Chris Lillie / chris blade

We Owe the World Nothing, and Ourselves Everything Dan | Restore Britain "I don't know if you guys in the UK understand how sad it is for us in Canada and the United States to watch what you're doing to yourself." That's Jordan Peterson, speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored. He's right, and it should shame every politician in Westminster. Peterson reminded us of something our own leaders seem to have forgotten. The world owes this small island "an immense debt". We gave it common law, trial by jury and parliamentary democracy. We banned the slave trade in 1807, and the Royal Navy spent decades hunting slavers on the high seas, freeing around 150,000 people. We built the first railways, invented the jet engine, the television and the World Wide Web, discovered penicillin and vaccination, and gave the world football, cricket and rugby. And look at what we built at home. Cathedrals that took centuries to raise. Thatched villages, market towns and Georgian terraces. Dry-stone walls running over the Dales, and pubs that have stood for five hundred years. Britain is one of the most beautiful countries on earth, because generations before us cared enough to build things that would outlast them. Now look at what we're letting happen to it. Historic high streets have become rows of vape shops, bookies and pawnbrokers. Town centres are boarded up, and green fields are concreted over at breakneck speed to house a population that's grown by millions in a few decades, without anyone ever asking us. Hotels are being turned into asylum hostels, and councils can find money for everything except fixing the roads. A country that once built for centuries now can't build for the next ten years. Then there's the worst of it. As Peterson said, Britain let working-class girls be "raped en masse, sadistically" while officials looked away for fear of being called racist, and the people who told the truth were gaslit. A nation that won't protect its own children has lost its way. If we truly want to help poorer countries, the answer isn't to empty them of their workers and doctors and pack them into an overcrowded Britain. It's trade, targeted aid and helping people build up their own homelands, so they can make their countries as beautiful as our ancestors made ours. Mass migration helps neither side. It drains their talent and strains our homes, hospitals and schools. Peterson finished by saying the rest of the world prays we "grow some spine again, and put your damn country back together". He's right. This country was built by people who believed in it. It's time we started believing in it again, and protecting what they left us.