COLUMN • For me, England has never been a foreign country. I grew up there as a child and returned later as a young adult, during years when London was still marked by an unmistakable British identity and a cultural confidence that felt both familiar and close, even to a Swede. But the United Kingdom I once loved now feels almost unrecognizable. After decades of reckless political experiments, mass immigration, cultural division, and a growing gulf between the ruling class and ordinary people, the country now faces a state of deep crisis. On Saturday, the UK could be on the brink of a historic turning point – when hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather in London to protest the direction the country is heading.

During my childhood, our family moved around quite a bit in Europe. We arrived in London in 1973 and lived in Richmond upon Thames for just over a year. I attended second grade at the Swedish School in London.

When I was 22 years old, I moved back, this time to Islington in central London. I attended various art schools and universities and stayed in the city for almost seven years.

That was when England was still English – and I felt that as a Swede I was both close to and culturally intertwined with all things English. I could switch from speaking Swedish to English as easily as one could hop on and off the red double-decker buses on Southampton Row. And I chose to drink tea instead of coffee.

Alongside destroyed energy systems and an ambition to make its own people poorer, it is the mass immigration from the Middle East and Africa that sums up the core of the catastrophe. The contempt from political leaders for their own people, the entire corrupt establishment’s and mainstream media’s disdain for all those who built the country and have been citizens since time immemorial.

Jonas Andersson

Even though I never lost my Swedish identity, I always felt that the Englishness also became a part of me. And I always saw England and the UK as close relatives – culturally, historically, and in terms of values.

As proud as I was that the British abolished the transatlantic slave trade – and lost thousands of sailors in raids against the slave ships – I was equally ashamed that Sweden chose to stay out of the war against Nazi Germany.

What has happened to the UK since the 90s, by which time I had moved on to the Netherlands and Germany, is nothing short of a disaster – and it hurts just as much as watching Sweden go under. Yes, it is the same pattern as in the entire Western world (except for the Visegrad countries), but both Sweden and England stand out.

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It is these very countries where self-destruction and national self-loathing have gone on steroids. In the two countries I identify with nationally. It is a grief that is almost impossible to express in words.

Alongside destroyed energy systems and an ambition to make its own people poorer, it is the mass immigration from the Middle East and Africa that sums up the core of the catastrophe.

The contempt from political leaders for their own people, the entire corrupt establishment’s and mainstream media’s disdain for all those who built the country and have been citizens since time immemorial.

The Politicians – Always Against the People

Now it seems the entire British political system is collapsing – at the eleventh hour – as a result of the corrupt political class, from both Labour (left) and Tory (right), betraying the British people. Perhaps for money, perhaps for power, perhaps for other more shadowy motives.

What can be said with absolute certainty is that all these politicians have done precisely the opposite of what the people wanted and voted for. Much like in Sweden.

Why? What forces are really in control – and who do these politicians actually serve? These are questions we must also ask in Sweden, both left and right. And the same goes for the French, Germans, Dutch – and the rest of Europe.

Keir Starmer is the most unpopular prime minister in Britain’s history. In the most recent results, he and his socialist party lost so badly that the numbers almost seem unreal. Nobody wants him as leader, not even his own ministers. Yet he refuses to step down.

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He has destroyed relations with the USA by trying to appease Islamist forces at home, distancing himself from Trump and refusing to give the US support in its ambition to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions. Nuclear weapons, which if Iran managed to obtain, would be used against Israel in less than an hour.

The despised prime minister has already launched the most aggressive offensive against freedom of speech since the Renaissance – and British police have long arrested ordinary people for posts on Facebook and X criticizing the left-wing government’s policies. Meanwhile, he allows anti-Semitic and anti-British Palestine demonstrations to plague cities with Hamas flags and slogans against Jews.

Jonas Andersson

He keeps talking about “diversity” and constantly praises Islam – while at the same time calling all those Britons who protest against seeing their country handed over to men from the Middle East and Africa “racists” and “far-right extremists.” Recognize the rhetoric?

Meanwhile, discontent is exploding outside the traditional two-party system. Nigel Farage and his party Reform UK have, in a short time, gone from being dismissed as a marginal phenomenon to seriously threatening both Labour and the Tories.

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In several polls, Reform has surpassed the Conservatives and established itself as one of the country’s biggest parties – something that just a few years ago would have been considered politically unthinkable.

For many Britons, Reform has become an expression of frustration with mass immigration, rising insecurity, high living costs, and the sense that the political elite have stopped representing their own people.

Like many Swedish Social Democrats, Keir Starmer was an ardent communist in his youth. Some called him a Trotskyist. Today, some call him a nihilist, because it seems impossible to know whether he actually wants anything, or what he wants at all.

What we do know is that he has close links to Davos, Agenda 2030, and the Trilateral Commission, founded in 1973 at the initiative of David Rockefeller along with political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Keir Starmer Has Been a Catastrophe

How involved he was in attempts to cover up the grooming gang abuses in England remains to be seen. This is about the rape of tens of thousands of underage, white, British girls, organized by Muslim men from mostly Pakistan, over decades. Something the English activist Tommy Robinson exposed – and was imprisoned for revealing.

It could become a turning point in the British story of decline on Saturday. Seeing hundreds of thousands of people gather on the streets of London could – possibly – remind Keir Starmer of what communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu must have felt beside his palace in Bucharest in 1989.

Jonas Andersson

On Saturday, Tommy Robinson is set to coordinate what may become the largest demonstration in the country’s history. The last “Unite the Kingdom” demonstration reportedly drew over a hundred thousand protesters. This time, it could be enormous. And it makes Keir Starmer terrified.

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The despised prime minister has already launched the most aggressive offensive against freedom of speech since the Renaissance – and British police have long arrested ordinary people for posts on Facebook and X where they criticize the leftist government’s policies. At the same time, he allows anti-Semitic and anti-British Palestine demonstrations to plague cities with Hamas flags and slogans against Jews. Does that sound familiar?

Tommy Robinson’s Demonstration – Several Denied Entry to London

But for Saturday’s demonstration, Keir Starmer has now banned several people from entering the UK – people who were invited to speak and make their voices heard, including Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Valentina Gomez, Joey Mannarino, Ada Lluch, and even the Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński.

The fact that a democratically elected parliamentarian from a European country is stopped from traveling to the UK to participate in a public political event says something about how far the British government is now willing to go to control opposition voices and people challenging the current political order.

People who believe in a future for Europe and that the peoples of Europe also have a say in shaping their future.

He justifies this, of course, with lies about “the public good” – and “far-right agitators.” Completely disconnected from reality. The reality is that the British people (the people he was meant to serve) have simply had enough.

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Ordinary Englishmen and Britons, families with children, workers, civil servants, pensioners – people who see their country being destroyed and taken over by foreign forces that hate everything it stands for.

It could become a turning point in the British story of decline on Saturday. Seeing hundreds of thousands gather on London’s streets could – possibly – remind Keir Starmer of what communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu must have felt beside his palace in Bucharest in 1989.

Will the British police be ordered to attack the demonstrators? Will the radical, green left and Islamists (who are also planning demonstrations) attack? Whose side will the police be on then? We know which side Starmer and London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan are on.

Sometimes we Swedes talk about times of change, almost nonchalantly. As if a time of change was about a little higher or lower taxation, or that architecture had changed, or that suddenly alcohol was allowed to be sold on a Saturday.

But what we are witnessing now is the turning point of turning points. It is historic. Europe has woken up.

And now we enter the final battle to save our continent. And at the heart of it all are two countries I have always loved – England and Sweden.