And “that we don’t want to have.”
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has some thoughts.
“If we don’t make the case for nature,” the politician told a Labour conference, “there’ll be the far-right deciding and determining what that looks like. It’ll be a vision, a nostalgic vision of Britain, that never really existed. It’ll be that warm ale, a black Labrador by your feet in a pub that doesn’t exist, and with symbolism of fox hunting all around them, it’ll be a very far-right nostalgic vision of Britain that we don’t want to have, [and] never really existed.”
“That we don’t want to have.” Well obviously. After all we know that the original British people were black and built Stonehenge.
Brilliant Black British History, an illustrated book by the Nigerian-born UK author Atinuke, also claimed “every single British person comes from a migrant” but “the very first Britons were black”.
The popular attraction Stonehenge was identified as a landmark built while Britain was a “black country”.
The book states that the first British people were black and “Britain was a black country for more than 7,000 years before white people came”.
Stop Hate UK said the book “is a huge step forward in ensuring racist attitudes do not progress into children of the next generation”.
It also claimed the so-called Cheddar Man, the oldest human remains found in Britain, had skin as “dark as dark can be”.
The book, which comes days after Horrible Histories was also criticised, suggested a black Muslim population brought “new knowledge about textiles, medicine, maths and navigation” to early modern Britain.
There were never any pubs in Britain. Just Muslims importing knowledge about math, medicine and chemical explosives. And black people building Stonehenge.