Will the Saints Go Marching in?
6th February 2026
Southampton today is as busy as ever. The football club plays at St Mary’s Stadium on the dockside, where the fans sing the club’s adopted anthem ‘When the Saints Go Marching in’. Like other clubs, the vast majority of Southampton supporters are white Britons, and this is not representative of the present populace.
Priestley mentioned a few ‘brown faces’ in Southampton, which was not unusual in port towns, but on my recent visit almost half of the people I passed on the pavement were of African, Oriental, South Asian or Middle-Eastern ethnicities, and among schoolchildren hardly any were of Hampshire stock. Back at the turn of the millennium Southampton remained well over ninety per-cent white British, but today every large town or city in England is assumed to be multicultural, as we are reminded on notices and advertisements that suggest extinction of the white man.
The title of the article seems (at least to me) to be a reference to Jean Respail’s prophetic 1973 book Camp of the Saints, which was the first warning bell about the replacement of native Europeans by Turd World immigrants. (If you haven’t read it, I would strongly urge you to do so.) The predominant reaction among the Chattering Class to his book was ‘Oh, this is nonsense! Some far-right racist conspiracy theory!’—but, as we have learned to our sorrow, yesterday’s ‘conspiracy theory’ is today’s ‘spoiler alert’.