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Don’t let the elf and safety fanatics emasculate cricket

Robert Henderson

There is a very real danger of a knee-jerk health and safety reaction to the tragic death of the Australian batsman Phil Hughes emasculating cricket. Hughes was hit on the back of the neck trying to hook when playing for South Australia against New South Wales. He collapsed unconscious on the field and died two days later after suffering a bleed into the brain caused by the blow compressing an artery feeding the brain.

Hughes was incredibly unlucky because death resulting from being hit by a cricket ball is very rare indeed. The last cricketer to die after being hit whilst playing first class cricket in England was George Summers in 1870, and he probably died unnecessarily because he refused to follow medical advice to rest after the blow. (Summers died four days after being hit on the head).

In the 151 years since overarm bowling was legitimised in 1863 only one death in first class cricket in England occurred. For around 120 years of that time helmets were not in use – Helmets came into general use around 1980. That tells its own story: the risk of death from being hit by a cricket ball when batting is vanishingly small.

Before helmets arrived good batsmen were adept at getting out of the way or proficient at hooking and pulling the fast short ball. In addition quick bowlers generally did not bounce tailenders. The consequence was very few batsmen were hit on the head.

I began watching first class cricket in the late 1950s and between then and the wholesale use of helmets from around 1980 I watched a great deal of first class cricket and can only remember two players being hit on the head in a quarter of a century’s watching. The first occasion involved Don Bennett of all people hitting Jim Parks jnr with a ball which lifted unexpectedly from just short of a length and caught him flush on the jaw knocking him out. He went flat on his back but was up and batting again within ten minutes . The second was more notable: Dennis Amiss was hit on the head by Michael Holding when playing for the MCC against the 1976 West Indies tourists. I was more or less in line with the pitch when he was hit and I can vouch for the fact that it was entirely Amiss’ fault because he walked into the ball which would have sailed harmlessly past or over the offstump if he had stayed still. Nonetheless, it was Holding hitting Amiss (who had been traumatised by Lillee and Thomson in the previous winter’s Ashes series) that led to the adoption of the helmet. Amiss introduced a rudimentary form to Test cricket at the Oval in 1976 when he scored 203 wearing something which resembled a motorcycle helmet.

Helmets make batsmen reckless because they think themselves safe from being seriously injured this recklessness is also fed by other new or improved protective equipment such as bumper bras, arm guards and huge thigh pads covering both thighs. I also suspect that even the lightest modern helmets constrain a batsman’s movement and peripheral sight while the extensive modern padding and the heavy weight modern bat significantly restricts mobility. The upshot is every Tom, Dick and Harry plays the hook and the pull because of misplaced confidence generated by the helmets and other protective equipment. Players, including top order batsmen, are now frequently hit on the head. The tragic death of Phil Hughes was an accident just waiting to happen.

If Hughes had grown up without helmets, arm guards, bumper bras and thigh pads on both legs , he would have learnt to both get out of the way of the short stuff and either become proficient hooker like Norman O’Neill or Colin Cowdrey or cut out the shot as did, for example, John Edrich and Bobby Simpson. In all probability he would be alive now.

The problem with most first class batsmen today is they have poor techniques and increasingly lack any patience. This makes them very vulnerable to getting hit. The plain truth about Phil Hughes is that he was not competent against the bouncer. This had been shown clearly in several Ashes series when he was frequently bounced out. If people want to make cricket safer in future they should first begin to examine faulty techniques.

Take a single technical issue: the stance. It is rare these days to see a batsman under the age of 25 who does not adopt the bat waving baseball stance. That must unbalance the player and commit them to spending precious milliseconds adjusting their position to play the ball.

Then there is the bat up lunge forward stance adopted by amongst others Moeen Ali. It is no mystery that he cannot play the short ball comfortably. He puts most of his weight on the front foot when he adopts his stance and cannot get back quickly enough to deal with the fast short ball.

The irony of batsmen being hit these days is that the modern batsman have life so much easier than it was for those who played without decent protective equipment, against plenty of fast bowling, on uncovered pitches with a wide variety of quality spin bowlers to face. Today first class cricket is played on pitches giving little help to the bowlers , with few quality spinners and scarcely a fast bowler worthy of the name in world cricket.

Tragic as Phil Hughes’ death was the facts say there is no need to panic. The risk of death or permanent serious disablement is minute in the case of cricket. Imposing rules such as no bouncers or developing helmets and other equipment so stiflingly protective that the physical fear factor is removed from the equation would emasculate it. Sport needs an element of danger in it to have meaning. Let us keep it in the game of cricket.

British Future report says 25% of British adults want all immigrants repatriated

Robert Henderson

The think-tank British Future has recently published the report How to talk about immigration based on research conducted by ICM, Ipsos MORI and YouGov. The report purports to provide a blueprint for both the pros and antis in the immigration debate to manage the subject most effectively in public discussion. This is not something which they achieve because they have bought into the internationalist agenda, viz: “Some three or four generations on from Windrush, it is now a settled and irreversible fact that we are a multi-ethnic society. Managing immigration effectively and fairly in the public interest should and does matter to Britons from different ethnic backgrounds. We should be suspicious of approaches that sharply polarise British citizens along racial lines, in whatever direction”.

Nonetheless the research does have much of interest. One finding is truly startling. Faced with the question “The government should insist that all immigrants should return to the countries they came from, whether they’re here legally or illegally” the result was Agree 25%, disagree 52% and neither 23%. (P17 of the report). In addition, many of those who said no to forced repatriation were also firm supporters of strong border controls and restrictive immigration policies.

The fact that 25% of the population have overcome their fear of falling foul of the pc police and say that they do not merely want immigration stopped but sent into reverse is stunning. Moreover, because political correctness has taken such an intimidating place in British society it is reasonable to assume that a substantial number of those who said they disagreed did so simply out of fear of being accused of racism.

The obverse of the immigration coin was shown by the question “In an increasingly borderless world, we should welcome anyone who wants to come to Britain and not deter them with border controls” (P16 of the report). The results were 14% agree, 67% disagree and 19% don’t know.

That only 14% support such a policy compared to the 25% who wished for forced repatriation is striking in itself, but it is even better for the opponents of immigration than it looks for two reasons. First, the 14% of those who agreed with the question will be the honest figure because to say that you want open borders carries with it no penalties from the pc police and will gain the person brownie points amongst the politically correct elite and their axillaries. Second, as already mentioned, the 25% of those wanting forced repatriation of all immigrants will understate the true position because a significant proportion of those questioned with be lying out of fear.

The report also shows that older voters are more likely to be those who are most strongly opposed to immigration (P11 of the report). That is important because older voters are the most likely to vote.

Taking all that into account it is reasonable to assume that a referendum with the question “Do you wish to end mass immigration?” would result in a solid probably overwhelming YES vote.

These facts should persuade politicians that they would risk nothing if they move much further to restrict immigration than they have already done and in so doing would gain considerable extra electoral support.

This may well happen. Public rhetoric about immigration is rapidly hardening There will come a tipping point where the rhetoric has departed so far from the politically correct position that serious action to restrict immigration will occur because the stretch between rhetoric and action will become too great to sustain in a society where governments are elected.

A party political bidding process on the subject of immigration is already taking place and there will come a point where serious action has to follow or there will be a very real chance that either one or more of the mainstream parties will become irrelevant and be superseded, or members of the mainstream parties will wrest control of these parties from their pc indoctrinated leadership and adopt a policy on immigration closer to what the public wants.

The other important effect of greater political honesty in political utterances about immigration is that it makes it much easier for people generally to speak openly about their feelings on the subject and to lobby for radical action. In turn this will feed the desire of politicians to gain electoral credibility by being ever former in their immigration policies. Indeed, the only reason that the present immigration has been allowed to develop is because the subject has been effectively wiped off the public debate agenda since the1970s.

The Archers: an everyday story of simple culling the Archers from the programme folk

Robert Henderson

The Archers is currently the subject of various story-lines which bid fair to leave the programme a largely Archer-free zone.

The pivotal Archer family – David and Ruth Archer – are in the process of selling Brookfield with the intent of buying a farm hundreds of miles away in the North East of England because planning permission has been given to build a road on Brookfield land.

Jill Archer is planning to move north with David and Ruth.

