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On February 14, in a high-profile speech given at the Munich Security Conference, America’s newly installed Vice President, J.D. Vance, expressed concern about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom. Citing the case of a man who’d been fined thousands of pounds for praying silently near an abortion clinic, he pointed out that such actions were being increasingly punished in the UK – not just with fines but, not infrequently, with imprisonment. In Britain, said Vance, “free speech is, I fear, in retreat.” If anything, he understated the extent of the problem. But at Westminster, at BBC headquarters, and in capitals throughout Western Europe, his speech was treated as an outrageous attack. The BBC called it “shocking” and “weird” and “extraordinarily poorly judged.” It was, pronounced German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, “not acceptable.”
Not long before Vance’s speech, Elon Musk had begun making similar criticisms. In a January 2 article, the BBC’s Mike Wendling quoted him as saying on X that civil war was “inevitable” in the UK, that the country was “going full Stalin,” and that the British people had “had enough of a tyrannical police state.” Musk, declared the BBC, “has caused anger by calling for the release of Tommy Robinson” – a longtime target of government lawfare because he’d exposed Muslim rape gangs – “and accusing Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute child rapists in Oldham in Greater Manchester.” Wendling professed not to understand Musk’s concerns: his headline was “Elon Musk’s curious fixation with Britain,” and in his article he asked: “Why has Musk’s relationship with America’s closest ally apparently soured?” – as if the UK’s see-no-evil approach to Muslim rapists weren’t reason enough. Over the ensuing months, Musk took to X frequently to champion Tommy, whose legal bills he had begun to pay; when, on September 13, Musk addressed Tommy’s massive “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London via live video link, critics wondered whether his tough words about the loss of British liberty had violated the law. And thereby confirmed his point.
President Trump, too, has spent much of the last year weighing in on free speech in Britain. After the comedy writer Graham Lineham was arrested at Heathrow for posting on X a sarcastic comment about trans people, Trump called it “sad” and “not a good thing,” adding that “in terms of U.K., strange things are happening over there.” One of the “strange things,” needless to say, is that while truth-telling about Islam and transgender ideology is severely punishable in Britain, the taxpayer-funded BBC has for years been lying about those very subjects. Until recently the Corporation had gotten away with it, but then, earlier this month, Trump – citing an edit on the BBC’s Panorama series that utterly reversed the meaning of comments he’d delivered on January 6, 2021 – threatened a multibillion-dollar lawsuit if he didn’t receive a full apology and appropriate compensation. An apology of sorts was finally issued on November 14, but the next day Trump made it clear that he still intended to sue. After Trump’s initial threat, the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and its head of news, Deborah Furness, promptly resigned under pressure (while denying BBC bias); and although leading Labour politicians dismissed Trump’s complaints, many Brits.cheered them as evidence that it’s high time for the chronically slanted BBC to be shuttered, or at least privatized. Indeed, even as talking heads on the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 have called free-speech restrictions a conspiracy theory, podcasters like Peter Whittle, Carl Benjamin, and Dan Wootton have praised Trump, Vance, and Musk – arguably the planet’s top movers and shakers – for drawing worldwide attention to their own concerns, as did former PM Liz Truss, who said: “They’ve lied, they’ve cheated, they’ve fiddled with footage.”
All of which raises a question. America came to the rescue of Britain in two world wars. Will it now be America’s task to save Britain from itself?
Which, in turn, raises another question. Why should it take Americans to save Britain? Why can’t Britons save themselves? A big part of the answer is clear. Brits, especially of the middle- and upper-class variety, tend not to care for unpleasantness, or for displays of emotion. They dislike friction. “MPs and the Westminster media,” tweeted commentator Connor Tomlinson on November 10, avoid discussing the Islamization of Britain “because it makes for impolite dinner party conversation.” As for middle-class types, they can be very easily cowed: if a police officer says that the Union Jack outside their house is causing social tensions, most of them will take it down in a trice while stammering apologies. For years, in short, Brits have been quietly surrendering their country to Muslims for fear of committing a social faux pas.
In that sense, they couldn’t be more different from most Americans – which makes sense, since the Brits who crossed the Atlantic when that was an exceedingly precarious proposition spawned a new breed of men and women who believed fiercely in government by the people and who, though remarkably polite and friendly, were loath to take orders from anybody – whereas Brits today are descended from the folks who stayed behind, embracing the insidious class system and allowing their purported betters to run their country. To be sure, many working–class Brits have been making noise for some time now about the direction that the U.K. has taken. In recent months, a number of their middle-class countrymen – having been pushed so far as to finally notice that something is rattling their teacups – have participated in rallies and marches such as “Unite the Kingdom.” And the examples of Trump, Vance, and Musk are making a difference. For Brits who’ve had it up to here with the BBC, for example, Trump’s assault on the Beeb has demonstrated the power of bold action. Similarly, Musk’s high-profile support of Tommy has put backbone into Brits who’d quietly admired the lad from Luton but hadn’t dared to say so.
