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Britain’s death rattle is no accident – it’s by design. And the hourglass is about to run out – Lee Cohen | <\/p>\nAs I look back on 2025 and the progress America has made under President Trump, I am filled with both hope and sorrow. Hope for the lessons learned on my side of the Atlantic, sorrow for my beloved Britain, where each passing month seems to bring further erosion of the nation I cherish. <\/p>\n
Fireworks may have lit the skies over the Thames, and Big Ben may have chimed with its familiar defiance, yet for millions, the year ends not as a celebration but as a grim continuation of surrender. <\/p>\n
From across the Atlantic, the sight is heartbreaking. What once seemed like incompetence now looks deliberate: a governing class hollowing out the nation, one quiet concession at a time. <\/p>\n
Borders, free speech, and the people\u2019s consent are quietly dismantled. Great nations do not always fall in flames \u2014 they are erased, layer by layer. This is an American warning: awaken before Britain disappears.<\/p>\n
Here in the United States, 2025 was a year of hard-won progress. We too stared into the abyss the previous year, under Biden, when open borders, bureaucratic overreach, and assaults on tradition threatened our sovereignty and liberties. <\/p>\n
Yet we Yanks rallied. We identified a leader with iron resolve, funded the fight, and reclaimed the country from entrenched leftist elites, waves of illegal entrants, and criminal networks. <\/p>\n
It has been uphill, brutal work, but our freedoms are being defended, our borders reinforced, our economy strengthened, and our national pride restored. We learned to distrust a complicit press, to unite rather than quarrel, and to act decisively before irreversible damage could take hold.<\/p>\n
Keir Starmer could have drawn inspiration from this American example as he assumed office. Instead, he chose capitulation. Britain is not merely failing; it is sliding toward a precipice. Small-boat crossings reach new records, endangering British children, straining communities and fraying cultural cohesion. Legitimate public anger is smeared as intolerance. <\/p>\n
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Free speech \u2014 once Britain\u2019s proudest inheritance \u2014 is being criminalised; citizens are investigated or prosecuted for questioning mass migration or rapid societal change. Democratic consent feels like a relic. <\/p>\n
An aloof elite imposes policies on welfare, foreign aid, and institutional reform while ignoring the Brexit mandate and the people\u2019s demand for fairness.<\/p>\n
The consequences are clear and alarming. The nation teeters on dangerous polarisation. Frustrations simmer beneath the surface\u2014the quiet majority betrayed, trust in institutions eroding, a storm gathering that risks widespread unrest if ignored. This is no accident. It is the work of rulers who view national identity as embarrassing, borders as outdated, and patriotic pride as problematic. Starmer\u2019s passivity accelerates the erosion, treating Britain\u2019s heritage as a burden rather than a treasure.<\/p>\n
Many Americans observing these developments fear the pendulum has swung too far left for easy rescue. Though I remain personally hopeful \u2014 Britain\u2019s resilient soul has survived other dark moments \u2014 the hourglass is running out. <\/p>\n
Britain must act decisively, as we did in 2025. Citizens must rally behind leaders with unbreakable will, fund the fight, and stop bickering while the country teeters. Your freedom of speech is already under attack. Communities are fracturing. Every month brings the nation closer to irreversibility.<\/p>\n
There is still a path forward, embodied by leaders like Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Unyielding on immigration control, cultural preservation, and anti-elite fire, Farage channels the disruptive energy that transformed America. <\/p>\n
He speaks for the forgotten millions who want their country returned \u2014 secure, sovereign, and proud. Harness this energy, unite behind leaders willing to act, pour resources into the struggle, and reclaim your country before the precipice becomes a fall.<\/p>\n
This is not a matter of nostalgia or sentimentality; it is a matter of survival. Britain\u2019s institutions, communities, and culture are under siege \u2014 not by accident, but by deliberate design. <\/p>\n
The erosion of free speech, the hollowing out of borders, and the relentless pursuit of policies that ignore the will of the people are all pieces of the same troubling puzzle. Left unchecked, they will leave a Britain unrecognisable to those who cherish it.<\/p>\n
As 2026 begins, this is my solemn New Year wish from across the Atlantic: Britain faces not mere decline but engineered erasure unless its people rise now. <\/p>\n
The Special Relationship endures because we share the same love of liberty and defiance against overreach. Americans have seen how resolved leadership and decisive action can defeat corruption and despair. Britain must embrace that example. Unite, fight, reclaim your nation \u2014 and preserve the essence of Britain before it is lost forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I look back on 2025 and the progress America has made under President Trump, I am filled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,8274,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-664730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-membership","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115814357092689147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}