism. Yet as Bennett’s poem featured deliberately misspelled patois lines like “Jamaica people colonizin/Englan in reverse”, something gloatingly billed as being “joyful news”, some dissenting sceptics interpreted the poem’s display as nothing more than woke anti-white race-baiting, pure and simple, funded from the public purse.
Misreading the Riot Act
I thought of this poem when considering once again November 2023’s anti-immigration riots over in Dublin, sparked by the horrific stabbing of several small children by an Algerian-born knifeman, in particular the subsequent public words (in an actual council meeting!) of a Muslim Fianna Fáil councillor with the traditional Auld Oirish name of Azad Talukder to the effect that the primitive white protesters should be dealt with in the following sharia-style manner: “I’d like to see them shot in the head or bring the public in and beat them until they die.” Whoever thought it would be a good idea to invite the modern reincarnation of Oliver Cromwell back into Ireland? The present Irish Government, evidently.
Disturbing recent video of cult-like Irish parliamentarians ritually condemning “straight, white, middle-class, able-bodied men” and apologising for their inherent “white privilege” even whilst being colonised and genocidally slaughtered by the real Oliver Cromwell in centuries gone by, made Elon Musk’s sarcastic tweet that the Irish political class and their smug globalist PM Leo Varadkar “hates the Irish people” sound alarmingly accurate.
Indeed, sadistically forcing the children of white Irish people to reflect on their allegedly privileged status is soon slated to be placed on Ireland’s National Curriculum. Catholic schools in Ireland once taught their students about the doctrine of Original Sin: now this same idea has been secularised and remade along spurious racial lines.
Throwing a Paddy (Out of His Own Country)
I recently noted elsewhere on the Daily Sceptic the curious coincidence that, a few days after the Dublin riots, Britain’s leading literary award, the Booker Prize 2023, was handed to the Irish author Paul Lynch for his propagandistic Left-wing novel Prophet Song, set in a dystopian near-future far-Right Ireland, from which poor liberal folk like himself now have to flee under the dubious protection of people-smugglers.
Such is the fate of literature in our modern woke world: to become little more than barely-disguised agitprop, a Leftist instrument of the Leftist state, as with Louise Bennett’s unreadable London Underground doggerel. Just as such poems are used to subliminally habituate native white ethnic populations to their actual demographic ‘Colonisation in Reverse’, so I would not be surprised to see Lynch’s novel pop up on Irish school curricula in years to come, so as to further re-educate the constitutionally shame-ridden Irish youth of tomorrow as to what constitutes right-think and wrong-think on such matters. Indeed, Colonisation in Reverse is already on the syllabus of one U.K. exam board, OCR, alongside some other equally worthless racial bile, displacing formerly examined verse by sickeningly white (but far more talented) indigenous males like Hardy, Larkin, Blake and Northern Ireland’s very own Seamus Heaney.
Then, some fine day, once brainwashing woke pseudo-literature has been wholly drummed into England and Ireland’s helpless schoolkids like this, the outmoded attitudes of neanderthal figures like Niall McConnell, leader of the purportedly ‘far-Right’ Irish Nationalist Catholic Party – I know next to nothing about this organisation, but the mainstream media helpfully tell me it simply must be a fascist organisation, as it features the words ‘Nationalist’ and ‘Catholic’ in its name – could never arise again within the thoroughly cleansed minds of the next generation.
“The [white] Irish are being racially discriminated against,” McConnell told online outlet Euronews in March 2023, following an earlier round of Ireland-wide anti-immigration protests. The blatantly varying treatment of Conor McGregor, the Irish MMA fighter who was threatened with prosecution for supporting anti-immigrant protests online, and Azad Talukder, who was apparently not threatened with any similar such measures after calling for protestors to be summarily shot in the head in a chamber of public politics, would seem to prove him right.
Yet, the predictably negative tone of Euronews’s angle on McConnell and his ilk can be seen even from its headline: ‘Keep Ireland Irish: Say hello to Ireland’s growing far-Right’, whilst subeditors were sure to illustrate the piece with a large photo of McConnell’s men brandishing an anti-abortion banner – how shocking that a Catholic organisation should be against this specific procedure! To ensure its reporting was ideologically biased in the correct PC direction, Euronews even assigned the piece to a reporter named Joshua Askew – true nominative determinism in action.
Reporters summarised McConnell’s dissenting views as follows:
The self-described ‘Irish Patriot’ told Euronews immigration risked another “plantation“, in reference to England’s colonisation of Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, where land was seized and settlers were brought in [or ‘planted’] to ‘anglicise’ the local population. “History is repeating itself,” he said. “The blood of our holy martyrs seeps the Irish soil. The indigenous Irish will continue in our ancestors’ footsteps. We will oppose this new plantation as they did in the past. God save Ireland.”
