I wrote to Channel Four last week about their disgraceful English-bashing 100% English programme...
Dear Channel Four,
"100% English" was disturbing. Using Nazi-style criteria, the makers set out to rubbish the concept of Englishness. Of course, Scottishness and Welshness escaped unscathed.
My brother-in-law, fully aware that the English are as genetically mixed as people from elsewhere, applied to be on the show - but was turned down as he refused to act like an ignorant moron.
The show did not prove that Englishness is an inclusive thing, transcending race and colour, something I wholly endorse, it simply made out that Englishness did not exist.
The Commission for Racial Equality states that Englishness does NOT depend on DNA. To be ethnically English, one must have blood ties here dating back to before the Act of Union in 1707. To be of English nationality, one must simply be a permanent citizen of England.
But Channel 4 has stated that Englishness cannot exist without rigid, Nazi-style DNA tests from a company in America.
This is not the case according to British law. Also, the dating of components of the DNA quoted in the programme is not exact - some of it may date back to before there even WAS an England, let alone an English people. But Channel 4 did not explain that. The programme deliberately misled viewers.
Scottishness and Welshness exist and those countries now have their own nationally representative bodies to prove it. And yet the Scots and Welsh are ethnically mixed and capable of extreme racism - as events in Scotland in the summer proved - when a disabled man was dragged from his car and beaten and a seven year old boy was punched in the head by a grown man. Their crime? Simply wearing England football shirts.
And yet Channel Four commissions racist propaganda from a company, Wall To Wall, headed by Alex Graham, a Scot!
So, no national civic English identity for us in England, we're just a bunch of "mongrels" (according to Channel 4). Is this why our lives aren't valued by the Government as much as those in Scotland and Wales?
Cancer treatment drugs are still being made available on the NHS in the rest of the UK, but not in England.
Non-representative MPs from Scottish constituencies still force legislation onto England.
Many reasonable, ordinary English folk wrote into Wall To Wall, the production company behind "100% English", fully aware of the diverse genetic background to their Englishness, requesting to take part in the programme, but were rejected.Wall To Wall had an agenda. Shame on Channel 4 for giving it air time.
I am campaigning for a nationally representative parliament for England and ALL its people, however they define themselves - in line with the Scottish Parliament. I have written more about Channel 4's racist behaviour on this website - http://englandparliament.blogspot.com/
Please be aware that any replies you send to this letter may be published on the website.
Channel 4 has become a horribly sensationalist and, in fact, downright dishonest and politically correct "anti-fascist fascist" television channel, always out to scapegoat and ridicule those who would define themselves as English.
In these devolutionary times there will soon have to be an English dimension to UK politics.
It's about time Channel 4 grew up and moved into the new century, and began to keep up with the changing patterns of life in the UK, instead of acting like anti-English Scots bigots or politically correct English prigs of the 1990s.
I shall not be watching Channel 4 again.
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Abbott
And Channel Four replied, in depth as ever, having taken each of my points on board and being well able to justify their Nazi-style bile:
Dear Christopher
Thank you for your email
We are sorry to hear that our programme 100% ENGLISH was not to your taste. Your comments have been logged and passed on to those responsible for it.
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to contact us with your comments. We always like to hear from our viewers, critical or otherwise.
Kind regards
David Warren
Viewer Enquiries
Sheesh, thanks, Channel Four. Good to know you always have a reasoned argument for showing what you show.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
BBC DVDs "English? Leave it Out!"
From Sue Campbell...
I've just been to my local HMV looking for some telly viewing, Chris, and have been peeking at the BBC's DVD collection.
Gerald Harper, who is described in the packaging synopsis as something along the lines of an "ever-so-British actor", is on parade in that 1960s saga Adam Adamant Lives, and if we look to the 1980s we find Auntie has supplied the tale of "Britain's wealthy boating set" - Howards Way. Auntie doesn't mention the fact that the tale is set in England or, come to that, that it's from the 1980s. Another no-no.
