Journalist Emma Woolf has launched a scathing attack on what she describes as Britain's "loss of identity", questioning where national pride has gone in modern UK society.
"Where's the pride? Where's the pride for British children?" Woolf asked during a heated discussion about the state of contemporary Britain.
The panel had been discussing last months demographic research showing significant population changes in Britain.
A report by the Centre for Heterodox Social Science projects that the white-British ethnic majority will become a minority within four decades and could comprise just one-third of the UK's population by 2100.
Stephen Pound said he is "proud" of the UK
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The analysis predicts that by the end of the century, three-in-five people will be non-white.
The Muslim population, currently around seven per cent, could reach eleven per cent by 2050 and potentially one-fifth by the 22nd century.
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Speaking on GB News, Woolf said: "Well, you say it’s been going on for decades and you’re absolutely right but it’s really accelerated in the last few years with mass, uncontrolled immigration.
"You ask anyone in any town or city across the UK and they’ll tell you the same story: local cafés are closing down, pubs are shutting, shops are boarded up. All the things that used to make our communities vibrant.
"But it’s deeper than that. Look at the things we used to be proud of in Britain: our education system, our healthcare system, our history, our heritage. Even our seaside towns. Look at Blackpool now, look at Aberystwyth. Same old storyboarded-up shops and asylum hotels. There’s nothing to celebrate anymore.
"I recently wrote a piece about London, how much there is that Sadiq Khan should be celebrating. London used to be the number one tourist destination. It used to be the place everyone wanted to visit. Now?
"London has become a cesspit of crime, mobile phone theft, violence, stabbings. I don’t know what’s happened to this country seriously."
Ex-Labour MP Steven Pound said: "Can I just say one thing? One tiny little shard of light? I have to say I’ve never been so proud of this country as I was earlier this week during the state visit of President Macron. Not necessarily because of Macron but did you see the Household Cavalry? The pageantry? You must admit, we did it brilliantly."
In response, Woolf fumed: "What I’m ashamed of is how much money we wasted welcoming the French President."
Pound retorted: "But we do those things well."
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GB News host Lee Anderson replied: "We’re talking about our history, our heritage, our culture being eroded. And people are now almost ashamed to even talk about it."
Woolf agreed: "absolutely poisoned by woke culture running rampant through our institutions. I have a four-year-old in schooland honestly, it’s frightening."
Anderson then responded: "But then you get all the politicians on the Left, Emma people like you keep saying that we’re a bigoted, racist, unwelcoming country. We hear it all the time. Some of your old muckers."
Pound said: "I seem to remember Keir Starmer saying three weeks ago that we’re ‘an island of strangers.’"
Woolf concluded: "Well, he said he didn’t mean it and he shouldn’t have said it. We celebrate Eid. We celebrate Diwali. But when it comes to celebrating Easter or Christmas Remembrance Sunday when we want to honour the soldiers who fought and died for this country, do you know what schools say? Oh no, we don’t do Armistice Day. We don’t do Remembrance.' I’m sorry why not? Where’s the pride? Where’s the pride for British children?"