Patrick Christys: The younger generation are too woke to fight for this country

I don’t think the younger generation would fight for this country. I think they’re too woke. I think they’ve had their heads filled with a load of lefty tosh about how patriotism is a bad thing, borders shouldn’t exist, and how we’re a horrible little racist island that needs to take the knee and repent for the sins of our forefathers. If you read the Guardian every day you could be forgiven for thinking that we are a deeply unwelcoming far-right nation. Does anyone else find it amazing then that so many people, of different cultures, creeds and colours are desperate to come here?

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has got me thinking about how our country would react in a similar situation. I think we’d end up relying of the fair people of Carlisle and Leeds, while the Islington snobberati packed up their herbal tea and legged it to their second homes in Provence.

We’ve had adverts for the military that included people pausing during an exercise to allow one of their troop to attend to the call to prayer. I very much doubt you’d get away with that during the heat of battle.

And some people go, well, there’s not much to fight for these days. Yes there is! We’re the land of Shakespeare, Alan Turing, The Queen, The Beatles, the Chuckle Brothers and to a much lesser extent, the Neville brothers.

But I am genuinely concerned that if it all kicked off, the younger generation wouldn’t be up for the fight. They’ve been trained, brainwashed really, into thinking we’re just a little rock in the ocean with a chequered past.

Our demographics have changed massively. Does that make a difference? Do loyalties lie elsewhere? Have we talked ourselves down too much?

I hope we never have to find out, but given everything that’s happening in Ukraine I’m concerned that we may well do so one day. Do you think the younger generation would fight for this country?