Excellent piece, as usual, Simon. It is good to see your very eloquent written prose, as opposed to your spoken delivery to camera on YouTube. I would only add that the culture of the West (and in particular that of England) is particularly valuable in World history (in my opinion), as we are the true heirs of classical antiquity amongst other things, and so we see not only the problems of a clash of cultures but the erosion of something much more valuable - akin to the decline and fall of Rome perhaps. There seems no way of reversing this, as a near inevitable labour government will only make the situation worse. There seems no where to escape to either, as the English speaking peoples seem intent on inflicting this on themselves throughout the world.
Good morning Simon. It’s anyone’s guess where this will lead. The future doesn’t look good as I cannot see a situation where people will be deported. I suspect another 5 million or more people will arrive here in the next 10-20 years after which the society we grew up in will be history
If we take the gross immigration figure - well over one million a year now - and not the net figure which the media and government give us (six or seven hundred thousand) then we are looking at another five million in the next four to five years - not ten or 20.
The problem with your "simpler explanation" is that this is all happening simultaneously in almost exactly the same way in almost every western nation. That would seem implausible unless every government were actively following the orders of some global, extra-political authority. The simplest explanation is that what occurred in the '60's was never more than a smoke screen to distract from the control mechanism being constructed by powerful elites who had no intention of allowing their power and wealth to be threatened by the democratic will of the traditionalist populations of the west.
It could also be explained by the fact that since the end of the Second World War, the West has become increasingly Americanised and that just as we ape their musical style, so too do we imitate their views on ethnicity, race and culture.
I acknowledge that the entire 'diversity as strength' regime derives from the history of the US that integrated diverse populations as it grew in wealth and power. And indeed, diversity probably is a strength in an underpopulated society with a healthy expanding economic base.
But it is difficult to accept that any nation would 'ape' the demolition of its own native peoples in preference for others. Even actual apes would not do that voluntarily. That takes long decades of cultural preparation and generational social modification through education. None of that suggests casual observation and emulation. It seems more like a carefully coordinated plan.
“Some people believe that this is part of a sinister conspiracy, such as the Kalergi Plan or the Great Replacement. There is though, almost certainly a simpler and more satisfactory explanation and it began, as did so many of the evils which we now observe in the West, in the 1960s.”
As the popular meme has it, “Why not both?” The Great Replacement is quite literally celebrated on the Left and was/is also a calculated strategy. It’s denounced as a “conspiracy theory” to provide cover for what has basically been done in the open (with no doubt some private strategy sessions).
PS--You may be sincere when you say you are not a “bigot” or wouldn’t mind if your daughter married a black man (or woman?) but this is just conceding too much to the PC/wokels. There is nothing wrong with rejecting alien phenotypes. It shows how much we have been cowed by the wokels that we have to genuflect to their totalitarian values. (This surrender also reveals the evolved egalitarian psychology of many whites.)
The real problem is that he would care if the black man was not of good moral and intellectual character. But a black man of a character he would accept would also make a good husband for a black woman. Nothing says 'white privilege' quite so much as white women taking all the good black men for themselves, those acceptable to their white fathers. We improve humanity by improving it within our own distinct ethnic societies, not by mixing and matching between them. Doing that leaves those of lesser quality of all races floundering with little hope of advancing. Simon doesn't understand that his freedom from bigotry is actually a quite degrading form of primeval evolution. If he truly wanted to improve humanity, he would be a proud bigot.
I do actually have some faith in the white middle class. They are hell bent on diversity because it actually hasn’t affected them yet. But at some point it will and once their eyes are opened, they will respond accordingly. We must go down fighting if nothing else.
it has affected the working classes for many years but we are labelled as bigots - look at poor Mrs Hewitt with Gordan Brown or that Thornberry women on the white van man and his England flag.
To paraphrase a famous quote, both the past and the future are foreign lands, they do things differently there. Anyone who travels elsewhere for a year or so and returns home will find that both they and their home have changed..... Yet if you replace all the sails, planks, ropes and metal components on a ship, is it the same ship or a new one? Someone has decided to perform this experiment on entire countries and entire peoples... and the outcome is anything but certain.
@Ian Pulham If the new sail, planks ropes, and metal components are identical to the old ones, then in my opinion, yes, it is still the same ship. But if everything new differs from the original parts, then, in my opinion again, it becomes an altered ship and therefore no longer the same ship.
