From time to time I dip my toe in the icy waters of mainstream political commentary, and invariably find variations on a puzzled theme: “Why are they allowing this?”, “Why can’t they stop the small boats?”, “Why does Britain feel so miserable?”. After the murder of Henry Nowak, the attempted beheading in Belfast, and the ‘random’ stabbing on a young girl in the neck, we may be reaching the point where the charitable explanations of lone wolf, mental health or political incompetence are no longer sufficient even for the mainstream. Even they can see, this looks less like a series of unfortunate events and more like design.
Of course, as an inveterate cynic, I have long argued that Britain is living through the worst kind of civil war – the one where only one side knows it is fighting. With the authorities busily engaged greasing a never-ending conveyor belt of rapey, stabby, illiterate third worlders and criminalising anyone who notices it too loudly, you have to ask yourself: what exactly would they be doing differently if they were actually trying to destroy Britain?
I’m no expert, but if I were asked to write a practical manual on how to dismantle one of the oldest, most successful, socially cohesive, high-trust nations in history, I imagine the following steps would serve rather well:
Step One: Undermine the next generation
Tell girls that, far from the trait which has protected them since the dawn of time, “toxic masculinity” is the root of all their problems. Encourage them that gender is a social construct. Train them to eschew femininity, to deny any fledgling sense of a maternal instinct, and in delaying (or preferably forgoing) motherhood, to pursue instead a fulfilling career serving the State, big tech or ‘the man’. Unironically, label this ‘feminism’.
At the same time, inform boys (especially white ones) that they are inherently problematic; that their instincts are suspect, and their behaviour unacceptable. Then express bafflement when the native birth rate collapses, the family unit stalls, and there aren’t enough young men willing to admit to patriotic feelings, let alone fight for their country. In case this is not enough, educate both sexes that it is selfish and dangerous to have children – something climate change, and the planet can ill-afford.
Lie to children that everyone is equal, and when reality stubbornly refuses to comply (particularly in terms of the crime statistics), blame the children themselves for their “white privilege”. Organise the entire curriculum (and the culture itself) around self-loathing. As reparation for their original sin of whiteness, condition the next generation to believe they are old enough to change gender, mutilate their bodies, and vote, but too young to use the internet unsupervised or take responsibility for their actions.
Once you have successfully alienated the next generation from their own biology, history and country, the real work can begin. With the natives demoralised and demographically weakened, it is time to accelerate the transformation.
Step Two: Import the problem, then excuse it
To accommodate this shortfall in the birth rate, simultaneously import millions from high-fertility third-world countries, who average four or five children each, and make it the duty of the dwindling taxpayer base to subsidise them. Bemoan the resulting demographic imbalance and the shortage of recruits for the armed forces.
Open the borders on a scale never before witnessed, thereby making meaningful assimilation impossible. Admit openly, as ISIS itself has done, that terrorists and jihadis have been sent among the migrants, a lucky dip with every dinghy! Allow convicted terrorists to stand in UK elections, and welcome Islamic extremists – not just to Britain, but to Downing Street for “counter-terrorism”talks.
Promise “safe routes” for illegals (as though the thousands crossing the English Channel each week did not suggest the route was safe enough already). Insist this will somehow make it easier to deport failed asylum claimants – the asylum claimants that are waved through at punishingly low rates of 99 percent. Any new arrivals unable to master the word “asylum” need not fear, as a coterie of UK lawyers now cater exclusively to illegals. They charge a meagre £10,000 a pop for their services, specifically how best to game the asylum system; a service the State effectively subsidises.
Having mistakenly jettisoned their copy of Debrett’s in the Channel (along with their passports), some of the newcomers may mistakenly conclude British etiquette stretches to stabbing, raping or beheading. This should immediately be excused as “mental health”, divergent “cultural norms”, or “warzone trauma”. Any murderers who erroneously make it to the criminal justice system, can be released without charge on the grounds that they are “unfit to stand trial”. This will likely be comforting to their next victims. In extreme cases where sentences are actually handed down, prison time can be sidestepped by raising the age of criminal responsibility (fortunately, most of the migrants are ‘children’ anyway) or further reduced to as little as 30 percent of the original term.
