back, migrants

Long time no updates.

Apologies.

My old laptop broke down, got a replacement until that broke and now on a third, for a couple of years. All that time and I haven't updated...

Well, it was a long time between my first laptop breaking and getting a replacement...

Writing, still trying. Nearing a finish on my first full length book, a sci-fi  story tentatively titled  The  Hammer  of  God.  As I said, nearly finished with just the climax and one or two scenes to include, then a re-read to see how it flows.  Probably add little bits  here and there.

Then find a reliable publisher, I don't want to self publish.

Real life news. This migrant migration just won't finish, will it?

Regardless of  how many migrants will reach England, having reached this conclusion years ago, but I think in two hundred or two hundred and fifty years, England will be an Islamic country complete with Sharia Law. The terrorism of the Islamic State or the Taliban and other groups is just a distraction,  the main problem, as I see it, is that Muslim families are larger than indigenous English families so that the Muslim population will rise faster than the Anglo-Saxon 'Christians' which many people think of as the main ethnic population of England.

I'm not so sure. Church going is on the decline and so, undoubtedly, is reading the Bible every day. Materialism is at the heart of most English families these days, not spiritualism, so no wonder Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world.

England becoming 'Britistan' in a couple of centuries makes me sad, but I can't see how it can be stopped.

Historically speaking, this island seems to change nationalities fairly regularly.

The first natives of Britain were the Beaker people,  all we know of them are from the clay beakers they left behind them, burning their dead on pyres. They were killed off/absorbed by the Celts. The Celtic British were conquered by the Romans, who introduced God knows how many bloodlines into the native Celtic population. Not just Roman blood, or Roman Auxiliaries from across the Roman Empire, but the servants and slaves Roman nobility brought to their British homes who mingled with the natives.

Once the Romans left, Gaelic tribes from Ireland started raiding and settling in Britain, particularly the Scotti settling  in the Pictish north. And famously, the Anglo-Saxon hordes invading what is now England.

The Danes conquered most of northern England, then came William the Bastard arrived with his Normans, descendants of Norwegian Vikings and the Franks who had settled in Gaul (now France) and he brought the Jews in with him.

That was the last successful invasion by armed force, But migration into Britain continued. I am not familiar with subsequent migration, but it includes French Huguenots fleeing persecution in France, Irish fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland.

Britain also attracted foreigners with our far flung Empire, not all from within the Empire. Chinese, Indians and Africans came.

Caribbeans were invited after World War II to do jobs white Britons didn't want to do. Case in point, my grandmother is in a care home and the vast majority of care workers are black.

So the current migration is nothing new, almost expected, perhaps. I suppose what is new is that the  Biblical scale of migration from Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East is NOT an armed invasion like the Anglo-Saxon migration (fleeing Attila the Hun's descendants).

Wow, that was long. Okay, til the next time...