English Unity Committee

The latest attempt to form a unified English nationalist movement comes in the form of the English Unity Committee, which calls for the development of a united, moderate English party supportive of the following principles:

• Establishment of an English Parliament
• Exit England from the EU
• Use of referenda and more direct democracy
• Develop very strict immigration controls
• Ensure the English are treated as equal citizens within the UK
• Keep English tax revenue for English needs
• Re-build England's manufacturing base
• Bring our servicemen home from foreign wars without delay.

The original proposal to create a Unified English Nationalist Party came from Cllr Michael Johnson of the England First Party, who later became Michael Johnson of the Darwen Party, and then Michael Johnson of the English Democrats and English Nationalist Alliance. English nationalist unity has been the goal of the English Democrats' strategist Steve Uncles ever since, so no wonder it's never happened. However, it is not Steve Uncles or Michael Johnson behind the new English Unity Committee, so does it have a chance of succeeding where Uncles and Johnson have failed? I very much doubt it.

If I am correct, then the bloke driving this new initiative is even more right-wing than either Uncles or Johnson. How do I know this? I don't for sure, but the new English Unity Committee bears a striking resemblance to the 'English Guild' which tried and failed to get off the ground in 2006.

The English Guild is a completely independent organisation, run by a steering group of founder members.

Politically independent, the Guild supports & encourages associates to work towards English Identity & Independence.

English Guild associate membership is free.
This is because the group operates ONLY via the web & costs are minimal.

Any costs incurred would be asked to be paid by the membership in donations.

The English Guild is a non party political club &
operates around the following core principles:

WE BELIEVE IN –

English Independence
English withdrawal from the European Union
Promotion & celebration of all English Heritage, Culture & Identity,
The Implementation of the White Dragon as a recognised English symbol
Promotion of both St George & St Edmund celebration dates as national holidays
Building a Classless Society
The Return of the Death Penalty for heinous crimes
Zero tolerance on Drugs & Crime
A National Pension Service, fit for our old to live comfortable lives
Promotion of Traditional Family Life

People in basic agreement are urged to join us.

English Guild Contact Information

Forum – www.englishunity.org.uk

Email - english_guild@yahoo.com

And the bloke behind the English Guild was also responsible for www.englishindependence.org.uk (which is the English Peoples Party, the Campaign for an Independent England or the English Independence Movement, depending on the day of the week).

Maybe someone will come along and disabuse me of the notion that the English Guild person is the same person that is behind the English Unity Committee, but given that the person behind the English Unity Committee wishes to remain anonymous - which doesn't bode well - I doubt it.

On English identity the English Unity Committee has this to offer us:

English Unity Committee Statement on the Meaning of Being English

1. Acknowledge the existence of the indigenous English;
2. Uphold the rights of the indigenous English under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
3. Recognise the existence of civic English;
4. Uphold he primacy of
1. The English language
2. English law
3. English culture and cultural heritage
4. English traditions
5. Recognise;
1. The rights of civic English to observe their cultural heritage, providing that does not conflict with 1,2,3,4 above
2. The rights of those in permanent residence in England to observe their cultural heritage, providing that does not conflict with 1,2,3,4 and 5.1 above.

I am 'indigenous English', so I obviously have little problem recognising my own existence, but 'indigenous English' is an unusual term that few English people would be familiar with as a description of themselves (perhaps unfortunately). By 'indigenous English' I had assumed that they were using that phrase as a substitute for ethnic English - a more common term - but apparently not because the English Unity Committee appears to have three classes of English: Ethnic, Indigenous and Civic.

The EUC believe that once we all feel able to accept the existence of ethnic, indigenous and civic English, and that all are of equal value, then we will find unity and be able to move forward together.

So the ethnic English must presumably include people of English ethnicity who are not indigenous to England because of migration (let's offer up Jason Donovan as an example, given that he was recently on Who Do You Think You Are? tracing his English ancestry). Then there's the indigenous English, people like me who are ethnically English and indigenous. And then there are the 'civic English', by which I assume they mean people who are not ethnically English but are nevertheless English by national identification or simply resident in England, a group of people that could include my wife and various other non-ethnically-English notables such as David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Apparently (point 2) we need to 'recognise the existence of these civic English'. Eh? Don't we do so already, or have I missed something!

In point 1 they claim for the Indigenous English (Not Jason Donovan or the Civic English) the rights of Indigenous Peoples under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a declaration designed to protect minority indigenous ethnic groups.

Bizarrely the UN do not have an official definition of Indigenous Peoples but the one that is most often cited is this definition by Jose R. Martinez Cobo, the Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities:

“Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal system.
“This historical continuity may consist of the continuation, for an extended period reaching into the present of one or more of the following factors:
a)Occupation of ancestral lands, or at least of part of them;
b)Common ancestry with the original occupants of these lands;
c)Culture in general, or in specific manifestations (such as religion, living under a tribal system, membership of an indigenous community, dress, means of livelihood, lifestyle, etc.);
d)Language (whether used as the only language, as mother-tongue, as the habitual means of communication at home or in the family, or as the main, preferred, habitual, general or normal language);
e)Residence on certain parts of the country, or in certain regions of the world;
f)Other relevant factors.
“On an individual basis, an indigenous person is one who belongs to these indigenous populations through self-identification as indigenous (group consciousness) and is recognized and accepted by these populations as one of its members (acceptance by the group).
“This preserves for these communities the sovereign right and power to decide who belongs to them, without external interference!"

Is the England that the English Unity Committee inhabit the same England that I know; do we English require the same protections as Aboriginal Australians, Pygmies and Inuit? Do we really? We are talking about the same England, right? None of this is necessary because the indigenous English or ethnic English - of which I am one - predominate and can claim sovereignty any time we so wish; our only oppressors are ourselves.

Complete moonbattery if you ask me.