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One of the saddest outcomes of 11 years of Labour misrule is the phenomenon we are now witnessing all over the country of so many local pubs shutting their doors for good. Some people may say “it’s a good thing – alcohol has always caused problems in society and it’s good to see less of it being drunk”. But people aren’t drinking less; they’re drinking just as much as ever, but now it’s in their own homes.
The local pub has for hundreds of years been a hub of the community and a place to meet and make friends, and its decline and fall marks a great change in British society that needs to be investigated.
The reason why it’s so sad to see the local pubs closing is because it’s indicative of the sharply declining community feeling in this country, and it’s corollary ‘social cohesion’. Clearly people are much less inclined to spend their time in a communal type gathering with a social atmosphere amongst friends and neighbours, and also people they may not know but whose presence they find agreeable. They apparently would prefer to stay at home watching their digital TV’s, surfing the internet, or doing whatever else interests them.
There may indeed be other factors to consider when asking the question “why aren’t people going out so much these days?” Firstly is it a matter of cost? You can buy alcohol very cheaply in the supermarket compared to pub prices, but people aren’t any poorer now than they were 10 or 15 years ago. This is shown by the ever increasing number of take-away’s and restaurants opening and apparently being successful, and also by the burgeoning trend for foreign holidays. No, people in general are not lacking the funds for a weekly trip down the boozer, and drinking at home by yourself is hardly a comparable experience to drinking down the pub with your mates.
Another contributory factor may be the burgeoning field of home entertainment. Not so long ago there was just the TV with four stations to choose from. Now you have far more choice of TV viewing, and if you can’t find something to watch you can log onto the internet and join your cyber ‘mates’ in the virtual world. But it’s a sad person who can find this to be an entirely satisfactory replacement for face to face human contact and real friendship.
Could one of the major factors behind this loss in community spirit we are now experiencing in Britain be due to the relentless promotion of multiculturalism by the Labour Government and indeed by the rest of the British Establishment? They’re trying to tell the British people that what’s happening is a good thing but people know either consciously or sub-consciously that it’s not. They see so many new people that are not like themselves moving into their towns and villages, and see so many people on the TV that are obviously of foreign extraction, and it is making them feel uneasy. In most cases it’s not a definite feeling of aversion for these newcomers – it’s just a feeling that they themselves are not quite as ‘at home’ as they once were. Their reaction to this is for them to feel inclined to retreat into the safety of their own home, shut the door and not go out until they have to.
Opponents of immigration have always said it would damage social cohesion in this country, but this is not some abstract idea that the average man in the street may or may not be aware of. It’s a very real phenomenon that has very real consequences and one of these is the gradual disappearance of the friendly local pub. Of course our opponents will quote an example of a successful and busy pub in a heavily multicultural area and claim that this refutes our theory, but then this goes strongly against the general trend, and may be due to other factors not immediately apparent.
The local pub has for hundreds of years been a hub of the community and a place to meet and make friends, and its decline and fall marks a great change in British society that needs to be investigated.
The reason why it’s so sad to see the local pubs closing is because it’s indicative of the sharply declining community feeling in this country, and it’s corollary ‘social cohesion’. Clearly people are much less inclined to spend their time in a communal type gathering with a social atmosphere amongst friends and neighbours, and also people they may not know but whose presence they find agreeable. They apparently would prefer to stay at home watching their digital TV’s, surfing the internet, or doing whatever else interests them.
There may indeed be other factors to consider when asking the question “why aren’t people going out so much these days?” Firstly is it a matter of cost? You can buy alcohol very cheaply in the supermarket compared to pub prices, but people aren’t any poorer now than they were 10 or 15 years ago. This is shown by the ever increasing number of take-away’s and restaurants opening and apparently being successful, and also by the burgeoning trend for foreign holidays. No, people in general are not lacking the funds for a weekly trip down the boozer, and drinking at home by yourself is hardly a comparable experience to drinking down the pub with your mates.
Another contributory factor may be the burgeoning field of home entertainment. Not so long ago there was just the TV with four stations to choose from. Now you have far more choice of TV viewing, and if you can’t find something to watch you can log onto the internet and join your cyber ‘mates’ in the virtual world. But it’s a sad person who can find this to be an entirely satisfactory replacement for face to face human contact and real friendship.
Could one of the major factors behind this loss in community spirit we are now experiencing in Britain be due to the relentless promotion of multiculturalism by the Labour Government and indeed by the rest of the British Establishment? They’re trying to tell the British people that what’s happening is a good thing but people know either consciously or sub-consciously that it’s not. They see so many new people that are not like themselves moving into their towns and villages, and see so many people on the TV that are obviously of foreign extraction, and it is making them feel uneasy. In most cases it’s not a definite feeling of aversion for these newcomers – it’s just a feeling that they themselves are not quite as ‘at home’ as they once were. Their reaction to this is for them to feel inclined to retreat into the safety of their own home, shut the door and not go out until they have to.
Opponents of immigration have always said it would damage social cohesion in this country, but this is not some abstract idea that the average man in the street may or may not be aware of. It’s a very real phenomenon that has very real consequences and one of these is the gradual disappearance of the friendly local pub. Of course our opponents will quote an example of a successful and busy pub in a heavily multicultural area and claim that this refutes our theory, but then this goes strongly against the general trend, and may be due to other factors not immediately apparent.
Paul Harris - Yorkshire BNP Secretary
