England has gone through multiple "invasions". Initially the Celts and to some degree the Picts inhabited the island. Then came the Saxons. the Germanic invaders, and to some degree the Anglo tribes. Also from time to time Viking invaders. Then in 1066 William the Bastard and his clan crossed over from Normandy and battled in Hastings. Welcome to the Normans. Needless to say the Norman invasion has had lasting effects for almost 1,000 years, until now.
The Guardian notes;
Keir Starmer has attacked Reform UK’s plan to deport thousands of people already legally living in the UK as “racist” and “immoral”, as he said that Labour had a generational struggle ahead with the populist right. The prime minister, in Liverpool for his party conference, said he did not think that Nigel Farage’s party was trying to appeal to racists, and that he understood people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated and wanted change. But he said the rightwing party’s proposal to entirely abolish the main route for immigrants to gain British citizenship could “tear this country apart”.
What then is it to be English? It was a religion for a while, a King or Queen, a history, etc. But these are going through massive changes.
One sees the same in Ireland, a massive change to a socialist Government with similar open borders. The Irish spent almost 800 years to be free from English domination only to possible see the influx dominate the new culture.
But the habit of calling one's adversary violence inciting epithets seems to be de regeur.
The Normans had their own ways to do things. This small band of invaders in short order took over a nation, changed the laws, overthrew the leadership and dominated for a thousand years. Perhaps the end is truly near.
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