I have a tab in my bookmarks titled "British Revolution." It's there for an obvious reason—the UK is in the midst of a Cold Civil War that, while unlikely to boil over, is heating up every day.
The British elite is awful and has lost the trust of the ordinary Briton. They have imported millions of migrants, a large fraction of whom go straight on the dole, and give preference to them over native citizens in everything, including near immunity from prosecution for hideous crimes. Housing prices have escalated due to the population influx, and the central government provides housing for migrants. British citizens are even being kicked out of their homes if the government decides that their house is too large and could be used to house multiple migrants.
Epping said no.
— Hanna’s World 🌍 (@HannasWorldUK17) August 30, 2025
Council said no.
A judge said no.
Govt appealed it!! 138 migrants stay at the Bell Hotel anyway. 110,000 arrivals in 12 months. Channel crossings up 48%. “Managed”? 🤡
They’re not managing migration. They’re managing you.
13 Sept: London = enough is enough! 🇬🇧… pic.twitter.com/XpZNepsQ25
Localities are pushing back when they are forced to host migrant hotels, but the central government is indifferent. And when people complain either in public or online, they are subject to arrest. There are parts of London where it's difficult to find a native-born Brit--about 40% of the city is foreign-born.
BREAKING - A man wearing a Union Jack hat and holding a “Save Our Kids” sign was arrested in the U.K. despite having his mouth taped shut, just days after police refused to arrest a London imam who called for Muslims to take up arms in jihad against white people. pic.twitter.com/O1XRkaKMo8
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) October 12, 2025
In short, a lot of native Brits are fed up, and that is why Reform UK is surging in the polls.
So what do I read when I went to get the news from across the pond? In The Telegraph, one of my favorite newspapers, I was treated to this:
OPINION | Ben Wallace: Visit the United States and see a terrifying vision of our future | The Telegraph | We must reward authenticity, keep truth alive. Division and conspiracy cannot win. (Walk away from devices; rediscover critical thinking, civility.) https://t.co/6eN4GPlshR
— Blanche Horst (@HobanGirl) October 23, 2025
Ben Wallace is a member of the Conservative Party (the Tories) and rose to the top, becoming the Secretary of State for Defence until the Conservatives lost power in the last election. In other words, he's not exactly a nobody in British politics. He's worried, believe it or not, that the UK is becoming too much like the United States.
BREAKING - UK police are now telling dog owners where they can walk their pets, stating dogs are offensive to the Muslim population, with this woman ordered off her own street because Muslims were protesting nearby. pic.twitter.com/MHwBF8IAUl
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) October 19, 2025
I don't disagree with one part of his analysis—that the United States suffers from a dearth of social trust, as is true for all Western societies in the 21st century. But whatever deficit we have here is multiplied a thousandfold in his own country.
In modern America, we can catch a glimpse of what might become of us, and we should do everything possible to prevent it. I am saddened by this angry and divided country – where bipartisan politics is dead and where more and more citizens don’t trust the judiciary, the authorities, the media and the politicians.
Some of the fall in trust is self-inflicted by the very pillars of society that we should expect better of. We see two tier policing, politicians who promise “everyone’s a winner” remedies to complex problems and media that indulges grievance, conspiracy and hypocrisy. We also see the internet spread lies, division and conspiracy, giving a voice to people who can’t and won’t accept the facts before them.
The internet has allowed the creation of a new category of commentators – I think of them as Poundland preachers. Often clever and articulate, but seldom with the guts to try and do something about the subject they preach about. None would ever stand for election and almost all of them are not remotely qualified in the subjects they articulate. They are long on opinions and short of experience. They are not journalists who have to source or stand up a story, but likely earn a lot more through shock-jock podcasts and YouTube channels.
Such figures are the political version of vacuous “influencers”. They destroy, not create. Their stock in trade is conspiracy and slogans. In doing so, they undermine trust because their performance trumps their, often inaccurate, content. Worse, AI-generated content has added to the feeling amongst people that nothing is as it seems. Are images real or fake? Are the articles we read now computer generated?
Wallace is correct that social trust is collapsing, but he puts far too much emphasis on the low quality of online discourse, and in doing so lets himself and the social elite off the hook far too much. The decline is social trust is driven by many factors, but two stand out in particular: mass migration and the failures of the elite to be trustworthy. Social trust is hard to develop and easy to destroy, and the elite have been destroying it. And their response, which is implied by Wallace's analysis, is to suppress people's ability to express their disappointment with the destruction.
A pregnant mother at the Braintree anti-migrant protest explained how the town has now become so unsafe she has to check the other cubicles in the public toilets for men when using the bathroom.
— Jack Hadfield 🇬🇧 (@JackHadders) August 30, 2025
“It’s ridiculous. Why do I have to do this when I’m born and bred in this country?” pic.twitter.com/3RkvXh08i2
UK Prevent classifies "born and bred" as extremist language. Enough said.
Politicians, the media, the "experts," and the academics lie constantly and doggedly pursue policies and ideals that people despise. They clearly hate their own people, and work all the time to force us to comply. When we object, they insult us.
WTF have I just watched?!
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) August 31, 2025
Labour MP Bridget Phillipson is asked if she agrees with the Home Office that the rights of illegal migrants are more important than the rights of the people of Epping.
"Yes, of course we do"
They don't even bother to hide it.
Utterly vile. pic.twitter.com/8VgBma3MfD
I am deeply worried about the loss of social trust in Western societies, including the United States. But the idea that we should be more, not less like the UK is bizarre.
As Richard Tice of Reform would say ‘That lot’,
— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) October 13, 2025
Labour are more honest with what they think of you. They detest you, just like Richard Tice does - it’s a class thing, the whole of the political class against the people https://t.co/kmn31rkjS1
This is why the Tories lost the last election. The lack of self-awareness and loss of contact with how ordinary feel as they watch their society disintegrate is the cause of the decline in social trust. Donald Trump's election in 2016 was a reaction to the untrustworthiness of our elite, and after years of lies, hoaxes, authoritarian suppression of ordinary people (the "deplorables), the distrust is well-earned here.
It's even worse in Britain. If an election were held today, Reform would steamroll over both Labour and the Conservatives.
Latest UK FindOutNow poll modelled out
— Charestiste🇨🇦🍁 (@RealAlbanianPat) October 9, 2025
🟪REF: 388 (+383)
🟧LDM: 79 (+7)
🟩GRN: 53 (+49)
🟨SNP: 37 (+28)
⚪OTH: 35 (+8)
🟥LAB: 32 (-379)
🟦CON: 26 (-95)
(+/- change from 2024 general election)
Reform Majority Government
Feel free to ask for any constituencies https://t.co/8EXUr9xLjY pic.twitter.com/nOZuGoaK7Y
The UK looks like a budding dystopian society from my vantage point. The very idea that a British Conservative politician could tsk tsk about the US political culture is repulsive, not the least because the Conservatives got wiped out in the last election because they were so tone deaf and unwilling to address the issues that their constituents were screaming about.
There is plenty to deplore about our own political culture, but getting lectured about how awful it is is like getting a lecture about the horrors of domestic violence given by O.J. Simpson.
Have a little self-awareness, for God's sake.
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