England 2026 by Roderick Craig Low

Author:Roderick Craig Low
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: politic, human rights, conflict, freedom, religion, police, immigration, security, discord, England, prison, secret service, future, fundamentalism, government, war, law, UK, 2026, black humour, survival, euthanasia, America, Middle East, taser, camera, wisdom, heroism, Iran, Iraq, AUK
ISBN: 9781781662731
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2013-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

After the Discord broke out in 2018, however, this approach was writ large and very much in the public domain. Rioting hit Britain with a ferocity that stunned a world lulled into an image of a tolerant, peaceful, multicultural country. City centres burned, ethnic minorities were tortured and killed, schools, mosques, churches and synagogues were bombed, busy shopping centres were machine-gunned, and the downtrodden of all persuasions retaliated with a vengeance. Robert Oliver and his wife, having left the United Kingdom as it then was in the Spring of 2015 - partly because they wanted to experience another society, partly because they were disgusted at Britain getting involved in yet another Middle East adventure that was both ill thought through and, arguably, unjustified - enjoyed a last visit from their daughter and grandchild just before the ‘Discord’, when all face-to-face contact was lost.

Although the Press and Government, so long constricted by and confined to the language of the PC Dictionary, simply did not have the words to reflect what was happening, the truth was that the accepted definition of what constituted a minority simply no longer worked. In Northern Ireland, the majority of the population in, say, the nineteen-seventies was Protestant, making Catholics the minority. But, taken on a street by street basis, that overall picture was meaningless, and these things only really matter on the ground. Some areas were Catholic enclaves, so much so that they were, effectively, gaeltacht neighbourhoods - that is, areas where the Irish language was exclusively spoken. Some Catholic children never spoke English until they went to school and, even then, had to translate the help their parents provided with their homework into the language of the so-called “oppressor”.

In the same way, the majority in Britain was white and predominantly Christian, with a heavy slant towards Protestantism. So, for decades, the Government spoke up for and legislated to protect the minorities - non whites, non Christians and even Christian non-Protestants. Although Britain had immigrant populations from every continent, with significant numbers of Chinese, eastern Europeans, Antipodeans and Irish, together with followers of every belief and non-belief system known to man, the greatest proportion of effort on behalf of minorities was expended on the arrivals from the Caribbean, Africa and the Indian sub-continent. Their sheer numbers determined this need.

To an extent this process worked. There was a degree of assimilation, a new middle class of first- and second-generation arrivals worked their way successfully into British Society, and there were many positive stories.

However, the Government sent out mixed messages that applauded integration and “success” on the one hand but, at the same time, was equally encouraging to those who chose to remain steadfastly within their own cultures.

Thus, a bright Asian girl, born of westernised parents, motivated at school, moving on to university, studying law and becoming a respected barrister, choosing her own husband, and living in a middle-class avenue displaying a healthy racial mix where colour and background mattered not a jot, was paraded as an example of successful British integration.

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