Make Britain Great Britain Again

I am not saying we need to rebuild the Empire. I do not think we have the ability anymore, never mind the will. But we could at least attempt to become a self-respecting nation once again.

It used to be the case that the sun never set on the British Empire. At the end of the Great War, this was literally the case, as we acquired Germany’s African colonies in the Treaty of Versailles. That was Britain just past her peak.

I would argue that the Edwardian period, the early twentieth century, was the peak of the British Empire. Queen Victoria left behind a legacy no king or queen of the United Kingdom will ever be able to match. King Edward VII’s role was to conservative an Empire; he and King George V – our late Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather – were good kings in the sense that they preserved the traditions handed down to them. Unfortunately, during the reigns of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, we saw the height of feminism, World War II, liberalism and the sexual revolution. All of which contributed to the downfall of the greatest Empire since the fall of Rome.

The British Empire began under Queen Elizabeth I and ended under Queen Elizabeth II. Four hundred years of spreading the rule of law, Christian values, civil society and democracy around the world. The self-hating hard-Left will say we spread misery, and don’t get me wrong, there were a few bad eggs. But on the whole, we spread love and prosperity. Churches, schools, hospitals, charities, railways, roads, and other important infrastructure were all developed throughout the colonies. A lot of countries sought independence after WWII, but it is interesting to see them now regretting that decision.

The British Empire ended slavery on a global scale. We led the fight against fascism. We developed the idea of parliamentary democracy and the welfare state. There are many, many good things to have come from the Empire. Inventions, technology, the industrial revolution.

When people talk of colonisation, that is what we should remind them of. People used to be proud to be subjects of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India.

England was at the heart of the British Empire. It was the Empire of the English overseas territories and dominions, and there was never any doubt about that. This is why I am often surprised when I hear people who are rightly proud to be English show resentment at the term British. England conquered the world under the banner of the British Empire.

People often dismiss Great Britain as just a landmass, forgetting that in the Act of Union 1707, both English and Scottish parliaments agreed to create a united kingdom called Great Britain. The two kingdoms have had an off-and-on history until that point, but since then, we have been one. The English did not stop being English, nor did the Scots stop being Scottish; for that matter, neither did the Welsh stop being Welsh. But together, along with the Irish, before the recent troubles, we ruled the waves.

England subsumed the Scottish Parliament into the Parliament of Great Britain. The English are not oppressed. We do not need a new parliament; we have a parliament. We just need better Englishmen to stand for parliament. More patriots, fewer career politicians.

So, it is very possible to maintain one’s ethnicity whilst supporting one’s nation. I should specify for the intellectually challenged, aka the far-Right, ethnicity is not entirely determined by skin colour. An ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, including a common set of ancestry, traditions, language, history, society, and religion, whilst also maintaining one’s nationality. It is possible to be English by ancestry, tradition, language, history, and religion (Anglican, btw) whilst also being British – a citizen of Great Britain. The two are neither mutually exclusive nor contradictory.

In 1997, our Government made a grave mistake in handing Hong Kong over to China. We did not need hindsight to tell us how horrendous that would be for a formerly free Hong Kong. What a disaster that has turned out to be for both British and Chinese Hong Kongers. But it also marked the symbolic end of the British Empire.

As the modern Chinese Empire grows, gaining new territories across the African continent and the Caribbean all the time, and with Russia and Iran both proving to be a constant threat to the West, it is a great shame to see how far Britain has fallen as its former builder and defender.

I am not proposing we should become neo-cons, but merely lamenting the fact we can no longer be taken seriously as a force to be reckoned with.

The United Kingdom is no longer a serious country. We have no defence plan, a tiny defence budget, and what military we do have left is effeminate and liberal. The physical criteria for our soldiers continues to get watered down in the name of diversity, inclusion and equity, and our leaders push strongmen out in favour of woke wets. As a result, no one is interested in signing up.

In what ministers keep referring to as a ‘pre-war world’, surely, we should stop relying on the United States to be our big brother in the playground to ward off bullies and get down to the gym ourselves. It is time we rebuilt that military might that helped shape the world. Restore the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and the British Army to a state of preparedness.

Let us elect politicians who are willing to defend our borders and increase our military might.

I am not saying we need to rebuild the Empire. I do not think we have the ability anymore, never mind the will. But we could at least attempt to become a self-respecting nation once again. Can we at least try that?

Make Britain Great Again.