Over the course of fourteen years the Conservative Party has degenerated into a league of anti-nation saboteurs. Their governance has been a catastrophe for the British people. Their recent boast of firsts reminded us again that they are anything but British conservatives. In March, Sunak and Gove’s attempt to equate Islamism and the British Right effectively severed the Conservative Party from the nativist concerns of the British people. The government resembles a late Roman conglomerate largely staffed by individuals pulled in from former imperial territories.
Royston Smith MP has spent his career situated on the periphery of parliamentary politics minding a coastal constituency. He has mostly kept his head down, but has also been in a better position than most to observe the mutating world-view of recent Conservative governments. He has likely received many a concerned word from his constituents, especially about our immigration nightmare which the Tories have chosen to not resolve. Boris was elected on this promise and he did nothing. The invasion of our south coast and through our airports has continued. Both legal and illegal immigration have increased. In June 2023, Smith announced about his intention to relinquish his position as the Tory satrap for Southampton, Itchen before the next General Election. It is tempting to speculate what Smith’s motivation is. His political philosophy is unclear, so what should we make of this funny little man from Harefield and what of his conservatism?
If you have ever met him, you would think that Smith is alright. A Harefield boy, he came of age in the Thatcher era when globalisation began to become normalised. This working class lad was likely attracted to the aspirational materialism projected by the Conservative Party at that time. He is amiable, for sure, and his local credentials must appeal to the majority working class population who continue to vote for him because as a conservative he is useless. The problem with Smith is he now represents a position which has submitted to the progressive forces that have infested the party. He is a regional pied piper whose job is to keep those with an active conservative instinct on the party hook.
Whilst Conservatism could never only be about immigration, concern about immigration into the UK has been increasing, especially amongst Conservatives. Immigration into the UK is a demographic disaster, and has gotten worse during Smith’s tenure. Division is growing. True, he has mostly voted for tougher handling of immigration over the years, but his apparent concern with Southampton’s asylum problem seems limited to perfunctory queries and prompted questions. For example, in a 2022 letter to the Minister for Immigration, Robert Jenrick, in which Smith asks if any of the invaders currently housed in the Dolphin Hotel had absconded. In October 2022, Smith did object to the hotel being used to house the economic chancers, but suggested nothing as a solution. He just complained about underfunding and backlogs, as they all do. By December 2022, Smith was ‘informed’ that the hotel would be used to accommodate invaders. Incidentally, the historic hotel may now be used for student accommodation.
To get a broader idea of Smith’s attitude towards the invasion of our beautiful island look at his queries about asylum seekers. The word deport does not appear in any of his parliamentary speeches, and there is nothing, or very little, in his record which mentions migrants, extremism, channel, deport, grooming, Islamist, Islamism, jihad, multiculturalism and nothing about nation, family, tradition, or values. Where these do appear they are mostly Written Questions. Intriguingly, a search for ‘African’ at TheyWorkForYou shows that Smith is concerned for the plight of white South Africans. Yet he does not appear to have spoken publicly about Lee Rigby, Kriss Donald, Richard Dentith, Christopher Yates or any of the other victims of anti-White violence in the UK. For Lee Rigby’s name the search engine asked if I meant ‘Fee Rigby’.
His parliamentary record was one of highlighting things intended to signal to constituents that he is working to address their concerns. This is a default behaviour in constituency politics – they highlight concerns whilst intending to do nothing about them. These concerns then disappear into the Westmincer never to be considered again. In March 2023, Smith did vote in favour of the Illegal Migration Bill, much to the irritation of a local nappy, In Common, but both Smith’s conservatism and the inevitable rebuke seem rather performative. Smith has demonstrably not prevented Southampton from being used as a migrant dump or engaged in any effective conservatism which would benefit the native population. Since we are on the subject, it is worth recounting a story circulating the pubs of Southampton East which relates to a member of Smith’s constituency who visited the MP at one of his regular Friday surgeries in the Bitterne Conservative Club. The constituent member grew up in Bitterne, but had lived away for some years and recently returned to the area not long after the 2016 referendum. They used the village for their daily routines and were struck by how many sub-Saharan Africans they now saw wandering about. During their younger years the number of sub-Saharans living on eastern side of the Itchen could be counted on one hand – a hand missing a finger at that. The same went for south Asians who were now also conspicuous. The appearance of these distant people in the suburb presented a weird demographic irregularity and this prompted the constituent to book a slot at Smith’s surgery.
