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It is very easy to talk about what is wrong with the world rather that what is right with it. And there are many more things right with the UK than wrong.
What annoys me more than anything about the Gaza conflict is that both sides talk about why they can’t live together than exactly why they can. Both sides have plenty of will to fight but neither has the strength to learn to live together.
WHY I AM WRITING THIS
Last Friday evening I suffered a double quadriceps ACL injury and double leg break to both my legs in the street after a horrific fall in a pavement pothole at night. I was left on the street awaiting an ambulance. I’m fit and haven’t been to a hospital for 30 years.
I was on the street in agony for over an hour as the beleaguered ambulance services failed to arrive.
Carl, a British African, and a Romanian national called Chip with indefinite leave - wouldn’t let me go. They stood by me in the cold for as long as help arrived which was 90 minutes. They got blankets, coffees, made phone calls. They behaved like the brothers I don’t have.
My son eventually turned up to take me to UCHL hospital. When I got to the hospital two Muslim boys - members of the public - assisted my son for 15 minutes trying to get a large 58 year old white man, suffering extreme agony, into a wheelchair from the backseat of a car.
UCH finally admitted me and they have operated. It is difficulty to describe the skill, humanity and blessedness of the staff at this hospital. I’m very touched how these people have treated me way beyond their calling. These are their origins:-
Romania
Jamaica
Bangladesh
Ecuador
Ghana
Korea
Russia
St Lucia
Tanzania
Nigeria
Hungary
Burundi
Pakistan
Along with all of us hard working and humane British born, these people are the beating heart of this country.
I have now begun to research. Multiculturalism began formally in 1707 with the Multinational British State. The idea was to bind the peoples of the Empire to Great Britain itself in the event of decolonisation. This has in fact been a rich legacy. As examples, 16,000 West Indian troops served in the British army in WW1. Around 30,000 Jews served in the British Army in WW2. 80% of British Muslims consider themselves deeply British as opposed to 49% in France. List goes on and on.
I now fully understand Anthony Joshua’s seminal speech to Queen Elisabeth in 2020 when he said ‘this great multicultural society of ours’. The Queen understood it too.
It is weak willed to be against multiculturalism & immigration to the UK, it is strong willed to engage it and make it work, as these people have done. For every errant asylum seeker there are many more future pillars of society of whatever religion, all of whom almost are as patriotic as the next for king and country. What they seek is a better life and we should be proud that we can give it.
Jon Collins
2024
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