Can the King Save England?
Connor Tomlinson on the collapse of the UK, the Boris wave, and the battle between Reform and Restore
Britain is being shaken awake by its own collapse.
You can walk down a high street in a small English town and feel like you have moved to Lahore without ever having packed a bag. The shops are cash-only barbers fronting drug operations. The vape stores are run by criminal gangs. The hospital waiting rooms are packed with people who cannot communicate with the security guard, who himself cannot communicate in English. The state has become a Leviathan that consumes the productive and protects the predatory. And the people who did this, the uniparty that ran the Boris wave, covered up decades of Pakistani grooming gangs, and threw a grieving mother in prison for thirty-one months over a tweet. still expect the public to keep voting for them.
But they are not.
Connor Tomlinson joined me on episode 197 of Full Proof Theology to explain what is actually happening in Britain right now. Connor is a Catholic, a husband, and a soon-to-be father of twins. He came up through the university free-speech wars of the late 2010s, weathered a series of cancellations, and now runs his own YouTube channel and Substack.
The recent local elections in the UK functioned as a referendum on Keir Starmer’s government and Labour was annihilated. Reform UK gained roughly 1,400 seats. Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe’s brand-new party, contested only ten seats in Great Yarmouth and won every single one of them by margins of 40 to 50 percent of the vote. The public has had enough.
But this is not a simple story of “the right is winning.” Connor walks through the perception gap between Reform UK, which has absorbed dozens of failed Conservative ministers who ran the Boris wave in the first place, and Restore Britain, which is willing to say openly what most Britons already believe: that the Pakistani grooming gangs and the families who covered for them must be deported, that legal migration from the third world must be reversed, that the 1948 Nationality Act must go, and that the country belongs to a particular people with a particular inheritance.
We also get into the Peter Mandelson and Epstein revelations, the Southport murders and Starmer’s response, the captured civil service, the gerrymandered House of Lords, and whether King Charles III (or his successor) could actually do anything to save the nation.
Connor’s surprising answer: he is more bullish on Britain than he is on America, because in the British system, if you win an election with the right manifesto, you can do almost anything you want. You just have to win it with the right people.
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