Gerald Harper always played terribly English gentlemen - it was the same in Hadleigh. Howards Way was as English as could be. So, Auntie Beeb once again ignores us and substitutes "Britain/British" for our country and nationality.
The BBC has joined the government in denying any glimmer of an inclusive civic English identity, but seems to be implying in its Adam Adamant synopsis that to be very British, that apparently wonderfully inclusive nationality, smothering Englishness and blanketing us all, you must actually be a traditional English gentleman.
How inclusive in that? Better if Auntie had written "English" in the first place.
Thanks, Sue.
Auntie is an anti-English prig. Remember how overly-represented the Scots are on its services? Remember racist rambler Kirsty Warks' comments on discovering that her ancestors were not all Scottish?
"At least they weren't English!"
The BBC didn't raise an eyebrow.
Auntie stinks.
I must admit I smiled at your 1980s comment. I sat through the BBC's I Love 1970s series, which apparently portrayed the pop culture of each 70s year, but in reality stole fads from the adjacent decades like nobodies business, shoving in everything from the Space Hopper (a fad from the late 1960s onwards) to the Walkman (invented 1979, released in 1980 in Britain as the "Sony Stowaway") - and there was LOADS of other stuff.
Auntie is just as adept at rewriting history as she is at rubbing England and the English out.
I'm sure if the classic 60s version of Dr Finlay's Casebook is released, then doctors Finlay, Cameron and Snoddie, not to mention dear Janet, the housekeeper, will not be referred to in the synopsis as "British".
I must have a look at Howards' Way again... it was unashamedly wonky... the characters were unashamedly upper class English twits... it was unashamedly 80s... I've had enough of the Prig Brigade.
But what a shame I must line the BBC's pockets - the Beeb, of course, being part of Prig Central Command, for another glimpse of those shoulder pads...
UPDATE
Sandra from Histon
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I've just been to my local HMV looking for some telly viewing, Chris, and have been peeking at the BBC's DVD collection.
Gerald Harper, who is described in the packaging synopsis as something along the lines of an "ever-so-British actor", is on parade in that 1960s saga Adam Adamant Lives, and if we look to the 1980s we find Auntie has supplied the tale of "Britain's wealthy boating set" - Howards Way. Auntie doesn't mention the fact that the tale is set in England or, come to that, that it's from the 1980s. Another no-no.
Gerald Harper always played terribly English gentlemen - it was the same in Hadleigh. Howards Way was as English as could be. So, Auntie Beeb once again ignores us and substitutes "Britain/British" for our country and nationality.
The BBC has joined the government in denying any glimmer of an inclusive civic English identity, but seems to be implying in its Adam Adamant synopsis that to be very British, that apparently wonderfully inclusive nationality, smothering Englishness and blanketing us all, you must actually be a traditional English gentleman.
How inclusive in that? Better if Auntie had written "English" in the first place.
Thanks, Sue.
Auntie is an anti-English prig. Remember how overly-represented the Scots are on its services? Remember racist rambler Kirsty Warks' comments on discovering that her ancestors were not all Scottish?
"At least they weren't English!"
The BBC didn't raise an eyebrow.
Auntie stinks.
I must admit I smiled at your 1980s comment. I sat through the BBC's I Love 1970s series, which apparently portrayed the pop culture of each 70s year, but in reality stole fads from the adjacent decades like nobodies business, shoving in everything from the Space Hopper (a fad from the late 1960s onwards) to the Walkman (invented 1979, released in 1980 in Britain as the "Sony Stowaway") - and there was LOADS of other stuff.
Auntie is just as adept at rewriting history as she is at rubbing England and the English out.
I'm sure if the classic 60s version of Dr Finlay's Casebook is released, then doctors Finlay, Cameron and Snoddie, not to mention dear Janet, the housekeeper, will not be referred to in the synopsis as "British".
I must have a look at Howards' Way again... it was unashamedly wonky... the characters were unashamedly upper class English twits... it was unashamedly 80s... I've had enough of the Prig Brigade.
But what a shame I must line the BBC's pockets - the Beeb, of course, being part of Prig Central Command, for another glimpse of those shoulder pads...
