The cancelling of the Jeremy Kyle Show and removal of the library of clips from YouTube was a watershed moment in the modern decline of Britain.
A stinging defeat in the war between a Britain of Negative Liberty and Spontaneous Order vs Moralising MidWit Authoritarianism and the Administrative Surveillance State now reaching a crescendo with Starmer.
The Jeremy Kyle Show was a magnifying glass surveying various nooks and crannies of the British underclass, but with humour and irreverence, allowing the public to form their own opinions of how and why individuals and communities fail. Almost immediately after its cancellation these communities began to experience demographic replacement, the Blob narrative that only the state and charity sector could aid helpless victims of society using your money appeared and the fragile easily-offended humourlessness of progressivism and feminism descended on us all.
Without that magnifying glass pointed at itself Britain experienced a decade of rapid transformation that is only now being acknowledged to have even happened because poasters on here share photographs of urban decay and maps and graphs explaining the transformation.
Even the demographics that would typically watch the show, students and the young unemployed have today become humourless immigrants and anxious PIP recipients who wouldn’t even know how to take pleasure in seeing the lie detector results regarding who stole grandad’s ashes and swapped them for a pack of Lambert & Butler.
The Jeremy Kyle show was only possible in a largely homogenous society with shared behaviours and common values that aren’t explicitly codified and enforced. Its demise was welcomed then followed by a ratcheting up of joyless paternalism and mainstream media manipulation at the expense of accepting cold hard facts about human nature and taking responsibility for your own choices in life.
There’s a straight line from the culling of the JK show to the Online Safety Act and today’s announcement that BlueSky is the only suitable social media for teenagers.
When was the 1st time something happened that made you think this might not be the country you'd been raised to think & hope it was? Not just something you disagreed with, but that was of a nature, or created a reaction in others, that made you doubt?