A new report has highlighted the U.K.’s deepening divide between the political Left and Right, marked by increasing polarisation and growing distrust of institutions. The Telegraph has more.
The research by Dame Sara Khan, the Government’s former counter-extremism tsar, found the U.K. had the highest levels of polarisation between the two groups outside the U.S.
She warned there was decreasing societal cohesion and resilience which was contributing to a permissive environment that extremists could exploit.
The percentage of people who viewed Muslims as having “completely different” values had increased from 38% to 44% following the summer riots after the Southport murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift dance class.
Around eight in 10 (80%) of Jews felt less safe in Britain than before the October 7th Hamas terror attack on Israel which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people.
Forty-five per cent of those questioned said they almost never trusted the government to put the nation’s interests first, regardless of the party in power. This was up from 23% in 2020. Only 41% of people trusted their neighbours.
Out of 28 countries, the U.K. was the least trusting at 39%, down from 43% last year. The study published by Crest Insights, an independent think tank that specialises in the criminal justice system, found the UK had the least trust in the media.
Around 43% of people described Britain as “declining” and a further 25% said it was “weak”. …
One in 10 shared the views of people who engaged in violent disorder and rioting during the summer and had sympathy for the use of violence against refugees. Around 8% believed violent protest outside refugee accommodation was justified.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: If we are to start with an honest analysis of the real and damaging divisions within our society, we cannot simply point the finger, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
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“She warned there was decreasing societal cohesion and resilience..”
That’s what happens when British culture is adulterated by base cultures and perverted from within. It started in the 1960s with the feministas and anything-goes hippies and continued with mass immigration.
We don’t need a report or a dame to tell us what we already know and have been complaining about for over two decades to a selectively deaf political, ideological elite.
That “extremists could exploit” – the extremists are the Establishment.
“counter-extremism tsar“.
Is that a fascist dictator who locks people up for justified free-speech in tweets instead of crimes on streets?
Bang on the money JXB – classic bait & switch – get with our program or things will get worse for you.
I wonder whether shutting people up and not letting them air their concerns and dislikes has anything to do with the growing distrust and divide.
I think you’re half right. The problem is that some concerns and dislikes may be expressed, but others may not. You’re more likely to be hassled if you protest in favour of Israel than if you protest in favour of Palestine. You’re more likely to be hassled for protesting against lockdowns than protesting against historic slavery. Those are just two examples, but there are many more that spring easily to mind. The distrust and division have arisen from a willful subversion of the principles of free speech by those in authority.
Talking of distrust and division, this man makes a great point. If the phantom ‘far-right’ are the real terror threat ( despite evidence from MI5 to the contrary ) why do Christmas markets need armed police and ‘diversity barriers’ to protect them but mosques don’t? The reality always contradicts the narrative;
”Can the Government explain why Christmas markets need to be protected from a terror attack and Mosques don’t if the far’right are the problem?”
https://x.com/jomickane/status/1866125288783982979
It is as plain as a pikestaff that some “protests” are covertly supported by our Beloved Leaders. Indeed, quite possibly initiated by them.
Just think about Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, etc. Massive disruption for the plebs, to be taught a lesson.
When, infrequently some of the “Protestors” came to court, such as the Kingsnorth Power Station invaders and vandals, the “Defence” did their best to defend, as they should. But a compliant Judge allowed Jim Hansen (one of the original 1988 Glowbull Warming “Scientists” from the Senate Hearing on Climate Change, to be flown in from the US together with a Native American “Chief” presenting irrelevant and extremely contestible “evidence”.
The “Prosecution” basically nodded their heads and presented neither their own “experts” nor any arguments to challenge this guff.
Unsurprisingly, a “Not Guilty” verdict from the Jury and much rejoicing from the Media.
Precisely the same approach has been repeated time after time in subsequent cases.
Curious that the Kingsnorth trial took place under Gordon Brown’s premiership and at the same time that a “Human Rights” lawyer called Starmer was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions”
What a coincidence!
Err – I think that ship’s sailed.
The damage is done.
My ancestral homeland has been destroyed.
Thanks Guys.
Concur. But if they can stop processing asylum claims for Syrians and send the rest home that’d be a step in the right direction, albeit a baby step. But you’re right, the damage is certainly done. In fact, the only reason they breed at such an increased rate to your typical British people ( or many other Europeans ) is due to their cultural norms and the societal pressure from Islam, so there’s another example of a huge divide. Muslim women breed out of duty, we breed out of choice. Big difference.
In the 1930s Britain had a high-trust, high-social capital, safe, very low-crime, orderly, and cohesive society. It was a non-diverse and mono-cultural society. What could have caused the change into the opposite? It’s a puzzling puzzle, isn’t it?
1950s too. The rot set in during the late 1960s.
True….Just watch the TALKING PICTURES channel FREESAT 306. Footage Detectives goes through rare old films, photos and old cars etc. It is a type of escapism for me even though most of the footage is before my time.
Shows up what crap is served up on TV these days.
Here’s the answer to the puzzle:
American activist Barbara Lerner Spectre calls for destruction of European ethnic societies
And here:
Dr. Carol Baker: “Get rid of all the whites”
and here:
Rutgers Professor Says “We Need To GET RID Of White People” – REACTION !!
and here:
Dr. Kamau Kambon calls for the extermination of white people on C-Span in (2005) #hatespeech #racism
and here:
Black Out Event Tells Whites To Stay Away | Good Morning Britain – YouTube
And here:
Malema testifies that he may call for slaughtering of white people in the future – YouTube
Thanks for these links.
