🚨 THE MOOD OF BRITAIN IS HARDENING
For months, the political establishment insisted the anger was isolated.
A fringe issue.
A handful of voices online.
Now protests are appearing in multiple cities and the conversation is no longer confined to Belfast.
Something is changing.
Many people believe their concerns about immigration, public safety, community cohesion and the future direction of the country have been ignored for too long.
Worse still, many feel they have been dismissed as racists, extremists or troublemakers simply for raising those concerns.
That approach may be backfiring.
Because every time politicians attack the people raising concerns instead of addressing the concerns themselves, public trust erodes a little further.
The greatest danger facing the government is not the protests.
It is the growing belief among millions of people that nobody in power is listening.
History shows that when trust in institutions begins to collapse, events can move much faster than politicians expect.
The question is whether those in power recognise what is happening before the gap between the governing class and the governed becomes even wider.
Because the mood of the country is changing.
And increasingly, people are no longer afraid to say so.