Posted on 08/27/2026 7:46:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Assuming the ridiculous gushing over a Cambridge conman was not a national Monty Python sketch arranged for tourists, the Jason Arday affair reminded me of one of the most peculiar things about Britain: They’re more woke than the U.S. Which is weird, because the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects. The closest we have to that in America is the NAACP.
According to the 2021 census, the U.K. is 2.5% black, but more than half of all its TV advertisements feature black people. (That’s even more lopsided than their representation in the country’s homicide statistics, where black Britons make up 24% of all convicted killers.)
You’d never know Britain was the first nation in the world to abolish slavery, then proceeded to use the most powerful navy in the world to end the global slave trade. Black lives mattered to them way before Michael Brown got himself killed in Ferguson, Missouri.
At a cost of thousands of sailors’ lives and billions of dollars ($170 billion relative to GDP at the time) British ships patrolled the African coast for 50 years, intercepting more than 1,000 slave ships, and freeing 150,000 humans. British taxpayers finally finished paying off that bill in 2015.
So obviously, Britain has a lot to atone for.
The study of TV ads, undertaken by the U.K.’s left-wing Channel 4 last year, also found that “[m]ulti-ethnic families with young multi-ethnic children continue to be the go-to for family representation,” constituting 47% of all ads with families. Interracial couples in the U.K. are like gay wedding planners in the U.S. Nobody has ever met one, but they seem to be everywhere.
For extra “diversity,” Asians (mostly Indians and Pakistanis), who make up 9.3% of the population, are featured in 28% of ads. To be fair, Pakistanis are also wildly over-represented among leaders of white slavery rape gangs.
The census numbers don’t quite add up, but 81.7% of Britons identified their ethnic group as “white.” At most, 12% of TV ads show white people. On the bright side, gay people in ads were 33% more likely to be white.
London is gorgeous, has more shops than New York City, and fewer muggers, homeless people and pot-smokers than in any American city. But in some ways, it’s insane.
Plastic is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. More than half a century ago, the civilized world dispensed with rotting fruit and carcinogen-laden paper containers, and embraced the bright new future of plastic bags, cups, and straws that were lighter, stronger and a whole lot more sanitary. Life was better.
But since this is Britain, and Britain is insane, plastic is virtually banned. You have to drink your Starbucks quickly or start eating cardboard. Useless paper straws dissolve in about two minutes. Grocery store paper bags are capable of holding roughly 8 ounces without breaking. I assume dry cleaning is returned to you wrapped in corn husks.
California isn’t this ridiculous, and their state symbol is a passed-out homeless guy in buttless chaps.
Continuing the kookiness: After the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (completely justified according to both the grand jury and the Obama administration’s Department of Justice), idiot British protesters marched through London, chanting “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!”
London bobbies don’t carry guns. In fact, this is a chronic plot hole in British television dramas: You see an officer chasing a suspect and wonder, what’s he going to do when he catches him? Ask about his tweets?
The country is so gun-phobic that a few years back a farmer was sentenced to life in prison for shooting criminals breaking into his home. But wokeness struck back! His sentence was reduced to three years based on his lawyers’ claim that he was neurodivergent: “paranoid personality disorder.” Yes, he paranoidly thought burglars were burgling him.
As the Arday episode demonstrates, the British aren’t sold on free speech either. To hide their embarrassment over the Cambridge fraud, an army of DEI mediocrities exploded in a murderous rage at Professor Nathan Cofnas for his Substack post pointing out Arday’s plagiarism.
Liberals in the U.S. aren’t this demented. A number of black professors have been fired for academic scams far less egregious than Arday’s -- and the liberal newspaper of record, The New York Times, didn’t run interference for them. The paper mostly reported those cases honestly, as it did with Arday’s. (The Times’ approach to censorship is simply not to report news that would confuse its readers.)
Meanwhile, the BBC belched out 11 radio shows, four news articles, and two TV interviews fawning over Arday and lustily repeated his preposterous lies -- until the truth emerged (thanks to Cofnas).
