Anti-British dogma faces new fightback

FOR YEARS, as our ruling class has sought to weaken our traditional nationhood and erode our identity, the patriotic voice of the mainstream public has been ignored.

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But now on two key fronts - support for illegal migrants and displays of our national flags that voice is making itself heard, and the process could be rewriting our history.

Shortly before the First World War, the Catholic author GK Chesterton wrote his epic poem The Secret People, which warned against treating ordinary English citizens with condescending indif-| ference. The most famous passage reads: "Smile at us, pay us, pass us, but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, who have never spoken yet." Those words resonate with particular power after a remarkable week during which key elements of the woke agenda were reversed by determined opposition. In the Essex town of Epping, vociferous protests by residents and the local authority against the conversion of the local Bell Hotel into a centre for illegal migrants culminated in a landmark ruling by the High Court against the Home Office which was deemed to have acted unlawfully. It has left the Government's whole asylum policy in tatters, as other councils now will line up to take legal action against the creation of asylum hotels in their own areas.