UPDATE
Sandra from Histon
I viewed series one and two of "Howards' Way" and could not believe Tim Teeman of "The Times", who "moderated" commentaries on several episodes. Having established his own credentials as a "Cornish person" (what nonsense!) he then goes on to submerge all the English aspects of the show as "British", including the accent of one its stars - a great "British accent" apparently. Would that be Scottish, Welsh, Pakistani, Italian, Polish or what, Tim?
What a horrible, anti-English bigot - especially with all this business about cancer drugs, etc!
More likely to be a Politically Correct prig, I feel Sandra, and not dependent on the NHS in England or anywhere else. Great to see the show again, though.
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British Gas Hates England and the English. Apparently.
Re: the last post:
Sue Campbell has been in touch to inform me that it is only the English and England that are ignored by British Gas. Their website contains a Welsh logo, a Scottish logo and a British logo, but no English logo.
So, British Gas have abolished England.
Might be time for England's people to find a new gas supplier and abolish British Gas!
This is clear discrimination.
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Sue Campbell has been in touch to inform me that it is only the English and England that are ignored by British Gas. Their website contains a Welsh logo, a Scottish logo and a British logo, but no English logo.
So, British Gas have abolished England.
Might be time for England's people to find a new gas supplier and abolish British Gas!
This is clear discrimination.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
British Gas And Scottish Gas - But Not English Or Welsh
When is British Gas not British Gas?
When it's in Scotland, of course! The British tag obviously would not do for the racist elite in that fine, historic nation!
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Another Cancer Drug For Scotland But Not England?
Another cancer treatment drug could be set to join the growing list available in Scotland but NOT England, if NICE, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, has its way. United Kingdom? I find the elevation of the Scots and Welsh into a racist elite, whose lives are worth more than ours, terrifying.
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100% English: Alex Graham, Scot, Behind Wall To Wall Channel 4 Attack On The English...
The English Democrats Party have interesting news...
"We have discovered that the Chief Executive of 'Wall to Wall' the company which produced "100% English" ~ a Mr Alex Graham ~ is a Scot, which may go a long way to explaining the patently anti-English bias which manifests itself here!"
Oh dear. Why doesn't this surprise me? Being a half-Scot myself, I know how horribly bigoted my Scots family (or at least the vast majority of it) can be when it comes to the English. That there is a Scot (no DNA test necessary) behind this latest attack on the English is not surprising, but still distressing.
It doesn't excuse Channel 4 for allowing this racist outrage to be broadcast. Who was calling the shots there, I wonder?
UPDATE..
"Sylv from Salford"...
So, the 100% English was a racist swipe against the English by a company headed by a Scot? There are so many Scots and Welsh jingoists/racists/bigots about in politics and the media now - it's scary.
Well, if there are actually no English people, there won't be any Scots or Welsh either, not if subjected to the rigid American DNA test, so the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly should be disbanded immediately and Britain returned to normal. We can all be simply British.
No? Then there ARE English people, there IS an England, and England needs fair recognition politically.
The Scots are becomingly frighteningly fascist. Ethnic purity, Mr Alex Graham of Wall to Wall? Whatever next? And Channel 4 is one of those PC "fascist non-fascist" organisations. Is it really clever to give a mouthpiece to a Scots racist and attack the English, the only people in the UK with no national recognition, no voice?
How brave you are, Channel 4 and how "right on". If the Nazi dream happens to be the ideal, that is.
UPDATE 2
18/11/2006
"Dave The Gadgie" from Newcastle
It occurs to me to consider the make-up of Britain. There are fifty million people in England, eight million in Scotland and Wales, combined.
And yet Tony Blair, Scottish born PM, has surrounded himself with Scots and Welsh folk in his cabinet...
The Deputy PM - Welsh
The Chancellor - Scottish
The Speaker of the House of Commons - Scottish
The UK Culture Minister - Scottish
The Home Secretary - Scottish
The Transport Minister for England - Scottish
The Lord Chancellor - Scottish
And yet Scotland has its own Parliament, independent of the UK in 75% of all matters, but Scots MPs, most unaccountable to the electorate in England, are ruling England.
