Well, here we are at ground zero. But instead of finding
nothing but scorched earth and a chance to rebuild a society from scratch it
turns out that very little was actually cleared away in the blast. Nobody
seriously expected anything different and no sensible observer imagined the
smoke clearing to reveal a smiling army of politically neutral busy bees eager
to get on and start the work. All the old structures are still in place and the
gaping mouths of the dependent millions gape just as wide as before. There is
no selective glyphosate that can rid us of the weeds and leave the crops, no
magic decontaminant that can disinfect without damaging healthy flesh.
But there is one thing we didn’t have before and one
principle we now need to inculcate in future generations if they are not to
grow up to despise the decision we just took. The European Union – rightly in
the views of many admirers – took away from its members the very things that make
human society tolerable. National identity and pride in same; self-determination
and an ability to shape things how people want them, not how a small elite
think they should want them. And the opportunity for the whole of the
population to be included in the national conversation, not just those who
represent the vocal minorities who demand so much yet contribute so little.
Nobody is going to start tearing down legal rights and
roaming gangs of vigilantes are not, as some suggest, going go around targeting
people they don’t agree with – at least, no more than usual. False flag racism
accusations proliferate, oddly after the vote; hopefully, they’ll tire
of it or be found out eventually. But nothing will be done and the pains of
this confrontation will not be eased if we don’t act to quell the clamour of
blame and accusations of disenfranchisement from those who imagine their
birthright has been stolen. If anything it has been handed back to them; they
just need to know how to use it, starting with confronting a few home truths.
Firstly, nobody owes anybody a living. The illusion of a
prosperous society in which nobody except imported wage slaves need to work for their daily bread is just a flimsy lie. The notion that everybody is equal,
regardless of the evidence in front of your face is no noble truth but a
meaningless slogan; the doors may be opened for you but you still have to walk
through them yourself. The elevation of imported cultures above that of the
indigenous stewards of this land has to cease. And all of this has to start
where the socialist indoctrinators started generations ago; that old principle that rights come with responsibilities needs to be reinstalled at the heart of our
democracy.
This applies as much to government as it does to
individuals and the new-dawnsters of this post-Brexit, post-Christian world might
do well to heed the moral foundations of what went before. The sermon on the
mount is a good place to start. “All
things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them.” Whatever Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Uncle Tom Carswell
and all think of Nigel Farage, this referendum would never have happened if it hadn’t
been for his tireless mission. He has endured a relentless onslaught of
personal attacks in recent years and now, when he should be exonerated they are
trying to bury him.
They were more than happy to use his willingness to
confront realities that the establishment refused to do and let him cut through
to voters abandoned by their own parties long ago. They were happy to let him
campaign on issues considered too toxic for polite conversations but which nevertheless
needed confronting. But now, Boris having made his power play – and make no
mistake that Boris couldn’t give a toss whether we’re in or out of the EU, the
referendum was merely a convenient vehicle for his personal ambitions – he doesn’t want the small matter
of discussing what the country actually needs to obstruct his road to coronation.
Never fob off the Farage!
Already he and others are rowing back on the rhetoric
which brought about the Brexit result. Under Boris and Co. it looks like we may
actually get the worst of both worlds. Instead of the Ukip leader’s positive
vision for a free, independent and united Britain, leading the world, not yoked
to the lumbering cart of a sclerotic political union, there is a danger that Project
Johnson will be a moribund, business-as-usual affair. The fight for
independence is not yet over and I very much doubt we have seen the last of Nigel
Farage.
