Recently on X I put up this post in which I described what I believe to be the way the average person in England is feeling about now.

My primary point was how our country has changed and not from the better, and I got a lot of pushback

from credentialed liberal experts that assured me no, the country has always been this miserable. I was guilty of mythologising the past.

Mass immigration has, in my opinion, destroyed a delicate social fabric that took centuries to weave and merely two decades to ruin.

What once felt like home to us now feels like a way station for millions of

global nomads. People I think, therefore are naturally feeling on their guard unsettled.

They have a colder disposition and a lack of love for the place in which they live and the people

who live alongside them.

They are no longer, as I put it in my essay,

relaxed and at their ease.

There is a perpetual sense of tension in the air,

and you can see it on people's faces

as they walk past on the street.

Everyone looks downcast as if there's some invisible oppressive force coming down on them

while they scurry around in the ruins of the decaying civilization.

People don't seem at their ease anymore and they certainly don't seem happy.

And the thing is, the numbers on this are in.

When asked, the British people will self-report high feelings of anxiety

and the generally gloomy outlook.

One example can be found in the Office of National Statistics' own surveys, where between April 2022 and March

2023, when asked, how anxious do you feel yesterday, over 40% of people reported feeling

a medium or high level of anxiety.

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