Essays















53. The English People and Defeat





A man from Rhondda has pleaded not guilty to stirring up racial hatred in a Facebook post. He is a former Royal Marine, with tours of Iraq, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland, and is 45 years old. The judge remanded him into custody. Bail terms will be set at some point, but in the mean time, he is in jail and is likely to receive a prison term. For a Facebook post, as I said, which was posted 31st July this year.

The Facebook post is not available to be seen, but it is likely that James Michael was talking about the illegal immigrants and fake asylum seekers in Britain. For the sake of my own dignity, I am not going to say what I think about these people as individuals. As individuals, these people are souls, and each of them has a story. But as a 100,000 per annum cohort of African and Middle Eastern male youths, they are a dreadful and possibly lethal invasion. Several governments have promised to stop this happening to Britain, but they lied when they promised it. What should be done with liars who hold public office, I have said elsewhere. There should be a law to give long prison terms to public officials who knowingly tell lies so as to manipulate or mislead the people.

The English and Welsh people have had their property stolen all down the ages. Today, our country is being stolen. And, the last vestiges of comfort in this life, namely, our sense of humour and freedom to grumble. That a man can tell a joke as he goes about leading a slave’s life, is the privilege of the Englishman in the twentieth century. But not anymore. I don’t mean this facetiously, either. By the time of the Great War, when the best of the English and Welsh were sent to industrial scale death, their only consolation was being able to say what they wanted, and to laugh about their condition.

I have no hope that the English and Welsh will hold on to that last tiny handful of religious consolation. We are almost certain to lose our country, and our freedom of expression. We already have, as you can see when a man complains about losing his country to violent young immigrants, and is then sent to jail for it. Both country and freedom of mind and expression are finished.

I know we won’t hold on to these things, because we have always lost the battle with the State. The high point of our freedom and happiness was probably around 1450. The Church owned most of the land. In those days, a man belonged to the land, and his land belonged to him. He could not be evicted from it, and he could never be homeless. Nobody interfered with his family, his children. He believed in God, and his landlord was fair, by and large. After all, an English serf was not a slave, because the Church refused to use slaves. There were large numbers of men organised in guilds, arranged by trade, with ranks of free men, who had real political power, as tradesmen. And local life was arranged around parliaments led by a local burgher or baron.

Then, in 1530, the great theft took place. The land belonging to the Church was stolen. The shrines were wrecked. All across the land, despite the protests of the English people, a band of men from London came stealing all of it, and hanging the Christians, sending the monks out, and shattering the religion of the English people. Did they complain or could they resist? They were unable to resist.

The English aristocracy was born from this great theft. The English Dukes, Squires, Earls, Barons of the modern era were all rich men only because they stole from the Church. A famous instance is Gordon Lord Byron, the sixth Lord Byron. He lived at Newstead Abbey. So, where there had been serfs and Chrisian organisations running the English land near Nottingham, after that act of theft in the 1530s, there was a fantastically wealthy aristocrat thief living alone in a great Abbey.

In the following century, the English lost their religion. England’s new aristocracy, wealthier than the King, were able to train, feed, and give good pay to an army, and Cromwell led his army against Charles the First. These new aristocrats were purists, sceptics, and more or less pagan in their indifference to God. Since that time, only eccentrics or very well educated people have been Christian in England. The seventeenth century was the time when the English people’s God was killed, or at least hidden from their view.

English men think that they have a monarch; we consider our monarch to be the head of state, and to have some power or meaning. But the King was taken from us around 1700. There have never been kings in England since then. A monarch is the best governor of a land, because a great despot is very distant. A king cannot be everywhere at all times. It is true, the State today is involved in everything – but a king cannot do that. The English thieving aristocracy, which had grown rich from destroying the Church, now took our king from us. The Hanoverian kings were mere empty puppets, sitting on the throne and doing nothing; they barely spoke English, and suffered from bouts of insanity. England’s government by a great and Christian, benevolent king, has been impossible since then.

And, at the same time, Parliament arose. Parliament was then a club for the rich to talk about how to govern the people. There was no democracy in England then, just as there is not democracy now. Parliament was dominated by the Whigs, or the liberal aristocratic party. That is why, when the Americans wrote their Constitution and broke free, and the French had their democratic revolution, our Parliament fought the Americans and the French: because England was ruled by a few thieving Dukes, and not by a free people.

