“COMING HOME”
As the Right fractures, Chris Haydon ponders Uniting the Kingdom.
Here in London, 16th May 2026 and another UTK rally/event/celebration slowly approaches. But what will it rally – a disappearing demographic? Will it be another largely British White reminder of when Britain and England were largely White but are no longer? Or perhaps this is all a lesson that says: stay focused and take part in politics. If you don’t, you will get the government you deserve.
The instruction for life over the next three years is - pay full attention to the commentariat, in order to find a way forwards from here. The UniParty is dying on its feet. Ideological conformity’s suicidal empathy is ushering in what looks like communism. Exactly why is the Left so drawn to partnership with Islam? ‘Ramadan Mubarak’ … the signs go up. Eid is honoured. OK, Diwali too. Now Christmas = Happy Holidays; silent prayer = a crime.
Following the terrible Southport killings in July 2024 and a spate of disinformation posts, a memorable comment online said:
“Use your brain or someone else will.”
Indeed. The nay-sayers give endless reasons for despair and inertia:
“Protests and activism are futile. Tommy Robinson is a great impostor.
What’s the point? Nothing is ever achieved. All politicians are …”
In February 2026, Robinson fled the country. Again. Another death threat apparently. Not easy being him. He and Paul Thorpe and Fr. Calvin Robinson and others share the same fate: the State has turned on them. Fancy that, a big machine of State being afraid of people.
Many think that George Floyd died and was not murdered, and the Syrian boy at the heart of Robinson’s documentary “Silenced,” which garnered 167 million views with help from Elon Musk, told another significant story that ran counter to promulgated mainstream narratives.
OK, Robinson used dubious ploys to capture the testimony he needed for his film, but the greater good was served (runs the argument). What is incontrovertible – Tommy Robinson and his UTK Rally drew thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
London, Saturday 13th September 2025.
It was a bright morning though rain was forecast later. As my Thameslink train pulled into the station built right across the Thames on Blackfriars Bridge, I looked out of the carriage window and down onto a dancing spread of St George and Union flags, waving, fluttering, tailored into clothing or simply draped round shoulders. They were so many, the image remains with me; my inner Cartier Bresson had captured the array of home-grown tribes that collectively represented the entire country. As was.
The traffic on the bridge was entirely human and heading south, barely a soul headed north. Trains were pulling into Euston, King’s Cross, Liverpool Street stations, Paddington, Waterloo, London’s array of railway termini teemed with cohorts and cohorts of motivated and friendly folk who had come to share an inspired togetherness. The serpent head rested by Waterloo Bridge whilst its colossal body snaked back eastwards down Stamford Street and Southwark Street towards London Bridge. It spread from wall to wall, pavement to pavement, over every inch of roadway. Happily, calmly. Thousands upon thousands we were.
That will ring will like a cracked bell to doubters and ideological opponents, but the fact is there was a complete absence of the big city’s normal, jangled vibe of rush, of “you’re in my way”, me, me, threat, ‘is my watch showing?’, ‘must zip my bag tightly,’ on and on. We bathed in quiet euphoria, at ease in amongst this unknowable number of people you wouldn’t call strangers. We had connection. Friends, couples, ones and twos, clusters, we were the opposite of an ‘island of strangers’. Not how London usually feels. Travel on a bus and you’ll hear many languages, with often none being English.
[Footnote: twenty years ago, I led a film project in a local primary school in East Dulwich at which the majority language was Yoruba.]
For a good while we stood, way more than an hour. It didn’t matter, the event had started. I found myself pondering (a) how long it would take for this mighty column to move round to Whitehall and (b) how near the front would you have to be so that in Whitehall itself, you’d actually hear the speakers.
The event was transmitting something familiar, something untroubled by the threat of the unexpected, the unknown, the unknowable. Wherever we had come from to share in this event, we were coming home. That’s how it felt. Coming home.
As a boy, I had had a taste of London when it was 97% British. My mind recalled that time.
Given the degree of class consciousness that existed then across the UK causing unbridgeable division, it’s funny that we on that UTK September day should slip back into what was a post-war mindset, when the nation was rebuilding itself. We had common purpose then, it transcended class, education and status. You could say, on that September day, the country was rediscovering that commonality.
By the time we meet again, “some sunny day” in May, once more to ‘unite the kingdom’, there will no doubt be so much to contemplate: there will have been the odd by-election, May council elections, social media for U-16s may have been banned; Bondi Beach will be distant in the memory, the Mamdani Migration may be more fully understood; Venezuela, Iran, Greenland will hover in the mind, or worse; the Middle East, and the Ukraine, will they be still unresolved? Life is happening so fast.