With all the social and political chaos about us and the head-on clash of absurd arguments for those new-fangled notions with which we are smacked with daily, those of us holding on to the timeless values of life feel a tremendous sense of relief and enthusiasm when listening (and now reading) your much appreciated views. They communicate to us a sense of kinship and rapport that very few journalists, politicians, or academics can convey anymore. Putting your finger and your tongue (and now also your pen!) exactly on the problems that plague us, as you bravely defy the imposed death-mask of political correctness, takes immense courage in today's mad world.
And you, Simon, are one of the shining few daring to do so. For that alone, you have not just my deepest respect and admiration, but my sincere gratitude as well.
I've been listening to you on YT for a while, cheering you on for your brave common-sense comments. Your words reverberate with the proven truths of history. But alas, like Georg Hegel wisely said, "We learn from history, that we learn nothing from history." And that is plainly why we are where we are today. Those great homogenous (as you emphasized) civilizations of the past deteriorated to sad shadows of their once glorious selves. Today, you named the simple and obvious reasons of why the western world, should it continue on its present track, will inevitably also destroy itself. When I think of the advanced accomplishments of the west in every field -- music, science, philosophy, technology, the arts and literature -- I see the common groundwork of our Greco-Christian foundation.
Where were all these people, who are now demanding to take over, approximately a few hundred years ago?.. What civilization were they part of? And they now think they are ready to jump into the driver’s seat? That is what happens when you bend over backwards and lower academic standards to suit their abilities. They feel entitled to run the western world. A world they were never a part of until only very, very recently, generously receiving the benefits of the western world, benefits which they had no part in creating.
Well said Simon. You have articulated very eloquently the message that I have been preaching for 30 years . For my trouble I have been dismissed as a racist, a bigot and a fool but I feel that an’’I told you so ‘ moment will soon be upon us . I take no pleasure in it as, during the course of our lifetimes, the great country we were born into had been destroyed before our eyes.
"That those responsible for such policies as multiculturalism could not have foreseen how it would create an environment conducive to ghettoes and likely to promote confrontation and violence"........not sure I'm in agreement with this statement!
After all, there's an old expression along the lines of; "he who forgets his history is liable to re-live it"
Obviously none of the current crop of mediocre western leaders are not familiar with your excellent examples.
Congratulations Simon on your substack channel, I think most people would agree that YouTube, will not tolerate freedom of expression and speech which stifle’s in my opinion open debate of what’s going on in the UK, and wider Europe. I look forward to reading your thoughts with great interest, it feels really good to be here.
There are 3 items that Mr Webb does not mention (in this text) — they are decisive to clarify/understand the english society's development: 1) Accusations of 'racism'; 2) No knowledge of integrating; 3) Who is responsible.
1. Authorities decided that those who did not want (from1960–?, Ref. Enoch Powell) immigration should be declared as 'racists'.
(How many ordinary people who agreed with the authorities, I do not know: 10 50 90%?)
2. Mr Webb: "Each group brings with it its own customs and way of life and these, in keeping with the dictates of multiculturalism, there is no requirement to alter or modify."
— That is: Lack of integration, which no-one understood how to do it on a national scale (which eg. muslims in muslim nations understand naturally).
Integration means that the new one learns what is right and wrong/is corrected regarding behaviour, attitudes (a.k.a. 'values') and dress/attribut-codes.
(Integration happens naturally (without guidance/propagation from authorities) when a new aquaintance becomes a friend, or the newly employed is accepted socially (beside skills) by the workers — but not on this national scale, because english people are (too) welcoming and/or too polite and/or afraid of feeling like/be perceived as a 'racist'?)
3. There was no consensus/understanding on who should do this integration (only a weak/tacit expectation on immigrants "... to conform to the ways of the country in which they had come to live"): – Authorities or the people.
Mr Webb: "The effrontery of those who now talk of this diversity as a strength". — If this diversity is today not wanted (BBC 2011-Feb-11: "State multiculturalism has failed, says David Cameron [prime minister]"), then why does nobody suggests re-migration?