Increasingly, then, Brits are standing up and speaking out. But they’ve waited so long, and let things go so far, that it may well be too late to turn the ship around. Consider this: the other day, Wootton aired excerpts from an undercover video in which a Birmingham audience – which included no women and no white people (except for Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, who earlier this year formed a new party, the Independent Alliance, with four Muslim MPs) – lustily applauded Iqbal Mohamed, a Member of Parliament, as he called for the Muslim takeover of “the whole of Birmingham, the whole of the West Midlands, the whole of Britain.” Then there’s Adil Ray, OBE, a host of ITV’s Good Morning, Britain, who on the morning after New York’s mayoral election tweeted that if the mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, implemented sharia law in the city it wouldn’t be a bad thing, given that “[t]he heart of Sharia is social justice, welfare, fairness, charity and cohesion.” This same Adil Ray was present when 101-year-old World War II veteran Alec Penstone was invited on Good Morning, Britain to discuss Remembrance Sunday and surprised both Ray and his co-host by saying that while he and his comrades-in-arms had put their lives on the line for British liberty, the state of freedom in Britain today is “worse than when I fought for it.” The hosts’ response was unsurprising: obviously taken aback, they scrambled to change the subject and treated the war hero like an addled child.
What British leaders are doing to the UK is not unlike what the Biden Administration tried to do to America: they’re curbing free speech, welcoming criminal aliens into their country, and treating those aliens better than natives. But since the start of Trump’s second term, the contrast between the U.S. and UK has widened rapidly. Whereas Trump closed the Mexican border within days, aggressive draft-age men – men with no gratitude, no manners, and an extraordinary feeling of entitlement – have kept pouring into the UK. They look increasingly like an army of occupation. Although the British establishment mockingly dismisses as a conspiracy theory any talk of a “Great Replacement” – the notion, that is, that European governments seek to replace their native populations with Muslims – it’s impossible to see what’s happening in Britain as anything other than the consequence of a deliberate plan to replace Britons with foreigners.
Naturally, if you dare to say so, they’ll shout “Islamophobia” and “racism.” They warn that you’re causing “division between communities” – and in today’s Britain there’s nothing worse than causing division. And remember: when the goal is to prevent division at all costs, no action is too extreme, including the imprisonment of decent people for uttering unpleasant truths. But of course the “community” with which British authorities are most concerned isn’t a community at all. It’s a fifth column – a cohort of enemies within whom politicians, journalists, academics, civil servants, and police officers have been at pains, ever since the Blair era, to coddle and appease, providing them with steady incomes in a time of economic crisis, giving them homes in the midst of a severe housing shortage, and encouraging them to wave their native flags even as ethnic Britons are ordered to put away the Union Jack.
“The sheer sense of dread and misery that hangs over the U.K. right now,” lamented commentator Paul Joseph Watson on November 11, “is like nothing in my living memory….Everyone I know is seriously considering leaving.” It’s a nation in which, if you want to break people’s hearts, all you have to do is show them a picture of the high street of a British city in, say, 1950. Granted, Brits experienced great financial hardship during the years after World War II, but they also had freedom and security – and pride. That pre-Islamic Britain seems like a lost land of hope and glory. Is it possible that a few highly influential Americans can play a major role in keeping our cousins across the pond from going full-on caliphate? Granted, Americans should always prioritize America, which has its own share of enemies within. But let’s face it: if, even as they focus on making America great again, relentless pressure from the likes of Trump, Vance, and Musk can contribute to the salvation of the UK – not only by giving speeches, filing lawsuits, paying for defense attorneys, and applying pressure, but also by providing freedom-loving Brits with desperately needed role models – more power to them. After all, Britain needs all the help it can get.
Time for the UK to Close their Borders and end all this Invasion
And start deportations en masse.
That time has passed. It’s too late now. How late is it you ask? Consider Muhammad is the most popular name for baby boys born in the UK for the second year running, according to new figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Way past time, Tamaa.
Time for the UK to Close their Borders and end all this Invasion
America should remove all advanced weapons from the UK. As well as all business/financial headquarters. So it won’t fall into the hands of islamic invaders.
