Where is the moral outrage

Subject: Where is the moral outrage.

Identity has become a complex process. There was a time when a Frenchman an Italian an Argentinian or a member of any country, including our own, and could clearly be identified by a range of identifying factors. Racial characteristics, language, and cultural factors set each country out in a way that when you landed there you recognised those characteristics and knew where you were. With, after the war, the immense movement of people much of it encouraged by business and the need to replenish labour after the carnage which cut many populations to ribbons, the concept of a recognisable identifiable person within this country was banished.

This mixing bowl of sedentary communities with people from all four corners of the earth was initially acceptable and I speak specifically of the towns and regions where the bulk of the immigrant population settled but eventually, because the newly arrived provided a focus for ever more new immigrants, the balance of society in these specific areas was overturned. This led to a slow burning resentment of communities who were being changed out of all recognition. It was not felt in the leafy spires of the prosperous upper middle class, their village idyll was and is, much as before but the towns in which by far most of the "working class" lived were immeasurably changed. 

The mantra from the MPs in Parliament has been one of "change is good, that we benefit from change and at any rate to speak out against it, was racialism". 

Dumbing down the resentment has worked in that where the changing cultural identity does not substantially effect people, Political Correctness has been most strident  and its from these areas that the media and the political commentators come. To question the residents in these unaffected areas is to bring opprobrium on ones head, or at least evoke frightened glances with the wish that you would go away. Ask the same questions in a town where the imbalance is high and with it high unemployment and the torrent of abuse towards the system of unimpeded immigration, acknowledges that we are a divided country not only in wealth but in the perception of who we are.

Watching the MPs tormented with rage at the banning of travel to the United States of Muslims, specifically from one of five predominantly Muslim countries, one has to see how deeply and viscerally the libertarian ethos has bitten into the minds of these good folk.  I so regret that their rage against the dismantling of those northern town and the dismemberment of the homegrown population over the last two decades and more, was rarely heard. Their own constituents are taken for granted, their plight is an inconvenience, a result of the global economy, a necessary evil for which it is hardly worth turning up to debate. Of a different order in their minds is the 'one month' ban on visa entry into America. All their spleen is brought to the ready, all their university debating skills are out there on display because this is something they have been nurtured to feel is, unpatriotic, not civilised, immoral. But the immorality of the cut and run from people called Jones, Smith, or Taylor who served the country well in its time of need, who on returning from the war saw the industries they had left to fight for soon peopled by cheap labour, initially from the commonwealth and recently from Eastern Europe. Where is the moral outrage for them !! Where indeed !!