In the last half century or so, we Brits have been asked to tolerate a lot. Every decade we are asked to tolerate a bit more. What is our limit? Is there one? Do we just go on into infinity tolerating more and more?
Sixty-odd years ago, following legislation to legalise homosexuality, the Establishment tentatively begun its push to make it acceptable to the millions who instinctively disliked the notion of it. This was ramped up in the Eighties, and more so in the Nineties, especially after Blair took office. By the Noughties, the project was pretty much complete.
And so the liberal Establishment looked for something else to normalise. Keen to keep a generous salary, those types can never rest: they have to find something else to wield their power and feed their ‘progressive’ appetite.
They chose drag queens. Pretty much. To be precise, they chose transvestites and transsexuals as the big battering rams in their tirade against Western civilisation. Didn’t see that one coming. Did anyone?
And so, within a few short years of laughing at Little Britain’s ‘I’m a laydeeee!’ we had to tolerate blokes who wore dresses to work and had long hair, perhaps dyed pink. There was a UK police officer who one day ‘identified’ as a woman, the next a man, the next as a woman, and so on. Everyone had to say Caitlyn Jenner was not only a woman, but a beautiful one at that – two lies for the price of one.
Moving sideways and backwards at the same time, let’s look at race. From around the mid-Sixties (there were Race Relations Acts in 1965 and 1968), Brits had to tolerate – more than tolerate – immigrants from the Caribbean and Asia moving en masse to their towns. Their forebears had had to do no such thing, the very idea would have been inconceivable and strange. The ramping up of ‘you tolerate, or else’ continued in subsequent decades.
Fast forward to the 2020s, and you have to tolerate people who have broken into your country illegally. That’s right, your sympathy has been extended to the entire world. You must now tolerate people who are nothing like you, possibly loathe you and are probably just are here for benefits or nefarious activities.
You don’t just have to tolerate ‘legal’ immigration, you have to tolerate illegal immigration. Speak out against this and you might end up in jail.
At the same time as We have been told to be more tolerant, They have become less tolerant of many utterances, such as us saying women’s football is rubbish, being fat is bad for you, or Islam often goes hand in hand with violence.
What will we have to ‘tolerate’ next? What will it be beyond the pale to criticise soon? If you say men who get a kinky thrill from wearing nappies and being treated like babies are kinda weird will you get a knock from Plod? Will nudists become a ‘protected’ group? Will calling a scum-rat child murderer a ‘creature’ be unacceptable? Oh hang on, it apparently already is.
The more we tolerate, the more intolerant those making the rules become. Making you wonder if it might not have been better if from the start we’d had no truck with their ramblings.
2026 is sure to be another horrendous year in the life of modern Britain: more innocent people will be murdered, maimed or raped by folk who have arrived from far away (or their offspring); your government will continually lie while robbing and cheating you, and the legacy media will mostly go along with it. More of the things you enjoy doing will be banned. People’s lives and careers will continue to be ruined by the State, persecuting them on the pretext that they have hurt the feelings of imagined victims. The country will continue to be transformed demographically. Net Zero will continue to deindustrialise Britain, out-of-control HR teams will keep jettisoning competent employees from offices, while nasty taxes and regulations will continue to drive many of our best businesspeople abroad. We’re being destroyed by the month, so we may as well keep a log of it.
Russell David is the author of the Mad World Substack.
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The Dave Allen joke about homosexuality comes to mind…
I think it’s safe to say that despite toleration and acceptance, the majority still have no wish to join in with the actual physical side of things plus the efforts of the alphabet missionaries are in vain (probably putting more off than gaining any traction).
I did my bit for gay rights in the 70s and 80s. By the 90s equality was pretty much in place, apart from same-sex marriage which, as a Catholic, I disagree with. Same-sex marriage is now on the statute books so that’s that. LGB had full and equal rights.
Unfortunately that meant that Stonewall and similar organisations were in danger of having nothing to do (and would lose a lot of funding) so they jumped on the ‘T’ bandwagon, plus ‘Q’ for ‘questioning’ – questioning what? Now they were on a roll and added the ‘+’ becoming LGBTQ+ and off they went, off at many a tangent and raking in more money.
I’m happy with the LGB letters but that’s where it should have stopped, and the modern obsession of Pride, Pride Month, rainbows on emergency services vehicles, etc ad nauseam should be stopped. There’s nothing to be proud about with the modern gay scene.