Alec Cave

Half of the world’s bluebells and European badgers are found in Britain. Few things are more quintessentially British. They would make a most fitting subject for one of our new banknotes.

This glaring double standard has to end. If Israel can proudly exist as a homeland for the Jewish people prioritising Israeli interests and identity, why is it branded “racist” or taboo to say England should be for the English? National self-determination and cultural preservation are hailed as universal rights… except when it comes to England or other Western nations. We’re told borders and demographic continuity matter until they apply to us. England’s history stretches back millennia: ancient roots, a continuous people, language, and culture that have endured invasions, empires, and change. We have every legitimate right to protect and prioritise our heritage, just as any nation does. Fairness demands consistency, no exceptions, no hypocrisy. If ethnic and cultural homelands are valid for some, they’re valid for all. England for the English isn’t extremism; or Ireland for the Irish. The selective rules stop here.

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This is a completely foolish reading of the situation. It is precisely because of “green” energy policies that we have the level of energy insecurity we do. We could have large gas and oil reserves and nuclear power, but government instead focus on the fantasy of “net zero”.

‘There is a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to this land.’ Former advisor to Boris Johnson Thomas Corbett-Dillon gives a damning indictment of the impact of mass migration on the UK.

@hereward1069 Yes, component - an essential component. Ancestry is not qualified by 'generations'. You either have an ancestral tie to a nation, or you do not.

@AlecCave Component ? So not essential and how many generations qualify for “ancestry”?

Ancestry is a component of ethnicity. One either has an ancestral tie to a nation or one does not. No amount of adoption of a host nation's culture can change that. This is not a value judgement, simply a statement of reality.

The English people were not an abstract idea or a purely legal category. They were the product of a long historical process in which generations living in the same place gradually formed a distinct people. Yet today it has become common to speak as though English identity has no historical substance at all, as though it were merely a label that can be claimed at will. That assumption sits uneasily with the historical record.

@notintheirimage @benhabib6 We already have a tribe. We were simply bullied out of our pride and loyalty to it

@AlecCave @benhabib6 It’s a recognition that everyone else is already in tribe and those tribes are diametrically opposed to our individualism. We had better form a tribe if we want to stand any chance of stopping what’s going to be inevitable otherwise.

What @benhabib6 fails to understand is that reawakened ethnic consciousness among the indigenous British - English, Scottish, Welsh - is not a threat to the union. The demand for self-determination does not necessarily lead to separatism. Self-determination means that a people have the right to choose whether they are in a political union or not. If anything, the rekindling of our organic identities in the face of mass immigration may well bring us closer together. What is a threat to the union is if it is perceived by people to be an obstacle to reversing their demographic demise in their homeland. If unionists condemn the inevitable resurgence of ethnic consciousness, especially among the English, it is in fact they who jeopardise the union. They need to be conscientious of this.

@PaulEmbery @Sargon_of_Akkad Because they've been brow beaten into saying that.

Polling shows that "the overwhelming majority of English people  – across ethnic groups, education levels, ages and politics – agree that race and ethnic background is no barrier to being English." Ethno-obessives such as @Sargon_of_Akkad should take note. moreincommon.org.uk/latest-insight…

@SirJBritain @benhabib6 Yes

@AlecCave @benhabib6 Hey Alec are you still part of the Homeland Party?

@benhabib6 @danwootton @_AdvanceUK x.com/AlecCave/statu…

It was great being on with @danwootton yesterday discussing the complex issue of ethnicity. @_AdvanceUK stands for the United Kingdom in all its parts. We are committed to the Union. How could any political party stand for the Union while championing English, Scottish, Welsh or Ulster ethnic nationalism? Such a position would be inherently self contradictory and would fuel separatism. Down that road would lie division and the breaking up of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As for ethnicity itself, the subject is highly nuanced, especially for a country like the UK, with an ancient and changing racial mix. Pure blood politics is a very dangerous game. Ethnicity is not just defined by one’s ancestors but by linguistic, cultural and historic ties, amongst other things. If you do not believe me, look up its definition. Yes, there is an English ethnicity but it is not purely racially defined. Winston Churchill was by parentage only “half English”. Yet no one can deny he was entirely ethnically English and British. There is no place for racism in any civilised society (or political party).

@PaulEmbery She can feel English all she likes, but it's for the English to decide if she belongs to our family. We have decided she does not. The reason being, as you have pointed out, that she has Pakistani heritage.

Mahmood, who is of Pakistani heritage, says that she would support England over Pakistan in a sporting contest, and ethno-obsessives on this site attack her for appropriating their English identity. Would they have preferred it if she’d said the opposite?

@PaulEmbery If they're English, why have they not inherited English surnames?

Shabana Mahmood is English. So is Rishi Sunak. So is Frank Bruno. So is Ian Wright. So is Idris Elba. I regard them all as compatriots.

Expressing pride your own nation is hateful, apparently. This kind of leftist inversion is no surprise.

@GBPolitcs @DailyMail Loving your own nation is hateful, apparently. Usual leftist inversion.

🚨NEW: Union Jack and St George’s flags have been labelled as "tools of hate" in a leaked government "social cohesion" strategy [@DailyMail]

@NickBuckleyMBE What's your definition?

@BBCWalesNews Ask him what is a Welsh person? Last year he said it was someone who had lived in wales for 5 yrs and paid tax. I have a different definition.

Reform would prioritise Welsh people for social housing, party says bbc.in/4rWaCkg

@PolitlcsUK @charliecolecc Her government is about to start giving illegal immigrants £10,000 each should they fail their asylum application. They're financially incentivising the 'perilous crossings', violating our borders.

🚨 WATCH: Shabana Mahmood attacks Zack Polanski and the Green Party's "fairytale of open borders" "A party leader should not be on the beaches of France helping migrants onto small boats, encouraging them to make a perilous crossing"

Whilst law-abiding Brits are taxed at every turn, illegal migrants are rewarded with £10,000 of our money for violating our borders.