Pip Archer has been away from the programme for a suspiciously long time working for other farmers or finishing her agricultural studies.

Tony Archer lies critical injured in hospital after being tossed and gored by his prize bull and even if he survives is likely to be paraplegic.

Tom Archer did a runner on his wedding day and is now in Canada and seemingly out of contact with his family.

Helen Archer is living with Rob Titchener, a very obvious psychopath, and is ripe for being slaughtered in a psychotic rage, by either Titchener or his unbalanced estranged wife Jess.

Elizabeth Pargetter, is in the messy aftermath of an affair with Neil Carter , who will almost certainly sue her for wrongful dismissal after she sacked him as her manager of her events company when the affair went wrong. This will in all probability result in massive damages for Carter which will undermine the viability of the country estate (Lower Loxley) on which the events business depends.

Debbie Aldridge has been a long-time exile in Eastern Europe.

Kate Madikane lives in South Africa with her black husband.

Peggy Woolley has just turned ninety and is obviously ripe for shuffling off this mortal coil.

This looks suspiciously like a systematic culling of the Archer family to allow the programme to be moulded to a shape more agreeable to the crazed politically correct minds of those who control the show. They doubtless think it is, as they would put it, “ a scandal in this day and age” to only have a minority of black, Asian and gay characters in the cast and desperately want to bring in far more, but find it very difficult to do so when there are so many white heterosexual characters in the soap opera.

Once the Archers have been reduced to no more than a token presence, what will the programme be like? Imagine Brookfield sold to Mr Singh and the village shop run by Mrs Patel to join the Hindu wife of the vicar who is also the local solicitor and Amy the “dual heritage” daughter of the vicar by his deceased Jamaican first wife, with Amy’s Jamaican grandmother taking the place in the storyline of Jill Archer. The ultimate dream of the programme controllers will probably be to see Ambridge with a minority of white characters to, as they would put it, “ make Ambridge look like modern England” .

The gay quotient will also be inflated. Already there is Charlie Thomas hovering over Adam Macey with the threat of a bust up with Macey’s “husband”, the chef at Grey Gables with the hilarious Ian Paisley voice. The programme makers will surely correct one of their glaring pc omissions to date and introduce a lesbian relationship, although they have been strangely coy to date about girl-on-girl action.

The cull of established characters may well go beyond the Archer family because the older characters generally are not to the taste of the politically correct. Apart from being all too white and heterosexual, they have be allowed to express, within limits, non-pc views with the intention that such views can be portrayed as anachronistic and soon to die out . Useful as that was at one time, the politically correct mind now sees no need for such “black hat” characters because it sees the process of reforming British attitudes as having moved to a point where no one can safely express non-pc views and they feel that characters doing so at best will seem at odds with the reality of England today.

What listeners can be certain of is that the Ambridge of the future will be very difficult to recognise as the classic English farming village it was intended to be.

The BBC and “coloured players“

Robert Henderson

Twice in the past few days two interviewees from the football world on Radio 5 have used the word coloured in connection with black players when discussing the possible introduction of the Rooney Rule into English football. The so-called rule comes from America and in the English context makes compulsory the interviewing of at least one black candidate where a managerial or head coach position in a professional football team is to be filled.

The first occasion was by the Wigan FC owner Dave Wheelan (3 Oct), who repeatedly referred to “coloured players” . Nothing was said during the interview, but immediately it was over the presenter in best politically correct fashion said in the peculiarly noxious tones of a white liberal affecting outrage that they were apologising for language in the interview “which listeners may have found offensive”. Interestingly, the BBC written item which referred to Whelan’s appearance discussing the Rooney Rule subject did not mention that he had used the phrase “black footballers”.

On the Stephen Nolan programme (4 Oct) the very experienced English football manager Dave Bassett and the black basketball player John Amaechi engaged in an extended row over the same phrase coloured footballers, plus variations on it (go into to the recording at 35 minutes) . Amaechi jumped in after the first two uses of “coloured players” with ”This is 2014 and I’m listening to someone talk about using coloured players. For the love of God are you kidding me?”.

Judged by his frequent British media appearances Amaechi is a naturally petulant and childishly abusive personality. He proceeded to try to patronise Bassett, a working-class man without much education, by referring to his (Amaechi’s) academic qualification in psychology and saying with heavy sarcasm that he might just have the edge over Bassett when it came to judging human behaviour. This merely made Amaechi look like an unpleasant boor at best and a deeply insecure man at worst. Amaechi added to this bad impression by constantly insulting Bassett by objecting to any attempt by Bassett to get a word in edgeways by shrieking something along the lines of don’t interrupt me, it’s rude.

The presenter Nolan made precious little attempt to restrain Amaechi’s rudeness or give Bassett a fair chance to speak. In addition, he backed up up Amaechi by several times saying to Bassett that the word coloured in this context was “inappropriate” . So much for BBC staff not expressing opinions.

Greatly to his credit Bassett stuck to his guns and refused to apologise , during his time on air or, according to Nolan, afterwards – Nolan said that Bassett had stood by his use of the phrase after he left the airwaves. Whilst on air he made the very good point that managers and coaches in English professional football frequently did not represent the percentage of the players involved from various groups such as the Northern Irish or Welsh. He also opposed the introduction of the Rooney Rule.

The attempt to stop the use of coloured is a prime example of how racial, ethnic and other minorities such as gays try to exert power generally over society . This is both sinister – control of language is the tool of dictators – and unreasonable, because while a group may call themselves whatever they choose , they have no moral right to impose their chosen term upon those outside of the group. The moral abuse caused by imposition becomes especially sharp where there is a different word used by the population in which they live which is not abusive. That is the case with coloured. The term was for more than a century the polite term for blacks. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People was founded in 1909 in the USA and continues with the title today. There is little serious complaint about the use of coloured in the title of that organisation, while the mixed race (white/black mixture) population of South Africa is still called coloured. Ironically, the term black occupied the same position as coloured does now fifty years ago.

On the Rooney Rule question, it would be just another granting of privilege to a racial minority. Nor is it clear who would count as black in these circumstances. How black would you have to be? One half black, quarter black , one eighth black? What of someone with one parent who has black ancestry who looks white? (genetics can produce some unexpected results). Would every racial and ethnic minority be allowed climb on the bandwagon?

On a purely practical level where would the large number of black and Asian qualified managers and senior coaches required to meet the interviewee quota come from? Would it be a very small group who went from interview to interview? After all, if there are only two black managers in the top 92 English league clubs , who exactly could be meaningfully called for interview? By definition these would all be inexperienced so how on earth could many if any be considered for clubs in the tope toe English divisions, the Premier League and the Championship? Even at the level of formal coaching qualifications there would be a problem because few black or Asian footballers are taking their advanced coaching badges.

The group which is scandalously under represented in football both as players and managers is of course the English, who have been relentlessly squeezed out since the formation of the Premier League in 1992 and foreign owners, managers and players flooded in as English League football became ever more lucrative and prestigious. The result is that the English have become second-class citizens in their own professional football. That is the inequality which needs addressing.

NB If you want to catch the Nolan programme recording , do so quickly because it will only be available on IPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04jj29l fro another 4 days.

Book Review – Sea Changes

Derek Turner

Washington Summit Publishers

ISBN 978-1-59368-002-2

By Robert Henderson

The time is somewhere around the present: the place is England. Thirty seven bodies wash-up on the North-East coast of England. Some have gunshot wounds. All are would-be illegal immigrants. There is one survivor from the group: Ibrahim, an Iraqi. This is the cue for the politically correct mob to go into action, with everything from the-borders- are-racist campaigners to those who pounce on the evidence of gunshot wounds to suggest that some of the illegal immigrants were murdered by the locals.

The novel has two strands. One is of the survivor Ibrahim. He has had the misfortune to spend all his life in uncertain circumstances, living under the Iraq of Saddam Hussein, both before and after the first Gulf War, then through the perpetual chaos following the defeat of Saddam. We follow him on his tortuous journey from Basra to England, during which we gradually learn more and more of his story, a history which includes working as an enforcer for a notorious Basra gangster. He moves from Basra in Iraq to Syria, across Turkey, then by boat to Greece where he is interred in a centre of asylum seekers before escaping and travelling across Europe before paying to be smuggled across the North Sea to England.