The meeting took place in one of the event rooms above the club bar. Taking the minutes for Smith was Councillor Alex Houghton. The story goes that following introductory pleasantries and a light survey of his personal background, the constituent asked Smith why so many sub-Saharan African and South Asian people had begun appearing in obviously increasing numbers within the Bitterne area. How Royston responded was remarkable. His first response was to accuse the constituent of being a journalist or a spy who had been sent to catch him out and who might very well be wearing a ‘wire’. Apparently, this had happened on a previous occasion with a different individual. Smith did not elaborate and he proceeded to dodge around the subject and even suggested that these new people were on holiday. Consequently, ‘Royston’s Holidaymakers’ has become a local euphemism for Third World immigrants found in an unlikely location. For example, it is now not uncommon to witness women wearing Sudanese robes wandering through Bitterne precinct, or even enormous West African women shuffling around Smith’s own childhood estate. Not only this, many of the Africans observed do not seem to be in good physical or mental shape, which begs the question: what are they doing here? At Smith’s surgery, the MP then suggested his constituent was a racist, which the constituent dismissed. The constituent explained that he was a social sciences graduate and that he had lived in several cities in which his academic, working, and social worlds frequently included ethnic minorities. Mostly in a positive way. The constituent had been attracted to this cosmopolitanism, his academic journey reflected this, but after years of direct experience he had arrived at a critical view of multiculturalism, especially within White nations. Indeed, we have comprehensive studies demonstrating the total negative effect of ethnic diversity on formerly homogeneous and stable communities. When asked if he was aware of a deliberate attempt to house non-Whites outside of their traditional neighbourhoods, Smith said he was not. We call this deliberate placing of minorities in native ethnic majority neighbourhoods ‘ethnic seeding’. Apparently, Houghton said nothing throughout.
As the city’s Conservative MP it does seem odd that Smith is not alarmed by population changes involving non-native groups. Thankfully, Southampton is not a migrant magnet like London or Birmingham, but we do know that it is typical for ethnic minorities to settle in or close to urban centres and this demographic trend in Southampton is reflected in the 2021 census.
Note that the local census document states: “there has been a fall in the white British population across all wards except Woolston”. Obviously, Woolston was one of Smith’s constituencies, which means that all but one of his wards have seen a decrease in the native population during his tenure as the Conservative MP for Southampton, Itchen. Overall, Southampton has witnessed a greater decrease in native people living in Southampton (-7.9%) compared to the national average (-1.7%).
For the wards in Smith’s constituency see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Itchen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Between 2011 and 2021 Southampton saw a 44% increase in the number of people born outside of the UK. Coventry had the highest.
Smith’s constituent pointed out that the 2011 census describes Bitterne as Southampton’s second least ethnically diverse ward. Sholing was number one. For a detailed overview of the demographic changes in Smith’s constituency between 2011 and 2021, please refer to the ONS census map. Good examples can be found by looking at the changes since 2011 in any of the Southampton East wards adjacent to the Itchen: Bitterne East, Bitterne West, Bitterne South, Itchen, or Woolston. For a more drastic demographic shift see City Centre & Polygon, St Denys , Freemantle, or Swaythling.
Whilst Smith has expressed concern at the parliamentary level, his concerns have never been reflected at the civic level in any observable way. Throughout the conversation the constituent repeatedly reassured Smith that he had presented himself for a serious conversation and did not have any ulterior motive; he had come as a concerned local whose family had been in the area for generations. This eased the MP’s defensiveness slightly and the conversation continued on the immigration theme. Smith acknowledged that the invasion on England’s south coast was becoming a problem, but when asked if the British government were going to do something decisive about it, such as the large scale remigration of millions of people back to their ancestral homelands, he admitted that he did not think parliament ‘had the stomach for it’. Perhaps this is what he means by being unable to turn back the clock.
Smith intended to do nothing about immigration. His equivocation on this subject is on record when speaking about a TV program highlighting the increasing immigration in Southampton:
“The reason why I refuse to give a yes or no answer to the question…is because it is largely irrelevant what I think.”
The Conservative Party MP for Southampton, Itchen did not feel his opinion on immigration was relevant. To be fair to him, given the globalist nature of the Conservative Party’s top tier there is probably little he can do. It is still telling that he has also chosen to say very little, though. Is Smith a symptom of a political party which has abandoned its own moral and ideological centre? To be a Conservative in 2024 is to reject conservatism, it seems. Since Cameron’s era the traditional stewards of nativist values and ethnic identity have deserted the British people and gradually moved the party into a blurry centralised position in which conservative principles are either negotiable or completely absent. At the local level Smith’s conservatism is demonstrably weak and his party hold Southampton, Itchen hostage with a set of principles they no longer believe in or practise.
