Credit where it’s due. Sir Keir’s one-in, one-out policy seems to be working spectacularly well. Well, it does in the Prison Service at least… which currently seems to be operating more as a “come and go as you please” spa facility than a place of incarceration and correction. Can there be a more withering, damning condemnation of a country which has so spectacularly lost its moorings than it cannot keep bad people (many of them who just rocked up on these shores uninvited) in jail?

We are fast becoming an international joke. A once powerful, sane, tolerant, admirable nation now reduced to a pit of woke laziness and self-loathing, divided, discordant and rapidly sliding into mediocrity. But hey, don’t take my word for it. Researchers at King’s College London and poll giants Ipsos have today released research tracking UK cultural trends since 2020. They called the findings “frightening” and said they laid bare an increasingly divided, polarised and downbeat society.

National pride in Britain is on its uppers.

And the reason? I mean the real reason, cutting through all the technocratic BS which blights our lives and is part of the problem?

We have been led by donkeys for far, far too long.

Would anyone, I mean anyone, go over the top for Keir Starmer? Or Rishi Sunak? Or David Cameron? Or Theresa May?

Or even our King, linked has he irretrievably is to his wretched brother Prince Andrew, with all the gut-churning horrors that entails?

No-one tells the truth in public life anymore. No-one grasps the nettle, no-one has the courage to take big decisions, and to stand by them, fully responsible.

They obfuscate, they dodge, they duck and when that all fails they just lie to us.

Because politics to them is no more than a board game.

Which is why we have grooming gangs, which is why we have failing education, houses no-one can afford, a military no-one seems to take seriously, an explosion in illegal immigration, drugs and porn everywhere you look, streets you’d feel safer walking in a kevlar jacket, and.. If the new survey of 4000 people is correct, a deep sense of division, isolation and unhappiness in our country.

Sir John Hayes, chair of the Tory common sense group of MPs, provided a rather old-fashioned take on the unhappy divisions in our country saying: “Ideological multiculturalism basically said to people you can live how you like, do what you like, you don’t need to mingle, you can be introspective, and then we’re surprised that we’ve got a fragmented society.

“We have to deconstruct that and have more people buying into British values and a shared sense of Britishness.”

Old fashioned it may be, but he’s right on the money.

But tellingly, it is not just gammons from Tunbridge Wells who think Britain is changing for the worse.

According to the figures half of the public said Britain’s ‘culture’ was changing too fast – up from 35 per cent in 2020 – and half said they would like the country to ‘be the way it used to be’, up from 28 per cent five years ago.

But researchers pointed out nostalgia for Britain’s past was even high among the 16 to 24-year-olds interviewed.

Me? I think we still have the British people.

Thank God.

And the British people are, in the main, still good and fair and decent and hard-working.

But we have allowed the braying donkeys to take over, the vested interests, the virtue-signallers, the egotists, the I-know-better-than-you breed;

We need to figure out a way of getting the good people to the top.

And we need to figure it out fast.