And English people musn't and in fact cannot be English. But Scottish and Welsh people can be "proud" of being Scottish and Welsh DESPITE equal (and in fact disproportionately higher on the part of the Scots) involvement in the old British Empire which England and the English are being scapegoated for.
Now the English are being written out of existence and Scots and Welsh racists rule Britain. No DNA test necessary for them.
Personally, I believe that any citizen of England can be English, regardless of race, colour or creed. And the people of England must get together, because with the West Lothian Question, health apartheid and Barnett Formula all working against them, it really is time they woke up!
It's the 21st Century. This should not be happening. And the media, including the BBC, sits in the Government's pocket and actively colludes to hide the facts from the general public!
More on the subject of Channel 4 and Wall To Wall's 100% English here.
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"We have discovered that the Chief Executive of 'Wall to Wall' the company which produced "100% English" ~ a Mr Alex Graham ~ is a Scot, which may go a long way to explaining the patently anti-English bias which manifests itself here!"
Oh dear. Why doesn't this surprise me? Being a half-Scot myself, I know how horribly bigoted my Scots family (or at least the vast majority of it) can be when it comes to the English. That there is a Scot (no DNA test necessary) behind this latest attack on the English is not surprising, but still distressing.
It doesn't excuse Channel 4 for allowing this racist outrage to be broadcast. Who was calling the shots there, I wonder?
UPDATE..
"Sylv from Salford"...
So, the 100% English was a racist swipe against the English by a company headed by a Scot? There are so many Scots and Welsh jingoists/racists/bigots about in politics and the media now - it's scary.
Well, if there are actually no English people, there won't be any Scots or Welsh either, not if subjected to the rigid American DNA test, so the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly should be disbanded immediately and Britain returned to normal. We can all be simply British.
No? Then there ARE English people, there IS an England, and England needs fair recognition politically.
The Scots are becomingly frighteningly fascist. Ethnic purity, Mr Alex Graham of Wall to Wall? Whatever next? And Channel 4 is one of those PC "fascist non-fascist" organisations. Is it really clever to give a mouthpiece to a Scots racist and attack the English, the only people in the UK with no national recognition, no voice?
How brave you are, Channel 4 and how "right on". If the Nazi dream happens to be the ideal, that is.
UPDATE 2
18/11/2006
"Dave The Gadgie" from Newcastle
It occurs to me to consider the make-up of Britain. There are fifty million people in England, eight million in Scotland and Wales, combined.
And yet Tony Blair, Scottish born PM, has surrounded himself with Scots and Welsh folk in his cabinet...
The Deputy PM - Welsh
The Chancellor - Scottish
The Speaker of the House of Commons - Scottish
The UK Culture Minister - Scottish
The Home Secretary - Scottish
The Transport Minister for England - Scottish
The Lord Chancellor - Scottish
And yet Scotland has its own Parliament, independent of the UK in 75% of all matters, but Scots MPs, most unaccountable to the electorate in England, are ruling England.
And English people musn't and in fact cannot be English. But Scottish and Welsh people can be "proud" of being Scottish and Welsh DESPITE equal (and in fact disproportionately higher on the part of the Scots) involvement in the old British Empire which England and the English are being scapegoated for.
Now the English are being written out of existence and Scots and Welsh racists rule Britain. No DNA test necessary for them.
Personally, I believe that any citizen of England can be English, regardless of race, colour or creed. And the people of England must get together, because with the West Lothian Question, health apartheid and Barnett Formula all working against them, it really is time they woke up!
It's the 21st Century. This should not be happening. And the media, including the BBC, sits in the Government's pocket and actively colludes to hide the facts from the general public!
More on the subject of Channel 4 and Wall To Wall's 100% English here.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Will Francome, Wall To Wall - Ignore What Doesn't Suit Your Agenda, and Channel 4 - 100% English? 100% Anti-English Racist Bile!