Here, Smith has provided us with a couple of good examples. As it turns out he isn’t very conservative at all. He has been tricked into believing he is engaged in political conservatism. But he isn’t engaged in conservatism, as his weird behaviour with his constituent, his complete failure to address inward non-White migration, and his endorsement of the Persian Cultural Centre in Bitterne Park (2) suggest.
The Persian Cultural Centre is the second Islamic vanguard east of the Itchen after a modest foothold in Woolston. Opening in 2021, the purpose of this centre is to provide support for Iranians, Afghans, and Tajiks living in the area. Iranians, Afghans, and Tajiks in Bitterne Park – the presence of Afghans alone should give us cause for alarm given their notably low average IQ, a moral culture which permits ‘dancing boys’ (something even the US military had a problem dealing with), chronic mental illness amongst the younger population, and a propensity for group sexual violence.
Pressing the flesh with an organisation engaged in the demographic disintegration of your own neighbourhood is questionable. Where is the conservatism in this endorsement? Relatedly, it is also not known what Smith thinks of the recent agreement to allow a Muslim community organisation to take over Cobbett Road Library, or the Turkish Masjid & Learning Centre in Woolston. Is he, as Roger Scruton described, simply adapting to “what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present”, the changing circumstances being the appearance of Iranians, Afghans, and Tajiks in Bitterne Park? He has also been seen balancing his time with the Bitterne Local History Society during their occasional cultural events.
In the 13 years of Smith’s tenure we see have seen discreet asylum facilities established in his ward along with a data supported, and visually obvious, increase of non-White people living in Southampton. Immigration effects everything. A society is an organism, a living entity and like any organism our society is perpetually concerned about resources and space. What has Smith’s response been to the increased housing pressure created by immigration onto our small island? Well, he wants to build and build because he thinks that this is what his constituents are concerned about. It might be tempting to argue that people are also concerned about the loss of wildlife habitat, the reduction of rural and green spaces, and the increasing presence of alien peoples who have done nothing to justify the destruction being done largely for them.
A Migration Watch paper released in 2019 revealed that “90% of additional households created in England were headed by a person born outside the UK during the decade leading up to 2015”. Furthermore, this is having an overwhelming influence on the demand for housing. Smith’s thoughts on the recently rejected scheme to wreck the St. Mary’s School playing field with 84 new abodes are not known. However, we do know his attitude towards the local habitat and the emptying of raw sewage into the Itchen. In 2021, along with many other MPs, Smith voted to dump raw sewage into our rivers and coastal areas, his reasoning being that it was a necessary short-term solution. He did once part own a bike shop in the Triangle, but it is not clear whether this reflected environmental and fitness interests or if it was a simple business venture. He does not look like a man who is interested in his physical health.
After 13 years of Smith, who did Tory HQ think was a suitable replacement? They sent Sidney Yankson to solicit for the seat. A native Ghanaian raised in London, this post-colonial cosmopolitan cares about Chessel Bay, a well-known and important segment of the River Itchen’s ecosystem. Perhaps because it has tarnished Smith’s reputation, his hopeful heir is all about the health of the river. He also cares about potholes which is hilarious seeing as Royston Smith has done squarely fuck all about them, and Smith has held the seat for 13 years. Yankson has zero connection to the city, he is not even British, yet he is being presented to us as a Conservative. On his social media page, he has no interest in protecting the British people, he doesn’t speak about us at all. Many of his talking points are about the habitat or day-to-day infrastructure matters which the city is already paid to maintain. He uses the collective ‘we’ and has been over-familiar. Judging by the lack of engagement locals are not convinced by him (1, 2). Yankson recently demonstrated his ignorance of basic local geography by tagging his location in Harefield when he was standing outside the Bitterne Conservative Club.
The notion that this Ghanaian is a British Conservative is just daft and the dying Conservative Party insult us by sending him.
Smith has witnessed the Conservative Party’s death spiral as it has transformed into a movement whose only nod to actual conservatism now is fiscal. The repulsive headcases in Westminster are obsessed with the economy, infinite growth, and they have created a socio-political culture in which they believe we are all as preoccupied with it as them. Sadly, this is where Conservatism begins and ends in our current time. The culture, history, and ethnicity of the native British people is not being protected. One wonders what world Smith thinks he is leaving his children. Southampton has become a more unsure place during his time as Conservative MP. The native population are being forced to tolerate the seeding of their neighbourhoods with deeply unsuitable people.
The Conservative Party under Sunak is facing a significant kicking at the next general election. Let us hope it is fatal. Indeed, it is something short of a miracle that the British people have not gone absolutely berserk by now. Smith’s gut may have been whispering to him that he is wise to get out with his pension intact and his head still attached whilst he can. But remember, this is a man who shat himself when asked a question about conservatism.