Review of “Dark Albion” by David Abbott
Dark Albion
by David Abbott
Sparrow Book Publishers, £10
There is a long and distinguished tradition of travel books by English authors such as Patrick Leigh Fermor and Colin Thubron who travelled to exotic and distant lands and tell of the strange ways of the people who lived there.
It is into this category that Dark Albion — A requiem for the English by David Abbott falls but this native South Londoner has not had to make much of a journey to find himself a stranger in a strange land. Instead he has just had to step outside the door of his house in the London borough of Greenwich and walk around and see how the streets he grew up in have been utterly transformed by the largest wave of immigration that has ever hit our shores.
This is a story that could be told time and again in communities across England. It is the story of the gradual dispossession of the native English without public debate, without permission, without a shot being fired.
It is a howl of anger from a south London resident outraged at the betrayal of his people by their own elites. Read more