The Channel Four programme 100% English pooh-poohed the whole concept of Englishness. Despite letters from many people aware of the diverse genetic make-up of the English to the programme makers earlier this year, Channel 4 went for a hatchet job. Here is my brother-in-law Drew Brent's letter, sent before the programme went into production, which Will Francome, of Wall To Wall, ignored.
Dear Mr Francome,
My point is that there IS such a thing as pure Englishness - it is the mongrel breed that inhabits this country of ours - myself, recent immigrants and all. Since devolution, concepts of Englishness have changed. I see people of many ethnicities sporting the Cross of St George emblem on their sports clothes, flying that flag and discussing England and Englishness.
Britishness, Scottishness and Welshness are just as false when placed under the microscope. So why pick on Englishness? It is likely simply to cause ill feeling. Remember, Englishness pre-dates Britishness and our system of government, and many of the institutions in England were in fact originally English.
Watching a TV programme where innocents are shown their family history and told they are not English, they are "mongrels" does not appeal to me. The show should be open to the increasing number of people of all ethnicities in England who define themselves as English.
Scapegoating and ridiculing Englishness is a form of racism. Would you make such a programme about the Scots? There is a problem with racism in that country, too!
Drew's letter hinged totally on the concept of Englishness as a nationality. That's fine, when you consider that the founders of Englishness were Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others! The English have never been of "pure ethnicity" - and know that. Even the oft-used Anglo Saxon tag is simply shorthand - English people know that there is more to Englishness than that genetically, and that Englishness has evolved, and continues to evolve.
But, according to Wall To Wall, the English do not exist. No possibility of a progressive, civic nationalism, but an excellent job done by politically correct morons, employing Nazi-style criteria, flying in the face of the Commission for Racial Equality, to try and ensure that England and Englishness continue to lay buried in the vaults of Unionism and that we continue to see the UK Government valuing Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish lives over those in England.
And yet, all this wasn't evident when Wall To Wall invited people to participate. The show was promised to be an exploration of English identity today.
Just like Mongrel Nation, Channel 4's other anti-English effort (surely all nations are made up of diverse influences?) in 100% English the English were given a right pasting.
A handful of not-exactly-typical people, including a bigot or two, were picked out and smacked hard by an even bigger bunch of bigots, the show's makers, determined to see that a whole nation is destroyed and that its peoples are never given national voice again.
And this with certain cancer drugs available in the other UK nations on the NHS but not available in England!
With NHS patients from England receiving inferior treatment to those elsewhere in the UK.
With public spending lower in England than the other nations of the UK.
With MPs from the other UK nations dictating policy in England.
You'll help us to fee bad, nasty and non-existent here in England, won't you, Channel 4? Serve us right for being nasty "mongrels", eh?
Nice one!
English Democrats Party Press Release...
Channel 4 endorses Nazi race purity theories
On Monday 13th November at 8 pm Channel 4 is screening a programme entitled “100% English.” That programme is not a programme about who is English and who is not. It is a programme about the race and ethnicity DNA purity tests produced by a DNA company based in the deep south of the United States. Channel 4 has warmly endorsed those DNA purity tests as the tests for establishing a person’s race and ethnicity in total opposition to the tests laid down by the UK judiciary under the Race Relations Legislation. Just like the Nazis endorsed the work of earlier scientists to undertake a purity of race and ethnicity categorisation, Channel 4 has done likewise. Channel 4 has allowed the English racial identity claimed by the participants to blind it to the true implications of its programme.
UPDATE
Sue Campbell
Good to see you back, Chris. Did you read Carol Midgley in The Times regarding 100% English: "this programme did little to challenge my long-held belief that people who protest long and loud about being English (“not British!”) are a bit strange."
Dear Mr Francome,
My point is that there IS such a thing as pure Englishness - it is the mongrel breed that inhabits this country of ours - myself, recent immigrants and all. Since devolution, concepts of Englishness have changed. I see people of many ethnicities sporting the Cross of St George emblem on their sports clothes, flying that flag and discussing England and Englishness.
