I was a guest speaker at the annual conference of the British Democrats on 25 October 2025. This is the speech I gave:

Last year I encountered a sticker on a town wall placed there by a Marxist group. The content was as you might usually expect, but there was also something new about it. Not only did it proclaim its opposition to fascism and the so-called far right, but it also attacked patriotism. I will leave it to your imagination as to what I did to the sticker.

We should consider why it is that at the present time the Left is so opposed to patriotism. It is not so long ago that the Left was generally supportive of Britain and our national character. Working-class Labour supporters would have defended the British way of life and our values. While there might have been much that separated us politically, there was still a common national culture that acted as a unifying force.

What has happened now is that the Labour Party and indeed most mainstream political parties have unceremoniously ditched the working class. It is not hard to see why. The working class have been blamed for voting for Brexit and it is clear that they constitute the principal opposition to the globalist system. They are held by those in power to have nationalist and patriotic views and to oppose mass immigration. It is of course the working class that feels the impact of mass immigration most acutely in the changes to its communities and in the destruction of its culture, and that is at the heart of the present ongoing protests at the housing of asylum seekers in hotels. If any political party succeeds in mobilising the working class, it will be in a position to change this country’s destiny.

And yet the current Labour government has members of its Cabinet who are beyond any doubt from the working class. What has happened to them? The answer is that in order to progress and profit from their positions, they have shown that they will adopt the values of globalism in place of those of the working class. They have done the same as was always said of those working class people who became managers and foremen. As soon as that promotion came along, their personal interest was put ahead of any kind of class solidarity. Yet these government ministers will still be paraded as evidence that the working class is still being represented, even though they have no interest in reflecting the views of the indigenous people of their community.

So if any political party wants to understand Britain as it is now, the most obvious aspect here is that there is a stark division in our society. On the one hand we have the new middle class. This not only includes those in government and the public sector but will also include anyone who pledges public support for its chosen values. In this way, this is not a class that is determined solely by income or financial status, but instead by ideology. The ideology of the middle class is wokeism, and by pledging support for wokeism even the most mediocre of individuals can find themselves in a position of power. In publicly aligning with woke values, they have shown themselves fit for such promotion, because they have replaced any values they might once have held themselves with a new set of values, many of which are unnatural and inhuman. Those values are a test of belonging, a shibboleth, and they act as a gatekeeper for those who are to be admitted to the new middle class. The reality of course is that they are also Marxist values.

Almost all of our public institutions, including government, have been taken over by a post-Marxist ideology that looks to the middle class rather than the proletariat to spread itself. By devolving power to quangos and other unelected bodies, and by creating a charity sector that is allowed to lobby politicians, the New Labour project ensured an open door to Marxist infiltration. It is now endemic in every sector.

And on the other side of the divide is the traditional indigenous working class of our country. They form a numerical majority, but they have progressively been disenfranchised by those in power. If we go back only twenty years, we could still find a recognizable British working class culture. It was lively, varied, and visible in homes, communities and as the basis for a good deal of media content. It probably found its truest expression in our pubs, which were centres both for community engagement and for the building of solidarity through the sharing of common views.

But who speaks for the working class now? It looks a lot as if the globalist middle class have taken it as their project since Brexit to crush and eliminate the indigenous working class of this country. One major impact has been mass immigration. This disproportionately affects the working class, and it is also part of a larger impact caused by globalism.

Our government, under the pretext of Covid, destroyed a significant part of our economy by targeting small businesses while protecting and strengthening globalists. It was planned and it was intentional. The aim was to launch an economic attack on working class businesses, which often have few reserves of capital to draw upon and are dependent on a constant supply of customers to stay afloat, and to ensure that what financial help was available would be specifically directed away from them. The report by Simply Business in 2021 found that there were six million small and medium enterprises in the UK – accounting for over 99% of all businesses, 33% of employment and 21% of all turnover – and that Covid lockdowns had blown a £126 billion hole in their books (1). Add to this the cost of living crisis that government has no answers to.

