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There is no law which says that families must weaken, crime must increase, and societies must decay.

David Willetts, timely as ever, having his four-penneth in the Sunday Times about the future of Conservatism.

But is he right?  Of course not.  The “law”, in this case, is advanced liberalism.  And that absolutely decrees that families must weaken, crime must increase and societies must indeed decay.

Willetts cranks out a quote about old Dizzy and lovingly romanticises Compassionate Conservatism.  But he doesn’t use either of his fabled brains to really look through the surface ripples and down into the silent depths of our political history.  I suppose he has no need of such rigour.  His purpose does not justify the effort, and we do not get it:-

A country with too many broken lives and fragmented families is going to depend on public services more. As well as a strong economy, we need a strong society. How do we disentangle the catastrophic mixture of poor social housing, rigid school catchment areas and long term welfare dependency which disfigure Britain?

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OK, we’ve emerged from behind the net curtains, dropped the last unread circular in the bin, removed the shotgun from beside the front door … we are safe.  The politicians have gone away.  Tomorrow we vote.  Or not, as appears likely in a heck of a lot of cases.

But what happens then?

Well, the next day the headlines are sheer bliss for all poodles and poodle owners.  The next, they ask how much longer Gordon will have to wait.  Ain’t life a gas?

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So, after all the deceit and obfuscation we get this:-

Secret documents revealed yesterday show that, almost a year before the Iraq invasion, Tony Blair was privately preparing to commit Britain to war and topple Saddam, despite warnings from his closest advisers that it was unjustified.

They also show how Mr Blair was planning to justify regime change as an objective, despite warnings from Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, that the “desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action”.

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Tory leader Michael Howard recently proclaimed “We are all British, we are one nation.” Which, unfortunately, isn’t true anymore, as left-wing Guardian journalist Peter Preston was quick to point out. Preston used the example of the Old Kent Road, a place now so multicultural that Preston happily labels it “omnicultural”.

Of course, as a left-wing journo Preston sings the praises of the “naturally polyglot” Old Kent Road, writing that it represents “A Britain future, not Britain past.”

The best response I’ve seen to Preston is over at Faute de Mieux. The article there seems to suggest voting Tory might improve things - something which I am deeply sceptical about - but I like the concluding paragraph:

“Should Preston get his way, we shall have just as little love for our transient neighbourhoods, cities, regions and countries as his immigrants have for the Old Kent Road. With this crucial difference: his immigrants will always have a place called home.”

Reading about the fate of the Old Kent Road makes me feel fortunate that I live in a very Anglo suburb of Melbourne which still does feel like home for me. But I’ve observed enough about the transformation of much of Melbourne to know exactly what the writer at Faute de Mieux is talking about. We can’t assume that we’ll always find such places where we are something more than just outside observers.

Today, former Home Secretary David Blunkett made his return to UK political life.  He chose as his subject English identity – an indefinable quantity which, by dint of its indefinability, we purportedly lack.

His objective, according to Madeleine Bunting, writing in the Guardian, is to formulate a progressive definition of Englishness.  She omits to tell us why English identity cannot be left alone but must be formulated – or engineered – to meet the progressive agenda.  I suppose now, a few weeks before the election, is a good time to lay down the Labour marker for Englishness - to make it safe for the Multi-cult, to make the English confident and welcoming multiculturalists.  No matter that the left has spent forty years denigrating us as racist sinners, delegitimising our views, twisting our history, poisoning our language, denying the veracity of our ties of blood and our claims to this land, lauding strangers and silencing our dissent … nothing must be left un-engineered.

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Naturally, there’s no irony whatsoever in The Guardian, of all newspapers, finding fault with big government ... not a hint of hypocrisy in their critique of the “multi-agency approach” to, for example, the exploitation of illegal migrants by criminal gangmasters.  No, the hot-button plight of oppressed and abused workers calls forth an altogether too blinding and pavlovian response for wider considerations to apply.  So we get this:-

The tangle of Whitehall responsibilities for illegal working and gangmaster activity reflects the fact that they touch every aspect of the UK’s economic structure. So many authorities are involved that the tangle is almost impossible to unravel:

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Well, it’s Faversham actually, in the green and watery, ancient county of Kent.  Not some mug-scarce inner-city blessed with that precious New Labour phenomenon, automatic weapons.  Aagh, didn’t mean that to slip out!  No, diversity – that’s what I meant to say.  Obviously, diversity.  And a jolly good thing, too, if you ask me.  And it’s entirely possible that Her Majesty’s new breed of politically correct, people’s policemen will knock on my door and ask me some time very soon (after Griffin you never know).  So we don’t want to be too white, do we?  Not too stuck in a chalky Kentish rut, so to speak, not too un…vibrant.  Decidedly not.  Constable.

So … back to Faversham, twixt the Kentish Swale estuary and the Kentish North Downs.  Beautiful, quiet, hardly troubled middle-England, all apples and beer and old church towers (hiding new and deeply dubious phone masts, but anyway we’ll not let that spoil the image).  Undeniably, though, there are too many cars.  Too few children.  Sufficient Conservatism, however.

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Yesterday Lord Leslie Scarman, retired Law Lord and cross-bench member of the House of Lords, died peacefully in his sleep.  He was 93.  No doubt his career was long, rich and varied.  But it is with one event, the Brixton Riots of April 1981, that his name will be forever linked.

In those days Brixton was the racio-political cockpit of Britain, as the Islamified towns of northern England are today.  Along Railton Road and on the Frontline/Mayall Road triangle, black council tenants and marginalised white squatters lived cheek by jowl.  But they cleaved to their own cultures.  The blacks, with their dope, their reggae, their patois impenetrable to white ears, predominated in every visible way.  The streets were always filled with activity.  Empty houses were taken over for drinking and gambling, and as dope dens and all-night party venues pumping out non-stop reggae.

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