You’re welcome. Just a few of many, many similar videos on Youtube…
Example of ”completely different” values incoming!! Well, to my knowledge this isn’t actually a ‘thing’ for your typical British person. We’re talking a ban on first-cousin marriages. I’ve just skimmed this entire article and not once was the word ”Pakistan” mentioned, even though it’s common knowledge that it’s within that culture that this is practiced. God forbid somebody in the MSM should state plain facts;
”Marriages between first cousins would be banned in the UK under a proposal to be tabled in Parliament. Conservative former minister Richard Holden said such marriages have been linked to a higher rate of birth defects and can also “reinforce negative structures and control women”.
He said cousin marriages can be “cultural rather than religious” in “some of the communities where it is more prevalent”, adding: “Marriage and relationships should be about individual choice in modern Britain, it shouldn’t be about anything else.”
The MP also said: “First-cousin marriage raises serious concerns both in the UK and globally.
“Studies show that it is associated with approximately double the rate of birth defects compared to the general population and can reinforce negative structures and control women.
“Building on my previous work to ban hymenoplasty and so-called virginity testing in the last Parliament, I will urge the Government to reconsider the legality of first-cousin marriage in the UK.
“Many nations and states have taken action on this issue in recent years and it is time for us to do the same.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/degrees-marriage-uk-government-parliament-house-of-commons-b1198793.html
The article includes a chart with the heading: ‘Youth referrals to Prevent have soared since 2020’
The chart actually shows that youth referrals to Prevent have ‘soared’ back up to 2015/16 levels.
Over the period 2015-2019 something had reduced referrals among under 12s by about 26% and among 15-20s by about 12%. Since then referrals have gone back to 2015 levels.
Given that Prevent was set up in 2003 and expanded in 2011 it seems curious that the charts starts in 2015. Did the pre-2015 data spoil the story?
I’m not sure about the difference in values. The more closely I’ve looked at the Abrahamic tradition the more I have noticed uniformity and perhaps even suspicious circumstances in the very foundation of Islam. As if you have several mind-controlled groups and part of all their mind control is to see these differences whilst nonetheless all being subject to an invisible control mechanism. I see it as another group outside of these traditions. But I fully concur with being pissed off about non-consensual mass immigration and done on the cheap as well. These countries that offload their miscreants are well aware that Britain loves cheap labour like a junkie loves his smack. And so they are more than willing to ship the worst of their criminal class here where they know that few questions will be asked. Although in the case of some ethnic minorities the behaviour off the offspring is worse than that of their parents. There was a study done on African children moving to England, this was about ten years ago. It found that when they arrived here they had high hopes like wanting to be doctors, lawyers etc. But within a few years of British slum life they had adopted the nihilistic stupor of the locals.
Muslim woman given high political office in the UK, as part of the Third World Invasion of the West, blames the Indigenous Ethnic Europeans for “declining societal cohesion”.
Honestly, you really couldn’t make this stuff up!
Yes nothing to do with Muslim supremacism, Jihad, mass rapes, mass unemployment, Christophobia or intolerance.
Yes, like that Somalian Muslim woman Fake Refugee, welcomed to live in Finland on massive welfare benefits, who complained that
“There are too many Finns in Finland! Hopefully that will change in the future, with more Somalians coming in.”
If you want to understand the appeal and fecundity of Islam then it is a good idea to speak to white people who have converted to Islam. I have spoken to a few and they all basically say the same thing. That they felt a spiritual calling, their first natural port of call would be Christianity. They notice that churches are disappearing all around them, very often replaced with mosques. And they listen to some banjo playing bearded Anglican who has much to say about inclusivity. They simply decide that Islam is the closest match to what they are looking for. How could a spiritual person possibly find fellowship in Anglicanism? It is infinitely more disgusting than the Roman church.
Really? You mean like the Roman Catholics in South America, for example, CRAWLING ON THEIR KNEES before statues of the “Impostor Goddess of the Fake Virgin Birth” and her Stolen Child E-zus the Forerunner, who was born at Ein Karem to his mother E-lizabeth, with his non-identical twin brother E-ahn the Baptist the True Christ?
Or the Eastern Orthodox slobbering over icons of the Impostor Goddess the Liar, the Baby Thief, who started a cult to place herself ABOVE ALMIGHTY GOD?
Speaking of Churches, I hear France has an increase in Church fires these last few years. Wonder what could be a factor!
Not really a great surprise and given the lefties penchant for lying through their teeth about everything I can’t see it changing. When they lose elections it is never their policies it is that the voters did not understand. No different in the US when Cackles lost although so far our elections are honest and not riddled with leftie corruption as in the US.
Don’t wallow in self-assurance. The situation over the next few months and years simply doesn’t allow for a laxity of spirit.They will turn up at your doorstep and your response will be bankrupt. I would think about that .
This woman is corporate. Corporate is dead.
But if one works in or visits countries that are primarily of Islamist values then one does indeed find that the cultures of such countries are totally different to those of the UK and Europe. We could equally well run this observation the other way around and ask Muslims what they thought about British/Western values. We need not delve into what what are wrong or right values as, ultimately, these reduce to what a large enough group of people believe and accept, ie these form their or our cultures. Differences in values then leads to cultural incompatibilities that cannot simply be ignored. Generating a report that somehow denies that such differences are real or important is surely not the way to address such issues. The mindset of this report is therefore a large part of the problem and not the solution.
Also worth adding to my below comment is that e.g. stable Islamic countries in the Middle East (GCC) put their values to the fore of their societies; uphold and enforce them via the law; do not grant citizenship to the vast majority on employment visas; and expel from their countries those who would otherwise cause trouble and who do not openly follow the local core values. Interestingly, a growing number of Western people are moving to the GCC and are fine with this arrangement, especially given their disillusionment with the deluded mindset behind reports in the UK, such as the one discussed in this article.