Nigel Farage laid bare his frustration today at a new poll showing a steep decline in national pride over the past ten years.
Speaking on GB News, the Reform UK leader gave his take on a new survey carried out by the National Centre for Social Research.
According to Nigel, it is reflective of an underlying Marxist ideology that “hates” Britain increasingly creeping in.
“You know what, it’s really extraordinary. In 2013, 86 per cent said they were proud or very proud of Britain’s history”, he said.
Nigel Farage has laid bare his frustration at a shocking new poll
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“That figure has now collapsed into the mid-60s. But most interestingly, in the 18-24-year-olds, that number is down below 40 per cent.
“I will accept there is a degree of generational change. Go back 10-20 years, someone would say ‘my dad was in the war, my mum worked in a factory making Lancasters.
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“Some of that link has gone. However, I have been railing against this, we have an education establishment all the way from primary school to university that seems to rejoice in talking down Britain’s past.
“You would have thought we were the only country in the history of mankind that carried out slavery.
“We’re the one nation action that ended it - losing a lot of money and lives driving it out. You would think the British Empire was the worst that was existed in the history of mankind.
“It’s the only empire with now a club of former members, called the Commonwealth.
According the poll, 64 per cent of Britons are proud to be British
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“There’s a Marxist takeover of people who hate the country, hate what it stands for, and it’s done its job.”
The survey asked around 1,600 people their attitudes on British life.
The number of people who describe themselves as “truly British” has fallen from 74 per cent in 2013 to 55 per cent in 2023.
Ex-Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle waded in on the discussion to suggest the poll results from 2013 may have been skewed by the London Olympics, which took place the year before.
He also agreed with Nigel that while the positive aspects of Britain’s past should be highlighted in education, it is also necessary to teach past ills.
