The empire where sun has already set.

The loss of Empire and the rise of multiculturalism has destroyed Britain’s “big vision” and risks creating segregation, the Archbishop of York has warned.

But he went on to say that this shared “big vision” has now been lost and that Britain has become “a society which is ill at ease with itself”.

Dr Sentamu said: “I believe that one of the key factors which has contributed to our loss of the big vision for our country, has been the loss of the Empire. I am aware that this is a controversial view. But whilst Britain had an Empire, a large merchant navy, a large manufacturing industry and commerce, and significant numbers engaged in armed forces, and an expatriate Civil Service in the colonies, it encouraged an outward-looking perspective.

Britain’s “big vision” has not been lost because its empire has gone, rather the reverse. For all its failings, Britain – and the West – once believed that its ideas, ways of doing things, government and religion were better than those it found elsewhere. Exporting these in the form of an empire was viewed as bringing civilisation to barbarians – an act of benevolence, albeit a profitable one. To voice the idea now that the values of one’s civilisation are inherently superior to those of others is to invite a session of compulsory sensitivity awareness training; Britain lost its identity and consequently squandered its empire.

Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in faith, the root of any civilisation: Christians are eager to include Buddhist chants in Canterbury Cathedral; the Archbishop of Canterbury waxes eloquent on the benefits of Sharia law; Christianity is expunged from public life while Islam is welcomed; mentally unstable and sexually deviant individuals are invited to become priests and bishops.

Because of this, the Western Anglican Church has become an edifice in dramatic decline; the determination of its leaders to stay the course is a salutary reminder that those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.