What is an Englishman or Scotsman? What does it mean to be British? Those questions are increasingly being asked of the United Kingdom and its political establishment. But more significant is who has been raising these questions — the British people themselves, particularly the working class.

The impetus stems from a decades-long scandal that the British ruling class has ignored and downplayed at nearly every turn. That scandal is the rape gangs, consisting primarily of Pakistani immigrant men, that preyed on hundreds (maybe even thousands) of almost exclusively white, young, working-class girls.

These grooming rape gangs were allowed to continue their abuse for years because British authorities were fearful of being labeled racist and xenophobic if they dared to impartially enforce the law. In some instances, they were involved in the crimes themselves.

It has been labeled the “biggest child protection scandal in UK history” by researcher Angie Heal.

As the scandal was publicly revealed in 2013 and continues 12 years later, much of the UK’s establishment press, as well as its politicians, sought to quickly move on from it and avoid a thorough investigation into the crimes. This was due to fears of charges of racism, as the perpetrators were primarily from a minority racial group and an even more inconvenient minority religion: Islam.

Those who dared to speak out, like the one-time football hooligan and working-class Brit, Tommy Robinson, have been smeared as “racist,” “bigoted,” “white supremacist,” and “Islamophobic.”

The British government, currently under the Labour Party rule of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has sought to squelch dissent by enacting increasingly draconian speech laws as if it were following George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a how-to manual.

The most recent episode underscoring this reality was the arrest of a Scottish girl who was caught on viral video wielding a kitchen knife and a hatchet. The footage was allegedly captured by a recent immigrant to the country as he taunted her and another girl. At one point, one of the girls says, “Don’t touch my little sister — she’s only 12!”

The region of Scotland where this incident occurred just happens to be within one of the areas documented to have one of these rape gangs.

What this scene captures is the reality on the ground in so many of the poverty-stricken regions of the UK, which the British ruling class has effectively ignored. In fact, UK authorities and media are actively working to suppress the story by claiming the migrant angle is false.

Perhaps that’s because arresting the girl for wielding a knife and a hatchet in an effort to defend herself encapsulates Britain’s whole problem.

This is the man accused of harassing children & was threatened by the 14-year-old girl in Scotland.

Fatos Ali Dumana a self-described ‘gypsy gangster man’, who has posted saying he is “waiting for you whores to get in my super car” - is not a model migrant as the media claims. https://t.co/VAEa0kvVnd pic.twitter.com/URoYGhLluV

— Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 (@TPointUK) August 28, 2025

Long-unchecked mass migration, especially of individuals holding radically different cultural, ideological, and religious worldviews, is being catered to, while the local indigenous British population is being scolded and punished for objecting. It would be one thing if these immigrants were actually assimilating and adapting themselves into British society by embracing British culture and values. But in many instances, they are not only rejecting British culture and values, they are denigrating them and exploiting the freedoms offered by Western developed societies to take advantage of them, advance their own cultural agenda, and subject the indigenous population to their views.

Slowly but surely, working-class Brits have begun to stand up against this anti-British abuse. Across England, a patriotic resistance has begun to take place via the display and raising of England’s national flag, the St. George’s Cross flag, and the UK’s Union Jack. It’s called “Operation Raise the Colours.”

Predictably, the British ruling class has blasted this flag-raising action as “racist,” with local authorities directed to take down these flags.

The trouble is, by doing so, the ruling class is only proving to further isolate, distance itself from, and anger the very British constituents it is supposed to represent. This will only fuel the growing resentment and distrust of the political authorities.

At some point, if the authorities don’t wise up and recognize that they are, in fact, the ones stoking these fires of resentment, there will eventually be a more aggressive response. A revolutionary call to action by the native British population to throw off the tyranny of their rulers will go out.

Let’s hope that the authorities will finally wake up, listen, and recognize that their demonization of the native British is foolish and wrong. And then change their ways.