Is this really ‘far Right’? It seems to me these would simply have been considered normal attitudes for patriotic Irishmen to have held up until exceedingly recently, before the traditional influence of bodies like the Catholic Church were finally broken and woke transnationalism truly began to take hold in the country. The Irish fought hard for many years to throw off London’s colonial yoke and create and adopt a coherent national identity of their own. Is this now all to be thrown away on the globalist altar of uncontrolled mass immigration, just because the political and media classes say so?
Alien Nation
One aspect of British colonialism often decried by key ‘decolonial’ writers taught in our universities today like Frantz Fanon was England’s tendency to demoralise local populations by imposing alien outside values upon them to make them feel like lost outsiders in their own homelands – by making them read Dickens and Shakespeare in schools, for example, instead of their own native writers. According to this viewpoint, such a process of deliberate deracination would break the native population’s will so making them easier to dominate from far-off proto-globalist outposts like London.
Ironically, this very same process now seems to be being pursued against the English themselves by vengeful former subject-peoples posing as ‘anti-racists’, in cahoots with their subaltern, self-hating, local white allies. Here is one such online critic’s explanation of the evident anti-colonial political utility of placing Louise Bennett’s patois propaganda poem on Sadiq Khan’s Tube trains:
The reverse colonisation of England is expressed in the widespread adoption of the Jamaican language… Turning the native into an alien in his/her own country was one of the deliberate consequences of British imperialism across the globe. Reverse colonisation through language most appropriately makes [native white] bigots [who object to being reverse-colonised feel like] … aliens in England.
The formerly colonised are the colonisers in Great Britain now and, if you only bother to seek out unashamed statements to this effect, some quite openly and proudly admit the fact. Is something similar now taking place in Ireland too, despite the fact she was only ever a colony and never actually a coloniser at all? Recent events would tend to suggest so.
Ireland of Lost Souls
As in England, calls are now being made by academics, activists, students and others for Ireland’s literature curriculum (and all other aspects of teaching besides) to become far more ‘diversified’ – i.e., denuded of much of its prior authentically Irish content. In truth, this has already happened. Here is an extract from one 2012 academic investigation into the content of the Irish primary school curriculum in terms of History and Geography – neither of which apparently now truly exist, at least not in locally specific terms:
In other words: you’re fungible citizens of the world, now, kids, not Irish ones anymore, and don’t you ever forget it.
In the past, around about the time Ireland gained her independence from the British Empire, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Irish poets, politicians, historians, folklorists, playwrights and philologists like W.B. Yeats, Douglas Hyde, Sean O’Casey and Lady Augusta Gregory worked hard to lend Ireland a cohesive national identity all of her own, so as to distinguish Eire from the former imperial ‘mother country’ which had done so much to erase any such thing from the souls of the Irish people, so as to make the culturally disinherited populace easier to rule from afar. Back then, decolonising Ireland meant reclaiming it from deracinated globalism by conjuring up its own native culture; now, decolonising Ireland means destroying that very same conjured native culture in the name of a new kind of deracinated globalism instead. How wonderful ‘progress’ is.
It would appear to me that Niall McConnell is right: a new forcible ‘plantation’ of alien peoples and their culture is indeed currently ongoing right the way across Ireland. Doesn’t the IRA have something to say about that? Well, if you do indeed consider Sinn Féin to be the terrorist body’s old political wing, as was often alleged in the past (lawyers tell me to phrase it this way), then they’re actually in on this whole sad process of colonisation in reverse too. Suddenly woke to their core, even the supposed Irish nationalists of Sinn Féin now push the whole self-defeating agendas of mass immigration, diversity, ideologically transnationalist government and propaganda in schools too.
That’s how far this whole process of mental reverse-colonisation has now gone. If even the former self-styled freedom fighters (or ‘murdering terrorists’, as some might prefer) are now actively arguing for their people’s own future slavery, then what hope do the Irish actually have left?
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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Some of us have been saying this for 50 years! But isn’t it interesting how, above the line, this unfolding disaster for white people everywhere has to be told through the eyes of non-English people. Why not give some time to discuss the efforts of Britain First or Tommy Robinson? Oooo, better not go there – they are all skin-headed thugs.
All the time we talk about a problem “over there” we will not address anything over here.
One final point: did white Brits (don’t forget a lot of Scots, Welsh and Irish were involved as well as English) really try and change the way things were done in colonised countries to eradicate their cultural history or was it simply a case that, amongst the administrators and buccaneers and entrepreneurs and administrators, well meaning people (secular and non-secular) went to the colonies to improve, as they saw it, the lives of those they sought to govern?
They did in colonies in countries considered suitable for large-scale European settlement, most prominently/ successfully in northern America. But phrasing it in this way really doesn’t make any sense. Conquerors dominating conquered territory is how things have always been. The Romans even had a saying for that: Vae victis! (Woe unto the conquered!) and no present-day woketurd will have an ounce of sympathy for, say, the so-called Siebenbürger Sachsen (saxons of the country of the seven castles), Germans who had been peacefully living in Hungary for centuries until the advancing Red Army violently drove them out at the end of WWII.
