This man has witnessed the deterioration of Britain happen right before his eyes.
A 100-year-old veteran shocked the hosts of Good Morning Britain today by declaring that winning World War II ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the UK.
Alec Penstone told Adil Ray and Kate Garraway how he quit his factory job to sign up for the Royal Navy and fight for his country as soon as he came of age.
The war hero recalled serving alongside close friends, many of whom lost their lives, and called himself ‘just a lucky one’ for having survived.
Asked by Ms Garraway what Remembrance Sunday meant to him, the veteran said he felt that winning the war was ‘not worth’ how the country had turned out today.
His concerns about the state of the nation are shared by an increasing number of Britons, with a new survey revealing national pride has plummeted and society is more divided than ever under Sir Keir Starmer.
In findings which will send alarm bells ringing in Downing Street, eight in ten said they felt the nation was divided – up five percentage points from two years ago and ten points from 2020.
Commenting on the survey results this morning, former Tory minister Michael Gove argued ‘mass immigration’ was partly to blame for the perception that Britain felt more divided.
The poll found Reform voters were most worried about the cultural state of the nation, suggesting Nigel Farage’s party stand to make big gains in future elections.
And half of the public said Britain’s ‘culture’ was changing too fast, up from a third.
Mr Penstone left the Good Morning Britain hosts ‘mortified’ with his saddening admission about the state of the country.
He told viewers: ‘My message is, I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today?
‘No, I’m sorry – but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result of what it is now.’
When he was asked to clarify what he meant by Mr Ray, he continued: ‘What we fought for was our freedom, but now it’s a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.’
The veteran did not specify the factors he believes are responsible for Britain’s decline.
Consoling him, Ms Garraway chimed in: ‘Alec, I’m sorry you feel like that and I want you to know that all the generations that have come since, including me and my children, are so grateful for your bravery and all the other service personnel.
‘It’s our job now to make it the country that you fought for, and we will do.’
Reassured, Mr Penstone continued: ‘It’s so wonderful to know there are people like you who spread the word around to the younger generations.’
Baron Gove, the former Secretary of State for Education, suggested this morning that concerns about changes to Britain’s culture were linked to ‘mass immigration’.
‘I think you can’t separate the question of mass migration from the question of a common culture,’ he told BBC Radio 4’s Today Program.
‘The rate at which a society changes demographically can be accepted, managed, tolerated, and indeed welcomed by the host population if there is a feeling that the culture they cherish is not being challenged or changed.
‘One of the problems with the current pace of migration is not just the numbers, which obviously put a pressure on public services, but it is also the sense that new arrivals are not being invited to share in a common culture.
‘That culture is either being wrenched out of shape or is fragmenting under pressure.’
The new survey about national pride was carried out by researchers at King’s College London and pollsters Ipsos, who have been tracking UK cultural trends annually since 2020.
They branded their latest set of findings ‘frightening’ and said they laid bare an increasingly divided, polarized and downbeat society.
They also highlight how much of the public thinks Labour has failed to get to grips with several of their key priorities – and has potentially even fanned the flames of division with its wavering stance on issues like trans rights and Net Zero.
He’s inferring about the invasion of radical muzzie foreigners and the UK’s surrender.
The entire continent of Europe is saturated with muzzie thugs, yet the idiots in government keep making excuses and pandering to them. The terrorist attacks in Britain are increasing.
The rise of Islamic terrorism on the European continent started the day they put out the welcome mat for Haji invaders.
Muzzie animals commit massacres across Germany and have engaged in multiple terrorist attacks in France and Belgium, starting with Charlie Hebdo in January, 2015. Evidently, they haven’t had enough carnage. Instead of preventing these muzzie monsters from entering their region and deporting the rest, they prefer to become eunuchs for the New Caliphate.
The muzzie “migrants” in Britain brought the Islamic ideology with them.
Your videos could get your jailed. The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales warns that ‘sharing online material’ of riots could be an offence.
A Christian quoting bible verses gets arrested while muzzies taking over a street lifting their asses in prayer to Allah get a pass.
Britain is in the throes of suicide. It allows violent terrorist muzzie pigs onto its soil and the ensuing carnage is condoned by gutless law enforcement. They murder, rape, and commit acts of terrorism with impunity while citizens who speak out against it are censored, harassed, and prosecuted.
The wife of a conservative councilor was arrested and sent to prison for expressing anger over the murder of three girls by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, whose parents are from Rwanda.
The government jackboots bragged about making 30 arrests a day for “offensive” social media posts.
A Jewish man was arrested and charged for mocking the leader of Hezbollah by holding up a cartoon for three minutes. The placard depicted Lebanese terror chief, Hasan Nasrallah, with a pager and the words “beep, beep, beep”. The imbecile cop thought it would “stir up racial hatred further”. Let me get this straight. Protesting against a violent, Islamic ideology masquerading as a ‘religion’ is going to ‘stir up racial hatred further’ against the Western society they want dead?
That’s as retarded as their “please don’t attack us” campaign they aired in Pakistan.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to EXTRADITE and imprison American citizens over online posts.
Good luck with that, motherfucker.
Tommy Robinson is right. It’s become an authoritarian nightmare.
The UK has become a police state.
Autocrats are all too happy to oblige.
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