The world of employment has turned against the working class not only in the jobs lost to Covid lockdowns, but also because the job market prizes adherence to the woke values of the middle class. With many applicants for each job, employers can select not only on the basis of competence, but on the basis of compliance. With graduates, they also can rest assured that navigating the current British university system is likely to mean adapting to a left-wing environment where any residual working class values are likely to be firmly dismissed. We also seem to have given up on social mobility and any idea of bettering ourselves. The education system has been reduced to training young people for employment. It has eliminated any support for reflective academic study that does not lead to an objective result that can be measured according to narrow, reductive criteria. All of this is controlled by centralised management systems which are designed to place workers under such a burden of petty bureaucracy and policy compliance that they are too stressed and ground down to complain.

And we can also see that even given this situation, the jobs market is still shrinking. Entry level jobs are increasingly being eliminated firstly through government’s punitive economic measures on employers and secondly because artificial intelligence is being allowed to replace many of them. I don’t know how many of you enjoy interacting with artificial intelligence in the place of a human, but I certainly don’t. Many customer service functions are now entirely unaccountable because there are no humans to speak to, and the entire thing is controlled by bots who are designed to fob you off. Where customer service is human led it seems that fluency in English is too rarely a criterion for employment. Again, making it difficult for you to be understood is another way an organization can avoid addressing your concerns.

This is something that we should not put up with. It is not only betraying our working class, it is destroying our society. Those of us who have lived through the past thirty years can see the decline very clearly. Those who have arrived here more recently through mass immigration are not likely to complain against the political establishment but rather to support a system that continues to be strongly biased in their favour, and that is why they are preferred to our indigenous people by those in power. The less they know about Britain the better, because they will not be asked to assimilate to our culture or to understand it. Those in power will divide us in order to rule, and their instincts are entirely authoritarian. The more our society is atomised the easier it is to control it. We must resist the sinister and intrusive menace of Digital ID, and we must particularly stop it from being forced on our children (2).

So what can we do to reverse this decline? The first thing to say is that we can indeed reverse it even though every aspect of the establishment, including both the mainstream and social media, will tell us that is impossible. We have had enough of politicians who do little more than manage failure. Our economy is in tatters and we are faced with constantly rising prices, rising immigration, but falling productivity and failing culture. If we do not act now, we will not get another chance. We must recognize that there will be monumental resistance to any change from the blob of public sector workers and the huge amounts of money that are ploughed into advocacy for Marxism. But the fight to overcome this is vital and it can succeed.

We must use all peaceful means within the law to undo the damage that has been done to Britain since the coming to power of New Labour in 1997. That is not to say there were not problems before then, but that date saw an acceleration of the Leftist takeover of Britain and put in place the measures that would make that possible, destroying the constitutional basis of our nation. If every piece of legislation passed since 1997 were simply abolished by a nationalist government we would be the better for it.

And so to the practical measures a nationalist government must take to put things right. Firstly we should withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights and abolish the Human Rights Act 1998, not because we do not care about human rights, but because these two combine to provide a Left-wing means to stop us from controlling immigration and defending our own borders. The European Court has even started inventing its own powers, whereby it recently anonymously issued an injunction against the UK, preventing a plane deporting migrants from leaving the airport (3). This kind of arbitrary European activist so-called justice has no place in our country and Brexit was supposed to rid us of all of it and make our own courts sovereign rather than subject to the oversight of foreign powers. We do not need the European Union to impose its view of human rights on us. Britain taught the world about human rights and our record on that issue, though not spotless, is nevertheless one that we can look back on with pride.

We then need to withdraw from the Refugee Convention of 1951 and similar measures. The world in 1951 was a very different place compared to today, and these measures are now seized upon by left-wing forces determined to let foreign men of fighting age into our country when in many cases their aim is purely economic gain rather than any consideration of safety.

Many more problems of a similar nature are caused by the United Nations. The United Nations is dominated by dictatorships and autocratic regimes that are deeply opposed to Western values (4), and it is ineffective at preventing conflict. We should leave the United Nations and instead build up the Commonwealth of Nations into a truly active and representative international body that stands for and defends the values we have in common with other countries.

Lastly on this, we need to make a fundamental change to the way our country sees its mission. We need to make it clear that in all major political decisions, the national interest comes first. We hear far too much about Britain’s international obligations and the reality is that international interests are far too often placed before those of our nation. We need to put Britain first, always. That need not mean complete isolation, but it does mean that we should never be dominated by foreign powers. Our foreign policy must be decided in our own nation’s best interests and we must not become involved in foreign conflicts except where British interests are threatened. Our defence policy should be focused on exactly that – the defence of Britain and the British Overseas Territories – and not on involvement in foreign wars.

