An email popped into my inbox recently from Tower Hamlets council. It informed me that the council were pleased that a planned UKIP protest in Whitechapel had been banned. This casual assertion of political supremacy is nothing unusual for Tower Hamlets council emails, which relentlessly asserts that diversity is paramount, burkas are fantastic, and that the ‘Far-Right’ are the enemy. If only they could provide me with a recycling bin…

I moved to Tower Hamlets a few years ago as a centrist, but will shortly leave the place as an Advance UK College member – a ‘Far-Right’ enemy, if my local council are to be believed. Living here has certainly played a large role in my philosophical evolution, by forcing me to contend with the harsh reality of life in multicultural Britain.

In Tower Hamlets I am surrounded by hardcore religious conservatism. It seems like 50% of the women I see on a daily basis wear full black niqabs or burkas, with only a thin slit for them to see out of. It is a radically misogynistic culture that would be more at home in Iran, growing in the heart of London.

This radical shift in culture is demographic in origin. The local population is now 34.6% Bangladeshi and nearly 39.9% Muslim, and a Bangladeshi Muslim party named Aspire dominates politics.

For an example of the corrosive effects of this on our democracy, the mayor of Tower Hamlets is a charming fellow called Lutfur Rahman. Rahman was barred from running for five years after he was foudn to have engaged in vote-rigging.

The Election Commisioner also upheld the allegations of bribery, giving food and drink to encourage people to vote for him and spiritual influence after voters were told it was their duty as Muslims to vote for Rahman.

Staggeringly unperturbed by this, voters have put him in charge once more. This sort of outcome is utterly alien to the United Kingdom. It is pure sectarianism.

I wonder whether anyone who is not Bangladeshi will ever win political power in Tower Hamlets again.

As for the area itself, Tower Hamlets is a sea of urban decay, graffiti, and the third highest crime rate in London. Nothing works. When my car was stolen from directly in front of a CCTV camera, the council told us that they were unwilling to scan the footage to find out who had stolen it. Perhaps, in an area rife with low-grade gang warfare, the reasons for that go beyond laziness.

It’s a borough in which days ago masked Muslims took to the street flying the same black-and-white flag favoured by Islamists and jihadists the world over.

All of the above is a direct result of mass immigration, multiculturalism, and foreign ethnoreligious sectarianism. Wherever these factors become dominant, similar dysfunctional end results will play out across the country.

Ultimately, Britain is not Bangladesh or Pakistan. If people want to participate in ethnoreligious sectarianism on behalf of those cultures then they can freely and rightly do so – in Bangladesh or Pakistan. Meanwhile, we should not be afraid to assert the same principles here in the United Kingdom, on behalf of the British people and our culture.

Our nation state must be conserved, empowered, and honoured, not divided up into mere economic zones ruled by various conflicting ethnoreligious interests.

Many people of a more traditional British background have fled Tower Hamlets. It has the fourth-smallest white British population in England and Wales with the smallest Christian population of any authorities in those two nations.

Given that most Brits that used to live in Tower Hamlets have since fled the place, as I am now doing, it seems that most of my fellow citizens agree.