Britain’s Comedy, Chaos, and the Trump Envy Nobody Admits
For nearly a decade — ever since Donald Trump emerged as a political force in 2016 — the British liberal establishment has made a national sport out of mocking him. “That funny orange man” has become the punchline for every lazy, state-subsidised left-wing comic. It’s been the shortcut to a cheap laugh on the BBC panel shows and in the Guardian columns. British comedy hasn’t been this hollow in decades.
But here’s the thing: he who laughs last, or not at all, laughs longest. While our own political class clutches its pearls and trades smirks, Trump continues to give his voters what they want, particularly on the issue that now dominates our own political landscape: stopping illegal mass migration. And it’s not just native-born citizens who agree with him; legal migrants here increasingly echo the same frustration.
Britain Is a Small Island, and It’s Overflowing
The urgency here feels sharper than in the U.S. America can absorb mistakes; it’s a continent. We’re a crowded island. The Office for National Statistics predicts that by 2036, the U.K. population will approach 74 million (many think it is already over 80m). More than 90 per cent of that increase — 6.6 million people — will be from migration. In real terms, that’s like building a new Birmingham every three years. And like Birmingham and London, more and more places will be lost to the invading hordes.
Unsurprisingly, illegal immigration, and illegal Muslim immigration in particular, has become the single biggest concern for British voters. It’s propelled the Reform Party to levels that now threaten to smash the old two-party system. Their voters haven’t yet noticed they are more than likely to be voting for a Muslim Prime Minister by voting for Reform. It’s also one of the reasons Keir Starmer has plummeted to become the most unpopular prime minister in living memory.
And yet, what do we get from our leaders? Sir Kweir and President Macron recently staged a pitiful photo-op, discussing how to “stop the boats” that leave the French coast daily for ours. It was less Churchill and de Gaulle, more two impotent men arguing over a condom.
Our Migrant Policy: Cash, Netflix, and Circus Tickets
Even Macron, for all his faults, doesn’t roll out the red carpet for illegal arrivals the way we do. In France, it’s a few euros a day. In Britain, it’s trips to safari parks and circuses, hundreds of thousands spent on fast food, gift cards, driving lessons, and even £13,000 on Netflix and Disney+ subscriptions.
Meanwhile, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns that by 2030, everyone in Britain will be poorer, with low-income working families hit twice as hard as the middle class. Yet our political class behaves as if this is the perfect time to create a taxpayer-funded fantasy land for people who’ve contributed nothing.
To justify it, they chant the new mantra: “Britain was built by immigrants.” No, it wasn’t. Britain was built by the British working class. Yes, we’ve long offered refuge to those facing genuine persecution. And yes, some think Jewish immigration has enriched this country, as some claim it does wherever it goes (not Gaza presumably). Likewise, the Caribbean and Indian arrivals post-World War II were indispensable to building the NHS.
The difference? None of those groups arrived with a significant faction openly hostile to our culture, policing “their” streets, or demanding our cities bend to their rules.
Integration Has Collapsed — and Everyone Knows It
Today’s waves of Islamic immigration are different. They arrive, often via a dozen safe European countries, only to carve out enclaves where British law is secondary. There are districts in London where unveiled women — Muslim or not — are harassed, where alcohol is effectively forbidden, and where “gay-free zones” are openly patrolled.
The police are either powerless or unwilling to act. Decades of grooming gang scandals taught them nothing. A woman reports harassment and is fobbed off with a promise that the local imam will “have a word.” Weekends bring street marches openly supporting enemies of Britain, terrorising what’s left of our community.
We just marked the 20th anniversary of 7/7, when four Islamist terrorists from immigrant families murdered 52 people and injured hundreds more on London transport. At the official ceremonies, including one led by the King, the religion and ideology of the killers went unmentioned — as if the dead were victims of a tragic lightning strike, not a deliberate act of jihad.
As one commentator wrote online: “It’s hard to stay loyal to a monarchy that talks about Islamist mass murder like it’s a traffic accident, then claims it brought us closer together. You are being badly advised, Your Majesty.”
Illegal Immigration: The Boats Are Not a Compliment
We’re constantly told to see the small boats as a compliment. Look, they like our language, our football, our benefits system. They prefer us to France! But what we’re not supposed to think about is the other angle: some of those boats carry operatives planning attacks that will make 7/7 and Manchester Arena look like a warm-up act.
Christopher Hitchens warned that the barbarians never take the city unless someone opens the gates. Our own multicultural authorities are holding them wide open.
Trump: The Leader We Mock but Secretly Envy
And so, we sit here making jokes about Donald Trump. It’s easier than admitting the truth: he’s not holding his gates open to hundreds of thousands of fighting-age men from Muslim cultures openly hostile to his own.
A few of us mock. Most of us are quietly envious. Why economic counter jihad is a thing.