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Just over three weeks to go, with many already attending! If you haven't registered yet, please do make sure that you come along to our highly informative speaker and networking event. It's being held on Saturday, October 7th in Central London.
Sam Swerling
We are very sorry to advise, that one of our venerable vice presidents Samuel (Sam) Swerling, passed away last week. Sam had spent most of his adult life active in our wider circles, fighting to restore Britain back onto the path of sanity and persistence. Many of you will recall some of his rousing speeches delivered straight from the heart at our past events, from which he will be deeply missed this year. He was initially with the Conservative Party and the Monday Club and later with the Conservative Democratic Alliance and Western Goals, before becoming a vice president of the Traditional Britain Group. He was an esteemed lawyer and academic who mixed his intelligence with plain speaking. You can read more about his life here (https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sam_Swerling) and even purchase his memoirs here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nation-Tradition-Liberty-Swerling-Political/dp/0956775330/) We should all recognise that Britain now more than ever needs more of his kind and respond appropriately.
At a time when the issues that he fought for have become obvious to almost all, we have begun to hear siren songs being sung in our right-of-centre political culture by some organisation and actors whose underlying intent is questionable. Caveat emptor. Sam was the real thing and at the forthcoming event, we will honour his memory. R.I.P.
Finally, we'll leave you with a news item from today:
We have found recently that the social media platform Facebook is desperately trying to find reasons to limit our reach. In the last two weeks we have had them alert us to two posts, one from 2019 and one from 2020 that 'lacked context'. Rather than digging up posts from 3 or four years ago, today they took another approach. An organisation that they work hand-in-glove with (and pay), the so-called 'Fact Check' organisation founded by Michael Samuel, declared one of our recent Facebook statements 'false'. This was because we said that Croydon, was only 37% British (ONS survey result). Their analyst, one Ms. Nasim Asl, a former BBC journalist, declared that because "69% of Croydon’s residents identify as British" (as does 90% of everyone who responded to the Census) and that therefore 'national identity' is what counts rather than your ancestral or ethnic identity. In other words, the traditional use of the word 'British' is no longer acceptable and is now 'fake news'. While this might be a contentious debating point in an opinion piece (which Facebook admitted in court it's 'fact' check sources were) when the platform that has 66% of the UK's population as users tell British people how they can define Britishness or use the term, it becomes something else entirely. On the day that the Online Safety Bill passes through the Lords, it's worth pondering how online statements are increasingly being carefully controlled, when they touch on particular subjects close to the heart of the current regime.
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Have a good evening and we hope to see you in October.
The Committee of the TBG
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