It certainly seems to be acceptable for us to “colonize” other countries with our whacky ideas about Net Zero, trans rights and so on…
That’s us exporting democracy so we can liberate their people from a different life and their resources from oppression to benefit the good of the few.
This <4min clip is just disgraceful actually. Basically a load of Irish politicians banging on about ”white privilege” and a lack of diversity. Please say they don’t represent the majority and they’re just some woketard, masochistic outliers;
“During [Ireland’s] oppression, we still maintained our invisibility cloak of white privilege.”
Irish politicians discuss “white privilege” and the need for racial quotas, with one recalling the “very dull, white, pasty Ireland” that he grew up in before mass migration.”
https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1729838198778437885
When I first went to Ireland about 40 years ago, the girls had light skins and dark hair. The last time I went it was the other way around…
Throughout my childhood, the daily news on TV and in the paper was banging on and on about “The Troubles”. I remember Guildford, Birmingham, Brighton, horrific bombings and killings in Belfast etc etc etc, it went on and on. Even back then, we pondered about where all the money came from, given that ammo etc is not cheap. We teenagers naively thought it was from patriotic Irish American families wearing beer goggles reminiscing about the old country. Given the last 20 years I now presume it was all theatre for political destruction of the UK to be rebuilt in the theme required by those running the planet from behind the scenes. Otherwise the disappointed hot heads full of patriotic zeal would surely be kicking off by now.
Colonisation… bad!, has morphed into immigration… good!
Colonists… evil!; immigrants… virtuous!
Most likely the standard procedure when a new people settle in a territory in any numbers.
The term ‘Welsh’ means ‘foreigner’ in Old Saxon. Therefore, the Britons – ‘the Welsh’ – were the people who were foreigners in their own land. Mercian law codes discriminated against the Britons.
Out of necessity the newcomers must legitimise their presence. Hence the reference in the poem to colonisation but in reverse. The problem (for those of the woke persuasion) with that particular approach is that if reverse colonisation is legitimate, then the original colonisation must have been too.
And most likely the reaction to colonisation is the same as Mr McConnell’s. A writer of letter that survives from the late Saxon period of what had become England complained about English men adopting Danish hairstyles.
However, China will still be there at the end of the century, just the same as she is now. All the CCP have to do is wait patiently. When the USA and Europe have joined the demographic South, their political administrations will not be comprised of people who will have any ambition to follow current objectives to contain China, any more than Jamaica, Barbados or Trinidad do today. (The street protests against the Gazan war is an indication of that).
Poor Taiwan will slip out of the American imperial orbit as it dissolves just like Britannia did from ancient Rome in the 5th century after the Western Empire had been ‘colonised’ by different peoples who replaced the Gallo Romans. (In contrast, the Eastern Roman emperors prevented the ‘Germanisation’ of their territories and the Eastern Empire continued until the 15th century. Even so, in this world, every day must close. It might as well do so with glorious memory).
I remember thinking about this philosophically when I was about 18, long before all the wokery, the political correctness, the tumbling of statues, and the ranting about the slave trade. ——–I saw a pattern of England going out into the world, creating it’s empire and then that empire crumbling all the way back to there only being England again. Not the England as it started out, but England in name only.
I don’t think that’s what really happened. It’s probably more that, with the exception of India, the British empire was a financial liability and dividing the world into financially dependent stinos¹ more-or-less governed by local thugs equipped with the necessary amounts of money and weapons to be willing and able to cooperate effectively with resource extraction companies was a much cheaper way to achieve the desired outcome (resource extraction). On top of that came that English politicians, especially Lloyd George and the other WWI fossil, Winston Churchill, bankrupted the country several times over in order to destroy the Germany in two entirely avoidable so-called world wars².
¹ States in name only.
² The first world war, especially, Lloyd George’s idea of the so-called knock out blow instead some kind of negotiated peace among equals, directly begat what happened in Germany from 1933 onwards.
Remember I was 18 when those thoughts came into my mind.—-I simply looked at it as something that expanded outwards and then shrunk back…….This is a very simplistic view ofcourse. It was based on how I perceived the direction of travel of the Empire at that time.
Of relevance to this informed article is the fact that in 1939 the man who became the first president of the commission of the European Economic Community, Walter Hallstein, gave a speech for the Nazi regime and IG Farben. In his speech he describes the planned German conquest of the rest of Europe and the subjugation of the continent. He was an elite Nazi lawyer. […] “The supreme race has to be particularly protected from the Jewish race by eliminating it from society for all time.” Hallstein served as president of the nascent European Commission from 1958 – 1967. He wrote Die Europäische Gemeinschaft (of which I have a copy) ISBN 3 430 138981, which is a blueprint for an EU that requires only a fig leaf of democracy. Naturally, his own biography has been sanitized. From this it is possible to form a theory that the Islamification of society, particularly with Merkel’s seemingly impetuous policy, is a method of achieving the annihilation of Israel and the Jews without western politicians becoming involved. I offer this only as a theory, but the fact that this former Nazi was promoted to the very highest position in the EU, as it is now, needs to be examined.