At the same time, the English common land was stolen from us. The Enclosure Acts ensured that everyone was moved into the cities, to starve, or to work for a bit of money. Whereas once the Englishman, no matter how poor or stupid, had owned his land, and had no fear of being homeless, now he had to pay rent in order to survive, or else face the Workhouse. He was paying rent, needless to say, to Parliament and the rich who run it. By Act of Parliament, all the commonly held land which had belonged freely to every English man, was now allocated to some particular aristocratic land owner, and the people were forced off it. In the times when a king was ruling, such greed and theft by the rich could not happen, because a king could not be bought, and was not interested in wealth. But now the rich were in charge. They went off around the world to get more wealth, of course, which they found in India.

But after the Englishman has been shoved unwillingly, defeated, without a Church, and without God’s protection, without a religion, or a king, or even any right to his own land, into the infernal city, then the factories and the mines are opened for him to work in, where in order to survive, the Englishman must work or die. The rise of the purely rich capitalist, and the quarrel between the old and the new aristocracy in Parliament. But at least the English of those days, two hundred years ago, were patriots and men were free to think what they wanted.

By the time of the Great War, the First World War, these English and Welsh men were having their children taken from them by Parliament, to be educated. There was compulsory pension insurance, and other signs of the State and Parliament getting involved in the small details of a man’s life. He could not chose what his children learned, and he could not spend his own money, without sums of it being taken from him. And when war broke out, he was not free to chose to join or not. But, as I have said already, at least, after all, the English had their humour and their freedom to complain as they led these miserably servile lives, in the trenches or in the factories and mines.

In our most recent defeat, we find ourselves living among foreigners, as unwilling hosts to invaders; we have to share our property with foreigners from thousands of miles away. Nobody knows why they come; or why they have a religion while we have none; or why the vast taxes which are collected – now at more than half of all wealth is spent by Parliament alone – are given freely to these foreigners. Parliament is not accountable for them, and can give no explanation. The English make up barely 70% of their own country now, and that percentage is falling in favour of strangers.

In addition, any grumbling or joking about this major problem and defeat of the Englishman, is punished by imprisonment. But his daily life is policed by the state, down to fine details of how he can speak, what words he can or cannot use, and how he must use them. This interference and policing takes place at work, during recreation, from the newspapers and the TV. And, as in previous encounters with the State and the class of plutocratic thieving rich, the Englishman has already lost.

Before the Reformation, government was by a monarch, who had to tolerate local barons; these local men could be called to a Parliament, where they were consulted about contributing taxes for their king's wars. The King did not need much from them beyond that. Half of the local barons were dedicated Christian ecclesiastics who were always reliably trying to imitate Jesus.

After the Reformation, the theiving aristocracy ruled for three hundred years as land owners, as ‘English gentlemen’. They are pagan, or sceptical as a rule, but also patriotic. After them, for maybe two hundred years, we have had the capitalists, broadly patriotic, and only interested in money for its own sake. They tended with years to replace or subsume the old aristocracy.

So what is it that is running Britain now? It is a global bureaucrat; a manager for the global economy. The new ruling class of Britain are not well born, or educated, or rich. They are managers of an international world. As we have seen, it is an illusion that we have a king; or that we have a Church; or a religious life; or that we own our land, that we have a nation; it is just as much an illusion, a fragile reality, that we have family. Family is largely a thing of the past. The new global class of ruler has brought in divorce, abortion, compulsory schooling with centrally defined curriculum; social services overwatch; welfare for single mothers, and suspicion or rivalry toward the male parent; allied with low birth or fertility rates.

If the British are to survive this global takeover of the country, the Englishman would need to struggle against the ruling class, just as the Irish resisted for ten centuries. The Irish are part of the British isles. But they were so badly treated by the English, that they refused to consent or join the union. But the Irish today offer no model of resistance, since they face the same total defeat and betrayal as the English do.

Church, land, God, family, king – all these were lost centuries ago, and the country and freedom were lost in this decade, or are being crushed as we speak. I do tend to see the international attitude at work with all of the recent disasters, such as Locking Down, expansion of NATO, war with Russia, demilitarisation; decrease in national resiliance in energy and manufacturing; economic crises of various types, deriving from a pure capitalist and money-based culture; the sale of all our assets to international finance or asset management firms. Those firms which control roughly 40% of the global economy.

Church, land, God, family, king, country, freedom.

How was it that over the ages, the English people lost all of these things? They could never organise, or when they did, they were led by trusting fools who were easily betrayed. I have no answer to the question of what can be done. But I do think it is useful to know what is going on. Namely, we are losing the last traces of England and Wales, and that it seems to be inevitable.







Jason Powell, 2024.