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Let us blindside you a bit. Let us talk a bit of the country we should have been calling our “Mother Country” were we not so unfaithful and cantankerous, we Mugabe’s people.

Britain is the country.

It is the country that colonised us with the pious mission of civilising us.

We should have been forever indebted, we the natives, but we are ungrateful and have paid back the piousness of the Mother Country with ingratitude.

We should have left Britain with all proceeds incidental to her noble mission, which proceeds include land and gold and all precious minerals and ourselves, not least.

The way they do it in francophone West Africa.

And do they not enjoy easy passage to the Mother Country and their sons enjoy playing soccer in European teams at league and national levels while we are restricted to our Britain and possibly have our children play in football academies and perhaps to wear Three Lions (and a St George’s Cross) of the English national team?

We are paying for it, aren’t we, with our love for English football only accentuating our penance.

Every other week we pay for our ingratitude, being reduced to voyeurs of what happens in the Mother Country’s soccer pitches.

The Mother Country invented the game and perfected it.

We watch from the distance of our banishment.

One could bet that if the Mother Country were so near our shores, some of us would risk life and limb to go to her bosom.

Again.

Only dreams do not come true most of the times.

Anyway, are immigrants like you and me wanted in Britain and Europe where they are increasingly being considered as ants and mice, to use one Goodwill Zwelithini’s lingo?

How times, language change.

It is the same Mother Country that taught us its language, which in this country we are happy to report to have mastered so well.

But like time, language changes.

In the old, when someone was happy and light-hearted they would generally be referred to, or refer themselves as being “gay”, which also meant light-hearted.

This is the context of that classic, melancholic Joe Black song by Stephen Foster which went something like this:

“Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,

Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,

Gone from the earth to a better land I know,

I hear their gentle voices calling ‘Old Black Joe’…

“Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?

The children so dear that I held upon my knee,

Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.

I hear their gentle voices calling ‘Old Black Joe’.”

Now the word “gay” has completed been shorn of this innocent meaning.

You can no longer stand there happy as you are and tell us that you are gay.

Oh no!

It means something normal people would not want to be associated with: being a homosexual.

So when, after the recently held elections, it was announced in the British and other media that the country’s Parliament, which they call Westminster, was the “gayest” in Europe, it did not mean that Westminster is now the happiest place in Europe.

It meant that it now has the most number of homosexuals as lawmakers in comparison to all of Europe — and the world.

God forbid!

Here is how the media reported it:

The Guardian told us that of the 32 openly homosexual legislators, “Twelve are Conservative, 13 Labour, the rest Scottish Nationalists. Among them are veterans such as Eagle, Chris Ryant, Alan Duncan and Crispin Blunt. Newcomers include former NUS president Wes Streeting, who follows in the footsteps of Twigg, also an NUS man. Overall, on 7 May, there were 155 out LGBT candidates. And in two constituencies last week — Lancaster & Fleetwood and Milton Keynes South — both the Tory and Labour candidates were gay, lesbian or bisexual. At the end of the last parliament, the Conservatives had the most LGB MPs, ceding that position to Labour this time around. Proportionally, though, the SNP is now by far the gayest party in Westminster, with 12 percent of its MPs chalking themselves up as sexual minorities.”

The Express noted that the UK had “overtaken liberal countries like Sweden and the Netherlands who have 12 and 10 MPs respectively”, with the British lawmaking homosexuals “ranging from high profile Edinburgh QC Joanna Cherry to the UK’s youngest ever MP, Mhairi Black, who is just 20-years-old”.

Interestingly, according to one analysis, “ . . . the 50 competitive Tory LGB candidates did considerably better than their straight colleagues, with 72 percent having a larger vote share increase than the national trend, and three times the Conservative average.”

For such “progress”, according to the Express, “the UK was named the most progressive country in Europe in terms of equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and interest (LGBTI) people.

Britain met 86 percent of the criteria laid down by international human rights organisation, ILGA-Europe, which analysed countries based on a range of issues including legal protection from discrimination, measures to tackle hate crime and rights for transgender and intersex people. Belgium came in second with 83 percent and Malta was third with 79 percent.”

The paper says it is “unsurprising” that Azerbaijan “was worst with a shocking five percent, followed by Russia, Armenia, Ukraine and somewhat surprisingly Monaco, who all came in at 11 percent or under.”

And you thought the “worst” and “surprising” were the opposite!

How times change!

Godforsaken

We will not belabour you to recall Sodom and Gomorrah, those evil twin cities that were destroyed by balls of sulphur that God rained down because of unnatural acts and ungodliness that the people indulged in.

Anyway, most people in Britain and Europe do not believe in God, anyway.

In particular, in the UK religion is said to be in “terminal decline”.

Here are random statistics from different authorities, but mainly based on the 2011 UK census:

In the UK, the percentage of the population which describes itself as belonging to no religion has risen from 31.4 percent to 50.6 percent between 1983 and 2013, according to the British Social Attitudes Survey’s 31st report issued in 2014.

Among people aged between 15 and 24, the incidence of religious affiliation is only 30.7 percent. It is only amongst the over 55s that the majority of respondents are religious.

According to a report only 41.7 percent of people in the UK identify as Christians compared to 49.9 percent in 2008 and 65.2 percent in 1983.

“The Church of England has seen the greatest decline in its numbers; membership has more than halved from 40.3 percent of the population in 1983 to just 16.3 percent in 2014. A 2014 YouGov poll found that 77 percent of the population did not consider themselves to be religious, including the 40 percent who said they were not religious at all.”

The report cites the 2014 British Social Attitudes Survey which found that 58.4 percent of the population never attend religious services while only 13.1 percent of people report going to a religious service once a week or more.

“More generally, the 2014 BSA Survey discovered that 58.3 percent of people who were brought up in a religion never attend services, and only 12.8 percent do so on a weekly basis,” said the report.

One more statistic:

“In 1980 5,201,300 people, representing 11.1 percent of the UK population, attended Church on a given Sunday, but by 2005 this number had reduced to 3,166,200, equating to 6.3 percent of the UK population. By 2015, the level of church attendance in the UK is predicted to fall to 3,081,500 people, or 5 percent of the population.”

Another report has a grave conclusion.

It says, “Within 10 years, if current trends continue, only a minority of Britons will describe themselves as Christians for the first time since late antiquity.”

It gets worse for old Mother Country.

“Seeing the data, in fact, militant British secularists have renewed their calls for disestablishing the Church of England and even for secularizing the coronation ceremony of the next British monarch.”

This is the slow drift towards Sodom and Gomorrah Britain has been taking.

And they want to drag us all to the Hell of fire.

Remember in 2011 David Cameron, whose Conservative party won the last elections said good British aid would be tied to homosexual “rights”.

The Commonwealth has made similar charges as has America.

The EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe one Phillipe Van Damme encouraged young people of this God-fearing country to be homosexuals.

The party of their choice in Zimbabwe, the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai supports gay “rights”.

But Zimbabwe must remain steadfast, even if the Mother Country does not like it.

We are fine in our old gay ways.

Not the evil homosexual way, please.

President Mugabe has made himself quite clear.