I’m not sure whether or not the Commonwealth conference has quite finished yet. I thought it had, but then caught something on the radio the other day about a related function or reception, but as my interest in the institution is limited I didn’t really pay attention. Perhaps I should have, because this seemingly moribund organisation is coming back to bite us.

It is not by coincidence that the conference was overshadowed by the Windrush scandal. It’s a great pity that the name of this pretty Gloucestershire river should be associated forever with the beginning of the great tragedy – the transformation of England by mass immigration into something quite alien – which began when the SS Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury on the 23rd June 1948 with several hundred Jamaicans on board. This article is not concerned with the rights and wrongs of the so-called “Windrush children” – yes, the Government fouled up (identity cards would have avoided the problem but they’re offensive to delicate liberal consciences) and yes, innocent people have suffered, but the numbers concerned are utterly insignificant when set beside the scale of immigration, legal and otherwise, now besetting our country.

It’s an irony that throughout the great days of the British Empire, Britain herself, the homeland, the mother country, remained almost untouched. The last census to be counted before the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush, that of 1931 (the census of 1941 was cancelled because of the War), disclosed a total non-European population in the United Kingdom of just 7,000. But just as the Empire began to dissolve into the Commonwealth, the then Labour government’s British Nationality Act of 1948 saw fit to confer the right to live in Britain on all of its erstwhile subjects. Hence Windrush, and in the following years hundreds of thousands of “Commonwealth immigrants” poured in. Public concern was intense (hence the explosive reaction to Enoch Powell’s great speech) and gradually, grudgingly, half-heartedly, government enacted a series of restrictive measures which got the situation more or less under control – until Blair was elected Prime Minister in 1997 and opened the floodgates to immigration from the world beyond the EU.

The Commonwealth is the shadow on earth of the old British Empire. For that reason it enjoyed a sentimental regard on the conservative right, while the left loved it, and still loves it, because it’s full of colourful people who are so much more exciting than the “pale and stale” variety. I suspect that the Queen’s long love affair with the Commonwealth has elements of both sentiments.

As every nationalist will know, the evolution of the Empire should have seen an “ever closer union” (to borrow a phrase) between the United Kingdom and the other British countries (as they still saw themselves down to the 1960s) of Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The non- white countries should have been let go, retaining only trading links and no right of settlement. But what didn’t happen didn’t happen, and we are where we are – out of the EU and trying to rebuild the commercial links with the Commonwealth which we severed in 1973.

And it is here that the great danger lies. India – our favoured partner for a free trade agreement – is already making ominous noises about visas in exchange for trade, and the Tories seem inclined to indulge these demands. Boris “it’s not about numbers it’s about control” wants a “liberal” immigration policy. He is supported by Gove. Someone called Chris Skidmore, described as “Conservative Party Vice-Chair for Policy” wants to “reset” immigration policy and “de-toxify” it. Influential Conservative commentators such as Fraser Nelson and James Kirkup demand a liberal immigration policy and insist that Theresa May is the only one in the Cabinet who still believes in the “unattainable” target of 100,000 net immigrants per annum. These people know perfectly well that the Brexit referendum was won on public concern about immigration, but it now seems that they intend merely to replace EU immigrants with non-EU.

Nigel Farage has said that there is a betrayal coming, and it is certainly beginning to look more and more as if he is right. With immigration at the levels which we have experienced for the last twenty years, and with white British birthrates in England and Wales already down to 60% or below, our country faces an existential crisis. We had better get ready to fight all over again.

By Frederick Dixon © 2018

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