Will there always be an England?

On its way to the USA

[Reprinted from Issues & Views July 16, 2001]

Like God, England is dead. And it is unlikely that there will be a resurrection. The forces of liberalism and socialism are too strong. There is a sliding scale of free speech, the country is inundated with aliens, and it has handed over its sovereignty to a bunch of socialists in Brussels who call themselves the European Union.

Sovereignty? What's that? The British pound will soon be subsumed into the Euro, although Tony Blair is waiting for reelection before completing the dirty deed. Meanwhile, an English greengrocer has become a cause celebre for selling a pound of bananas instead of half a kilo, as directed by the people in Brussels.

He has massive support from the public, it is true. Even today's British worms will sometimes turn. But that didn't prevent him from being prosecuted. As the judge in the case stated, he had broken the law and "Parliament had surrendered its sovereignty to the primacy of European law" when the U.K. joined the European Union in 1972.

Free speech? Not in England. The immigrants who dominate the race relations tribe are not too keen on it. So be careful if you are in a British pub in some areas and are inclined to making remarks deemed as racist. You may be overheard by police who have been sent in plain clothes to listen in and catch the offenders. I am not making this up.

There will always be an England? I don't think so.

-- Canadian syndicated columnist Doug Collins, The Collins Column, May 15, 2001.

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