Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg can orate as long as he likes about his "England" (Review, 25 April), but the message that comes through from this bilious Marxist singer is that he has shunned the poor embattled folkish English he was raised amongst to bask in celebrity style in a Dorset mansion overlooking the Channel.
The England he proclaims in his "anthems" is now not an England of English people but a rapidly balkanising kingdom of every race on earth. London and, more particularly, Birmingham are moving into a demographic situation where the indigenous English will sooner, rather than later, be a minority in their own country.
It is for this reason that the British National Party is looming on the political horizon, a beacon of hope for many and a frightening nemesis for others.
ALASTAIR HARPER
House of Gask
Lathalmond, Fife
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