The 'Mongrel' English

One of the most succinct rebuttals of the oft-heard argument that the English are a mixture of races and that the mass immigration of post-war times is just a continuation of something that has always gone on (rather than, as must be obvious to anyone with any sense, an orchestrated attempt to destroy England and the English) can be found at the beginning of chapter 2 of the book 'The Lost Gods of England' by Brian Branston.  

This book (which is well worth reading in its entirety) was first published in 1957, before the reality of mass immigration had been grasped by most people.  For this reason, and the fact that the author has no political axe to grind, it cannot be dismissed (by thinking people, anyway) as 'racist' or 'fascist' propaganda.  

Chapter 2 of the book is titled 'Who Were The English'.  The first four paragraphs are reproduced below.

At first glance, the modern English appear to be a mongrel lot: Tennyson partly hit it off when he sang 'Saxon and Norman and Dane are we,' but even so he was quite forgetting the Ancient Britons.  In addition, we must understand him to have meant by Saxon 'Angles, Saxons and Jutes'; by Dane 'Norwegians, Swedes and Danes' and by Norman 'Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Celts'.

The Ancient Britons who inhabited these islands at the time of Christ were themselves a mixture of tribes.  The Romans, who conquered the Britons during the first century A.D. and who later inter-bred with them, were a melange of peoples from Gaul and Italy with (no doubt) a sprinkling of barbarian mercenaries from the north of Europe as well as more exotic elements from the east.  As I say, a people bred from Briton crossed Saxon (after A.D. 450), crossed Dane (after A.D. 800), crossed Norman (after 1066) could well appear to be mongrel.

But none of these inter-breedings was what might be called in genetic terms 'a violent out-cross' such as would have been the case if Britain had been successfully invaded by an armada of Chinese or Red Indians or African Bushmen.  Apart from any alterations in physical appearance that would have befallen the new Island Race under such circumstances, one has only to suppose a pagoda in Canterbury, a totem pole in Trafalgar Square and rock paintings on the Cheddar Gorge to begin to imagine the cultural changes which would have ensued.

Even the Ancient Britons were comparatively near relations of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, while the Danes and Normans were first cousins: and so the mongrelism of the English turns out to be more apparent than real.