Because of denial/conviction ('diversity is a strength') or politeness (acc. english characteristics/culture) or fear: – No-one wants to feel like/be perceived/defamed [***]/dehumanised as a 'racist'?:
1. Suella Braverman (MP, fmr. Home Secretary), The Telegraph 2024-Feb-22: "This is no longer the great country I knew. Islamists are bullying Britain into submission"
– "We need to overcome the FEAR of being labelled [it is an accusation, My Rem.] Islamophobic [and 'racist'] and speak truthfully [ie. Freedom of Speech vs. oppression of opinion]."
2. Simon Webb/History Debunked (deleted YouTube-video) 2023-Mar-18: "When speaking the truth about gender and race becomes a revolutionary act":
(T02:33–)
– "In the western world today, one of the most deadly accusations which can be laid against anybody is that a person is racist or sexist."
– "The very suggestion of such a thing can be enough to destroy a man's career, or see him shunned like a leper."
[***]
See English defamation law.
(Those individuals who have the fortune of finding themselves in both private and public social milieus that do not regard them as 'deplorables' (Ref. H. Clinton, US) are not affected by accusations of being a 'racist'/being defamed.
Eg. Mr Webb, Mr Benjamin and Peter Whittle (NCF), thus missing the opportunity of setting the record straight of what can and can not be said about english people, which is "... the seed[-] of their own destruction"?)
The foreword to the Khan review begins: "Britain’s most precious asset is our diverse and cohesive democracy." The rest of the report details how this is untrue.
Excellent piece, as usual, Simon. It is good to see your very eloquent written prose, as opposed to your spoken delivery to camera on YouTube. I would only add that the culture of the West (and in particular that of England) is particularly valuable in World history (in my opinion), as we are the true heirs of classical antiquity amongst other things, and so we see not only the problems of a clash of cultures but the erosion of something much more valuable - akin to the decline and fall of Rome perhaps. There seems no way of reversing this, as a near inevitable labour government will only make the situation worse. There seems no where to escape to either, as the English speaking peoples seem intent on inflicting this on themselves throughout the world.
You are very kind about my writing! Under the next labour government, things will, I am sure, only get worse...
Good morning Simon. It’s anyone’s guess where this will lead. The future doesn’t look good as I cannot see a situation where people will be deported. I suspect another 5 million or more people will arrive here in the next 10-20 years after which the society we grew up in will be history
In short, the country is heading to hell on a fast horse...
If we take the gross immigration figure - well over one million a year now - and not the net figure which the media and government give us (six or seven hundred thousand) then we are looking at another five million in the next four to five years - not ten or 20.
The problem with your "simpler explanation" is that this is all happening simultaneously in almost exactly the same way in almost every western nation. That would seem implausible unless every government were actively following the orders of some global, extra-political authority. The simplest explanation is that what occurred in the '60's was never more than a smoke screen to distract from the control mechanism being constructed by powerful elites who had no intention of allowing their power and wealth to be threatened by the democratic will of the traditionalist populations of the west.
It could also be explained by the fact that since the end of the Second World War, the West has become increasingly Americanised and that just as we ape their musical style, so too do we imitate their views on ethnicity, race and culture.
I acknowledge that the entire 'diversity as strength' regime derives from the history of the US that integrated diverse populations as it grew in wealth and power. And indeed, diversity probably is a strength in an underpopulated society with a healthy expanding economic base.
But it is difficult to accept that any nation would 'ape' the demolition of its own native peoples in preference for others. Even actual apes would not do that voluntarily. That takes long decades of cultural preparation and generational social modification through education. None of that suggests casual observation and emulation. It seems more like a carefully coordinated plan.
“Some people believe that this is part of a sinister conspiracy, such as the Kalergi Plan or the Great Replacement. There is though, almost certainly a simpler and more satisfactory explanation and it began, as did so many of the evils which we now observe in the West, in the 1960s.”
As the popular meme has it, “Why not both?” The Great Replacement is quite literally celebrated on the Left and was/is also a calculated strategy. It’s denounced as a “conspiracy theory” to provide cover for what has basically been done in the open (with no doubt some private strategy sessions).
PS--You may be sincere when you say you are not a “bigot” or wouldn’t mind if your daughter married a black man (or woman?) but this is just conceding too much to the PC/wokels. There is nothing wrong with rejecting alien phenotypes. It shows how much we have been cowed by the wokels that we have to genuflect to their totalitarian values. (This surrender also reveals the evolved egalitarian psychology of many whites.)