Once in England he finds being an illegal immigrant is not all milk and honey. This is partly his own fault because he fabricates a story which falsely paints him as a someone who resisted Saddam and suffered for it, a lie which is discovered and takes the gloss off him as a weapon for the politically correct to wield, but it is also the disillusionment of finding the promised land does not do what it says on the tin. The result is Ibrahim’s withdrawal into the cultural cocoon created by other Iraqis in Britain.

Surrounding Ibrahim’s tale is the English response to the bodies on an English beach. In the politically correct world that is modern England the would-be illegal immigrants are taken up as not the invaders they are, but people who at best have been murdered by the immigration policies of the government which have forced them to take this route to enter England and at worst to believe that those who died of gun wounds have been slaughtered by the unreconstructed English who inhabit non-Metropolitan England.

The peecee fox is started running by a farmer local to the area where the bodies wash up. A farmer in late middle age by the name of Dan Gowt living in the fictional village of Crisby. He is interviewed on television and expresses views which would have passed without remark when he was young, but are now considered not merely insensitive but positively racist, remarks such as. “The fact is they shouldn’t have been trying to get intro England in the first place. It’s a crime that is. It’s just common sense … “

His words make Gowt a media hate figure. He tries to remove the label of racist by talking to the media, writing a letter to a newspaper explaining his position, seeking a lawyer to sue on his behalf for the libels he has suffered. All to no avail. His explanations to reporters are twisted out of recognition, his letter is not published and his attempt to find a lawyer to act for him results in a refusal on the grounds that acting for him would taint the firm.

Gowt finds many of the people he knows shun him, his wife and daughter are treated as guilty by association and his windows are smashed by “antiracist” protestors, whom he goes outside to tackle with a shotgun but who drive away before he can come upon them. After the last event he calls the police who not only show little interest in investigating the crime, but tell him that he has brought this on himself and his family by his racist words. The police go as far as to say threateningly that he is lucky he has not to have been investigated for his racist words and hinting that he may still be. They are also pleased to suggest that his licence for his shotgun may be revoked because he has intended to threaten people with it.

Gowt being labelled a racist affects his wife Hatty and his daughter Clarrie. His wife is simply bewildered; his daughter patronisingly tolerant as she condemns what her father has said whilst blaming his ideas about immigrants on his age, what Marxists would describe as “false consciousness”

The really terrible thing about all this is the fact that Gowt has not been racist in any meaningful way. All he has done is express a perfectly natural resistance to foreigners settling his country in large numbers and effectively colonising parts of it.

Turner parades a large cast of characters before the reader. This can often lead to confusion and the under development of characters. To his credit the author keeps control of them by repeatedly providing snapshots of their intervention in the affair. We may not get to know them intimately , but we do not need to because it is their symbolic roles in the tragedy that is modern England which is important.

There are the politicians varying from fearful pc driven sheep to true believers in the One Worldism creed, the journalists who use their newspapers and broadcasters to carry forward the pc received wisdom and last but not least the multifarious interest groups and individuals who represent immigrant interests: the Black Muslim Mecca Morrow , Wayne Smith of the Christian Democrat Reachout , Atrocities against Civilians Scum, the Rural Racism Task Force ,Ben Klein founder of National Anti-Fascist Foundation NAFF, Dylan Ekinutu-Jones of the Forum for Racial and Ethnic Equality (F.R.E.E) , Carole Hassan from the Muslim Alliance and the Guatamalean Action Group. Readers will be able to readily spot their counterparts in real life.

The political parties are also thinly disguised version of those that exist: the Christian Democrats, the Workers Party and the Fair Play Alliance. All are shown not merely as dishonest but either fanatical or cowardly. There is also a party, the National Union, which plays the indispensable role for the politically correct, a Far Right bogeyman. The Party has a single MP who is ostentatiously ostracised by all the other MPs who eventually vote to expel him from the Commons because of his non-pc views.

There are more substantial characters such as Albert Norman of the Sentinel . Norman is a licensed jester , a man of 70 allowed to be non-pc in a pc world largely because he is a relic of an earlier less tightly controlled era. He also serves a useful purpose for the liberal left establishment because they can point to him and say there, all voices are being heard. Norman’s tragedy is that he is right but ultimately irrelevant because the people who listen to him and agree are the powerless, the ordinary people of England.

Norman is the one character who sniffs out the truth about Ibrahim, as well as resolutely refusing to climb on the English-locals-must-have-killed-immigrants bandwagon . His columns are wildly popular but the his youngish editor Doug is getting twitchy about their political incorrectness . He asks Norman to tone down his columns because he wishes to move the Sentinel to a new part of the press marketplace. Norman resists but eventually gives in and re-writes a piece about Ibrahim. Norman’s readers feel cheated by his new blandness and Norman soon realises that his day is done and retires.

Opposed to Norman on the media front is John Leyden of The Examiner, a columnist who takes a religiously pc on everything whilst being , as so often with card carrying liberals, monstrously selfish and bigoted in the way they live their lives. Leyden thinks no further than the next self-promoting headline, regardless of the harm he inflicts on others. Just think of the more obnoxious type of Guardian journalist and you will get the picture.

Overall Turner paints a picture of an England which has been defeated, at least for the moment. The pc propaganda has not been completely successful, so that part of the population of England has remained in the eyes of the politically correct regrettably backward. But even that part of which has not been fully conditioned understands the danger of being identified as a racist and either keeps mum, clumsily try to fit their true feelings within the envelope of political correctness, or engage in grovelling apologies when the racist hounds start to run after they are judged to have committed the pc sin of not being thoroughly brainwashed into the multicultural way of thinking. The claustrophobia created by what political correctness has become, namely, a totalitarian ideology in both form and practice is nicely caught .

There is a degree of exaggeration for the sake of narrative sharpness in the depiction of the limp calamity of the people of England in thrall to a vicious and recklessly ideological elite, but sadly the book is an all too plausible representation of what England is now. This is a country in which people are imprisoned for expressing their anger at mass immigration, where a single non-PC remark can result in the loss of a job, where the mainstream media go into witchfinder-general mode at the slightest opportunity offered by someone who does not religiously observe the pc rubric of equality.

Those who have read Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints will notice some generally similarities of structure as well as intent in Sea Changes. There is no harm in that. Indeed I found Sea Changes a rather better vehicle for warning about the dangers of mass immigration, because it is far less hysterical and blessedly bereft of the intellectual and cultural pretensions of Raspail’s book.

Sea Changes might almost be treated as a documentary of what has gone sadly wrong with English society. Yes, that is what it is, a record of what English society has become now,, or at least of that aspect which touches on mass immigration and its consequences . Whatever the future brings it will stand as a primer on a particular and decidedly peculiar period of English life. Worth reading on its own virtue as a novel and doubly worth reading for its important message.

The persecution of Emma West continues

Robert Henderson

Emma West was arrested in November 2011 after she protested about immigration whilst travelling on a bus. Her protest was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube as well as being copied by many national media outlets. The video was viewed millions of times.

Following the upload of the video Emma was arrested, held in the UK’s highest security prison for women , released and then subjected to a year and a half’s intimidation by the state as the powers-that-be desperately tried to get her to plead guilty to charges relating to racially motivated serious crimes (racially aggravated intentional harassment and racially aggravated assault) which would have almost certainly sent her to prison. Eventually, worn down by the stress she pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.

I say Emma’s outburst was a protest against immigration because that is precisely what it is. Here are some of her comments:

She says: “What’s this country coming too?

“A load of black people and and load of f***ing Polish.”

One commuter challenges West, who rounds on him telling him: “You aren’t English”, to which he replies “No, I’m not”

She then scans the tram, pointing out people one-by-one, saying: “You ain’t English, you ain’t English, None of you are f***ing English.

“Get back to your own f***ing countries.”

“Britain is nothing now, Britain is f***k all.

“My Britain is f**k all now.”

You can argue that is foulmouthed, but you cannot argue it is anything but a protest against immigration. In fact, it is the most grass-root form of political protest there is, namely, directly engaging with the effects of policy.

