A shock new poll reveals only one in ten young Britons would fight to defend the UK, while 48% believe Britain is a racist country. Clearly, our young adult generation have become victims of left-wing culture wars that seek to shame us for being British and proud of it.
The YouGov poll revealed that just 41% of young people were proud to be British – down from 80% 20 years ago – while belief in systemic racism is up by 15% since 2004. It is bad news for the cohesiveness of our nation, indeed only 15% believed the UK is united.
But to be honest, it’s hardly surprising when you consider our national culture has been under sustained attack from two directions over the past two decades.
Rocketing immigration, both legal and illegal, means that our population is estimated to grow by a further ten million by the middle of the century, resulting in a third of Britons having been born abroad. Whereas the previous wave of mass migration under Tony Blair was from the EU, at least sharing a Christian European background, the new waves of immigration are from far more diverse cultures in the Middle and Far East.
At the same time as our national culture splinters apart, it has come under persistent attack from left-wingers seeking to heap shame upon our past. Socialism is pledged to internationalism and dissolving borders, hence its love of supra-national groups like the EU and global legal entities.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer may like to address the nation on TV with a Union Jack in the background, but his cabinet is far from patriotic, pursuing any foreign policy that undermines our national interests.
Our strategic base on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean is being given up simply to appease globalist lawyers like Attorney General Lord Hermer, close legal buddy of Starmer. Meanwhile Foreign Secretary David Lammy is reportedly keen to open up negotiations about Britain leading the way in paying multi-million pound reparations for slavery to Caribbean countries. Lammy of course denies this.
Supposedly our original sin, Britain’s slaving past has been used to criticise all our historic institutions from the Royal Family to the National Trust.
Forget the fact it was our Royal Navy West Africa Squadron that freed 150,000 Africans at the cost of 1,600 sailors. But left-wingers will never let historical facts get in the way of a good stick to beat ourselves with. In much the same way that Net Zero zealots like to blame us for the Industrial Revolution, our greatest gift to the rest of the world, raising living standards around the globe.
From the BBC to our finest museums, all pump out propaganda blackening our national heroes and condemning our past.
Having been taught this collective guilt in our schools and universities, it is little wonder that young people between 18 and 27 are not as proud of our history as previous generations are, especially those whose parents served during the Second World War or Cold War. Then our freedoms really were on the line and our will to stand up to Nazi Germany and Communist Russia was vital.
Now you’d have thought that with so many immigrants coming from war-torn, impoverished regions that they would be appreciative of the peaceful haven in Britain, with its individual freedoms built up over centuries.
But frequently their own religions or cultures trump that gratitude and some wish to recreate their own communities on our soil with their own values, which may be opposed to our own.
Diversity has been imposed on us by our politicians at such a rapid rate that national cohesion is being stretched to the limit, as this recent poll demonstrates.
Fortunately there are some politicians who still do believe in their national heritage and the good news is they are gaining greater traction among young voters. US President Donald Trump’s appeal to young people leapt enormously when he spoke to them via social media. Farage, too, understands the importance of new media in connecting with an increasingly distracted young audience.
The importance of patriotism and pride to a nation’s survival is understood by both these leaders and is a welcome antidote to decades of Woke values that diminish our past. It will be interesting to conduct the same poll in a few years’ time when both Trump and Farage have been able to restore some faith in our Western culture and its greatest achievements.
