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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Barrie Davis: Rise and Fall of the British Empire


Alice Roberts this year published Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity. Professor Roberts is an academic specialising in anatomy and biological anthropology. She has published a number of books and clips of her hundred or so television programs are available on You Tube. Roberts is an excellent presenter who can visit a dig and discuss the site with the workers in their own terms while telling an interesting story to a general audience. It is marvellous popular science.

In Domination, she tells of how the Romans brought civilization and Christianity to Britain in the first four centuries Anno Domini. Prior to the Romans, the population of Britain comprised a number of primitive warring, cannibalistic Celtic tribal barbarians. After the Romans arrived in the first century, they gained control of what is now England, built an infrastructure of towns and roads, and established civil rule. In the fourth century Constantine accepted Christianity as the religion of the Roman empire. Also in the fourth century, Rome was threatened by Germanic tribes and the Romans withdrew from Britain. In the fifth century the Roman empire came to an end and descended into the ‘Dark Ages’. Civilization in Britain was thereafter destroyed by the Picts from Scotland, and the Angles and Saxons from Denmark and Germany.

Missions from Rome and Gaul established the Celtic Church in Britain in the fourth century and Christianity was formally introduced by Augustine of Kent at the end of the sixth. In the thirteenth century, Albert the Great and his student Thomas Aquinas synthesised Platonic theology from the Bible with the Aristotelean science they obtained from the Arabs, and Western science was born. In the nineteenth century, the British in turn colonised New Zealand, the population of which comprised a number of primitive warring, cannibalistic Maori tribes devoid of civilization. The British built an infrastructure of towns and roads, and established a democratic government and a Christian Church.

The parallels are obvious. Like the Roman empire, the British Empire was dismantled last century by two world wars. Britain is presently being overrun by the equivalent of the Germanic tribes who destroyed Rome, and Britain will be similarly ruined. Their present Prime Minister fiddles while London, and Manchester and Birmingham burn. Their Parliament spectates as one tribe from the Middle East commences racial killing in Manchester of another tribe from the Middle East (here). “There will always be an England!” Really? I don’t think so. Tribalism is being reimposed in Britain.

The question is: What will happen to New Zealand?

I believe we presently have a choice. We are following in the British footsteps and if we do nothing, we too will return to tribalism. But we, an island nation of the same size, could instead do what Britain did subsequent to the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The country which the British colonists built is still here, decaying but largely intact. We could restore it and continue to develop it. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that New Zealand could become a world leader, as Britain did. To do so, we would first need to regain the assertiveness of the colonists and their productive capability.

We also need to stop the contrived Treaty rort, not just fiddle with it as is presently happening. We cannot succeed with a large unwarranted cost for an anachronistic tribal ethnostate which we cannot afford, and we shouldn’t have to. We need to get rational and we need to get real: the present situation and what follows is what matters most, not the historical Treaty. Moreover, we need to act now, otherwise it will not be long before we are in the same situation as Britain, which is going broke due to a high cost supporting migrants. They did not control migration.

The Prime Ministers in both Britain and New Zealand are avoiding the race issue to the detriment of their country. The key difference is the colour of the indigenous skin: White people are being fleeced in both countries. New Zealand will go the same way as Britain on our current trajectory and so the Maori chiefs are legislating an enclave for themselves for when their White patrons are gone. The attempt to exempt their race from the competitive milieu is counterproductive and should not be accepted.

Diversity is the way of the future and New Zealand has one of the most diverse populations in the world. Diversity will reinvigorate the workforce which is presently shirking and unproductive due to the languor of welfare and prosperity. The Asians are presently supplying the necessary motivation in New Zealand, and legacy New Zealanders need to rattle their dags if they wish to participate in the new New Zealand. But that will only happen if we are effectively managed: the race issue must be controlled.

I realise that I am preaching to the choir by posting on Breaking Views, but you still need to take the gospel to the nation. The first step is to put the colonists back on the pedestal where they belong; it must be made clear that denigrating the colonists is not acceptable. Imagine the response if Te Rauparaha were treated the same way, and he actually really was a vile little toad.

The local and national elections will be crucial. One more government of Labour, the Greens and the Mad Hatter’s Te Pati will signal the end of New Zealand: I suspect that a National and NZ First government will ultimately give the same result, it will just take longer to get there.

New Zealand will only be great again if we are appropriately managed. As is happening in Britain with Reform UK (here), we need to dispense with the psychologism of left-right politics – it is a ploy which is used to divide and subjectify us – and instead vote on specific issues, such as Maori racism.

We urgently need some proper leadership here.

Barrie Davis is a retired telecommunications engineer, holds a PhD in the psychology of Christian beliefs, and can often be found gnashing his teeth reading The Post outside Floyd’s cafe at Island Bay.

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