Thread: Please read my free internet book 'Britain faces the threat of Anglocide'

Shoot .... Schoot.

Richard

Luke 8:16

I hope others will visit your site. It is very brightly lit!

Richard, It is highly unlikely you will receive replies to all of your letters. Hundreds of thousands of people write to the PM every year. Individual MPs have smaller inboxes. Our PM has no obligation to respond to all of those letters and the work will be done by civil servants (I get replies as a constituent). Large numbers of letters receive standard replies whilst many don't get replies since to respond is to provoke further discussion. I have glanced through your material and were you to send it to me I am afraid I would ignore it. The thousands of academics you wrote to are under no obligation to read and respond to your comments. I suspect most wouldn't have read your material. I was a candidate at the general election and received a number of standard letters written to all candidates. I responded to those from people in my constituency and ignored the others. I don't have time to support or oppose every cause. I was promised the votes of the Kurdish community in my constituency (there isn't one and most Kurds aren't entitled to vote). I was assured that the South American diaspora was hanging on my every word (few live here and few have votes). I even had an e-mail from a Christian who gave a local address, but used her Durham University web address and wanted me to commit to her viewpoint. I pretended to accept she lived in my constituency and suggested we meet whilst I was out canvassing or I would attend her church to meet her friends. I never heard from her again. I've had people 'phone and expect me to do their dirty work on many occasions. I'm afraid your letters would have been filed (if they were filed at all) under 'nutter, don't respond'.

I await your summary with trepidation.

If you hope for a Christian party to arise then you must start it yourself. I recall a gentleman 'phoning me from the USA having heard I was an Independent councillor and had similar views to him on one subject. He told me all of the things he expected me to do. He expected me to form a political party in my time and at my expense. He expected me to push his policies. He thought I'd be able to recruit tens of thousands to his cause. He expected to do nothing and to sit and control things from afar. He thought it would be a doddle to recruit people and raise funds. I told him I wasn't interested. I suspect the thousands of academics and administrators you wrote to decided that you could organise things yourself. The majority probably thought your views were bonkers, as I do. The probability is that they have their own well thought out views and don't need to be prompted by you.

Richard,

I don't want to rain on your parade, but 15 replies out of 8000 targetted individuals is not very good (0.2%ish). Your response rate is down there with my general election result and I was in competition with 3 party leaders and 5 proper party machines. In theory your targetted individuals should have been just that. Of those 15 you can only cite 2 positive responses. If 'some' equals more than 2 then you have received more negatives.

There already is a Christian Party (failed to file election expenditure returns this time out), but we can debate whether they are patriotic or not. It depends what you or I mean by patriotism.

My experiences of politics are indeed more negative than positive, but that's because politics is more about losing than winning. The majority of the UK's 650 seats were contested by a minimum of 5 candidates (Con/Lab/Lib Dem/Green/UKIP/BNP/SNP/PC etc etc). Many, such as the seat I fought, had several more candidates - there were 10 of us. Over 80% of all candidates at the general election failed in their objectives. I have won at local level on 3 occasions, although once I was unopposed. I have lost more often and after 9 years as an elected representative and 10 election campaigns in my own right I am qualified to talk of my experiences.

I'm afraid that of the 8000-ish people who didn't reply the overwhelming majority, if not all, did not read your work. We all have demands on our time and few of us read all unsolicited material that comes our way. I don't have enough time to read all of the material I receive or purchase voluntarily. I have unfinished books scattered all over the house and an unstarted pile of books on history, politics and law to wade through. I have e-mail/online archives running to tens of thousands of pages going back many years. I am learning Russian to try to access more of the material that interests me. If I were to be an academic, and the masters I want to take has been delayed by a year, I would focus on my pet subject and not have time to read books by other people. I still have the dormant application to study Constitutional Law and Political Theory as a LLM and, if successful, will move onto a doctorate on international election law/observation (funds allowing). I don't have time to read your treatise and the subject doesn't interest me. I know many academics and they focus on key specifics. When writing their books they do their own research and are dedicated in what they do. The ones I know would not have glanced at your work as they are busy writing new books and theses on their pet subjects.

I doubt I'll be forming a new political party in an overcrowded marketplace. I look at political history and realise the effort involved. The Greens have just got their first MP, yet Lesley Whittaker formed the then People Party to contest the February 1974 general election (I pushed leaflets for her as a politically interested 16 year old). UKIP has no MPs after the larger part of 20 years, although continued success in European elections gives them a certain cachet. Even if the new party were to be formed, with money and support, it could take decades to make any headway. Most Christian patriots will stick with the parties they already support. Surprisingly most members of all the big parties consider themselves to be patriotic, but they come at it from different directions.

Nobody will form a new political party because a stranger sent them a book to read. You actually have to be more targetted and meet people. The people who responded negatively would not have thought, 'Great, a book to read about a subject I'm not interested in, I've nothing better to do than to write a detailed treatise in response.' If you haven't received detailed counter arguments it is not because you 'win', but because people haven't got the time. I glanced at the start of your material and decided that I didn't have time to read it all. I'm only responding now as my bath is cooling, I have a wash cycle to complete before I can hang my clothes out and I'm finishing my breakfast coffee.

If you think I'm being unfair, how would you respond if a complete stranger, from a foreign land, sent you a detailed book decrying the very existence of God and urging you to form an 'International Atheists Party' in your time, at your expense and against everything you believed in? I know what I'd do.