Britishness, Scottishness and Welshness are just as false when placed under the microscope. So why pick on Englishness? It is likely simply to cause ill feeling. Remember, Englishness pre-dates Britishness and our system of government, and many of the institutions in England were in fact originally English.
Watching a TV programme where innocents are shown their family history and told they are not English, they are "mongrels" does not appeal to me. The show should be open to the increasing number of people of all ethnicities in England who define themselves as English.
Scapegoating and ridiculing Englishness is a form of racism. Would you make such a programme about the Scots? There is a problem with racism in that country, too!
Drew's letter hinged totally on the concept of Englishness as a nationality. That's fine, when you consider that the founders of Englishness were Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others! The English have never been of "pure ethnicity" - and know that. Even the oft-used Anglo Saxon tag is simply shorthand - English people know that there is more to Englishness than that genetically, and that Englishness has evolved, and continues to evolve.
But, according to Wall To Wall, the English do not exist. No possibility of a progressive, civic nationalism, but an excellent job done by politically correct morons, employing Nazi-style criteria, flying in the face of the Commission for Racial Equality, to try and ensure that England and Englishness continue to lay buried in the vaults of Unionism and that we continue to see the UK Government valuing Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish lives over those in England.
And yet, all this wasn't evident when Wall To Wall invited people to participate. The show was promised to be an exploration of English identity today.
Just like Mongrel Nation, Channel 4's other anti-English effort (surely all nations are made up of diverse influences?) in 100% English the English were given a right pasting.
A handful of not-exactly-typical people, including a bigot or two, were picked out and smacked hard by an even bigger bunch of bigots, the show's makers, determined to see that a whole nation is destroyed and that its peoples are never given national voice again.
And this with certain cancer drugs available in the other UK nations on the NHS but not available in England!
With NHS patients from England receiving inferior treatment to those elsewhere in the UK.
With public spending lower in England than the other nations of the UK.
With MPs from the other UK nations dictating policy in England.
You'll help us to fee bad, nasty and non-existent here in England, won't you, Channel 4? Serve us right for being nasty "mongrels", eh?
Nice one!
English Democrats Party Press Release...
Channel 4 endorses Nazi race purity theories
On Monday 13th November at 8 pm Channel 4 is screening a programme entitled “100% English.” That programme is not a programme about who is English and who is not. It is a programme about the race and ethnicity DNA purity tests produced by a DNA company based in the deep south of the United States. Channel 4 has warmly endorsed those DNA purity tests as the tests for establishing a person’s race and ethnicity in total opposition to the tests laid down by the UK judiciary under the Race Relations Legislation. Just like the Nazis endorsed the work of earlier scientists to undertake a purity of race and ethnicity categorisation, Channel 4 has done likewise. Channel 4 has allowed the English racial identity claimed by the participants to blind it to the true implications of its programme.
For continuation, click link below...
Link -> Channel 4 endorses Nazi race purity theoriesUPDATE
Sue Campbell
Good to see you back, Chris. Did you read Carol Midgley in The Times regarding 100% English: "this programme did little to challenge my long-held belief that people who protest long and loud about being English (“not British!”) are a bit strange."
What a disgrace. And yet people can be Scots or Welsh and not British and Carol Midgley doesn't mind that at all? And she bases her opinion on the handpicked bigots on 100% English?
Carol Midgley is a British anti-English racist. The CRE recognises the English, unfair devolution has made many English people sick of the "British" thing, and yet she just wades in and negates us all, having watched some sensationalised anti-English rubbish on the telly?
What would have happened if she'd made the same comment about the Scots or Welsh?
It's easy to see that Ms Midgley does not rely on the NHS for her healthcare! She is totally cut off from the discrimination levelled against England by the Scots-dominated UK Government today.
UPDATE 2
Greg from Cumbria
So, out of all the nationalities in the world, Channel 4 is claiming that to be English the fact most be proved via a rigid DNA screening programme? But to be Scottish, Welsh, French, Polish, American, Canadian, etc, etc, you just have to say so?
What sort of dreadful Hitler-esque nonsense is this?
Why are they picking on my nationality?
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