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982   15 April 2004  

To the Letters Editor, The Guardian

• Published on Friday 16 April 2004, by the Guardian, in truncated form, following Ali Abunimah - check it out

Why is Bush pressing ahead with the 30 June handover of sovereignty in Iraq?  The real reason is not electoral, but commercial.  The future of major US corporations is at stake. They have paid out $-billions, and this is pay-back time. 

983  15 April  2004  

Please Note:  These are the views of the author Mike Davis alone, and are not adopted or endorsed by this website or its Editor Roger Warren Evans.

Dear Roger

Hallo again from Australia, land of multicultural success.  The key to making
a success of multiculturalism is to talk about it a lot, but leave the door
open to assimilation. Older immigrants love their “old country” - not enough to actually live there of course, but they do so love it. The young want to be Brits/European. The question is:  How can the State help the young?

The first problem (which we do not have here in Oz) is the insufferable class attitudes of lots of Brits.  Solving this is an individual and personal step
to be taken by each of you.  Make the effort, chaps, will you please? This endless 'looking down' on others is a huge waste of emotional resources in Britain, and is delaying your next magnificent and serious historical
role - Yep! - as the leaders of a united Europe. The only possible leaders of Europe are Britain or Germany.  Germany wants the job, but about 20 of the
other countries want Britain to have it – still a reflection of the events of 1939-45.  But you can't do it effectively until you have cunningly absorbed the non-British Brits.

• This is what you should do.

Squeeze Islam in Britain, just like the Whigs squeezed the Catholics to modernise, and behave, between 1689 and 1827.  As a Catholic myself, I am happy to admit that the Catholics were on the wrong side of the socio-political argument during those years.  Nothing, I repeat, nothing is better for the common man than Parliaments and the rule of laws passed by Parliaments.  Din this into the heads of the British Muslims, and expel those who resist.  Close their papers and radio stations and ignore the twaddle about 'threats to freedom'.   Anyone who ever says “Britain is a threat to freedom” is clearly having a nervous breakdown and should be sent to a rest home.  No Muslim in Australia would dare attack Parliament here or the fundamental system based on it.

Pressure the Imams (who need government approvals for almost everything) to put an end to the non-European dress code - for all but the elderly.  Britain is a European state not a province of Saudi Arabia. External modes of presentation and expression strongly influence the interior life – that’s my Pyschology Degree, from the University of Essex.  Punish the Imams, bureaucratically, for their failures in their own areas.

I know these ideas sound awful, but the whinging Left is already in receipt of the benefits of being British, so how about helping others to get some of the benefits.

Put a big effort into filling the Army (not the Police) with ethnic minority servicemen and women.  Do not exclude the mainstream Brits by any means, but make a special big effort towards the non-British Brits. The British Army and the Royal Marines are still big-time and impressive. The psychological impact on the non-British Brits of the Trooping of the Colour and Remembrance Day being presented with 75% ethnic-minority troops would do more for national identification by these com munities than a thousand silly Islington ideas from David Blunkett.

Bite the bullet and stop the entry of brides and grooms into Britain to
marry, when they come from backward countries. One can't stop a British girl from marrying Daddy's choice of husband in Islamabad, but you can say that he will live with his new lady wife in that town and not Leeds – though you could make exceptions for second marriages - apparently in such places as Islamabad, virginity is a psycho-fetish, so second marriages would likely be the real thing.  Do something about an acceptable adult age of marriage between a Brit and a non-Brit from backward countries.  Hold the parents SERIOUSLY to account for this matter.  Fines, ruthlessly enforced, in the order of tens of thousands of pounds will concentrate Daddy's mind wonderfully.

Reinforce the Christian and Parliamentary symbols of the nation.  All the minority groups have come to a Britain that is emphatically not what they had back home. Remind them of this.  Do not be afraid to expel offenders from Britain.  Expel them by ministerial fiat, not endless court cases. 

Finally - Do something about the Windsors.  I don't know what, but something must be done. When the marvellous QE2 'sails off into the sunset' Britain will need another serious face for the grimly serious times ahead.  Australia, thankfully, will vote for a republic when our own stupid
politicians surrender, and allow a popularly elected President, a la
Ireland.  

That's enough for now chaps. Get on with it!

Mike Davis
 

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