The Royal Society of St George
Founded 1894
Incorporated by Royal
Charter
Patron: Her Majesty the
Queen
President: George R. A.
Andrews Esq. FCIB FCIS FCIArb
Chairman: Vice Admiral Sir
JameWeatherall,
KCVO, KBE
Are you English?
Are
you proud of your Country and her glorious history and heritage? Then why not
become a member of The Royal Society of St George? You could take an active
part in our determination to safeguard England and Englishness, to revitalise
our nation and restore decency and integrity to our daily lives.
Contact
the address below for a brochure and a membership form:
Membership
Secretary
The
Royal Society of St George
127
Sandgate Road, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2BH
Tel: 01303
241795 FAX: 01303 850162
Website: www.royalsocietyofstgeorge.com E-mail: info@rssg.u-net.com
Enoch
Powell
The Editor
believes that we can pay no better tribute to the late Enoch Powell than to
quote at length from the stirring speech he gave to the Royal Society of St.
George at a dinner in London on 22nd April 1961.
"…we find them, or seem to find them, in many a village church,
beneath the tall tracery of a perpendicular East window and the coffered
ceiling of the chantry chapel. From brass and stone, from line and effigy,
their eyes look out at us, and we gaze into them, as if we would win some answer
from their silence.
"Tell us what it is that binds us together; show us the clue that
leads through a thousand years; whisper to us the secret of this charmed life
of England, that we in our time may know how to hold it fast."
What would they say? They would speak to us in our own English tongue,
the tongue made for telling truth in, tuned already to songs that haunt the
hearer like the sadness of spring. They would tell us of that marvellous land,
so sweetly mixed of opposites in climate that all the seasons of the year
appear there in their greatest perfection; of the fields amid which they built
their halls, their cottages, their churches, and where the same blackthorn
showered its petals upon them as upon us; they would tell us, surely, of the rivers,
the hills and of the island coasts of England.
They would tell us too of a palace near the great city which the Romans
built at a ford of the River Thames, to which men resorted out of all England
to speak on behalf of their fellows, a thing called "Parliament," and
from that hall went out men with fur-trimmed gowns and strange caps on their
heads, to judge the same judgements, and dispense the same justice, to all the
people of England. One thing above all they assuredly would not forget, Lancastrian
or Yorkist, squire or lord, priest or layman; they would point to the kingship
of England, and its emblems everywhere visible.
Symbol, yet source of power; person of flesh and blood, yet incarnation
of an idea; the kingship would have seemed to them, as it seems to us, to
express the qualities that are peculiarly England's: the unity of England,
effortless and unconstrained, which accepts the unlimited supremacy of Crown in
Parliament so naturally as not to be aware of it; the homogeneity of England,
so profound and embracing that the counties and the regions make it a hobby to
discover their differences and assert their peculiarities;
the continuity of England, which has brought this unity and
this homogeneity about by the slow alchemy of centuries.
For the unbroken life of the English nation over a thousand years and
more is a phenomenon unique in history, the product of a specific set of
circumstances like those which in biology are supposed to start by chance a new
line of evolution. Institutions which elsewhere are recent and artificial
creations appear in England almost as works of nature, spontaneous and
unquestioned. The deepest instinct of the Englishman - how the word
"instinct" keeps forcing itself in again and again! - is for continuity;
he never acts more freely nor innovates more boldly than
when he is most conscious of conserving or even of reacting.
From this continuous life of a united people in its island home spring,
as from the soil of England, all that is peculiar in the gifts and the achievements
of the English nation. All its impact on the outer world - in earlier colonies,
in the later Pax Britannica, in government and lawgiving, in commerce and in
thought - has flowed from impulses generated here. And this continuing life of
England is symbolised and expressed, as by nothing else, by the English
kingship. English it is for all the leeks and thistles grafted upon it here and
elsewhere. The stock that received all these grafts is English, the sap that
rises through it to the extremities rises from roots in English earth, the
earth of England's history.
We in our day ought well to guard, as highly to honour, the parent stem
of England, and its royal talisman; for we know not what branches yet that
wonderful tree will have the power to put forth. The danger is not always
violence and force; them we have withstood before and can again. The peril can
also be indifference and humbug, which might squander the accumulated wealth of
tradition and devalue our sacred symbolism to achieve some cheap compromise or
some evanescent purpose.”
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THE PEOPLE
HAVE SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?
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Ditch the EU TREATY after
IRISH REJECTION
SAY
VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain
should drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of
its rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a
last-ditch bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION
OF THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING
STREET- WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T
YOU?]
Downing Street
website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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13th October,2007
So You Want Out Of The EU
THEN WHY NOT SIGN THE
RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Optout
Details from petition creator
With the signing of the Maastricht Treaty the
people of Britain were given
DUAL CITIZENSHIP
-both
EUROPEAN and BRITISH
The extra tier of citizenship was thrust upon
the people without their consent -and in many cases knowledge.
The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be allowed
the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so wish. The
GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted out with
BRITISH DOCUMENTATION
-only such as British (not EU) passports,
driving licences and other national documents.
EU laws will also NOT APPLY to those who
HAVE OPTED OUT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
[PETITION OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER
08]
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