Emma lives in a country which has been made unrecognisable by the permitting of mass immigration for over sixty years. Neither Emma nor any other native English man or woman (or Briton come to that) has had any say in this invasion of the country. This most fundamental act of treason has been committed by generations of British politicians who to date have got away with their crime. But to continue to get away with the crime the guilty men and women need to suppress public protest against what they have done. That is why the authorities were so desperate to get to plead guilty. She was a refusnik and they could not let that pass. That she resorted to foul language in her frustration is entirely understandable.

But those with power were not satisfied simply with her criminal conviction. Emma has now had her livelihood as a dental nurse taken away by the General Medical Council with this preternaturally smug judgement:

A [Dental Council] spokeswoman said: “Her conduct was truly appalling.

“It clearly has the capacity to bring the profession into disrepute and to undermine public confidence in its standards.

“Furthermore, her violent and abusive conduct would demonstrate a real risk to the safety of patients.

“In relation to her racially aggravated offence, this was committed in a public setting and received further public exposure, as a person had uploaded the video clip to the internet which has been viewed extensively.”

So there you have it, political correctness can not only send you into the clutches of the law but take your means of living away.

For the full story of Emma West’ persecution see

The oppression of Emma West : the politically correct end game plays out

Posted on July 2, 2013by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson In November 2011 Emma West was arrested and subsequently charged for a racially aggravated public order offence (http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/emma-west-immigration-and-the-liberal-totalitarian-state/). The charges concerned her public denunciation of the effects of mass immigration whilst on a tram in Croydon, a suburb … Continue reading →

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Emma West and the State – The State has its way (sort of)

Posted on June 5, 2013by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Emma West has finally been worn down. Eighteen months after she was charged with racially aggravated intentional harassment and racially aggravated assault , she has agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of racially aggravated harassment, alarm … Continue reading →

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Emma West’s trial scheduled for the sixth time

Posted on April 10, 2013by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Emma West was due to stand trial at Croydon Crown Court for two racially aggravated public order offences arising from her complaint about mass immigration and its effects made on a Croydon tram in November 2011 . The … Continue reading →

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Emma West trial scheduled for the fifth time

Posted on March 13, 2013by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson A fifth, yes that’s fifth, date for the start of Emma West’s trial on criminal charges arising from her complaint about mass immigration and its effects made on a Croydon tram in November 2011 has been set for … Continue reading →

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What has happened to Emma West?

Posted on January 8, 2013by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson It is now 14 months since Emma West was charged with racially aggravated public order offences after she got into an argument on a tram which led her to make loud complaint about the effects of mass immigration. … Continue reading →

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Emma West trial delayed for the third time

Posted on September 8, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The trial of Emma West on racially aggravated public order offences has been delayed for the third time ( http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Emma-West-trial-adjourned-time/story-16820636-detail/story.html ). No further date has been set. The trial was originally scheduled for June, then July and finally September … Continue reading →

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Emma West has her trial delayed yet again

Posted on July 27, 2012by Robert Henderson

The trial of Emma West on two racially aggravated public order offences has been put back to 5 September to allow further medical reports (http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Trial-alleged-YouTube-tram-racist-Emma-West-moved/story-16543355-detail/story.html). Her trial was meant to take place on 17th July but a request for … Continue reading →

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Courage is the best defence against charges of racism

Posted on June 12, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The trial of Emma West on two racially aggravated public order charges which was scheduled for 11 June has been postponed until 16 July to enable further psychiatric reports to be prepared. (http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Emma-West-race-rant-trial-moved-July/story-16346869-detail/story.html). As Miss West was charged … Continue reading →

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Emma West, immigration and the Liberal totalitarian state part 3

Posted on January 4, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Emma West appeared at Croydon magistrates court on 3rd January. She will stand trial on two racially aggravated public order offences, one with intent to cause fear. She will next appear in court – Croydon Crown Court – … Continue reading →

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Emma West, immigration and the Liberal totalitarian state part 2

Posted on December 7, 2011by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Emma West has been remanded in custody until 3rd of January when she will appear at Croydon Crown Court (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tram-race-rant-woman-court-052333359.html). By 3rd January she will in, effect , have served a custodial sentence of 37 days, [RH She was … Continue reading →

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Emma West, immigration and the Liberal totalitarian state

Posted on December 1, 2011by Robert Henderson

Emma West of New Addington, London has been arrested and placed in “protective custody” following the publication on YouTube of a two minute 25 second recording labelled by the YouTube poster as “Racist British Woman on the Tram goes CRAZY …Continue reading →

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All you could ever want to know about Scottish independence

Note: These are all the Independence blog posts to date in one place for easy access. Robert Henderson

The Scottish independence referendum – The second STV debate 2nd Sept 2014

Posted on September 8, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The full debate can be found at http://player.stv.tv/programmes/yes-or-no/ Better Together panel Douglas Alexander Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary and MP Kezia Dugdale Scottish Labour Shadow Party Education spokesman and MSP Ruth Davidson Leader of the Scottish Conservatives and MSP … Continue reading →

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Salmond vs Darling round 2 – The shameless chancer versus the trembling incompetent

Posted on August 27, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The second Darling vs Salmond debate on 25 August was even more depressing than the first. It might have been thought that having gone through one debate the palpable nervousness both showed the first time round would have … Continue reading →

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Alex Salmond is a chancer in the mould of Paterson and Law

Posted on August 12, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson William Paterson was the main mover of the Darien disaster which bankrupted Scotland in the 1690s through a mixture of ignorance, general incompetence and embezzlement; John Law was the Scot who ruined the currency and economy of Louis … Continue reading →

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Federal Trust meeting: Devolution in England: A New Approach – Balkanising England By Stealth

Posted on June 13, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Speakers Andrew Blick (Academic from Kings College, London, Associate Researcher at the Federal Trust and Management Board member of Unlock Democracy). Graham Allen (Labour MP and chair of the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee) Lord Tyler (LibDem … Continue reading →

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Alex Salmond’s attempt to disown the UK national debt should be a non-starter

Posted on March 25, 2014by

Robert Henderson During February 2014 the Conservative, Labour and LibDem parties all pledged not to enter into a currency union consisting of Scotland and the rest of the UK if there is a YES to independence in the coming referendum … Continue reading →

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Scottish Independence – How Cameron sold England down the river with the Edinburgh Agreement

Posted on March 15, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The Edinburgh Agreement was signed By David Cameron and Alex Salmon in Edinburgh on 15 October 2012. (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Government/concordats/Referendum-on-independence#MemorandumofUnderstanding ). It established the legal basis for the Scottish independence referendum. The first point to note is that Cameron went …Continue reading →

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BBC drama goes in to bat for Scottish independence

Posted on March 15, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The BBC Radio 4 play Dividing the Union was a crude piece of propaganda for Scottish independence (Broadcast at 2.15pm 14 March – available on IPlayer for six days from the date of uploading this blog post http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xgsly). The … Continue reading →

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What happens if Scotland votes NO to independence?

Posted on March 4, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The Scottish independence referendum is deeply flawed as a democratic process because (1) the terms of independence have not been agreed before the referendum is held so Scottish voters will be buying a pig in a poke; (2) … Continue reading →

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Frank Field calls for an English Parliament on Any Questions

Posted on February 23, 2014by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Any Questions on 21 Feb 2014 (BBC R4) came from Blundells School in Tiverton, Devon. The panel answering the question were the Secretary of State for Scotland and LibDem MP Alistair Carmichael, Conservative backbench MP Nadhim Zahawi MP, … Continue reading →

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What the British people want from their politicians … and what they get

Posted on February 10, 2014by

Robert Henderson What do our politicians think of the electorate: precious little. All the major mainstream parties either ignore or cynically misrepresent the issues which are most important to the British – immigration, our relationship with the EU, the English …Continue reading →

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SNP 2013 XMAS INDEPENDENCE NOVELTIES

Posted on December 13, 2013by Robert Henderson

Make you own currency kit Allows you to name your currency, design your own coins and banknotes, create coins (3D printer included) and banknotes and set up a central piggy bank. Warning: the money will have the same value as … Continue reading →

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The Scottish Independence Referendum – unanswered questions

Posted on November 27, 2013by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson NB UK2 stands for the UK containing England, Wales and Northern Ireland The vote on Scottish independence is in 2014. The next UK general election is scheduled for 2015. The date for Scotland to leave the Union is … Continue reading →

