Please Help New English Review
For our donors from the UK:
New English Review
New English Review Facebook Group
Follow New English Review On Twitter
Recent Publications by New English Review Authors
The Literary Culture of France
by J. E. G. Dixon
Hamlet Made Simple and Other Essays
by David P. Gontar
Farewell Fear
by Theodore Dalrymple
The Eagle and The Bible: Lessons in Liberty from Holy Writ
by Kenneth Hanson
The West Speaks
interviews by Jerry Gordon
Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott
Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq
Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple
Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller
The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky
Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum
Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq
An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky
The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple
Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein
Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple
Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple
In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple
Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq
Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky
Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple
Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq
Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple
What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq
Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple
The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq
Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq
Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky
Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq
The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff





Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Give Saint George Some Fighting Room Bookmark and Share
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (July 2010)


The following speech was delivered by Ms. Weatherwax to the Second Symposium of the New English Review, Nashville Tennessee Saturday 19th June 2010.
 

The title of my talk today comes from the song ragged heroes by John Tams – opening track of Rise Up Like The Sun, the 1978 album by the Albion Band an English folk and country dance band.

It’s a ‘calling on’ song asking “where are all the ragged heroes, buried in their suits of pine” which these days brings to my mind the cortege of coffins of repatriated servicemen coming through Wootton Bassett. more>>>
Posted on 06/30/2010 4:58 PM by NER
Comments
30 Jun 2010
dumbledoresarmy

Dear Esmerelda - thank you for that.  Very informative, and most inspiring.

I am watching the progress of MFE and EDL (with SDL and WDL) with great interest.    Each country within what used to be 'Christendom' is suddenly, at the eleventh hour, digging down into its own deep history, to find what it needs to overcome the Third Jihad.

I was, like you, amused by the ignorant Muslim bruvva who was advising his fellows to learn bow and arrows...obviously he didn't encounter Henry V, Agincourt, or, for that matter, the stories of Robin Hood, when he passed briefly and uninterestedly through the English school system.  

I do wonder how many people in Britain - especially farmers in the country, and the much-maligned deer-stalking grouse-shooting fox-hunting fraternity among the surviving English and Scottish gentry - are already much better armed, and much better shots, than the Muslims can even begin to conceive of...and would, if awakened and mobilised, present a formidable obstacle to any would-be sharia pushers?  

And how many English members of groups such as the Society for Creative Anachronism, can already hit a far off target with the longbow? Just wait till the bruvvas find themselves facing Lord Something-Hyphen-Something from the Home Counties, backed up by the modern representatives of Robin Hood and his merry men.

I find it interesting to see the practical division of labour that is developing in the Resistance, and the role of the 'armchair warriors' who use their time for letter writing to politicians and other persons in authority (a task that, if one sets out to do it well,  takes up a surprising amount of energy and time; I myself find it quite draining, despite having the gift of the gab).

The 'divisions' are an inspired idea; as you say, it's analogous to the local 'regiments' in  the military; each of these groups (Jews, LGBT, Sikhs) has a very different 'character' though all equally committed to the common good of the UK, so it's best they can reach and mobilise their own and bring them into the wider cause.

I *must* look up the 'Australian Defence League'. 

When you spoke of the generally amicable relationship developing between the different 'Leagues' (Scots, Welsh, English, and the Ulster group) I had a picture in  my head: at the 'British Isles' table in Heaven, I saw St Alban and St George, St David and St Andrew toasting one another with mugs of ale and slapping each other on the back in a convivial fashion.  Andrew and George, of course, have more in their portfolios than Scotland and England ; but Patron Saints, like mothers but unlike most earthly politicians, have an attention span divinely-enlarged and enabled to cope with multiple responsibilities; and at the  moment they doubtless have England and Scotland high on their list for intercession and inspiration.

Let us  hope that St Patrick and St Brigid are rolling up their sleeves and getting ready to ginger up *their* constituency in the Emerald Isle to recognise the gravest danger that they are ever likely to face, and to deal with it before it becomes the massive threat to civic order that it has become in England, Scotland and Wales.

Post-script: in the USA they speak of 'truckers'.  You noted that this corresponds to the UK's 'lorry drivers, panel beaters and fitters'.

In Australia we have 'truckies' - and for obvious reasons, given the enormous distances that, like in the USA, they travel, they have a whole down-to-earth 'culture' of their own.  One of my uncles is a retired truckie - he used to drive truckloads of harvested cane to the sugar mill; and he has gotten a bead on Islam, he knows it's a threat.

 It may be possible to energise the truckies in Australia...just recently, a truckie was killed in the crossfire (or, indeed, may have been deliberately shot for the crime of being kaffir) when two groups of Muslim thugs held a shootout in the parking lot of a take-away.  

If the Australian Defence League could reach the truckies (and I would add to that, the surfies - and the *legitimate* bikies, not the outlaw/ criminal gangs which have already been infiltrated or even taken over by Muslims) they could be a formidable force, for they tend to be big guys, not easily intimidated, and they move all around the country.



8 Jul 2010
Send an emailarthur

 That was one of the best essays I have read this year. The EDL are constantly barracked as being Nazis. We just turn away now from that ridiculous slur. We are champions and saviours of our green and pleasant land!!!! NO SURRENDER!



24 Jul 2010
Michale j

I believe i was the chap you spoke to in the pub after the london demo to Dwning street? It was the ENA who contacted Ms May and placed befor her the political and legal issues as to why we thought the speaker at wembley should not be allowed in and she followed the law. As for the ENA they are not looking for political office but are in fact attempting to bring togeather the fragmented groups of the English movement under one allied banner, with the intention of us all working to get one MP in office as a united alliance of English parties and groups. If we can do this you will see a flood of English nationalist support greater than this country has ever seen. I was one of only two ever elected councillors in the country, there have been none before and have been none since. The only way to gain power in the English movement is to fight this threat of islamic extremist terror on the political stage. Show the people that the days of being frightened of being branded racist because you do not agree with these terrorists who hiide behind the Muslim banner are over. Once the public realise this they will vote in their thousands. It takes only one Mp to be elected and the gates will open.

Michael






Most Recent Posts at The Iconoclast
Search The Iconoclast
Enter text, Go to search:
The Iconoclast Posts by Author
The Iconoclast Archives
sun mon tue wed thu fri sat
    1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  

Subscribe