Magna Carta
Crown of The Defender of the Faith
David Cameron wrote a letter to the Mail on Sunday*
promoting what he calls British values: ‘a belief in
freedom, tolerance of others, accepting personal and social responsibility,
respecting and upholding the rule of law’, and he went on to say, these ‘are
the things we should try to live by every day’.
These values are not specifically
British or exclusively British, and however noble, fine or meritorious they are,
they do not represent what is essentially British.
If you are coming from my
generation, i.e., those born in the 1930s, we have a perspective that young ‘Britons’
today know little about. Our society has vastly changed. When I was a boy, war
was raging, but there was a united spirit that bound everybody together; young and
old, toffs and paupers, those in uniform and those in work togs. Our cause was
survival and a fight for freedom from tyranny - for worldwide freedom for
peoples of all races and cultures; rich and poor, even our enemies! This was not
specifically or exclusively freedom for Brits. Class, creed and nationality were
irrelevant.
What has changed so dramatically
is the globalization of the Planet. We have freedom to travel, freedom to emigrate,
freedom of expression through the Internet, availability of education for many
- not just the rich and the privileged who may have access to Eton or Harrow
and the hallows of Cambridge and Oxford. The consequence of this new freedom is
that this Island ‘Race’ is no longer an identifiable people; we are linked to
France and Europe by the Channel tunnel; we are linked to all continents by air
and sea, and we share membership of the United Nations. Multinational
conglomerates build their empires wherever trade and business favours them, so
that their brands and commodities can be found worldwide. Financial institutions
are global enterprises that invest and speculate on a massive scale.
Our multicultural, multiethnic,
plural society, bring divisions, enclaves and sometimes ghettos of discontent.
There are places in the UK where people of my generation would believe they
were in a foreign land, and there are even no-go areas where it is not safe to
be out at night. If I dared to mention colour of skin or ethnicity, I would be
branded as racist. Even to mention such things is to be guilty of breaking a
taboo. Total freedom of speech has been lost. One has to be politically correct;
one cannot call a spade a spade. It is a day of public apologies and
excommunication for rebels who speak the plain truth.
Despite these things, a few vestiges
of Britishness remain, such as a fractured, dysfunctional Church of England
that has been overcome by liberals interested in promoting so-called equality,
rather than the teachings of Jesus who created both men and women in His own
image with their distinctive and complementary roles. Women used to be treated
with respect as the more graceful and gentler sex. Men would stand to allow
them to sit; they would open doors for them to be first and they would never
expect them to work for a crust of bread. At one time females dressed in
feminine clothes and they were modest in their behaviour. We had roast dinner
on Sunday, fish on Friday, and washday on Monday. Children generally obeyed and
respected their parents and the elderly. These behaviours and social graces are
virtually things of the past. Now behaviours and codes of conduct are learned
from mobile phones.
Today, honour and loyalty are
archaic words that hold no meaning. Honesty and integrity have lost their place
in modern Britain as shown by the failings of certain Members of Parliament, corrupt
police and even members of the judiciary. Loss of respect for the privacy of
individuals, purely for monetary gain, has been rife within the reporting of
certain tabloid newspapers and scandal mongering magazines. The recent
revelation of widespread child abuse and the covering up of this disgrace
reveals the depraved nature of those who have used their positions to carry out
their despicable acts.
Today, a stiff upper lip is foolishness.
Working as a vocation rather than for money is outmoded, and nurses who care
with compassion are denied time and opportunity to do it.
Qualities and values that once defined Britishness
have little account today. I suggest that Christian-based principles were the
foundation stones of Britishness. Our laws and morality came about through the
will and teachings of those who revered and valued them. Sadly many of these
qualities and values have all but gone, and have been replaced by different ones
based on the teachings of false religions, philosophies and the schemes of men.
Britishness is now defined as a
heterogeneous miscellany of disunited people who no longer strive for a higher
cause - a lost people who have lost their sense of identity. Misguided,
fractious Scots are doing their best to withdraw the St Andrew’s cross from the
Union Jack, and to dissemble the Union.
David Cameron speaks of Magna
Carta as being the Holy Grail upon which Britishness was founded and he vows to
herald a new Magna Carta for his Big Society. I wonder what new qualities of
Britishness will be enshrined within its covers.
We need a leader and leaders with
vision who can muster the forces of good in this British Nation with great
potential to work for and be an example to the world - a unified people - a
people not defined by their multicultural and multiethnic characteristics, but by
being a nation of brothers and sisters of all races who cherish one another, a
nation within nations united in a bond of friendship and love committed to one
another and to the planet’s wellbeing; since we were created to look after it.
We all pulse with the same blood and are bound together by it. We are the
offspring of Adam and Eve, creatures of God, created in God’s image.
Genesis 1:26, 27 ‘Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our
image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and
over every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created them.’
Genesis 2:15 ‘Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to
tend and keep it.’
Links
*British values aren’t optional,
they’re vital. That’s why I will promote them in EVERY school: As row rages
over ‘Trojan Horse’ takeover of our classrooms, the Prime Minister delivers
this uncompromising pledge...
The Magna Carta
Magna Carta Translation
Magna Carta
Does being British make us racist?
Not very British #British Values: How David Cameron is
Silencing Minorities
David Cameron: It’s time to stop being ‘bashful’ about our
Britishness
British Values, Multiculturalism and Magna Carta
No wonder Cameron wants to celebrate the Magna Carta - back
then plebs had the same human rights as a parsnip
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Defender of the Faith
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