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The future of England

Posted on November 22, 2013by Robert Henderson

Meeting arranged by the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) House of Lords 20th November Speakers Frank Field Labour MP Lord Maclennan (Lib Dem) Professor Wyn Jones ( Professor of Welsh Politics, Cardiff U) Eddie Bone CEP There were around …Continue reading →

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The BBC way with Scottish independence

Posted on September 23, 2013by Robert Henderson

Victoria Derbyshire BBC Radio 5 16 Sept 2013 10.00 am -12.000 noon Debate on the Scottish independence vote This was a classic example of the BBC’s interpretation of balance and consisted of a number of regulation issue BBC propaganda tricks. … Continue reading →

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Suppressing scandal – The Mayor of London’s State of London Debate 12 June 2013

Posted on June 17, 2013by Robert Henderson

Methodist Central Hall Event broadcast by LBC Speaker Mayor of London Boris Johnson Presenter Nick Ferrari of LBC There was a substantial audience of, according to LBC , 2,000. Boris Johnson gave a short inconsequential speech in his routine Old … Continue reading →

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SNP 2012 XMAS Novelties

Posted on December 22, 2012by Robert Henderson

Independence Balloon When filled with hot air the balloon floats away leaving its owner with nothing to hold onto Comes in your clan tartan or decorated with Saltires Hours of innocent fun Has a use-by date of 31 December 2013. … Continue reading →

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The English voice on Scottish independence must be heard

Posted on October 20, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The shrieking flaw in the proposed Scottish independence referendum is the failure to establish the terms of Independence before the referendum is held. This is vital because all parts of the UK are potentially seriously affected, especially if … Continue reading →

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Skintland: The Economist spells out the wages of Scottish Independence

Posted on April 15, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Numpty Party (SNP), has been at full impotent froth over an article in the Economist which describes Scotland as Skintland and carries a map of Scotland with puns on place names … Continue reading →

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The English white working-class and the British elite – From the salt of the earth to the scum of the earth

Posted on April 1, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson 1. How it used to be Thirty years ago the Labour Party primary client base was the white working-class, while the Tories still had remnants of the heightened sense of social responsibility towards the poor created by two … Continue reading →

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Bring the Nuclear Deterrent to England now

Posted on February 5, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson A Daily Telegraph report of 27 January 2012 “Nuclear subs will stay in Scotland” ( James Kirkup -http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9043092/Nuclear-subs-will-stay-in-Scotland-Royal-Navy-chiefs-decide.html) is most disturbing. The essence of the story is that should Scotland votes for independence the UK nuclear deterrent would … Continue reading →

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It must be no to Devomax

Posted on February 2, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The leader of the Scots Numpty Party (SNP) Alex Salmond has a secret love. He has a long-time partner Independence , but also a burgeoning affair with the siren Devomax. No, this not a relative of the cyber personality Max … Continue reading→

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Salmond’s proposed referendum question is heavily biased

Posted on January 26, 2012by Robert Henderson

The Scotch Numpty Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond’s proposed referendum question “‘Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?” is strongly biased. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9040988/Alex-Salmonds-independence-question-is-loaded-and-biased.html). The question is biased because it is (1) asking people to positively agree not merely choose from … Continue reading →

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An “independent” Scotland must not be allowed to have the pound as their official currency

Posted on January 22, 2012by Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson The Scottish Numpty Party leader Alex Salmond desperately wants to have his independence cake and eat it. He wishes to have DEVOMAX as well as independence on the “independence” ballot and, if the vote is for independence, he …Continue reading →

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SNP 2011 XMAS Novelties

Posted on December 24, 2011by Robert Henderson

Independence Puzzle Based on the Rubik Cube principle, when solved the puzzle represents a map of the Scotch mainland with the word INDEPENDENCE in the its centre. WARNING: this is a very demanding puzzle and even the brightest players will …Continue reading →

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The complete “Wages of Scottish independence”

Posted on July 23, 2011by Robert Henderson

I have now completed the series on the implications of Scottish independence on the Calling England blog. They cover all the important ground relating to the question: The wages of Scottish independence – England, Wales and Northern Ireland must be …Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – England, Wales and Northern Ireland must be heard

Posted on July 22, 2011by Robert Henderson

In the matter of Scottish independence, the British political elite and the Scottish Numpty Party (SNP) are flatly ignoring the interests of the English, Welsh and Northern Irish. This is unreasonable for two reasons: firstly, the granting of independence to … Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – If Parliament says NO

Posted on July 17, 2011by Robert Henderson

Whether or not Scotland would vote for independence is debatable. Polls consistently show a majority against, although there are always a substantial number of “don’t knows”. In a referendum held only in Scotland with the YES campaign headed by the … Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – infrastructure

Posted on July 9, 2011by Robert Henderson

Geographically Scotland is very isolated. It is a stranded at the top of mainland Britain with a single land border with England. Any goods or people coming and going to Scotland have a choice of independent access by air and … Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – a divided country

Posted on July 3, 2011by Robert Henderson

The divided country is not the UK but Scotland. Its divisions are cultural, geographical, religious, demographic and racial. Demographically Scotland is a most peculiar place. It has a population estimated at 5.2 million in 2010 (http://www.scotland.org/facts/population/) set in an area … Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – membership of the EU

Posted on June 25, 2011by Robert Henderson

The Scottish Numpty Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond has a dream; well, more of an adolescent fantasy really. He imagines that an independent Scotland would immediately be embraced enthusiastically by the EU. In the more heroically bonkers versions of the fantasy, … Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – The monarchy

Posted on June 18, 2011by Robert Henderson

The Scottish Numpty Party (SNP) has committed itself to the Queen being Scotland’s head of state should independence occur. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/may/25/alexsalmond-queen). As with so much of the SNP policy towards independence this presumes something which is far from self-evident, namely, that …Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – immigration

Posted on June 13, 2011by

The Scots Numpty Party (SNP) fondly imagines that an independent Scotland would continue to have free access to England. They recklessly assume Scotland’s position would be akin to that of the Republic of Ireland. However, that assumption rests on a …Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – Public Debt

Posted on June 2, 2011by Robert Henderson

One thing is certain about an independent Scotland: it would begin life with a massive national debt. Exactly how much is problematic because the Scottish referendum on independence will probably not be held until 2015. The Scots Numpty Party (SNP) …Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – the currency problem

Posted on May 27, 2011by Robert Henderson

The most problematic decision for an independent Scotland is the currency. There are three choices: to keep using the pound, join the Euro or create their own currency. If they choose the pound or Euro they will not be truly … Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – the loss of the military

Posted on May 23, 2011by Robert Henderson

One of the most complex aspects of disentangling Scotland from the rest of the UK should Scotland become independent is defence. It is complex because of (1) the siting of the Trident submarines and other major ships at Faslane; (2) … Continue reading →

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The wages of Scottish independence – public sector employment

Posted on May 19, 2011by Robert Henderson

One of the many major issues which an independent Scotland would have to address is the extent to which the Scottish economy is dependent on public spending and in particular the number of public sector jobs which would be moved … Continue reading →

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The truth about UK oil and gas

Posted on May 14, 2011by Robert Henderson

The Scots Numpty Party (SNP) bases its case for the viability of Scotland’s independence on the idea that wicked England has been “stealin’ ouir oil” and that if only they had control of the tax revenues from UK oil and gas … Continue reading →

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Make sure the costs of Scottish independence get into the media

Posted on May 12, 2011by Robert Henderson

The letter below was published in the Times 10 May 2011. It is extremely important that the debate on independence for Scotland is conducted on the basis that Scotland will not be allowed to walk away from the financial obligations … Continue reading →

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Scottish independence? Yes, but only on these terms

Posted on May 6, 2011by Robert Henderson

by Robert Henderson The Scots Numpty Party (SNP) has managed to defeat the attempts of the unionists who deliberately devised the electoral system to thwart single party government (and hence leave independence off the practical political agenda) and get a …Continue reading →

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The Commonwealth Games: England should have many more medals against their name

Robert Henderson

Gratifying as the official success of the England team at the Commonwealth games –173 medals made up of 58 gold, 59 silver and 57 bronze medals – this underplays the scale of England’s dominance.