Our whole justice system needs to be reset. The House of Lords should once again become our highest tribunal because Parliament is the servant of the people, and it should remain supreme, not the courts. Decisions taken democratically in Parliament by elected politicians should not be subject to judicial review, which simply obstructs the passage of legislation. A US-style Supreme Court is entirely  un-British. We need to bring back the Law Lords, who Tony Blair abolished without any good reason. We also need to return to the system of appointing judges that we had before Tony Blair, who handed that responsibility to a quango – the Judicial Appointments Commission. Any quango is likely to become dominated by leftist views. People whose views are firmly of the Right do not get asked to join quangos and they are unlikely to be interested in joining them when they are controlled by a Left-wing majority. We need to remove judges who see their role as being to exercise Left-wing activism from the bench (5) and we also need to restore the balance of political views among the judiciary.

Our police are showing the strain of the burden placed on them by the Blair era verdict that they were “institutionally racist” – which has inevitably made the police far more Left-wing than they were before. The police should represent the community they serve, and there is no substitute for police officers who know the people in their neighbourhood. Too much has been abdicated to CCTV, which is an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the public, and which should be confined to our city centres. In the recent policing of demonstrations, we have seen the reality that the police are under Left-wing pressure from both the courts and the media, which causes them to go easy on Left-wing protestors (6). A nationalist government would take measures to liberate the operations of the police so that they can do their job without being concerned about the machinations of the Left against them. The job of the police also needs to become much more locally centred. It should be concentrating on restoring law and order in our towns and cities, and ensuring that our women feel safe to walk the streets without being threatened. We need to return to a concept of policing that understands that a visible police presence in a community is an effective deterrent to crime.

Most of the Left-wing ideology that has ruined this country has come from urban people and their institutions. The cities have lost much of their British character to mass immigration, and now consist of divided communities with little or nothing in common. Where there is no common heritage and culture, this creates a void where Marxist ideas are easily infiltrated. It also makes the city increasingly divorced from any concept of national identity since its allegiance is primarily to globalism. The death of many smaller shops and businesses has hastened this process.

The nature of rural life in Britain means that those who live in the countryside are much less likely to fall for Marxism. This is largely because country life is rooted in the real and the practical, and its closeness to nature means that it is not given to artificial constructs such as postmodernism, gender identity and critical theory. This is a principal reason why the current establishment hates the countryside and its people. The family tax on farms, building houses on farmland and the crushing weight of bureaucracy on agribusiness is indicative of this.

Our government must also take immediate steps to uphold freedom of speech in our country. The past decade has seen a great restriction of the freedom of speech where what is said is deemed to have given offence to someone. Our laws should not recognize a right not to be offended. Unless what is being said is directly inciting violence, it should be fully legal, and that includes the burning of religious books of whatever kind. The politics of offence have almost completely killed off what was a strong and living legacy of radio and television comedy that was often irreverent and at times included strong elements of black humour (7). Now, we are left with comedy that is deliberately neutered so as not to offend anyone who regards themselves as protected by law, and that far too often simply presents a leftist perspective in order to play it safe. We need to return to a position where comedy and satire are free to flourish, because they are key to our country’s culture and indeed to its very survival. It is truly said that the first thing a British person is likely to do when faced with dire peril is to make a joke. That approach got us through two world wars and we need it now.

We must above all reassert our common culture. If anything is part of the enormous variety that is the British heritage, we must cherish it and promote it as much as we are able ahead of globalist mass culture. Reasserting our culture does not mean only that we celebrate its past, but that we nurture its present and future. To do this we do not need to abandon online culture, but we should never allow the internet to take over completely. And we must look back on Britain’s history with justifiable pride. Our nation’s past is not faultless, but it is full of glory and achievements that we should celebrate. We should not pay a penny in reparations to the descendants of slaves. White people were also sold into slavery – the difference being that few of them were allowed to leave descendants (8).

And one of the greatest things in the British character is the amateur spirit. The contribution made to our culture by those who were not making money from it has been enormous. Whatever your interests in British culture may be, I urge you to do as much as you possibly can to keep those interests active and to share them.