The conservatives from the UK can move to America.
Then leave the leftists to be genocided by islamic savages on a starving island.
Financial headquarters in NYC should also be moved.
Good one Bruce. I was actually thinking the USA might have to invade Britain earlier.
Aside from these issues, it should be considered that the UK is a nuclear and thermonuclear power. Such bombs + jihadis = bad arithmetic.
The Brits effed up their own country. Why should Americans bother with saving the Brits from themselves and their own worst instincts? Have they ever offered to save America from our own worst instincts (i.e., the vagaries of American academia, Hollyweird and our politicians)? The last time I checked the answer was NO!
Not to mention the fact that America is slowly being infiltrated by the same Islamic invasion. States like Michigan and Texas already have huge populations of Muslims that demand more and more every day, and they’re getting it by becoming politicians.
Not all that slowly!!
About 15 years ago I was in a local coffee shop here in Texas and struck up a conversation with an English lady. After I told her that my husband and I had lived in Windsor for a short while in the late 1990s, she said, rather quietly that England was “still nice then”. I honestly didn’t know what she meant, and when asked, she very delicately mentioned the immigration problems.
I’ve seen videos of the streets of London and it’s completely unrecognizable.
Back then, I never even saw a burka. However, my husband would go for walks during his lunch hour in Slough and one of his co-workers had seen him and warned him to stay out of specific neighborhoods because it wasn’t safe for a white person.
A friend of mine took me to a fabric shop in that area and we were given very dirty looks by the immigrant women there until we left. However, that same friend was proudly welcoming to the invading culture.
I sincerely hope the British natives put their collective foot down and demand change. My ancestors have been on these American shores for a long time, but I still want England to be free and strong and sovereign. Right now, it’s none of those things.
And if something doesn’t change, the idiots in NYC and Minnesota are going to export sharia to the rest of us.
I saw today that Gov. Abbott has designated Cair and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations and will be forbidden from buying or acquiring Texas land
It’s a start.
Funny they never moan about free speech in Russia though, isn’t it?
America has to save itself from the Democrat/Leftist evil that has sought our destruction for at least 200 years and still marches on, more dangerous than ever.
This outrage about the BBC editing and passing negative things about Trump is pretty amusing. Doesn’t anyone remember Dan Rather? He was on 60 Minutes pushing and edited and forged paper on George Bush The Younger.. CBS admonished him and fired him eventually. That was over twenty years ago. He was on TV whining about Trump a few months back desperate for attention. These journalist nerds are all the same underneath, just the packages are different. Apparently memories are short.
He fell for forged paper. Now people are falling for forged videos.
“……when the goal is to prevent division at all costs, no action is too extreme, including the imprisonment of decent people for uttering unpleasant truths.”
It seems that the only people causing division are the unwelcome muslims and the idiot PM Starmer and his gang of sycophant traitors
We ultimately helped Britain 80 years ago when Germany was at England’s doorstep, all ready to invade. The big difference was that England had Churchill as PM and it was easy to land troops in England in 1942. Where would we be able to occupy England now with a hostile government and a muslim enemy flooding in by invitation. Perhaps Wales, Scotland or Ireland.
The UK and Mexico are headed to bloody revolution.
Mexico it’s to get the grip of the cartels out of the government and UK the grip of the one world order deep state deadheading to the antichrist.
If President Trump did not win the 2024 election, the USA would be in the mess worse than Mexico and the UK combined.
All the open borders, the cartel influence and lawless Lawfare arresting those who posted and read posts online!!!!
We need to create a code to communicate online that the satanic pakkerhead honiacs of the deep state can not decipher. (This will drive them nuts alone.)
Yet another concise and brilliantly-made argument from Mr. Bawer. He is a joy to read.
This is to say nothing of the rape of 200,000 British young girls at the hands of Muslim rape gangs in Rotherham, Telford, Oxford, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Dover, Rochdale, Oldham, Newcastle, South Yorkshire, West Mercia, Aylesbury, Banbury, Derby, Halifax, Keighley, Peterborough, Huddersfield, Burton-on-Trent, Ramsgate, Coventry, Chelmsford, Dewsbury, Middleborough, Manchester, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Belmarsh, Brixton, High Down, Holloway, Pentonville, Thameside, Wormwood Scrubs, Liverpool, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leices, High Wycombe, and … London.
Plus 80 or so more unnamed.
Wouldn’t happen if they had the equivalent of the 2nd Amendment and were armed!
