Mexico’s Inclusive Culture (lessons to inspire)
You may think of Mexico as the place where your enchiladas and margaritas come from. But in fact, this ancient culture has a lot to teach certain politicians and media pundits in England, about how to get along.
Mexico has one of the world’s best ‘inclusive cultures’. In other words, no matter what the political problems, you’ll never find the kind of the nasty politics of ‘blaming immigrants for lazy governments’ culture that we are now getting here.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a patriot. This is good!
But we have to go down the route of what former Green leader Caroline Lucas calls compassionate patriotism. That means listening to what others are saying (there are plenty of solutions to address immigration and the ‘boats crisis’, without creatuing an ugly culture of racism and division.
Our political landscape is shifting to somewhere scary. Calling people ‘illegals’ or ‘aliens’ doesn’t help and dehumanising people like this, is not addressing the real issues.
The hooligans who set an asylum hotel on fire in Southport after the tragic murder of three young girls, did not care about those girls – their parents begged them to stop, and let them grieve in peace. They just wanted to make trouble.
Right-wing marchers in London who throw beer cans at police horses don’t care about England. That’s not what England is about.
It is true that governments not addressing the issues, is what has led to people getting fed up, and ending up voting for Reform UK. It’s likely that they don’t actually ‘support Reform UK’, it’s more than they feel nobody is listening to genuine concerns.
You go a long way in England to find a proper true racist, but now we are getting to that kind of culture, and it’s very scary.
It will be interesting to see if Andy Burnham wins the by-election in Manchester (June 2026). Reform UK have had huge gains saying they are now ‘the kings of the north’. But it’s likely that Andy’s ‘community-first’ appeal could tip the scales, and finally send politics in a new direction.
I think Reform have hit a ceiling in their support and, having recently welcomed the dregs of the Tory Party with open arms, are very beatable in this race. Second, I don’t want their poisonous politics to drip into Greater Manchester. Andy Burnham
In a recent interview, Green leader Zach Polanski said he was ‘as much of a patriot’ as Nigel Farage. Likely more so. After he won the leadership contest, the first thing he did was to visit Clacton-on-Sea (the Reform leader’s consistuency).
Residents were shocked to hear that Reform UK policy is to return to zero hour contracts, which means local people won’t be able to get rental contracts or mortgages, so be prone to ‘slum landlords’ or homelessness. One asked Zach ‘But I thought Nigel was champion of the common man?’
