Britons emigrating to escape immigrants

According to Liam Clifford of Global Visas, a British organization that supplies immigration advice and services:

Since January 2007, we have recorded an 80 percent rise in British nationals applying to move overseas…. In recent months, we have received as many as 4,000 requests in a single week from people who have had enough of Britain and want to get out…. Ironically, the main reason for these people leaving the UK is the over-stretching of services caused by inbound immigration to the UK. We are aware of the issue of so-called ‘white flight’ from certain inner city areas to the suburbs but now people are increasingly seeking a better standard of living offered by other countries. [from Press Dispensary via Brussels Journal.]

It’s the deliberate murder of a people, brought to you by non-discriminatory immigration. And what is there in the innards of the contemporary British that would lead them to resist this murder? There is nothing. Instead of fighting to defend their country, they just up and leave, taking their skills elsewhere, as Clifford puts it.

I’ve said many times that as a result of their acceptance of liberal tolerance as their guiding value, the British, as they are, are spiritually dead. What we’re seeing here are the early stages of the physical, demographic, racial death that is the inevitable result of the spiritual death. Unless the British rediscover their spiritual identity as Britons, as Englishmen, the physical death of their country will continue.

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Sage McLaughlin writes:

Your melancholy post about the death of the British soul—that self-inflicted lobotomy of the spirit which is the necessary consequence of unalloyed liberalism—put me in mind of something Chesterton wrote in The Everlasting Man. He said of the Romans at a certain point in their history, perhaps at the time of the Third Punic War, that “they were dying because their gods were dying.” In the last few years, this line has come back to me again and again. As I look around at my countrymen, I often think to myself, “That man is dead because he has no god other than himself.” Without a real and meaningful connection to the transcendent, Man simply dies, vanishes, goes extinct. It is an astonishing fact of life.

That line by Chesterton is in a chapter named “The War of Gods and Demons.” The book is worth buying for that account of the conflict between Rome and Carthage. It forever changed the way I see our current predicament.

LA replies:

“As I look around at my countrymen, I often think to myself, ‘That man is dead because he has no god other than himself.’”

This is a most important kind of experience/insight. It is what Voegelin would call a “noetic” experience (noesis: the intuitive aspect of rationality by which we perceive first principles), and what C.S. Lewis would call an experience of the Tao or objective value—or, in this case, an experience of the absence and denial of objective value. If we ourselves have an experience of the reality of objective value, then we can also see when it is missing in our society, and we also see that because it’s lacking, the society is doomed.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 28, 2007 12:24 AM | Send