We have lost control of our country to the forces of unreason

The image could have originated in any one of a large number of Third World countries: a mob of demonstrators, their faces distorted with hatred, repeating chants and demanding “Jihad!” against the Jews, “from the river to the sea”. Only when the camera panned back to reveal stately government buildings lining Whitehall did the dreadful reality become evident: this was London.

Not the London so alluring to foreign tourists, supposedly populated by city gents in bowler hats sporting tightly furled umbrellas, or Beefeaters in Tudor ruffs; no, this was London as it is after a quarter of a century of successive Labour and Tory rule, a cauldron of hate directed between two overseas tribes, making the elegant streets once trodden by the Duke of Wellington and Beau Brummell indistinguishable from a riot-stricken souk in Yemen.

Surely, though, our world-famous police force, the indomitable London “Bobbies”, could be relied on to restore order? Sorry, no, the police are far too busy researching and disseminating the etymological nuances of the term “jihad” to arrest anyone. “The word jihad has a number of meanings,” the Metropolitan Police explained loftily, “but we know the public will most commonly associate it with terrorism.” That was the insightful bit.

“We have specialist counter terrorism officers here in the operations room,” the statement continued, “who have particular knowledge in this area.” (Gawd, Plod has been on Wikipedia.) The Met was prepared to go to any lengths to find an excuse not to arrest those advocating extermination of the Jews. Could it perhaps be argued that “jihad”, in demotic Sanskrit, means “cup of tea”? 

Unhelpfully, the Met’s own “What is hate crime” guidance states that “The offence of incitement to hatred occurs when someone acts in a way that is threatening and intended to stir up hatred… Hate content may include messages calling for violence against a specific person or group.” That looked disturbingly like a requirement for police officers to challenge and arrest dangerous-looking people who might do them harm, if provoked.

When that sort of problem arises, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one. British police forces are happy to go seven-to-one in arresting an autistic teenager, or even shorter odds to arrest a lone woman for praying silently inside her head, or, best of all, spending the day in front of a computer screen, as one of the 900 police officers the former regime of Cressida Dick allocated to find someone giving “offence” online. But facing up to a mob of more than 100,000 Muslim fanatics shouting for jihad (in the non-cup of tea sense) is not really Plod’s thing.

The police are afraid of violent criminals and large crowds of political activists. In the latter case, they are usually in sympathy with their far-left, anti-British views. The quality of present-day police personnel is poor and many have been brainwashed into wokery: “taking the knee” in honour of a violent Marxist organisation, displaying blatant political partisanship by sporting rainbow patrol cars and uniform insignia, “twerking” with demonstrators, seeing to the comfort of climate loons blocking roads.

The notion of those buffoons representing law and order is absurd. The subversion of the police began a long time ago, when Common Purpose was encouraged to brainwash potential leaders in the public services, despite the Trotskyite views of its chief. We need a serious tribunal, possibly a royal commission, to detoxify Britain’s police forces by ending their political bias. Stonewall should be expelled from every area of government and subjected to investigation.

But the phenomenon that our eunuch police forces allowed to rampage unchecked, the violent Islamist demonstrations, provided an instructive insight into what our politicians have done to this country over the past quarter-century. Mass immigration, accelerated by Tony Blair to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity” and continued by the Tories since 2010, has destroyed Britain. Not only are 14 per cent of the population foreign-born, but one-third of births are to mothers from overseas. Every year, legal migration amounts to twice the housebuilding programme to which the government aspires, but does not achieve.

This is madness. Net migration over the past year amounted to 606,000. Every weekend now, we see the future almost upon us. The British public has lost its voice: when people overseas wonder “What does Britain think?” they see on their screens an enormous mob, foaming with hatred and unreason. That is the face we now present to the world.

The BBC, a national embarrassment, aggravates that situation and will continue to do so until it is broken up and sold off, a fate that is long overdue. The overflowed septic tank that we call the House of Commons, responsible for every ill that has befallen Britain apart from natural disasters, is still working assiduously to demolish the nation – safeguarding the BBC, the ECHR, the punitive tax system, the run-down of our armed forces and every precious vestige of EU overlordship, such as the Windsor Framework.

Our universities are hothouses of intolerance and will remain so until a government pulls the plug on all funding until institutions defend free speech, send down undergraduates intimidating or “no-platforming” others and implement a system of staff selection embracing all political views. The mainstream legacy media are similarly subversive of truth, but they are of less concern since they are dying a natural death.

Everywhere, the perfectly reasonable expectations of ordinary people are being betrayed. Parents are denied information about sinister sexual material being inflicted on young children in schools that have no process of public accountability. The NHS is spending millions on ultra-left ideological programmes relating to sex and race, some of the consequences actually posing a clinical threat to patients.

Above all, free speech is a distant memory. Reversing that totalitarian advance is a priority. Britons have long earned the right to speak their minds: that they should be silenced by an unholy alliance of corrupt MPs, activist NGOs, heavily funded lobby groups and fruitcakes of every description is intolerable.

Abroad, our King is telling Africans what an evil nation Britain is. At home, our museums have been infantilised into cheap replicas of Soviet propagandist institutions. Our university curricula are being trashed into illiteracy. Years of brainwashing, like water on stone, have produced a younger generation in which large numbers are sympathetic to Hamas and similar barbarians. 

That is not entirely new, as anyone who was present in a university union in 1975 and witnessed the fervent cheering by our finest minds, as the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to commence its ambitious programme of genocide, will recall; but the hope might have been that we could learn from past mistakes.

Britain, as we once knew it, is now irrecoverable. The struggle now will be to claw back sufficient control and national identity to prevent this island becoming nothing more than an arena in which the terrorist and propagandist extensions of other people’s wars are fought out, over the heads of the native population. It is alarming to think what terrorist sleeper cells we are probably currently harbouring and how violently they may eventually manifest themselves.

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict originated in a large transfer of population, presided over by the British government. The Irish “Troubles”, the nearest comparable conflict to affect Britain in modern times, similarly resulted from a high-handed demographic transplantation into Ulster, by a British government in 1608-1610. For the past quarter-century, Britain’s governments have been at it again, this time pouring huge numbers of mutually incompatible immigrants into our own overcrowded island. When will our rulers realise that large, engineered transferences of population invariably result in catastrophe?

Unless a 10-year moratorium on legal immigration is imposed in the very near future, the dystopian scenes we have witnessed in recent weeks will become trailers for the main, X-rated feature. The situation really is as stark as that.

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