There may well be nothing wrong with rejecting alien phenotypes, but I still wouldn't care if my daughter married a black man!
The real problem is that he would care if the black man was not of good moral and intellectual character. But a black man of a character he would accept would also make a good husband for a black woman. Nothing says 'white privilege' quite so much as white women taking all the good black men for themselves, those acceptable to their white fathers. We improve humanity by improving it within our own distinct ethnic societies, not by mixing and matching between them. Doing that leaves those of lesser quality of all races floundering with little hope of advancing. Simon doesn't understand that his freedom from bigotry is actually a quite degrading form of primeval evolution. If he truly wanted to improve humanity, he would be a proud bigot.
I do actually have some faith in the white middle class. They are hell bent on diversity because it actually hasn’t affected them yet. But at some point it will and once their eyes are opened, they will respond accordingly. We must go down fighting if nothing else.
Yes, if things affect the middle classes adversely, then we may indeed see a change of tack!
The middles classes with their university education are more brain washed than the working classes.
Yes, and they are also easier to fool!
it has affected the working classes for many years but we are labelled as bigots - look at poor Mrs Hewitt with Gordan Brown or that Thornberry women on the white van man and his England flag.
Ah yes, Brown dismissing the woman as a bigot! That went down well with the electorate...
To paraphrase a famous quote, both the past and the future are foreign lands, they do things differently there. Anyone who travels elsewhere for a year or so and returns home will find that both they and their home have changed..... Yet if you replace all the sails, planks, ropes and metal components on a ship, is it the same ship or a new one? Someone has decided to perform this experiment on entire countries and entire peoples... and the outcome is anything but certain.
@Ian Pulham If the new sail, planks ropes, and metal components are identical to the old ones, then in my opinion, yes, it is still the same ship. But if everything new differs from the original parts, then, in my opinion again, it becomes an altered ship and therefore no longer the same ship.
With all the social and political chaos about us and the head-on clash of absurd arguments for those new-fangled notions with which we are smacked with daily, those of us holding on to the timeless values of life feel a tremendous sense of relief and enthusiasm when listening (and now reading) your much appreciated views. They communicate to us a sense of kinship and rapport that very few journalists, politicians, or academics can convey anymore. Putting your finger and your tongue (and now also your pen!) exactly on the problems that plague us, as you bravely defy the imposed death-mask of political correctness, takes immense courage in today's mad world.
And you, Simon, are one of the shining few daring to do so. For that alone, you have not just my deepest respect and admiration, but my sincere gratitude as well.
I've been listening to you on YT for a while, cheering you on for your brave common-sense comments. Your words reverberate with the proven truths of history. But alas, like Georg Hegel wisely said, "We learn from history, that we learn nothing from history." And that is plainly why we are where we are today. Those great homogenous (as you emphasized) civilizations of the past deteriorated to sad shadows of their once glorious selves. Today, you named the simple and obvious reasons of why the western world, should it continue on its present track, will inevitably also destroy itself. When I think of the advanced accomplishments of the west in every field -- music, science, philosophy, technology, the arts and literature -- I see the common groundwork of our Greco-Christian foundation.
Where were all these people, who are now demanding to take over, approximately a few hundred years ago?.. What civilization were they part of? And they now think they are ready to jump into the driver’s seat? That is what happens when you bend over backwards and lower academic standards to suit their abilities. They feel entitled to run the western world. A world they were never a part of until only very, very recently, generously receiving the benefits of the western world, benefits which they had no part in creating.
Wishing you all the best in this new endeavour!
Very well said , I totally agree.
Thank you!
@John Hall, was this for me or for Simon..? :)
For you😊
Thank you!
Well said Simon. You have articulated very eloquently the message that I have been preaching for 30 years . For my trouble I have been dismissed as a racist, a bigot and a fool but I feel that an’’I told you so ‘ moment will soon be upon us . I take no pleasure in it as, during the course of our lifetimes, the great country we were born into had been destroyed before our eyes.
I think that most people who say this kind of thing are dismissed as racist bigots and fools! I know I am.
Few interviews with Vaclav Klaus, former president of the Czech republic
"We will not let EU transform Czech Rep into a multicultural society"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuAu1QSkStk
Budapest Summit on Migration – The Biggest Challenge of Our Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93BeuybWgEM
“Nation states should be monocultural” — Interview with former President Václav Klaus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIP2u3Cwrfw
Assimilation and conformity builds a nation.
