Is it any surprise that a growing number of young Brits say that "under no circumstances" would they ever go to war for Britain?
Why would they? It's not like the people in charge of the country have given them a reason to believe that the country is worth fighting for. These days, even waving a flag will get you in trouble with the police.
Asked whether they would be willing to go to war for Britain, 50 per cent of those aged 16 to 29 said that “under no circumstances” would they go to war
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 22, 2026
These are the realities behind the numbers 👉https://t.co/WgmRhdMtgJ pic.twitter.com/jqV1A5ZIDz
Britons are pessimistic about the future, for obvious reasons, and an increasing number feel their country has abandoned them.
Half of young people say they would never take up arms for the UK, a poll has found.
Asked whether they would be willing to go to war for Britain, 50 per cent of those aged 16 to 29 said that “under no circumstances” would they go to war.
Only 38 per cent said they would do so “under some circumstances”, while the rest did not know.
It is the latest survey to suggest that Gen Z is much less patriotic than older generations, and exposes the generational divide over questions of identity and national pride.
The poll of 2,000 people aged from 16 to 29, commissioned by the John Smith Centre at Glasgow University, found that the number expecting their lives to be better than their parents’ had halved in a year – from 63 per cent to just 36 per cent.
Only 25 per cent said they felt the political system treated them fairly.
I'm not sure why anybody would be surprised to learn that young people are giving up on the idea of allegiance to their country and culture. The people who run the country keep telling them that they are evil oppressors, that they need to be replaced by a new generation of migrants, that being proud of their heritage is oppressive and evil, and that even questioning the direction the country is going is racist.
UK: Arrested for posting online that he does not like palestine flags. pic.twitter.com/bXv7DP2Zx2
— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) September 21, 2025
Three hundred people a day are arrested in the UK for saying the "wrong" things, and the "wrong" things are usually posts about how they worry that British culture is in danger.
Just listen to his words. This is the average Muslim of Britain. All they want is to conquer everything and bring in Sharia law. They don’t see themselves as British or American or anything other than Muslim. And they don’t even try to hide it. pic.twitter.com/e8MtNzsJaC
— Mor Edge Insight (@MorEdge_Insight) March 22, 2026
If preferring British culture is basically illegal, why would anybody want to fight to maintain it?
More fact-free rubbish from the BBC https://t.co/cAgLHZBBHx
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) April 11, 2026
What makes things even worse is that the Labour Party apparently revels in slandering and persecuting its soldiers. There has been a campaign to slander soldiers, and the man who helped lead it was made the Attorney General by Keir Starmer.
The Telegraph has obtained more than 25,000 pages of documents revealing Lord Hermer’s involvement in the case for nearly a decade.
— Laura Perrins BL (@LPerrins) April 23, 2026
Working closely alongside Shiner and leading human rights solicitor Martyn Day, Lord Hermer attempted to secure taxpayer-funded settlements before…
He participated in a scheme to persecute SAS soldiers based on lies by Iraqi terrorists, and it has come out that he had reason to believe that the accusations of war crimes against them were made up.
Lord Hermer pursued a notorious “witch hunt” against British troops despite being warned that the allegations were lies, The Telegraph can disclose.
An investigation by this newspaper can reveal the Attorney General’s leading role in the Al-Sweady scandal, which left decorated war heroes facing false accusations of murder and torture for more than a decade.
Emails and legal documents show that Sir Keir Starmer’s closest Cabinet ally acted as lead counsel in civil claims against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and pressed for lucrative compensation despite mounting evidence that his eight Iraqi clients were “on the make”.
The Attorney General later insisted that it made no difference whether his clients were “a saint or a member of al-Qaeda” while suing British troops under human rights laws.
One leading lawyer has now called for Lord Hermer to face a misconduct investigation over his part in the scandal, while a former head of the Army said his role was tantamount to “treason”.
When you know that the people who run your country are trying to destroy it, and you, it's pretty hard to come up with a good reason to risk your life to preserve it.
“We sacrificed 100,000+ girls in the name of multiculturalism”
— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) February 16, 2026
Investigative journalist Julie Bindel (@bindelj) sits down for a forensic and disturbing conversation on organised child sexual exploitation and institutional failure in Britain.
We discuss the recent r*pe gang… pic.twitter.com/oV1oGKeuPM
“We sacrificed 100,000+ girls in the name of multiculturalism”
Investigative journalist Julie Bindel (@bindelj) sits down for a forensic and disturbing conversation on organised child sexual exploitation and institutional failure in Britain.
We discuss the recent r*pe gang inquiry currently taking place, and new details about how these gangs weren’t just operating in Britain but were trafficking internationally…
There is a whole-of-government effort to suppress Britons' sense of community and patriotism, and it has been working over time, although perhaps not in the way that the elite intended. Rather than getting everybody to embrace a notional "multiculturalism," they have created a sense of alienation and cynicism.
In the United Kingdom, a Muslim man was recently spared jail after stabbing a critic of Islam. Meanwhile, an Englishman was given two years in prison for a Facebook comment criticizing immigration.
— Adam Zivo (@AdamZivo) September 29, 2025
This is how a nation commits cultural suicide. https://t.co/bjlZLRPA9x
The capital city of London is now inhabited by a majority of people who are not, in fact, English or, in many cases, even British. The buildings are largely the same as they were 20 or 30 years ago, but the population seems alien to them.
British Police arrest an 11 year old boy for raising a Flag at a protest.
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) September 22, 2025
We live under the Stasi pic.twitter.com/CPi0ODtvRE
Britain is in the midst of a cold civil war, and at the same time, the people who run the country say they want to put the country on a war footing and become militarily independent from the United States.
New generations of students in Britain. pic.twitter.com/kSJLrjpq49
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) March 12, 2026
Good luck with that.
When the symbol of anti-government resistance is *the national flag,* something with the existing government has gone horribly wrong. https://t.co/Ej0QKHZNzY
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 28, 2025
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