Of the 19 gold medals officially ascribed to Scotland and the five ascribed to Wales, no less were won by competitors born in England.

Scotland

Gold medallists born in England (Place of birth beside each) taking gold for Scotland are:

Dan Keating – Kettering – Gymnastics
Dan Purvis – Liverpool – Gymnastics
Sarah Addlington – Shrewsbury – Judo
Sarah Clark – South Shields – Judo
Libby Clegg – Stockport – Athletics
Chris Sherringham – Ormskirk – Judo
Hannah Miley Swindon – Swimming
Euan Burton Ascot – Judo

8 golds won

Scots born competitors taking gold for Scotland

Darren Burnett bowls
David Peacock bowls
Alex Marshall bowls
Paul Foster bowls
Neil Spiers bowls
Neil Fachie Cycling
Daniel Wallace Swimming
Ross Murdock swimming
Kimberley Renicks Judo
Louise Renwicks Judo
Josh Taylor boxing
Charlie Flynn boxing

11 golds won

The places of birth can be found at http://results.glasgow2014.com/nation/SCO/scotland.html

NB the Scots born winners include those in bowls who won playing as pairs. Hence, there are more than 19 names when the two groups are added together. The English born competitors all took individual golds.

Wales

The gold medallists born in England (Place of birth beside each) taking gold for Wales were:

Jazz Carlin Shrewsbury
Georgia Davies London
Francesca Jones Kettering
Welsh born competitors taking gold for Wales
Geraint Thomas cycling
Natalie Powell Judo

2 golds won

The places of birth can be found here : http://results.glasgow2014.com/nation/WAL/wales.html

The two Northern Ireland golds were won by Northern Irish born boxers, Michael Conlon and Paddy Barnes.

It is reasonable to assume that the use of competitors born in England by Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will occur amongst those winning lesser medals or not winning medals at all. The percentage of Scots , Welsh and Northern Irish golds won by English-born competitors is 42% (11 out of 26). If this is repeated in the silver and bronze medals against the Scots, Welsh and N Irish names, that would mean 14 extra silver and 20 extra bronze for England. The English medal total overall would read:

69 gold – 73 silver – 77 bronze, a total of 219.

In addition to the skewing of the medal table by large numbers of English men and women sailing under Celtic flags, England also aids the Celtic Fringe born competitors in many sports because they are part of GB performance programmes which are largely funded by the English.

English sport and the alien invasion

Robert Henderson

In the past few weeks England have lost three times to the All Blacks at rugby and crashed out of the World Cup with only one point from their three pool games . This week they lost for the first time ever a home cricket series against Sri Lankra . During the winter the Ashes series was lost 5-0.

What is going wrong? The answer is beautifully simple. English top-flight team sport is suffering from the same sickness that England as a whole is carrying: it is the victim of immigration. Our three most popular team sports , football, cricket and rugby union, have all opened their doors to any number of foreigners and foreign players, coaches and owners have flooded in.

Football

Of the three most popular teams sports, football is the most advanced in terms of denying places to young English players a, managers and coaches. This is unsurprising because of the twenty Premiership clubs starting the 2014/15 season ten are foreigner owned, as are twelve of the twenty two Championship clubs. Foreign owners will have no concern for the wellbeing of English football, merely a desire to be successful at all costs either from a desire to make money or for the prestige footballing success brings on the world stage.

The practice of excluding English players and managers can be found throughout the professional English football pyramid, but is seen at its most blatant in the Premier League where less than a third of the players regularly starting are English. This compares with an average of around a third of players being foreign in the top divisions throughout Europe.

The level below the Premier League, the Championship, is also heavily infiltrated by foreigners and contains one team, Watford, which starkly demonstrates exactly how quickly English players can be squeezed out. Watford were taken over by the Italian Pozzo family who also own the Italian Udinese club and Spanish Grenada club. The English manager Sean Dyche – who has just led Burnley to the Premiership – was quickly replaced with the Italian Gianfranco Zola. This was followed by the ridding of the club of most of the established English players and their replacement with foreigners, most being on-loan Italians from Udinese

In addition, the very successful Watford Academy was downgraded from category 1 to category 3 . This means that Watford can no longer sign boys from nine onwards and can now do so only from the age of 12 and may no longer compete in the U-21 League which gives experience against the likes of Man U and Arsenal. This of itself will mean fewer English youngsters coming through the Watford system, even assuming that young English players will now reach the Watford Academy for it could become a training ground for foreign imports from Udinese and Grenada.

Cricket

County cricket is increasingly staffed by foreign players and managers. Foreign ownership does not really come into the picture because county clubs are private members clubs and as such cannot be purchased. Nor is there the money or public profile in county cricket to make any attempt to change this situation worthwhile.

With cricket it is difficult to give an exact percentage for foreign players because so many flit in and out of the county game, as they arrive for particular competitions such as the T20 or contract for far less than a full season with a county because they want to play in other T20 leagues or go away with their national sides.

An idea of the scale of the foreign invasion into county cricket can be gleaned from the Playfair Cricket Annual, which gives pen portraits of the players registered for each county for the coming season. By my count the 2014 annual shows thirty-seven players marked as not qualified to play for England because they were born outside the UK and have either played for Test teams other than England or have not played for another country but have not lived long enough in England to qualify through residence . A further forty-five who were born outside the UK but have qualified through residence. Many of the latter group are those who have had a substantial first class career, including in some cases, Test experience , outside of the UK . Few will want or have a realistic chance of playing for England. They include the likes of the Australian Test player Phil Jacques and the New Zealand Test player Hamish Marshall. The two groups produce a combined figure of eighty-two foreigners either disbarred from playing for England or very unlikely to do so at the beginning of the 2014 season. Experience shows that additional foreign players will be employed as the season progresses. It would not be unreasonable to imagine the eighty-three foreigners at the beginning of the 2014 season will swell to one hundred plus by the end of the season.

There are eighteen first class county sides which gives 191 places in their first teams. The vast majority of the foreigners, whether qualified or not for England, will be regulars in their county sides, not least because counties are very reluctant to drop a foreign player who has cost them a good deal of money to hire . On average there will be three or four foreigners in each county side for Championship matches, that is, about 40% of the total places. The percentage of foreign players in the limited over games, especially the T20, will probably be higher.

Rugby Union

Rugby Union is a Johnny-come-lately to the paid sporting ranks, the game only turning professional in 1995. But it is made up for lost time when it comes to the foreign player stakes , although not to the extent of the football influx, the percentage of foreigners into the Avia Premiership being around a third rather than the two thirds or more of the Premier League.

Football, cricket and rugby are the main team sports but what has happened to them can be found to varying degrees in all teams sports which have any degree of popularity in Britain and individual sports where either there are occasional team events organised on a national team basis such as the Davis Cup (tennis ) or Ryder Cup (golf) or the sport carries enough popularity and prestige for those controlling the sport to engineer English or British representation at a high level, no matter how bogus that is. Think of Greg Rusedski (tennis) or Zola Budd (athletics). In principle they should be treated as I suggest sports such as football and cricket should be treated.

How foreign players are distributed

The raw number of foreigners is not the only concern. In any team sport certain positions are considered to be the most important. In football those positions are the goalkeeper, centre-backs and strikers. In rugby union it is the scrum half and fly half and full back, in cricket the opening batsmen and fast bowlers. The foreign imports disproportionately fill those positions. The consequence is that England teams are left with few players to choose from when selecting people to fill those positions, for example, the England football team has very few goalkeepers and strikers to choose from at present.

In the case of cricket, it is almost invariably the case that foreign players are given the plum places in the batting order and if pace bowlers use of the new ball. That means English batsmen get pushed down the batting order and English pace bowlers often do not get use of the new ball.

The demoralising effect on English players

English players will be subject to the politically correct propaganda which the British political elite have institutionalised within English society. The mistreatment by the state, the mainstream media and employers of those label led as racist, homophobic or chauvinist has created considerable fear amongst the British public, who will often voice politically correct views which they do not subscribe to because they are afraid. The fear also creates a sense of disconnection with the country which they come from, because they think, rightly, that they cannot praise England without shrieks of racist hurtling in their direction To that can be added the deracination of English children through the emasculation of the English school curriculum so that it does not provide them with their culture history while incessantly promoting any culture and history other than that of the English.

