Why, sadly, it may be too late for Britain to reverse course

It was 1821 when British statesman John Wilson Croker declared that “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” Croker wasn’t the first to say it, but as a lifelong naval administrator and imperial cheerleader, he gave that phrase real political weight.

And at the time it was no exaggeration. Britain’s power spanned every hemisphere. Its navy ruled the seas. Its financiers and currency ruled global trade. And its courts provided the template for modern law.

The British Empire was the indisputable center of global civilization.

But no empire lasts forever, and by the mid-20th century, America had replaced Britain as the world’s superpower.

World War II had ravaged Europe, and the British economy was in serious crisis. Sky-high debt, the destruction of its manufacturing base. And, perhaps worst of all, a major labor shortage. Too many men had been lost in combat, and there weren’t enough workers to get the economy back on its feet.

So in its efforts to boost production and get the economy moving again, the British government created incentives for foreigners to move to the UK.

Britain desperately needed workers, and people from all over the world came to start a new life and fill the postwar labor shortage.

But this immigration policy— what began as a pragmatic solution to an economic crisis in 1945— eventually became utter insanity.

Waves of arrivals from Uganda and Somalia were pouring in under humanitarian pretexts in the late 20th century and early 2000s.

The floodgates really opened in 2015 when David Cameron’s government pledged to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees.

But why stop there? As instability in Afghanistan, Sudan, and the wider Middle East escalated, asylum claims in the UK grew every year.

Then came the small boat crossings of the English Channel—tens of thousands of people, from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, and Eritrea, arriving illegally on Britain’s southern coast.

The result is staggering. In 2022, net migration reached an all-time high of 764,000 people.

That’s over 1% of the entire population of the United Kingdom. In ONE year. Plus they just keep coming… and multiplying at an astonishing rate. That makes it an almost impossible problem to solve.

Immigration alone is not inherently a problem— even mass migration— as the US can attest.

Between 1880 and 1920, roughly 20 million immigrants poured into the United States—Italians, Irish, Germans, Poles, and Jews from Eastern Europe. With a US population of just 76 million in 1900, that wave amounted to over one-quarter of the entire country in a single generation.

The difference, of course, is that there were no special benefits; early American immigrants didn’t receive taxpayer-funded housing or cash handouts. They came to work hard and make a better life for themselves.

Plus America’s early immigrants assimilated— often enthusiastically. They came to America to become American. It helped that most of them came from places that shared the same Judeo-Christian values.

And that is clearly not the case in Britain today.

Rather than love and appreciate their host country, Britain’s modern immigrants are actively resisting assimilation and forming their own breakaway societies on British soil.

The result is neighborhoods where English is rarely spoken and where parallel systems of law operate—including sharia councils which enforce Islamic law on British soil.

The British government loves to pretend that this policy of ‘multiculturalism’ somehow makes the country better off. But anyone paying attention knows this is simply not true.

A study by the Born in Bradford project found that 55% of the Pakistani community in Britain is married to their first cousin, resulting in vastly higher risk of inbreeding, stillbirth, lower IQ, and various recessive disorders (like cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anemia).

Yet the the National Health Service is more concerned about Islamophobia than actual health. Which is why, last month, the NHS published guidance about the “potential benefits” of marrying your first cousin, “such as stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages.”

It stressed the importance of not “stigmatizing” cultural traditions.

This is what passes as medical science in multicultural Britain.

Oh… and did I mention the violence?

Just yesterday, a terrorist attacked a synagogue, killing and maiming Jews commemorating Yom Kippur. Strangely, police seem far more concerned about arresting people over Islamophobia and dank memes.

Bear in mind it was only a few weeks ago that British police threatened to arrest a man for being “openly Jewish” while walking past a pro-Palestine rally.

In another recent incident, police arrested a man who shouted “we love bacon” near a mosque.

Another woman was detained by police because she told Islamic street preachers that she wasn’t interested in the Quran.

And, also recently, when a British man burned a Quran on the streets as a form of protest, a nearby Muslim tried to stab him several times. It was the book-burner who faced charges, while the man with the knife walked free.

Meanwhile, it was perfectly fine for a motorcade of vehicles draped with Palestinian flags to drive through Jewish neighborhoods of North London, blasting abuse through loudspeakers, such as “F*** the Jews, rape their daughters,” alongside chants of “Free Palestine.”

Even children are not exempt. In one recent case, police officers— one Muslim woman wearing a hijab— forced their way into a family’s home to seize a child’s phone. Her crime? The child  had merely looked at an “offensive” meme.

Britons now walk on eggshells to avoid provoking jihadists—so much so that police in London arrest people in the street for even the slightest insult to Islam.

Meanwhile, immigrants commit crimes with impunity.

A migrant was filmed recently strolling into a London café, stealing food, and punching a waitress half his size in the face before casually walking away.

There are too many examples to list. Every day new videos emerge of immigrants wreaking havoc across the UK.

Yet at the highest levels of power, leaders of the UK are bowing to the migrant Left.

Aside from the NHS deciding to embrace marrying your first cousin, even Prime Minister Keir Starmer led his party to reject a national inquiry into organized “groomer gangs” of Pakistani Muslim immigrants who had been raping young teen girls for years.

Why? Because he said an investigation was, “the bandwagon of the far right.”

If you call out this destruction of British culture, you are arrested, or labeled racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, or “far right.”

The hilarious part is that, not only do the migrants resist assimilating, they absolutely despise the local Brits who support them.

At one of London’s endless pro-Palestine marches in 2024, a group of “Queers for Palestine” activists came to join the fray.

But a hijab-wearing woman wasn’t having any of it. And she turned to the Queers for Palestine idiots, with their rainbow flags, and chased them away shouting “Shame on you! Shame on all of you!”

The spectacle was almost comic, proving that Lefist activists have pledged solidarity with people who openly despise them.

On Monday, I wrote about America’s long history of ideological division—how every generation has been torn apart by some cultural conflict. But America always recovers and moves forward.

That cycle has repeated so many times in the United States that I am confident the US will move past its current culture wars. (It’s also why I’m far more concerned about America’s economic challenges).

But the UK is in a much worse position. It has been radically transformed by throwing open the doors to people who despise western civilization. They do not embrace their host nation, they despise it. And they seek to remake it into the dysfunctional mess from whence they came.

Britain has opened the gates to people who want to destroy their way of life. And, from a historical perspective, this never turns out well.

To counter the threat of the Huns in the late 300s, countless Goths were invited to cross the Danube and settle in Roman territory. The Goths eventually betrayed the Romans’ trust and sacked the city of Rome in 410.

From the Aztecs and the Spanish to the Song Dynasty and the Jurchen, caring for your invaders is a one-way road to ruin.

This isn’t a cyclical ideological battle that the country will one day grow out of.

This is an irreversible cultural invasion that threatens Britain’s existence… and why I believe, sadly, it may be too late for the UK to reverse course.

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