When the public begins to notice the demographic and cultural change to the landscape, label the noticing itself the real problem – or “far-right thuggery”, in the current Prime Minister’s lexicon. Install representatives of these communities in positions of authority: politicians, mayors, senior police officers, and celebrate this as “diversity”. Develop a two-tier system of policing, justice and public discourse, designed to irritate and supplant the native population. Deny the existence of Muslim rape gangs (sorry, grooming gangs) for decades ,while covering them up and smearing whistleblowers as racists. Allow parallel societies, Sharia courts and no-go areas to develop while lecturing the natives about the bigotry of British values.
Step Three: Make normal life unsustainable
Raise taxes relentlessly, so that decent, hard-working people either leave the country or simply give up trying to do the right thing. Expand the welfare state to the point where the Exchequer spends more on those who do not work than it collects from those who do. Punish anyone foolish enough to continue to work and pay in. Meanwhile, charge ever more for an NHS that is completely inaccessible to anyone, apart from those unentitled to use it. Award doctors repeated pay rises, while assuring them they may strike indefinitely, and ‘work from home’ when they don’t feel like striking. Pursue lunatic Net Zero policies that raise energy bills, destroy industry, and increase dependence on foreign energy. Under no circumstances award new contracts for drilling in the North Sea.
Insist that men belong in women’s sports, prisons and changing rooms – everywhere of course, except the local mosque. Pretend to be passionately opposed to violence against women and girls, while consistently voting against national inquiries into ‘grooming’ and other inconvenient patterns of abuse. Write a blank cheque for foreign aid and endless foreign wars like Ukraine, while effectively defunding the nation’s own Defence.
Step Four: Gaslight and demoralise
Complain constantly about the lack of “social responsibility” and “community cohesion”. Then punish anyone who actually demonstrates it. Decriminalise shoplifting, and instead criminalise the shop-workers and passers-by who try to prevent it. Give longer sentences to those who notice the criminal reality of mass immigration than to the perpetrators themselves. Allow whites to be stabbed, raped and murdered with depressing regularity, and then jail the survivors for getting uppity about it.
Claim asylum hotel usage is down by 36 percent, while quietly moving the same people into HMOs and secretly opening a dozen new asylum centres across the country. Reduce recorded crime by redefining it or refusing to prosecute when committed by the wrong demographics.
Repeatedly frame “far-right terrorism” as the real threat in Britain, when 90% of MI5’s watchlist consists of jihadis. Import people with profoundly illiberal views on women, Jews, gays and free speech, and then treat concern about this as bigotry. Introduce hate speech laws and arrest people for social media posts, while extremist preachers operate with relative impunity. Capture the media, universities, civil service and charities to enforce the equality lie and suppress dissent.
I could go on, but presumably you get the point.
The genius of such an approach lies in its plausible deniability. Every step can be presented as “the right thing to do”, compassionate overreach, anti-racism, international obligation, or economic necessity. The cumulative effect however: rapid and irreversible demographic change, falling trust, rising crime, cultural fragmentation, economic decline, and the grinding demoralisation of the native population – is precisely the virus a Machiavellian enemy might install if it had the chance.
Of course, grand conspiracies are not essential to bring down a nation. Complacency, short-term electoral calculation, incompetence, self-interest and an unwillingness to grapple with uncomfortable truths will do the job just as well.
Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer most likely never intended to break Britain. It was all just a series of unfortunate accidents – anyone could have made them. But ask yourself this: if they had really been trying, what exactly would they have done differently?
Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West and The Frank Report, which you are welcome to subscribe to.
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A little bird tells me that Hadi Alodid is not behaving like a ‘model prisoner’ in Maghaberry. I trust prison staff will be dealing with him accordingly.
Bravo, Frank, bravo. A neat synopsis of the enforced suicide of a nation’s indigenous people.
Add, enfeeble the population by bombarding them with the pronouncements of ‘experts’ from the banal ‘I’m an expert in x, and….’, the so-called internet ‘influencers’, and the ‘clever real experts’ who tell us what ‘the science’ is – even when it’s based on faulty models or is entirely bogus.