"What are you smashing the wall down for? It's not your fucking wall."

This could only happen because the young man has never learned to value the things that give meaning to others. He's never felt the shame that should come with tearing apart something that took generations to build. If he had second thoughts about what he was doing, if he was capable of thinking about anything beyond what's on his phone, it might have been about breaking the law. But it wouldn't have been about breaking something more important.

This is what the technocratic class doesn't understand. The culture that built the wall and preserved it, cared for it through generations, isn't formed from a simple list of dos and don'ts, an obsession with rights over morality and diversity over shared values. It's formed from a common bond – the knowledge that we're in this together, that the wall was built by someone's great-grandfather and matters to someone's grandson.

If Keir Starmer watched this clip, his anger would be directed not at the young man but at the person filming him. That's the Pavlovian response of the ruling class, and it's one that's fracturing the country between those who love it, those who don't understand it, and technocrats who disdain the former while celebrating the latter.

If this young man had grown up in an environment where he understood and valued the culture around him, it would be a different story. Which is why it's not about race. The revulsion most of us feel at watching cultural vandalism is felt just as keenly by people of every colour whose families have been here for generations, who came here and embraced the country, and whose children love it as I do. It's about culture and values, the things that bond us – the very stuff the technocratic class is doing everything in its power to destroy.