There is true British Nationalism but it is nothing to do with labels

There is true British Nationalism but it is nothing to do with labels

I spent many years surrounded by individuals who called themselves Nationalists and Patriots but in actual fact they have done absolutely nothing for what should be true British Nationalism. They spoke against immigration saying "we are being replaced, this country is coming to an end, those foreigners are having too many babies and there are far too many foreigners", et cetera, et cetera.

I went to what were supposed to be political meetings and what I found out is that most of those in attendance were either single, widowed or divorced and that a minute minority actually had husbands and wives and children. On top of that the average age was going up and up and up and at one point the meetings became a gathering of the same faces but older.

I heard people talking endlessly about families and the importance of keeping communities together but most of them didn't have families and apart from attending the said meetings most of them lived alone and hardly mingled with the local communities.

I also found out that amongst the so called Nationalists and Patriots were people filled up with conspiracy theories and personal animosities that from time to time erupted turning into confrontation and declared personal wars that suddenly at an ever faster pace led to people simply walking away to the point that sooner than later the number of those in attendance could be counted with the fingers of two hands.

They were still talking about saving the world but I suspect that many of them couldn't even save themselves as some were already falling into financial difficulties. In my honest opinion, such kind of pseudo Nationalism and Pseudo Patriotism is a social disease because it gives it destroy in peoples' minds the concept and perception of what it means to be Nationalist and Patriotic.

They spoke endlessly about winning elections but when asked about what policies they supported and how they were planning to achieve what they want their faces showed very clearly that they didn't have a clue about how they were going to go about it. Most probably they thought that shouting as loud as possible British Job for the British Workers they were going to achieve some kind of miracle without ever having to do hard work to achieve what they wanted. With regularity I talked about the need to know about the real issues instead of just going around with slogans and fabrications.Not that they were willing to listen or try to engage in real politics.

When the time came, exhausted, I decided that I had had enough of such company. I started to feel that I was degrading myself, fooling myself by thinking that anything worth considering was going to come out of such company. Years passed and little has changed apart from the fact that the old faces are older and that the brains behind those faces are too lazy or incapable of doing anything of value. The infighting goes on but it is now less visible because, after all, there are fewer of the said Nationalists and Patriots. Most of those who were worth something moved on. 

There is a select group of people that I call 'Idealists', the 'True Believers', but there are so few of the Idealists and True Believers that they practically don't stand a chance of changing what needs to be changed because on top of having to struggle to generate some momentum and sense of direction they are burdened and dragged down by those who don't have any intention of becoming a real political organisation with a true sense of purpose. 

Nationalism is about real work. Those who still believe that organising a few meetings, reading newspaper cuttings to an ever dwindling audience, having a collection cap in hand to try and collect few pennies, drink a few pints and do nothing else is Nationalism, they can go and get stuffed. Such looser tactics are ruining everything for those who really Nationalism when they use the word.