The fact that as budding elite sportsmen they are of necessity forced to live in a world with a great deal of racial and ethnic variety will reinforce the sense of disconnection and isolation from their own culture and history. Even if English players did want the situation to change and see the foreigners kicked out of their sport there is little they could safely do. If they did wish to protest against the denial of opportunity to them because of foreign players, every one of them will know that if they voice criticism of the influx of foreigners their career will be at best damaged and at worst ended. It is a toxic environment to work in, especially toxic in clubs where the playing personnel and often the management and coaching staff are foreign.

In such an environment , the focus of English players will almost certainly be concentrated upon their own playing careers to the exclusion of any wider interest social or national interest in what is happening to their sport.

The selection of English national sides

Pedantically the selection of players who were not English to play for England has been going on for a long time. That is particularly true of cricket where the Indian Ranjitsinji was first selected in the 1890. But foreigners in an England shirt were rarities until the 1980s. Cricket led the way with a horde of South Africans, Australians and West Indians and the odd New Zealander . By the 1990s England were regularly putting out sides with four or five foreigners, people such as Alan Lamb, Robin Smith, Graeme Hick, Andy Caddick and Devon Malcolm. The selectors’ obsession with foreigners waned somewhat in the first half of the 2000s, but strengthened again from 2005 onwards. Three of the four most recent England Test caps have been unambiguously foreign, that is, they were both born abroad and spent the large majority of their childhoods in the country of their birth: Robson (Australian), Jordan (West Indian), Balance (Zimbabwean ) . On the managerial side, the Zimbabweans Duncan Fletcher and Andy Flower between them held the position of head coach for all but two years of the period 1999-2014.

In the case of football most of the foreign input has occurred on the managerial front. Since 2001, the England side has had foreign managers (Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello) for a combined total of nine years. Nonetheless, there are signs that the FA are now willing to grab players from anywhere . Last season feelers were put out to get the Belgium youngster Adnan Januzaj to play for England on the grounds of his residency in England. Januzai rebuffed the approaches but the attempt demonstrates how the FA have thrown in the towel when it comes to not selecting foreigners.

Rugby Union began to be really promiscuous with the selection of foreigners in the England side around the time the game turned professional (1995). The squad which toured New Zealand in 2014 contained South Sea Islanders Manusamoa Tuilagiand and Semesa Rokoduguni , the South African Brad Barritt and the New Zealander Dylan Hartley.

What can be legally done?

While Britain remains within the EU only players from outside the EU can be excluded from English professional sport. Moreover, this is weakened to some degree by the ability of players from outside the EU to gain EU state passports. Nonetheless a blanket ban on non-EU imports would have considerable although varying effects, viz:

1. Football would probably be least affected because all European states play professional football, most to a decent standard. Nonetheless, the available talent pool would be massively reduced and make it much more difficult for clubs to claim that the players they were bringing were of exceptional talent.

2. Cricket would be the most affected for the simple reason that cricket is not played to a professional standard outside of England within the EU.

3. Rugby would come somewhere between cricket and football because only France and Italy play the game to international level, although there are a few talented individuals outside of those two countries.

What about foreign ownership of English sporting clubs? This only seriously affects English football of the big three English team sports. Even as things are foreigners from outside the EU could be excluded if the political will was there. Things would be more difficult with foreigners from within the EU, but it is debatable whether the free movement of capital rule throughout the Single Market would be a bar to preventing the sale of English clubs to foreigners within the EU. Certainty the other large EU countries manage to prevent their top clubs falling into foreign hands.

All that is required to substantially restrict the number of foreigners coming into English professional sport is for the British government to ban every would-be owner from outside the EU and every manager, coach and player from outside the EU from working in Britain. The only thing which has prevented this happening is the ghastly ideological commitment to free trade (including in practice the free movement of peoples) to which the British political elite has succumbed.

Apart from banning non-EU foreigners, much might be done if politicians, the media and fans constantly challenged English sporting clubs over the number of foreigners they employ. Sponsors are sensitive to changes in public wants and might well shun clubs if the public atmosphere was strongly against the employment of foreigners. The same would be true of media outlets which earned their money from sales of their product and advertising. If fans took up the issue they could bring pressure on clubs by not buying the club merchandise or making it clear with chants and banners that they wanted English players in their team. But to be successful I this tactic does require the mainstream parties to take up the issue and start the ball rolling. In these politically correct times the general public needs to be reassured that they will not find the police feeling their collars if they start chanting slogans such as “English players for English teams.”

The perfect solution would be for Britain to leave the EU. Then every foreign manager, coach and

National sides must be national to have a point

The claiming of people as natives of a country when they manifestly are anything but makes a mockery of the very idea of national sporting sides. There really is no point in an English cricket side comprised of three or four Southern Africans , an Australian and a West Indian or an England football team managed by a Swede or Italian.

To keep professional team sports healthy in England what is needed is a concentration on English owners, managers, coaches and players in our major team sports. Only by keeping the personnel English will there be a large enough pool of talent to draw on for the England national teams, but also because it will mean the players are living week by week in a thoroughly English atmosphere and that will accustom them to thinking not only of themselves but of the English national interest.

Such a change would also have a beneficial effect on the audiences for the sports. They would go to see English players playing, managed by English managers and clubs owned or controlled by those raised in the country. Team sports such as football, cricket and rugby are not just games as liberals would have us believe, they are trials of strength, physical prowess and nerve. . If England started winning consistently that also would boost national sentiment.

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The Commons Education Select Committee and the libelling of the white working-class

Robert Henderson

The Commons Select Committee (CSC) on Education has produced a report on the underachievement of white British working-class children. This ostensibly highlights the poor educational performance of white British children who are eligible for free meals (FSM) compared to those in receipt of FSM from ethnic minority groups such as those of Indian and Chinese ancestry. I say ostensibly because there are severe flaws in methodology. These are:

The definition of white British is far from simple. The report distinguishes between Irish, traveller of Irish heritage, Gypsy/Roma and Any other white background (see CSC table 2 page 13). The Any other white background is the largest. It is not clear from the report how the white British were defined, for example , a child of white immigrants might well consider his or herself white British. Who would whether they were or were not British?
The numbers of some of the ethnic minority groups cited are small, for example, at the end of Key Stage 4 (the end of GCSE courses) in 2013 there were only 168 Chinese in the country who pupils who qualified for FSM. (see CSC table 2 page 13).

3. The use of FSM as a proxy for working-class means that white British apples are being compared with variously coloured ethnic minority oranges. Most importantly the use of FSM means that the British white working-class as a whole is not represented , but only the poorest section of it. Hence, the general treatment in the media of the report, that it shows the white working-class to be falling behind ethnic minorities, is grossly misleading. The report recognises this:

…measuring working class performance in education through FSM data can be misleading. The Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE) drew our attention to a mismatch between the proportion of children who were eligible for free school meals and the proportion of adults who would self-define as working class:17 in 2012/13, 15% of pupils at the end of key stage 4 were known to be eligible for free school meals,18 compared with 57% of British adults who defined themselves as ‘working class’ as part of a survey by the National Centre for Social Research.The CRRE warned that projecting the educational performance of a small group of economically deprived pupils onto what could otherwise be understood to be a much larger proportion of the population had “damaging consequences” on public understanding of the issue. The logical result of equating FSM with working class was that 85% of children were being characterised as middle class or above.

The white British group will be overwhelmingly drawn from the most deprived part of that group’s population, while many of the ethnic minority groups held up as superior to the white British children , will have a large component of people who are not drawn from the lower social reaches of their society, but are poor simply because they are either first generation immigrants or the children of first generation immigrants and have not established themselves in well paid work – think of all the tales the mainstream media and politicians regale the British with about immigrant graduates doing menial jobs. These parents will both have more aspiration for their children and a greater ability to assist their children with their schoolwork.

