The honest-to-God, patriotic, hard-working white working class are not going to take the progressive nonsense any more

The honest-to-God, patriotic, hard-working white working class are not going to take the progressive nonsense any more. By Allison Pearson at The Telegraph.

“Our only hope.”

“Last chance to save our country.”

These are phrases I hear a lot around this picturesque market town [Saffron Walden, in the North West Essex constituency of Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch]. …

It seems as if many formerly loyal Tories have come to the conclusion that Reform is the only party on the Right that will deliver for them.

Some don’t trust Farage and wonder what his economic policy might be, but the fence-sitters are being converted. A universal loathing of our soulless, sanctimonious liar-zombie Prime Minister, the perceived bias of his far-Left Government against those Britons who are mysteriously still not claiming benefits (God bless you!), plus a dread of the gangrenous Green Party and its Islamist contingent, have combined lately to consolidate that switch, I think. …

The ruling class have gone off the rails:

Not since Brexit has there been such a pent-up desire to teach our political establishment a lesson it won’t forget. …

Turnout for the Essex election was the highest it has been for decades. Voters reported queues winding out of the doors of polling stations — a sight they said they had never seen before. …

New Labour:

In this seismic realignment of politics, the greatest in our history (certainly since the erasure of the Liberals in the 1920s), one startling change sticks out: Labour can no longer call itself the party of the working class. …

The plumbers, the entrepreneurial painter-decorators who employ a couple of lads, the cab drivers, the small business people having to file another sodding tax return, the publicans, the nightclub bouncers, the florist, the hairdresser who smiles dreamily when I mention his name — they don’t care what those snobs in Westminster and at the BBC say.

They love Nigel just as they loved Margaret Thatcher — he gives them permission to like their country and that’s a good feeling. They know he would never lecture them as “that tw-t” Starmer does and say “To be British is to be diverse”, whatever the hell that means. They want Britain to be British. They feel liked by Nigel, not judged and detested.

Immigration, immigration, immigration:

They don’t think they’re “far-Right” or “racist” because they want to deport illegal migrants or because they’re shocked that 1.5 million migrants are claiming benefits — money they’ve paid into the system that they don’t want the Government to give away to foreigners, thanks very much.

In the bustling Liberty Shopping Centre in Romford, Havering, I find people who are delighted by Reform’s victory.

“Absolutely buzzing, ecstatic, very, very happy,” beams Nicola King. She voted Reform “because of what Labour has done to the country”. As the mother of a three-year-old daughter, she is horrified by excessive immigration and undocumented male migrants landing on our beaches who go on to commit sexual assault.

“The British people — we’ve had enough. We’ve been completely forgotten. This is our country and we need to take it back.”

There’s a sense of betrayal here, and anger over the impact of unprecedented levels of migration under Labour and the Conservatives. Like others I speak to, Nicola, 36, says there has been a dramatic deterioration in the area. “My little girl won’t grow up in the country I grew up in. Every time I push her in the buggy through the park, it’s stressful. There are migrants hanging about.

“All my family have voted Reform because we all know something’s got to be done.”

She is outraged that the Labour Government are asking illegal immigrants to volunteer to leave. “And they’ll give them £40,000. How stupid is that? Normal people can see they’d sneak back in,” she says. “I’ve just had enough. I work hard, I pay my taxes, and they give my money to men who broke into our country and are a danger to my child.” …

Despite the best efforts of the liberal uniparty, flooding the UK with as many strangers and scroungers as possible, men and women like these — the honest-to-God, patriotic, hard-working white working class — still form the majority of this country’s population and they are not going to take the progressive nonsense any more.

They work all hours and struggle to afford a very ordinary life. It’s not fair. They want more for their kids. On May 7, 2026, they voted to show they’d had enough.

“I’m not racist” is a common refrain among locals here before they grow animated talking about being strangers in their own land.

They are not sure Nigel Farage can bring their country back, but they badly need hope and they are glad to punish those who have betrayed them. “The British people – we’ve had enough,” Nicola said.

Immigration and the resulting tribalism is the issue at the moment, and given its impact on demography, will remain so forever more. Wait ’til they get a chance to vote for Restore.

UPDATE from Stephen Neil — a reminder from 8th May 1945, Gateshead, UK:

Doesn’t look like the advertisements on telly, or any movie in the last 20 years, does it? All white people, which is very jarring because those how would create our reality have been injecting black and brown faces relentlessly into everything for ages.

Alan D. adds:

‘beautiful remastered footage’. Is it authentic? Yes. I was there!

Not Gateshead but closer to the big smoke to the south. There was a big party in my street soon after that day.

Worth noting about this footage: An overwhelming weight had been removed, these people were remembering how to smile. Free from war. It may not be apparent to today’s observer but they were in their best ‘Sunday’ visiting clothes.

Do you see? No uniforms, no insignia, no cars, one bicycle only, only one cloth cap, no one waves or carries a flag, no make-up, no jewelry, no tats, no body piercings, fairly clean streets, lots of flags strung across the street, not all are Union Jacks or St.Georges cross, flags of other nations are ok, they well know what their own flag looks like — a few flags of friends, enemy flags are not brandished.