Andy Wigmore

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare. In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do. And the cost? Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

What I’m baffled by is the UK’s inability to recognise the Iranian Regime as a mortal and longstanding enemy with the intent to acquire and use nuclear weapons to destroy others. It’s Stockholm syndrome on a massive, national scale; the product of decades of infiltration and subversion, compounded by institutional anti-semitism across Whitehall and an allergic, hysterical reaction to Trump’s unique style. Well-known journalists and members of British civil society will actually promote the Putin-like architects of Iranian mass murder as reasonable guys “that you can do business with”, whilst branding those in Washington as ‘war criminals’. It’s a national manipulation of a scale that would have defied even Goebbels’ warped imagination. Is the judgement of our desperate, insecure, post-Christian, post-industrial society so corrupted that it sees barbarians as friends and allies as enemies? Have the ‘clever cowards’, and value-free, ‘conflict resolution gurus’ that we elect as our leaders declared nationalism illegal, our history shameful, principles worthless and made everything negotiable? Is nothing worth fighting for?

The wilful misunderstanding in this post says everything about the people behind the “Islamophobia” definition. The point is not that Sikhs have danced on Trafalgar Square. Or that the Passion Play has been hosted there. Neither is the point that Muslims gathered on Trafalgar Square. The point is that mass ritual prayer in public - in this case next to a church - is an act of domination. So is the public call of the Adhan, which explicitly denies other religions including Christianity. That is the difference. And yet neither Dominic - nor the Labour MPs who were instructed by No10 to attack me last night - will engage with the substance. Instead he claims he knows my personal views when we haven’t talked, and incorrectly describes me as a spokesman for the Free Speech Union. People like Dominic can’t work out why the ideological world they built is falling apart. They never pause to wonder if perhaps they might have got things very badly wrong.