The range of those qualifying for FSM is extensive and there is considerable complexity resulting from pupils going in and out of the qualifying criteria, viz:

(Para 12 of the report) . Of the Children are eligible for free school meals if their parents receive any of the following payments:

Income Support

• Income-based Jobseekers Allowance

• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance

• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

• the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit

• Child Tax Credit (provided they are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and

have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)

• Working Tax Credit run-on—paid for 4 weeks after they stop qualifying for

Working Tax Credit

• Universal Credit

13. A report for the Children’s Society noted that the criteria for FSM mean that parents working 16 or more hours per week (24 hours for couples from April 2012) lose their entitlement to FSM since they are eligible for working tax credit; as a result there are around 700,000 children living in poverty who are not entitled to receive free school meals. In addition, not all those who may be eligible for FSM register for it; a recent report for the Department for Education estimated under-registration to be 11% in 2013. This figure varies across the country: in the North East under-registration is estimated to be 1%, compared to 18% in the East of England and 19% in the South East.

4. Greater resources, both material advantages and better quality staff, are being put into schools which have a very large ethnic minority component than schools which are predominantly filled with white British children. This is occurring both as a matter of deliberate government policy and through not-for-profit corporations such as charities.

Government policies are things such as the pupil premium . This is paid to schools for each pupil who qualifies under these criteria:

In the 2014 to 2015 financial year, schools will receive the following funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years:

£1,300 for primary-aged pupils

£935 for secondary-aged pupils

Schools will also receive £1,900 for each looked-after pupil who:

has been looked after for 1 day or more

was adopted from care on or after 30 December 2005, or left care under:

a special guardianship order

a residence order

The amounts involved for a school can be considerable. Suppose that a secondary school with 1,000 children has 40% of its pupils qualifying for FSM. That would bring an additional £374,000 to the school in this financial year. At present £2.5 billion is being spent on the pupil premium.

According to a Dept of Education (DoE) investigation published in 2013, Evaluation of Pupil Premium Research Report , a good deal of this money is being spent on ethnic minorities and those without English as a first language (see tables 2.1 and 2.2, pages 27 and 30) . The pupil premium can be used to provide extra staff, better staff, improved equipment after school activities and so on.

Schools can allocate the Pupil Premium money at their discretion and often make the identification of where money has gone next to impossible because they do things such as merging the Pupil Premium money with money from other budgets and joining forces with other schools in the area to provide provision (see pages 14/15 in the DoE report). It is probable that the Pupil Premium money brought into schools by white British working-class FSM children is being used, at least in part, to benefit ethnic minorities. The converse is wildly improbable.

Ethnic minorities are concentrated in particular areas and particular schools. This makes it more likely that ethnic children will go to schools with a higher proportion of free school meal pupils than schools dominated by white pupils. That will provide significantly greater funding for an ethnic minority majority school than for one dominated by white Britons, most of whom will not qualify for the Pupil Premium. .

Because ethnic minority families, and especially those of first generation immigrants, are substantially larger on average than those of white Britons, the likelihood of ethnic minority children qualifying for FSM will be greater than it is for white Britons because the larger the family the more likely a child is to qualify for FSM. This will boost the additional money from the pupils premium going to ethnic minority dominated schools.

An example of not-for-profit intervention is the charity Teach First. The select committee report (para 116) describes their work:

The Government’s response to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s first annual report noted that Teach First will be training 1,500 graduates in 2014 to 2015 and placing them in the most challenging schools, and that as of 2014/15 Teach First will be placing teachers in every region of England.

The Teach First website states: “Applicants to our Leadership Development Programme are taken through a rigorous assessment process. We select only those who demonstrate leadership potential, a passion to change children’s lives and the other skills and attributes needed to become an excellent teacher and leader. These participants teach and lead in our partner primary and secondary schools in low-income communities across England and Wales for a minimum of two years, ensuring every child has access to an excellent education.”

Apart from specific programmes such as the Pupil Premium and special training for teachers to prepare them what are euphemistically called “challenging schools” which end up disproportionately favouring ethnic minority pupils, there is also scope within the normal funding of state schools to favour ethnic minorities because head teachers have a good deal of discretion in how funds are spent. That applies with knobs on to Academies and Free Schools.

There is also a considerable difference in funding between the funding of areas with large ethic minority populations, especially black and Asian groups, and areas with largely white populations, for example, between East Anglia and London: “ The government has announced plans to raise per-pupil funding 3.7pc in Norfolk to £4,494, 7pc in Cambridgeshire to £4,225 and 2.5pc in Suffolk to £4,347 next year following a campaign by MPs.

“But councillors have called for a long term overhaul of the funding system, which will still see each student in the county receive around half of the allocation in the City of London, which will get £8,594.55 for each pupil.”

5. The effect of political correctness. With good reason any teacher, and especially white teachers, will be fearful of not seeming to be devoutly political correct. They know they are at the mercy of other teachers , parents and pupils and know that an accusation of racism from any source could well end their teaching career at worst and at best seriously disrupt their lives while a complaint is being investigated. In addition, many teachers will be emotionally attached to political correctness generally and to multiculturalism in particular.

In such circumstances it is reasonable to suspect that teachers in schools with a mix of ethnic minority and white British children will devote more time and patience to ethnic minority pupils than to white children. They may do this without conscious intent, with either fear or the ideological commitment making such a choice seem the natural one.

Such preferential treatment for ethnic minority children is facilitated by the large amount of continuous assessment involved in GCSE. (This is supposedly being reduced but the results of the change has not yet worked through to the end of a GCSE cycle. Teachers routinely help children to re-write work which does not come up to par, in some cases re-doing the work themselves . Teachers have also been caught helping pupils to cheat during exams . The opportunity and the temptation to help ethnic minority children is there and the pressure of political correctness may cause opportunity to become actuality.

6. The disruptive effect on schools of a large number of pupils from different backgrounds with English as a second language, the type of schools where the headmaster boasts “We have 100 languages spoken here”. The most likely white British children to be in such schools are those from the poorest homes which means they qualify as FSM pupils. They will be lost in these Towers of Babel not only because often they will be in the minority, but also because, unlike children with English as a second language or ethnic minority English speakers who will have a good chance of enhanced tuition, the white British FSM pupils will not enjoy such a privilege and may be actually ignored to a large extent because of the desire of the staff to assist ethnic minority children.

7 . The downplaying of British culture. The school curriculum in Britain and especially in England (where the vast majority of the British live) is shaped to reflect the politically correct worldview. This means that ethnic minority culture and history are frequently pushed ahead of British culture and history. The larger the percentage of ethnic minorities in a school, the greater will be the tendency to marginalise the white British pupils, who will almost certainly be drawn largely from those qualifying for FSM. They will be deracinated and become culturally disorientated.

To this school propaganda is added the politically correct and anti-British, anti-white propaganda which is pumped out ceaselessly by mainstream politicians and the media. This will reinforce the idea that being white and British is somehow at best inferior to that of ethnic minority cultures and at worst something to be ashamed of, something to be despised, something which is a danger to its possessor.

Conclusion

As far as the general public is concerned, the Select Committee report is saying the white working-class children – all of them not just those receiving FSM – are doing less well than ethnic minority children. The reason for this is simple, the mainstream media have reported the story in a way which would promote such a belief, both in their headlines and the stories themselves.

A comparison between the white British population as a whole and the ethnic minority populations as a whole would be nearer to reality, but it would still be comparing apples and oranges for the reasons given above. The ethnic minority children would still be likely to have on average parents who would not be representative of the ancestral populations they came from, political correctness would still drive teachers to favour ethnic minority pupils, continuous assessment would still allow teachers to illegally aid ethnic minorities, heads could still decide to divert more funds towards ethnic minorities and the promotion of ethnic minority cultures and history would still exist.

What could be done to remedy matters? Continuous assessment should stop and end of course synoptic exams substituted . Ethnic minority children should not have more spent on them than white British children. School funding in different areas should be broadly similar per capita. British culture and history should be the dominant teaching driver. Political correctness should be removed from the curriculum generally.

As for future studies, these should be controlled in a much more subtle manner than simply using FSM as a criterion. Any study of all or any part of group should control for parents’ education, income, the amount of money spent on each pupil, the teacher pupil ratio, the quality of the teachers and the general facilities of the school.

Those suggestions would not entirely cure the problem, but it would be good start to both getting at the truth and ending the demonization of the white working-class which has gathered pace ever since the Labour Party decided to drop the white working-class as their client base and substitute for them the politically correct groups of gays, feminists and most potently ethnic minorities.