When the MSM eventually presented news from Iran, Tousi TV was in the vanguard. Gazing at phone video images from those massive street demonstrations in Tehran – and other cities in Iran, I found myself reflecting on last September’s London but UK-wide rally.
Truly vast demonstrations of ordinary Iranians, especially young people, promised so much, to be met with appalling force. Forty-seven years of theocratic rule over the former Persia had brought this about. The land of Ahura Mazda, Zoroastrian God, headed towards what must be any country’s ultimate ‘Horror Show’, conflict as civil war. (Are we going there?) The Ayatollah and the regime’s armed defenders had duly turned on their people. MSM gave meagre coverage.
So, is there a parallel? Might what is not tolerated there help us see what is ahead for us here?
Is Free Speech now the No.1 Problem? (I’m a member of the FSU.) Intolerance grew quietly, slowly, like culture-throttling weed, and suddenly was everywhere - in Education, the Arts, corporations, institutions, Government Departments, the Church of England. We know this, we speak about it – albeit carefully, having first sought out the like-minded.
Democracy, Parliamentary accountability (that old chestnut): were they ever really available?
That ‘long march through the institutions’ suggests otherwise.
Millions of Iranians wanted to try out our apparent freedom. But it is a tricky plant to cultivate, slow to put down proper roots, and if not watered regularly, may well die. In London we fear losing it, such are the currently hostile growing conditions. UKIP may not march in Tower Hamlets.
That rally on 13th September last year Robinson describes as “an event that laid the foundation for a cultural movement.” Sounds a bit like Peter Whittle in 2006 creating the New Culture Forum. Tommy from Luton, Peter from Peckham. Both men explicitly spoke to all four home nations – they can coexist. The existential threat is now inside the gates and we are asked to see only a wooden horse. C’mon! We’re not stupid.
Q: Do we take this lying down - and like those not engaged in politics, remain wilfully blind?
When you’ve read the Bhagavad Gita and pondered Arjuna’s despondency at the sight of the two warring factions lining up to oppose one another, relative against relative, friend against friend, the horror of civil war with its apparent meaninglessness and the undeniable brutality of war flood into one’s being. Arjuna is then educated into the reality of the Greater Reality. We British are now the despondent. Christ stood and died for the Greater Reality. Can we reconcile with that idea and step forwards?
And so, the Iranian regime turned its guns on unarmed demonstrators …
The British liberal free trade system is being overwritten by Davos and the WEF …
Attacks on Family and Christian Values emanate far and wide, from the UN and schools …
The globalist plan to remove nationhood from the cultural equation moves on …
THOUGHT: how will the globalists control, or tame even a little bit, the ever-clearer hunger by branches of Islam for global domination? Klaus Schwab, Governmental quangos and transnational organisations, even including the UN and the EU, stand in opposition to sovereign governments.
Looking back, the antics of the UniParty make it all plain. Albeit the calibre of MPs has fallen over recent decades, it is clear to this writer that an agenda was set, which each recent UK Government followed. Of course, you can stop the boats if you really want to!
Katie Hopkins posted on X how, that UTK September day, she travelled down by train from Skegness, Skeg-Vegas as she calls it; hadn’t been to bed, train packed, erupted when she got on ... “Every train was our people, every bridge, every single road,” she recalled.
I myself spoke with people from Wales, the North of England, London and the South-East.
I shared the rally right round to Big Ben with a Locals friend from NCF, only to find that Whitehall was by then full. Rain had started and was quite heavy. Five of us, completely random citizens, sheltered beneath one small portable umbrella … no-one in the endless crowd lost their sense of humour or their solid reason for being there in the first place. In the end Gavin and I called it a day and had a couple of drinks at a pub behind Westminster Abbey near Tufton Street.
In common with NCF’s pub gatherings, when a strong speaker has grabbed the room’s attention, afterwards everyone talks at once, enthusiastically climbing in to debate. Collective energy uncorks.
Unite The Kingdom in May anyone? Of bloody course! Let’s do it.
POST SCRIPTUM
“Hymn to London”
Fantastic monologue painting a sad picture of London lost to the White British and asking – what happens next to Britain? It was recorded in a car by a young Black woman, Ada Akpala, who works with The Equiano Project.
About the Author: Chris Haydon is the NCF Locals Organiser for London South East. He is a former media producer and director and worked with community and local media in the form of a charity called Community TV Trust. His latest media incarnation came with a series of locally focused podcasts:
PECKHAM PODCAST http://www.youtube.com/@PECKHAMPODCAST-r2f where big ideas find local traction.
http://www.communitytvtrust.org
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Sectarian politics is next followed by sectarian violence. Its inevitable when you abuse a people in their own homeland. The traitors will then suffer very considerably because people's anger will have free rein. You really don't want that to happen, establishment class. Get a grip now or its over for you.