Dark Friday

Over the past few months there has been a sometimes fierce debate about influences and invasions from abroad.

Influxes of people, ideas and cultures undermining our British way of life, whatever that may be.

These discussions have tended to be directed one way...across the channel or the North Sea...mainland Europe, the source of all our troubles.

However, in my opinion, whilst the leaders of the major parties...and UKIP... Focus to the east, we need to keep at least one eye on the west and our cousins across the Atlantic.

Well,actually, we don't need to keep an eye on them, we need to avoid taking our eye off the ball and seemingly accept anything that isn't from Brussells.

Our relationship with America has been special and we have stood together on many occasions in the past and I am sure we will in the future but the influence of culture seems to have been notched up over recent times and we seem to be encouraged to accept it.

Here are two very different examples.

NFL being encouraged to create a franchise in England...not only encouraged but if the price is right they can use our national stadium, oh it's ok, the football team, sorry soccer team can go and play in towns and cities out of the way, at least we would fill Wembley for the NFL, well we would to start with until the novelty wears off... Next it will be rounders...err baseball at Lords!

Second example is the import of something that has, today, shown the worst side of our population. The introduction of an Americanism that works perfectly well in the States but over here?...

Black Friday is an excellent concept...a gift to the nation to finish off the most important holiday of the year. A chance for all to save a little money on early Christmas presents or just on that something you need.

Import that concept to a nation taxed to the hilt, cut to the bone, austerity weary and not in holiday mode and Black Friday turns very dark indeed.

Some of the scenes today in household name stores were difficult to watch and in a word shameful.

Scenes were so similar to the looting seen during the riots except this time they fought each other to grab the item but then raced to a till and pay the reduced sum before rushing home with their booty.

I wonder what these people think of themselves when they watch on their new...cheap...flat screen televisions? If I'm honest it will be a badge of honour.

Why has this been allowed to happen? Could it have something to do with thousands of pounds a second being flung at our tills?... I'll let you answer that, but I will ask one final question on this very Black Friday...would this have even been considered if today would have been noir vendredi? Or Schwartz Freitag? I feel the answer would sadly be no, any other answer and our leaders speech on the perils of immigration, made today of all days, would have contained I am sure a couple of extra paragraphs warning us that we are being further undermined from the East...it's not just a moral compass they lack.