Diversity tears it apart.
All too true, I am afraid.
"That those responsible for such policies as multiculturalism could not have foreseen how it would create an environment conducive to ghettoes and likely to promote confrontation and violence"........not sure I'm in agreement with this statement!
After all, there's an old expression along the lines of; "he who forgets his history is liable to re-live it"
Obviously none of the current crop of mediocre western leaders are not familiar with your excellent examples.
Diversity the opposite of unity. A recipe for disaster.Time to end this multi cultural nonsense and return to traditional British and western values.
Congratulations Simon on your substack channel, I think most people would agree that YouTube, will not tolerate freedom of expression and speech which stifle’s in my opinion open debate of what’s going on in the UK, and wider Europe. I look forward to reading your thoughts with great interest, it feels really good to be here.
I agree. Freedom of expression is on the way out and the online Services Bill will hasten its demise.
Always a pleasure to read or listen to what you have to say Simon.
There appear to be a couple of footnotes referenced in the text, do you know where they can be found?
Alas, the fault is mine! I shall insert them at once.
Better late than sorry (Ref. Chaucer, 1386)?...
There are 3 items that Mr Webb does not mention (in this text) — they are decisive to clarify/understand the english society's development: 1) Accusations of 'racism'; 2) No knowledge of integrating; 3) Who is responsible.
1. Authorities decided that those who did not want (from1960–?, Ref. Enoch Powell) immigration should be declared as 'racists'.
(How many ordinary people who agreed with the authorities, I do not know: 10 50 90%?)
2. Mr Webb: "Each group brings with it its own customs and way of life and these, in keeping with the dictates of multiculturalism, there is no requirement to alter or modify."
— That is: Lack of integration, which no-one understood how to do it on a national scale (which eg. muslims in muslim nations understand naturally).
Integration means that the new one learns what is right and wrong/is corrected regarding behaviour, attitudes (a.k.a. 'values') and dress/attribut-codes.
(Integration happens naturally (without guidance/propagation from authorities) when a new aquaintance becomes a friend, or the newly employed is accepted socially (beside skills) by the workers — but not on this national scale, because english people are (too) welcoming and/or too polite and/or afraid of feeling like/be perceived as a 'racist'?)
3. There was no consensus/understanding on who should do this integration (only a weak/tacit expectation on immigrants "... to conform to the ways of the country in which they had come to live"): – Authorities or the people.
Mr Webb: "The effrontery of those who now talk of this diversity as a strength". — If this diversity is today not wanted (BBC 2011-Feb-11: "State multiculturalism has failed, says David Cameron [prime minister]"), then why does nobody suggests re-migration?
Because of denial/conviction ('diversity is a strength') or politeness (acc. english characteristics/culture) or fear: – No-one wants to feel like/be perceived/defamed [***]/dehumanised as a 'racist'?:
1. Suella Braverman (MP, fmr. Home Secretary), The Telegraph 2024-Feb-22: "This is no longer the great country I knew. Islamists are bullying Britain into submission"
– "We need to overcome the FEAR of being labelled [it is an accusation, My Rem.] Islamophobic [and 'racist'] and speak truthfully [ie. Freedom of Speech vs. oppression of opinion]."
2. Simon Webb/History Debunked (deleted YouTube-video) 2023-Mar-18: "When speaking the truth about gender and race becomes a revolutionary act":
(T02:33–)
– "In the western world today, one of the most deadly accusations which can be laid against anybody is that a person is racist or sexist."
– "The very suggestion of such a thing can be enough to destroy a man's career, or see him shunned like a leper."
[***]
See English defamation law.
(Those individuals who have the fortune of finding themselves in both private and public social milieus that do not regard them as 'deplorables' (Ref. H. Clinton, US) are not affected by accusations of being a 'racist'/being defamed.
Eg. Mr Webb, Mr Benjamin and Peter Whittle (NCF), thus missing the opportunity of setting the record straight of what can and can not be said about english people, which is "... the seed[-] of their own destruction"?)
The foreword to the Khan review begins: "Britain’s most precious asset is our diverse and cohesive democracy." The rest of the report details how this is untrue.
It's the way he tells them!