It’s amazing that Americans got both our First and Second Amendment rights from the British. Their 1689 Bill of Rights gave the king’s subjects the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” and his Protestant subjects the right to “have arms for their defense.” Now, you can’t even defend your home or speak the truth in Britain if it could hurt someone’s feelings.
These are the same Britons who get snippy about the U.S. -- our patriotism, our guns, our directness and (at least when a Reagan, Bush or Trump is in the White House) our Nazi-ness.
Okay, fine. You have more beautiful buildings, accents, traditions, and castles, etc. We’re vulgar arrivistes who eat Texas chili out of a Frito bag. Then why, Britain, do you slavishly imitate the worst woke nonsense America has to offer?
My rewrite of John of Gaunt’s deathbed speech from Richard II:
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for her self Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
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The left wants the USA to be more like the UK..... before we get even worse.
The Brits are notorious homosexuals. Think and entire nation run by jock sniffing Tim Curries.
> the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects <
Ms. Coulter is using “rule” rather loosely there. Out of curiosity, I looked it up. The last time a British monarch exerted any real authority was back in 1708.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Militia_Bill
Today, the monarch limits himself to waving from balconies and giving the tabloids something spicy to write about.
I’m not knocking it. That’s evidently the way the Brits want it. For now, anyway.
A very dangerous challenge to American libs. Maybe not on that parameter of professor firings but insanity knows no bounds and selling the US versions short is not a good way to assess them. When we say they've hit rock bottom they start bringing in jackhammers and backhoes.
You can be sure this is not taught in any British school at any level. No one knows the name "William Wilberforce" - who absolutely should be honored, his life studied, monuments raised to him.
"William Wilberforce headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for 20 years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807."
Instead, British - and American - school children are taught that Whites were solely responsible for the evils of slavery and must pay in perpetuity - shame, humiliation and reparations.
Britons atoning for slavery, wearing shirts saying "So Sorry"
Because anyone with any gumption in their DNA left that putrid, classist society generations ago. All they have left are residual low-ambition flakes and non-working third-world invaders.
I would not have expected Ann Coulter to be conducting a “deep dive” into the British culture, but she may see the US as headed on a similar track.
Why woke? ‘CAuse that is the way to destroy a liberal democracy.
How woke? Fat, lazy English just sat there and let it happen. Just like the US. In neither case will the couch potatters get off their butts and vote.
Were there abuses? Naturally.
But those were amplified and the benefits were down played.
Same on the home front. Were the people who worked in the mines and factories living like lords? No. Were they living better overall? Yes.
But it never was, we can improve things some more, it was everything is horrible and we must destroy it all.
If this sounds familiar, it should.
When they elected a socialist government after WWII because they wanted to keep things on a war time footing it was all over but the crying.
Wait -- honest reporting is against company policy at the New York Times.
Not quite. Queen Elizabeth dissolved Australia’s Parliament in the 1970s.
It takes a lot more than just voting. And often our options are a Hobson's choice.
“We Happy Few, We Band Of Wokesters - Why Is England Woke?”
basically, the UK’s gene pool was emptied out by WWI and WWII, leaving dregs ... same fate as the roman empire and the Greek empire ...
> the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects <
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I doubt she was intending to give a hard fact here considering she followed it sarcastically with, “The closest we have to that in America is the NAACP.”
I know many FReepers hate Ann Coulter, but I can appreciate her biting sarcasm which few can match.
> Not quite. Queen Elizabeth dissolved Australia’s Parliament in the 1970s. <
Yes, you’re right. There were instances of the monarch flexing some muscle past 1708. But it always happened in the “colonies”, so to speak.
I was referring to Britain proper. Perhaps I should have been clearer about that.
The USA is 13.5% Black.
50% of our TV ads show white women with Black males.
I’m with you on Coulter. She’s made a few missteps, but overall she’s a good read.
Coulter was also one of the first people to predict the rise of Donald Trump. She’s laughed at in this video. Who’s laughing now?
https://youtu.be/XbygriZT1Xw?is=d4Nw8XEmmiGMjjfN
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