Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Heresies Ep. 3: A Self-Hating Britain? Why Britain Should Reject Self-Hatred & Celebrate Its History" video.

  1. Thank you very much for your confidence in Great Britain and welcome, I'm very glad you moved here!
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  2.  @mooseyman74  Apathy is the planned end product of engineered national self-hatred and self-abasement. Taught in all schools since the 1970s by leftist teachers (cf. Gramsci's 'long march through the institutions). If you remember, we were not allowed to be proud of Great Britain as soon as we were conned into the EU, then masquerading as the 'Common Market'. Apathy ensures minimal resistance to the sort of hideous cultural usurpation we're fending off now. We will win.
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  3. This is what deeply pains me too. As the child of parents and a stepfather, all of whom were amazingly courageous and proud frontline military during WW2, and who heard so much about their war, I can't begin to put into words my sorrow for what they and we have lost - or rather perhaps, what has been stolen and bludgeoned out of us and our nation.
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  4.  @derekc6445  Oh yes, indeed! They've over-played their actually tenuous hand. And they forgot that blood is thicker than water. I'm heartened that my middle of the road, middle-class adult children - although not church members - are sending their children to church schools and not putting up with the wokeist claptrap that occasionally finds its way into the classroom. Amongst their peer groups, there are reportedly a very large majority of young parents who hold the same sensible views and values. It could well be that wokeism is essentially an artefact of the internet, spurred on by the media giants' deeply misguided identification with those extremists who shout the loudest. Much as in the 90s/early 2000s, when retailers pandered to the 'pink pound'. Normality will prevail!
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  5.  @chris-mg5ui  Oh, so well said! I've genealogists on all sides of my families-of-origin. So we've a pretty good idea where we came from. Most of them were, as you say, hardworking, humble minions. None of them had anything to do with raping and pillaging other countries and ours. (Well, apart from one 'elevated' line - and they didn't pass on a scrap of 'privilege', so I'll pass on that guilt and leave it to those to whom they did bequeath all the goodies. )
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  6. I believe that ordinary Welsh people might say the same. And Scotland's not far behind.
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  7.  @judithcressey1682  Yes, I've heard about the Rev Randall's horrid experience. It's appalling to say the least. None of the Churches are immune to this bandwagonism. Most of the people in the pews know this and carefully avoid it all.
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  8. ​ @Andy Jarman A few thoughts, if I may. Generally, loathing for another tribe becomes ossified when at a distance. Up close it becomes diluted by reality, familiarity, it's less likely to become part of the loather's self-identity. Having said that, it's not hundreds and hundreds of years since atrocities and rank, inhumane discrimination have been committed against the smaller UK nations. It's just over a hundred years since the Irish Easter Rising and the attendant atrocities committed by those acting for the British government - and so it continued throughout the 20th century in some form or other. The Welsh have been variously colonised then dropped on from a great height throughout latter day history depending on the nation's utility in Westminster's economic schemes - Thatcher's treatment of miners and their families was nothing short of atrocious. Similarly, Scotland's been a bag of goodies for the English elites to dip into and then cast aside (I would be writing this from the Highlands and not England if Scotland had been on a par with England and not been treated as an afterthought, starved of the support and services enjoyed by the English. My great-grandparents' village did not have electricity until the late 1960s ). Note that throughout I attribute these abuses entirely to Westminster and English elites. IMHO, successive UK governments have not served the Union well. For hundreds of years, they and not the English people have abused the smaller constituent nations of the UK in just the same way as they've latterly covertly trashed 'Britishness' in their avaricious gallop towards Europe and globalism (as well as, against the sensible qualms of ordinary citizens, having imported - yes, as commodities - millions of immigrants, cheap, tax-paying labour to keep British wages down). Sadly, loathing for 'the English' is very misplaced. 'The English', the ordinary people, have certainly been subject to Westminster's whims and inhumanities too! An initial remedy might begin with a genuinely representative British Parliament for all of Great Britain's constituent nations and governments that are not commandeered by the sons of empire (in this 21st century, how can it possibly be right that most of our current Cabinet members are drawn from public schools and privileged families?? Note that I'm not a socialist! But there is little authentic equality of opportunity and just plain fairness when such Parliaments and Cabinets still hold the reins.)
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