Taki Taki

Crowded country

Taki lives the High Life

issue 03 November 2007

‘Nobody would be happier than me if, in 50 years’ time, the Prime Minister, the Archibishop of Canterbury, the Poet Laureate, the Lord Chief Justice, the Regius Professor of History at Oxford and the editor of the Times were all non-white.’ So wrote Stephen Glover last week, just in time to further embarrass James Watson, the Nobel laureate and renowned co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

My first reaction was to wonder how thrilled, say, Kenyans might feel if someone were to write how happy they would be if Kenya’s President, Chief Justice, editor of the Kenya Times and Archibishop of Nairobi were all white in 50 years. The irony is that Africa could be saved from itself if Europeans recolonised it, the way the Chinese are doing as I write. The problem is that Mao’s children are there for the same reasons we used to be. To exploit Africa’s resources. My spies tell me there are no more hated people in Africa than the Chinese because of the way they treat the locals.

But I’m getting away from Glover and the non-whites he’d like to see run this country in 50 years’ time. I wonder what makes a man write such rubbish. Mind you, the article he penned was in favour of a Britain that would still be recognisable in 50 years, and was only making a point in order to show he was no racist. Personally, I would not want this to happen, and if it did, I’d visit Britain even less frequently than I do now. In fact, I would not set foot in it as I plan to be dead in 50 years’ time. All that unlimited immigration no matter from which part of the world has done to Britain is make the place extremely unpleasant and very, very crowded.

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