Britain in 2025 is no longer the land of the Magna Carta, nor the cradle of Churchill and parliamentary democracy. It has become Europe’s dystopian laboratory, where waving the Union Jack or the Cross of St. George amounts to committing a political crime. This is no exaggeration—it is fact: hundreds of videos show men and women dragged away in handcuffs by police for the sole “crime” of raising the national flag.
Protesters arrested for waving or displaying the Union Jack, a woman handcuffed for carrying the Cross of St. George outside a hotel for immigrants. Scenes straight out of 1984 and V for Vendetta: citizens treated as subversives for defending the symbols of their identity.
The paradox is glaring: the state does not go after criminals, but after those who dare denounce the government’s insane immigrationist policies. In 2024 alone, there were more than one hundred thousand asylum applications, illegal flows continue unchecked, and sexual assaults have surged. It’s not the first time the authorities have chosen lies: just remember the Rotherham scandal, when for sixteen years over 1,400 girls were abused by Pakistani gangs while police, politicians, and the media covered it all up “to avoid fueling racism.”
And today history repeats itself, in grotesque form. In Dundee, Scotland, a 14-year-old girl brandished an axe and a knife to defend her 12-year-old sister from a man they believed to be a sexual predator. The result? The girl was detained by police—she, not the alleged aggressor. The case, commented even by Elon Musk, went viral worldwide, and the young girl has become an icon, nicknamed Saint Axe. Some compare her to Joan of Arc and William Wallace, eternal symbols of resistance against tyranny. And indeed, the cries of such a young girl give voice to a nation utterly exasperated by the situation.
Whatever the exact details of the incident, it is the child of the decay caused by reckless immigrationist policies of recent decades. Girls should be able to live carefree—not in terror of being raped. Yet the mainstream media and today’s institutions prefer to talk about “disinformation,” focusing on the fact that no rape occurred—thank God!—while ignoring the context that drove a young girl to carry weapons just to feel safe. Unbelievable.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Starmer announces the use of force against demonstrators, while prisons are being emptied to make room for dissidents. Over 400 arrests in just a few months, a crackdown that has turned patriotism into a crime.
In a clumsy attempt to calm the patriotic wave, Starmer wrote on X: “I’m proud of our flag as a symbol of our nation. Like many, I have one proudly hanging at home. Using our flag to divide devalues it.” A message that implicitly accused the protesters and unleashed a storm of furious criticism. Summed up in one simple thought: “If someone feels offended or disturbed by our flag, it means they shouldn’t be here.” Responses that racked up tens of thousands of likes and shares, turning a single post into a boomerang that amplified the cry of the patriots.
And to reinforce the toxic narrative come outlets like La Repubblica, which went as far as to label the Cross of St. George a “symbol of xenophobic far-right extremism”: an emblem of the partisanship and dishonesty of our media, always eager to erase centuries of history and identity with an ideological tag.
This democratic emergency is not just a British problem. In Romania, conservative leaders are prevented from winning elections. In France, the banlieues are out of control, with recurring riots and violence that the state cannot—or will not—stop, preferring instead to pour its energy into preventing Marine Le Pen and the Rassemblement National from ever governing. In Germany, the government brands AfD as extremist and even calls for banning a party that represents millions of citizens. It’s the same playbook everywhere: criminalize dissent, censor nonconformity, and repress those who defend identity, traditions, and freedom.
It’s no coincidence that last February, in Munich, JD Vance denounced the decline of democracy in Europe and the United Kingdom, where the people no longer count for anything and governments obey only bureaucracies and rootless ideologies. His words today ring as a warning confirmed by events: Europe is drifting away from freedom and toward a soft dictatorship that punishes its citizens instead of protecting them.
And yet none of this is spoken of on television or written in the newspapers. Too inconvenient to admit that Europe is becoming a continent where waving your own flag is an act of subversion, protesting against uncontrolled immigration a crime, and defending your family means risking prison.
The truth is simple: this is not about the “fascist threat” but about the cry of a betrayed people. And here lies the lesson for Europe: immigrationism does not bring integration, but chaos. Those who today call patriots extremists will tomorrow have to admit they were the first to defend freedom. Britain in 2025 is well beyond 1984 and V for Vendetta. But just like Joan of Arc, William Wallace, and even Guy Fawkes, history teaches that those who fight for freedom—even when persecuted and silenced—end up igniting a fire that no regime can ever extinguish.