Some history of sneaky gun control in Britain:
1870 a new law required a license to carry a gun outside your home
1903, a new law required a license for any gun with a barrel shorter than 9 inches and banned ownership by anyone who was “drunken or insane.”
1920, a new law allowed the police to deny a firearms permit to anyone “unfitted to be trusted with a firearm”–a loose category if there ever was one.
1937 most fully automatic weapons were banned,
1967 shotguns had to be licensed. Applicants had to be “of good character, . . . show good reason for possessing a firearm, and the weapons had to be stored securely.”
1987, semi-automatic and pump-action rifles were banned, along with anything that fired explosive ammunition and a few other categories of weapons. Shotguns remained legal but had to be registered and stored securely.
1996 a new law banned handguns above .22 caliber, and in 1997 .22s were outlawed.
2006 the manufacture, import, or sale of realistic imitation guns was banned
2014, police were required to refuse or revoke a firearms license if the applicant or license holder had a record of domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, or mental illness
There should be a database listing every rapist and every cop, imam and politician who turned a blind eye or otherwise enabled them. As there is no death penalty in the UK, deport all of them immediately, by dropping them off on an unlisted desert island. Separate the myn from the womyn on different islands. Occasionally, air drop some of that experimental uberfood made from insects and other such raw products the lefties have promised us. The volume of food may be set according to allotment voted on by parliament. Allow no other material on the two islands, except possibly random bird poop and perhaps any remaining Covid injections and face masks. Let them live out their unnatural lives under those more than humane conditions. Grant Keir Starmer a mandatory lifetime appointment as the in-house warden. Then institute chain deportation. That ought to rid England of virtually every Muslim and English traitor.
I’m not sure we can save ourselves, let alone Britain.
America needs to save itself before saving anyone else. Closing the southern border or shutting down the education department is not enough. It needs to stop all immigration especially Jihadi Islamist.
Then can try to save Europe.
The English did expulsion wrong in the middle ages. Now it’s time they did it right. They should ferry their Muslim population into the closest international waters just off the coast of China and gift them enough small boats to make their way to the nearest points on shore. Keir Starmer can go in the lead dinghy to smooth things over diplomatically.
Here’s something no one wants to talk about: when Islam takes control of Britain, they will have nukes. Think about that. The one “religion “ that seeks to destroy western civilization will have the means to do it and Iran won’t have to do a damned thing.
All too aware and missile systems, worse the computers and infrastructure
I really had a good education of Islamization of the West from your books “While Europe Slept” (2008) then “Surrender” (2009). Also the alliance of Islam with Democrat Commies aka, “Unholy Alliance, has been going on in America since 9/11. So we are seeing America going the way of Europe. We can’t save UK if we can’t save ourselves from the same fate.
I felt great freedom going back on “twitter,” now X, after being banned multiple times, but even recently criticizing Islam can be considered “hate speech” w/o making any physical threats, if for example a meme shows a Mamdani airplane about to crash into a tall NYC building. (It wasn’t removed but “limited” –can’t like, copy or repost.)
I don’t believe Islam and Muslims can be divided as if there’s a two versions of Islam…a benign and a malignant/radical version called “Islamism.” Our Achilles heel is “freedom of religion” w/o a clear definition of “religion.” The Koranic Manifesto is what it is…a battle plan to conquer infidels. It’s on par with the racism of Mein Kampf and Nazism. We are doomed if the “religion” of Islam isn’t restricted in its political and social influence. I may not be around when America becomes Islamized…but if we continue the same naïve course, it will be eventually. That’s what Islam does.
Kudos to Gov. Abbot for trying to go up against CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood, but the Commies will defend the Islamic colonization by calling his legal efforts Islamophobia and an attack on freedom of religion.
‘a clear definition of “religion.” ‘
I believe it should involve the golden rule. Islam lacks this. Even without a complete definition, one could clearly state that any so-called `religion whose precepts violate the golden rule should not be eligible for legal religious freedoms.
oh it has it, it just isn’t for non-slimes
Mr. Bawer’s books are indeed enlightening (and scary). Your comment is spot-on! Hoping to hear more from you, Liz.
How can America “save Britain” from islamization while America is also islamized, and worst of all, no political party (except the Judeo-Christian America), and no visible political leader dares even to whisper that ISLAM MUST BE BANNED IN EVERY STATE! Not one state sets such a goal!
At issue is WHO WILL SAVE US FROM ISLAM!
Time to go Galt
The Old Testament is filled with history of those who turn their back on God and find out what it means to live apart from Him. How can we be surprised that Britain has crumbled?