HebrideanUltraTerfHecate on Nostr: https://thecritic.co.uk/fraser-nelsons-immigration-holdout/ Nelson’s arguments ...
https://thecritic.co.uk/fraser-nelsons-immigration-holdout/
Nelson’s arguments about falling crime don’t hold water either, as he insists that “our streets are now safer than they have perhaps ever been”. At a time when Britain’s crime rate should be falling, due to our aging population and advanced technology, it has actually remained stable — propped up by many foreign criminals, including those involved in organised crime rings. In diverse areas like London, crime has actually risen. Besides, it’s no surprise that crime reporting has fallen, given the failure of British police to solve some 90 percent of crimes. In 2023 alone, that included 30,000 unsolved sex offences, 330,000 unsolved violent crimes, 320,000 cases of unsolved criminal damage, and 1.5 million unsolved thefts.
Nelson’s most offensive claim was on the subject of national identity — “our concept of Britishness”, as he puts it, “a set of values that anyone can adopt”. His mistake is not in assuming that Britons are united by common threads, but in assuming that these common threads are what make us Britons. Rather, they are the observed habits of an organic national community, accrued over centuries like sediment at the bottom of a river.
Nelson isn’t even talking about true assimilation, in which new arrivals become culturally indistinguishable from their peers — a la the Huguenots. The scale and heterogeneity of new arrivals plainly makes this impossible. He is essentially parroting the modish national values cooked up by Tony Blair in the early 2000s; most of our ancestors would undoubtedly fall short of his ideal citizenship test.
Nelson’s arguments about falling crime don’t hold water either, as he insists that “our streets are now safer than they have perhaps ever been”. At a time when Britain’s crime rate should be falling, due to our aging population and advanced technology, it has actually remained stable — propped up by many foreign criminals, including those involved in organised crime rings. In diverse areas like London, crime has actually risen. Besides, it’s no surprise that crime reporting has fallen, given the failure of British police to solve some 90 percent of crimes. In 2023 alone, that included 30,000 unsolved sex offences, 330,000 unsolved violent crimes, 320,000 cases of unsolved criminal damage, and 1.5 million unsolved thefts.
Nelson’s most offensive claim was on the subject of national identity — “our concept of Britishness”, as he puts it, “a set of values that anyone can adopt”. His mistake is not in assuming that Britons are united by common threads, but in assuming that these common threads are what make us Britons. Rather, they are the observed habits of an organic national community, accrued over centuries like sediment at the bottom of a river.
Nelson isn’t even talking about true assimilation, in which new arrivals become culturally indistinguishable from their peers — a la the Huguenots. The scale and heterogeneity of new arrivals plainly makes this impossible. He is essentially parroting the modish national values cooked up by Tony Blair in the early 2000s; most of our ancestors would undoubtedly fall short of his ideal citizenship test.