David Craig, on August 16th, 2024Friday-weekend blog
According to that ever reliable source of information – Wikipedia – the ‘Black and Tans’ were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence. Recruitment began in Great Britain in January 1920, and about 10,000 men enlisted during the conflict. The nickname “Black and Tans” arose from the colours of the improvised uniforms they initially wore, a mixture of dark green RIC (which appeared black) and khaki British Army.
But now there is a new version of the ‘Blacks and Tans’. I have written before about an Irish Government plan titled Ireland Project 2040. One of the main goals of this plan is to increase the population of the Republic of Ireland by over one million.
The Irish birth rate is around 1.9 children per woman down from four per woman in the 1960s and 1970s. The UK is at 1.8. But replacement level is 2.1 children per woman. The indigenous Irish population is actually declining.
So, where will the extra more than one million people come from? Clearly through immigration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. That’s 50,000 a year for the 21 years from 2019 to 2040 – about 1,000 a week. That’s where the new ‘Blacks’ and ‘Tans’ will come from.
Now, in case you think I’m exaggerating the threat to the indigenous white Irish population, here’s a chart from the excellent Visual Capitalist website showing the percentage growth in population by country from 1990 to 2023:
You’ll see that, despite a birth rate below replacement level, Ireland with +48% has the highest percentage increase of any Western European country.
Here’s a chart of Ireland’s population from 1950 to 2023:
It won’t be long before the only faces you’ll see in Ireland will be Blacks and Tans.
As for other West European countries where the white indigenous population is declining, with Switzerland’s population increasing by 32%, Spain’s by 23%, Norway’s by 30%, Sweden’s by 23%, the UK’s by 20%, the Netherlands’ by 20% and France’s by 17%, it would seem that the Great Replacement may be more than an absurd conspiracy theory.
Why don’t they ban all travel from Africa?
Monkeypox, or mpox, has been declared a global health emergency after it began spreading rapidly across central Africa and popping up around the world – including a case in Europe.
Mpox has been known about for years and while a concern to the World Health Organization (WHO) it has never been widespread. But in a recent explosion of cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, alongside changing symptoms has caused alarm for medical professionals.
The WHO declared it an emergency on Wednesday after a meeting at the United Nations, while the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention declared it an emergency on Tuesday. The international organisation said there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 deaths in Africa this year, which already exceeds last year’s figures.
On Thursday, multi-cultural, diverse and vibrant Sweden recorded its first case of mpox – the first confirmed case in Europe.
So far, more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in DR Congo. Scientists are concerned about the spread of a new version of the disease that might be more easily transmitted among people.
But if the World Health Organisation was really concerned about our health, surely they would insist on a ban on all travel from Africa? But I guess they won’t as that would be ‘racist’.
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I heard a woman talking about monkeypox, I think an EU politician. She said it doesn’t need a passport to cross borders. But it does need an infected person with or without a passport to cross borders. I came to the same conclusion as you. Bring in travel bans now.
I don’t understand the concern about population control, either in the past when eugenics was in favour or now when growth is in favour. Surely, it should be the decision of couples and nobody else about having children, and should not be influenced by welfare payments. Sometimes politicians say it is to fill jobs but we have enough unemployed. The politicians never say what the jobs are and how immigrants with the required qualifications are encouraged. They don’t say how the required services to cater for immigrants will be provided and paid for. They also say they are needed to look after our aging population. Why does the state have to do this? Families should do it and elderly have had a lifetime to save for their old-age. There is no concern about the countries the immigrants come from if they are well qualified. We are not told what economic growth means. Is it to increase exports? We cannot do that because we are a high cost country, both wages and energy. This is socialism at work and it will destroy everything we have created.