A Happy New Year?

It's the first day of a new year, the 1st of January 2008, so I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.

At this time of year we like to put the past behind us and look towards a brighter and better future, but a quick look at what is going on in this country together with what is happening in the rest of the world will do nothing but cast a shadow over this brighter and better future we all aspire to.

Internationally we have just seen the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, a very brave woman, who against all odds attempted to stand up to the male-dominated Islamic hierarchy in Pakistan. It was really only a matter of time before the inevitable happened and she was hushed up but I'm surprised it took so long considering the attitudes that Muslims have towards their women. Whatever you may think about Muslims the lady has to be admired for her bravery, a quality that many of her fellow countrymen seem to have recognised resulting in the civil unrest we have all seen on our television screens during this last week. If the Pakistani government continues to adjust their story about what happened as it suits them, I am sure the situation will not improve.

Another example of how those in authority have abused the responsibility they have towards their people has been seen in Kenya. Again, civil unrest has been the result, this time though from what appears to be a rigged election.

Finally the situation in both Afghanistan and Iraq do not seem to improve and the dying continues.

What links all of these situations is the apparent lack of respect that those involved have for the sanctity of life and the apparent absence of any sense of orderliness and lack of self-discipline resulting in the familiar scenes we have all witnessed on our television sets.

Perhaps this is what results from the frustrations the people feel from the lack of attention that is given to, what they feel to be, genuine grievances. Perhaps that is the inevitable outcome for all of us, that if we become frustrated enough, we resort to extreme actions that ordinarily would seem completely alien particularly in a civilised society that we are supposed to enjoy in the Western world.

So how much further can we be pushed?

From all quarters the British people are being subjected to attacks on our traditional and once secure way of life. We are ruled by a fascist Labour government led by that most dislikeable and disliked Incapability Brown. Our health service, standards of education, our social infrastructure and the rule of law are all under threat as we are forced, still, to bow and scrape to the god of political correctness. We are made to feel ashamed when we stand up to proclaim how proud we are to be British, English or White in case we upset those who are now living amongst us who are not from these shores. Yes, the ones who came here to enjoy the freedoms and more prosperous way of life that did actually once exist in this once great nation of ours, but instead of embracing the Britishness that most of us believe in, they take every opportunity and make every effort to destroy our society and convert it into the society they experienced but left behind to come here.

I don't know whether or not New Year's resolutions are still popular but if every true British man and woman have not resolved to cut out this cancer currently destroying our society, then the Britain we once knew and loved will wither and die. The longer that true Britons stay asleep and ignore what is happening, the quicker this end will come with the outcome for this land being exactly the same as those considered less civilised and whatever we once felt was worthy will be gone.

Happy New Year?