TWO of the best-known dystopian novels are probably George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. But there is another which may have slipped below many people’s radar. This is the 1972 Fugue for a Darkening Island by Christopher Priest.
Amazon tells us: ‘As Europe looks for ways to deal with the humanitarian crisis of Syria’s misplaced population and the influx of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, Christopher Priest’s second novel has a new, timely, edge. Survivors of a terrible African war flee their blighted continent, and look for refuge in the countries of the West. But Britain is falling into civil war and anarchy.’
The book describes one family’s fight for survival as civil war breaks out in Britain between the native white population and what the author calls the ‘Afrims’ (African migrants).
Looking at the UK population today, we can see that White British are already a minority in London:
- Black and Minority Ethnic: 46 per cent of Londoners identify as Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME)
- White British: 43.4 per cent of Londoners identify as White British
- Asian: 20.7 per cent of Londoners identify as Asian
- Other White: 14.6 per cent of Londoners identify as Other White
- Black African: 7.9 per cent of Londoners identify as Black African
- Indian: 7.0 per cent of Londoners identify as Indian.
White British are a minority in Birmingham:
- In 2021, 51.4 per cent of Birmingham’s population identified as BAME, while 48.6 per cent identified as White
- The largest group outside of White British was Pakistani
- Black African and Indian were the next largest groups
- 3 per cent of Birmingham’s population are Sikh.
White British are a minority in Leicester:
- Asian: 43.4 per cent of Leicester residents identify as Asian, Asian British, or Asian Welsh
- Black: 7.8 per cent of Leicester residents identify as Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean, or African
- Mixed: 3.8 per cent of Leicester residents identify as mixed or of multiple ethnic groups
- White: 40.9 per cent of Leicester residents identify as white
- Other: 4.1 per cent of Leicester residents identify as ‘other’.
I could go on, but you get the picture.
We’re told that according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), net migration to Britain in the year ending June 2024 was 728,000 and that this represents a significant drop from the record high of 906,000 in the year ending June 2023. But we have to be careful with these figures as they don’t give a full picture of the number of people moving to Britain. Almost all of those – more than one million a year – will be non-white, while a significant proportion (I can’t find the figures) of those emigrating will be white. This means that the non-white population may be increasing by more than one million a year and not the latest ‘net migration’ level of 728,000. Some forecasts suggest that White British will be a minority in their own country by 2070. Others put this date in the 2060s while the Guardian, a strong supporter of open-borders immigration, suggests White British will be a minority by 2100. I don’t recall any of the main political parties stating in their election manifestos that they would enact policies to ensure that White British would become a minority in their own country possibly well before the end of this century.
Whichever date you agree with, or whether you even agree that White British could become a minority in their own country, it’s clear that Britain is undergoing a massive demographic change. This raises two important questions, though I suspect that the ruling political, academic, media, bureaucratic and business elites would rather we plebs didn’t think about them. They are:
- When will the ethnic minorities feel that the country belongs to them rather than to the shrinking White British minority population and thus the more radical elements in the non-white population will feel emboldened to seize political and military power that still resides with the White British population?
- How long will White British tolerate losing control of their country and being treated as second-class citizens in their own country?
As we have seen in Northern Ireland and many other countries, the move towards civil war can start with terrorist attacks by a minority community who feel they don’t have the same rights as the majority. These can provoke a violent response with the risk of escalation into full-scale conflict.
I won’t give an opinion on which group is most likely to instigate violence as this might lead to me being accused of all kinds of made-up crimes involving words ending in ‘phobia’. Instead I will quote from a Government statement in Hansard on July 19, 2023. It said: ‘By far the biggest terrorist threat comes from Islamist terrorism. It accounts for 67 per cent of attacks since 2018, and about three quarters of MI5’s caseload. The remainder of the UK terrorist threat is largely driven by extreme right-wing terrorism, which accounts for approximately 22 per cent of attacks since 2018 and about a quarter of the MI5 caseload.’
Apart from the June 2016 murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, I can’t recall any other incidents which could be attributed to ‘extreme right-wing terrorism’. So I’m not quite sure where the Government gets its 22 per cent figure from. Moreover, that leaves 11 per cent of terrorist attacks apparently committed by people who are neither Islamists nor extreme right-wing. Heaven knows who they are. Scientologists? Tibetan monks? Trekkies?
In answer to the second question, we have already seen increasing discontent among parts of the white British population at what is happening to our country. The seeming elevation of the welfare of migrants over that of White British with illegal migrants being given priority with accommodation, healthcare, living expenses, mobile phones, clothing and much more at the expense of increasingly taxed British has been one of the most evident signs of White British losing control over their lives. This has also been evident in our two-tier policing that the Sentencing Council was set to enshrine into law – meaning that White British would be more likely to get custodial sentences than those from ethnic backgrounds for similar crimes. These have now been abandoned following a weeks-long standoff between senior judges and the government. That however is small comfort to Lucy Connelly.
The demographic takeover of Britain by non-whites and the increasing marginalisation of White British cannot end in a happy, harmonious society.
The good news is that a new English civil war will probably not happen in our lifetimes, but it is possible that our children could see the first outbreaks of widespread inter-communal and sectarian violence and maybe even likely that our grandchildren will experience full-scale civil war.
If this happens, one interesting question is which side will the police take? It’s clear that senior police management currently believe that their job is to protect non-whites while brutally cracking down on any White British protesting about the loss of their country. But would rank-and-file officers switch their loyalties to the increasingly persecuted white population? And would the Army, which is currently more than 80 per cent White British, shoot White British citizens in order to hand the country over to those who have arrived in the last few decades? I wonder how many people are thinking about this?
I wonder too, how many of our so-called representatives are prepared to raise such fast demographic and cultural change as an issue of urgent national concern?