Related to this is the need to reassert the masculine in our culture. Men have been hit hard by the nature of the changes in our society over the last thirty years, which, whatever their intentions, have generally been against their interests. We need more attention to be paid to reversing the underperformance of White boys in our education system. We also have nearly a million young men not in education, training or employment (9) and many older men who have had to give up on employment altogether. The jobs that men once did have disappeared and been replaced by growth in areas such as health and social care, education and public administration where there is a majority of women in employment. Industry and manufacturing, which once employed a majority of men, have virtually disappeared. In addition, women have been introduced to traditionally male spaces where it would have created outrage had men been introduced to similar female-only spaces. We need to get back to a position where it is acceptable for men to have their own spaces apart from women, just as it is acceptable for women to have their own spaces apart from men. We should not allow gender politics to confuse these issues, because the Supreme Court has ruled very clearly on the application of the law in that area (10). Men and women are equal but different, and our society should recognize and respect that difference. There needs to be an acceptance of men and masculinity, not to the detriment of women, but as part of a society that is healthy and that has room in it for everyone.

Taking back control will help redress that balance. It is not in Britain’s interests to have vital industries and utilities owned by foreign businesses. With foreign ownership comes foreign control and influence. We need to ensure that we can stand on our own two feet when it comes to basic necessities in this country, and not always make decisions on the basis of the availability of cheaper foreign imports. We need to maximise our own supplies of gas by using our reserves to the full, and we must not become dependent for our energy on foreign suppliers that could then hold us to ransom (11). We must consign net zero to history, because its cost and impact on our nation is ruinous (12). We should also invest in reviving manufacturing and industry to serve the UK domestic market and reduce our reliance on imports. We must be more than simply a nation of consumers. British  products were once regarded as the finest in the world. A start would be a government committed to buying British and to ensuring that British goods are readily available at affordable prices.

The threat that is now facing us is one that we have not encountered before. It is an existential threat against British culture and against its people. If steps are not taken to stop uncontrolled mass immigration, the native British will follow the pattern already seen in London, Birmingham, Leicester and Luton, (13) and be reduced to a minority in our own country (14). We cannot afford to wait. Action is imperative now, and all politicians need to start listening after years spent ignoring us. The first step we can take is to stop paying foreigners to live here, and spend that money on a sensible programme of deportation. Ten billion pounds of Universal Credit went to non-UK citizens in 2024 (15).

Then we immediately need to reassert the British culture and way of life, and insist that everyone who is here needs to assimilate to its very broad boundaries, and above all that if anyone wishes to live in this country, they must learn English and they must contribute to our society. Our public services should not be spending a penny on translators.

Our nation and our people are worth every sacrifice. The call is now to save our country and we must give everything we can to that aim. In doing so, we must be prepared to see beyond boundaries and work with all who support this cause. Together, we can win our Britain back.

References:
(1) https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/knowledge/business-news/the-impact-of-covid-19-uk-small-business-2021
(2) https://www.itv.com/news/2025-10-10/digital-id-cards-for-children-as-young-as-13-government-suggests
(3) https://news.sky.com/story/first-deportation-flight-to-rwanda-halted-after-last-minute-legal-appeals-home-office-confirms-12634130
(4) https://www.cfr.org/blog/minded-dictatorships-and-united-nations 
(5) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/robert-jenrick-wig-judges-conference-speech-birmingham-b2840897.html 
(6) https://news.sky.com/story/police-urged-to-pay-more-attention-to-extreme-left-wing-protesters-13140819
(7) https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/37098982/woke-culture-killed-comedy-ally-ross/
(8) https://byfaith.org/2022/07/02/the-forgotten-white-slaves-and-the-ignored-history-of-slavery-worldwide
(9) https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/young-people-work-education-neet-disability-health/
(10) https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2024_0042_judgment_aea6c48cee.pdf
(11) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/29/nationalise-gas-power-plants-to-boost-energy-security-thinktank-urges-uk-ministers
(12) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48540004
(13) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/luton-leicester-london-slough-redbridge-b2235261.html
(14) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14777983/White-Brits-minority-UK-40-years-report.html
(15) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/11/one-six-pounds-universal-credit-foreigners-benefits