Matt Goodwin
@GoodwinMJ
Imagine you woke up in Britain the day after 9/11 and heard this.
25 years from now you will be living with wide open broken borders.
Your government will know it is letting convicted Islamists and their supporters to enter Britain illegally, but it will carry on regardless.
You will be living with unprecedented mass migration from the Third World despite never voting for it, or ever asking for it.
The Muslim population will increase 151% — or 2.5 million people.
Surveys will show younger Muslims are far more radical than their parents and grandparents.
Between 30 and 40% will express open support for Islamist groups like Hamas.
1 in 8, equivalent to 500,000 Muslims, will show support for Islamic State — a successor to al-Qaeda.
You will spend the next 25 years asking for immigration control and restrictions yet nobody in Westminster will respect you.
Your government will impose all this while having absolutely no strategy at all for integrating newcomers.
Even the word “integration” will be considered “racist” by parts of the British Left.
Your taxpayer-funded regulators will let Islamists hijack the charity sector, and more than a few schools.
Nobody in the established parties will ever develop the courage to ban Muslim Brotherhood, or root out other Islamist networks.
In fact, even worse, your own leaders will impose a definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”, almost certainly influenced by Islamist extremists, to control what YOU can say about Islam in Britain.
At the same time, your own state will roll out a range of Orwellian measures — hate laws, non-crime hate incidents, social media regulation, censorship — to ensure that any opposition to all this is controlled, if not squashed.
Those who ask questions, those who complain, will be denounced as “far right” or “extremist”.
Home Office guidance, official state guidance, will warn that mainstream conservatives and free speech activists are “on a pathway to terrorism”.
There will be more than 80 Sharia courts operating in Britain.
Female genital mutilation will be widespread. And the state will be paying welfare benefits to polygamous families.
Senior Hamas and al-Qaeda supporters will be given taxpayer-funded council flats in the heart of your capital city.
Islamists and their families will live on the welfare state, funded by you. They will call this “welfare Jihad”.
There will be an estimated 20,000-30,000 Islamists living in Britain.
Muslim sectarianism or clan-based voting will be mainstream, enabled by Labour and Green parties that would rather take votes than ask what is the national interest.
The state will not clamp down on marches in support of Hamas but it will aggressively clamp down on protests against mass migration by working class native Brits.
A British government, a Labour government, will be praised twice by Islamists overseas after rewarding Islamist terror and creating new incentives for it by recognising Palestinian statehood as Jewish hostages still lie in tunnels, and launching an economic boycott on Israel — the only democracy in the Middle East.
I could go on.
But just think about all that.
I wonder what you would have thought the day after 9/11.