I just watched a Channel 4 Dispatches entitled “The Enemy Within: The Far Right”. It follows a group called Patriotic Alternative (PA). It appears to be a reunion of the weird ethno-nationalist cult that last manifested in the form of the British National Party. They are anti-Semitic, they are Holocaust deniers and they racist. Channel 4 would like us to believe that this is a rapidly growing and influential movement, inviting the likes of Hope Not Hate to opine on it.

What they don’t say is that PA follows a model established in the EU, which was a far larger movement under the name Generation Identity. PA is pretty tame by contrast. Channel 4, however, doesn’t ask why their message finds such resonance, particularly with impressionable youth.

The thing about far-rightism, is that it taps into a few hard truths. They say whites are set to be a minority in Britain. That much looks to be true. They say the LGBT movement is a danger to children. It is. It’s not the far right seeking to normalise chest binders and feed puberty blockers to kids. The transgender agenda is predatory. As to PA’s stated position on Black Lives Matter, it’s hard to disagree with them. Moreover, far left “antifa activists” are more likely to engage in violence. The undercover reporter in the programme was set upon by an Antifa thug.

I’m not surprised that PA found a new audience in the wake of the BLM fad. When you set up “black” as a generic identity, it follows that a white identity will begin to demand the same recognition. And you can see why they feel aggrieved. Ethnic minority inclusion in public life, academia and media increasingly excludes working class whites. State and corporate entities wishing to meet their diversity window-dressing quotas have a preference for anyone of darker skin to demonstrate their right-on credentials. It is routinely observed that a normal white heterosexual couples no longer feature in television adverts.

Dispatches has it that the Great Replacement theory is central to PA’s ideas, citing a cartoon showing an abortion clinic waiting room full of white women, and below showing a maternity clinic waiting room full of ethnic minorities. Again this has a ring of truth to it. Western hyper-individualism has, to a point, normalised abortion, while planned pregnancy within marriage is declining.

This in my view is a consequence of the welfare state replacing the family, freeing individuals form the obligations of family, particularly among the white working class, leading to societal atomisation. Other factors such as house prices and sky high rents act as a deterrent to starting a family, and immigration certainly contributes to that pressure.

I don't personally believe in replacement theory, but the death of white Britain is assured when the traditional family unit is eroded and the pressures of globalisation and technological advancement make breadwinner men redundant. In that respect, the far right view on the LGBT agenda is not that far removed from ordinary conservatism – and is something, ironically, they share with Muslims and blacks.

Typically, Dispatches enlists an “expert” academic to call for stronger laws to ban the likes of PA, which they very well could do, but this movement organises on less visible platforms and private internet channels and will always find a way. Generation Identity was banned in Europe but the sentiment hasn’t gone away, and mainstream politicians in France, Italy and Spain have found the need to embrace right wing policies to stay in power. What British liberals would consider grubby far right discourse is mainstream politics in France.

Channel 4 has always had a voyeuristic fascination with British far right groups despite them never having managed to meaningfully influence British politics. Ukip successfully neutralised the BNP vote and the BNP was largely brought down by way of its own corruption. But the left needs the establishment to always believe that the “far right” is a real and present danger, and growing to crisis point in order to advance their own censorship agenda.

If it can be argued there is a resurgent far right, the answer is to neutralise it by addressing the economic and social problems that create the conditions for it to thrive. The failure to tackle grooming gangs, the failure to clamp down on Islamism, the failure to secure our borders and the failure to address the housing crisis all contribute to a sense that Britons are becoming second class citizens in their own country. This is set to worsen as the cost of living crisis sets in for the long haul. Up to a thousand illegal immigrants a day crossing the Channel at peak Summer is not, as they say, good optics.

UKIP does not sympathise with PA. We share many of the same concerns, which are after all majority concerns, but the ethno-nationalist rabbit hole is a dead end. Mass immigration is irreversible and what’s done is done. All we ask is that the establishment stops making it worse. Britain has long reached its absorptive capacity for immigrants and unless something is done to slow the influx then Britain cannot survive as a coherent and contiguous society. We have already entered a process of cultural Balkanisation that won’t be repaired until measures are taken to properly integrate migrant communities already here.

Ultimately Channel Four wants us to believe the far right is greatest threat the country faces, because it’s the ideal pretext to clamp down on any political expressions that contradict the liberal dogmas of our time such as “diversity makes us stronger” and “trans women are women”. These people don't want debate and they especially fear grass roots politics they can’t control which is why they smear any organised opposition to mass immigration as far right.

Modern liberalism (if we can call it that) has given up on persuasion. Everything has to be truth boards, online safety commissions and official “fact checkers” and politics by judicial fiat – all the while screeching about threats to “our democracy”. When they say x is a threat to our democracy, they mean it’s a threat to their dominance over the narrative.

The Tories are dimly aware that something must be done to placate the plebs in the North, and they thought the election of Boris Johnson’s and some muttering about Levelling up would do the job. It’s the same shallow thinking that spawned Net Zero – a quasi-socialist agenda they think will create jobs for the northern slums. All they’ll succeed in doing is ramping up the cost of energy, making us all poorer, which all but guarantees a resurgent far right because recession and inter-ethnic rivalry always goes hand in hand.

When it comes down to it, people will turn to the far right if they can’t get what they want from mainstream politics. Labour has long given up on the working class, and has any number of priorities over and above secure jobs, decent homes and secure borders, and the Tories have gone the same way. Establishment politics is retreating into green-tinged fantasy politics that distance them from the real world. It has nothing to offer ordinary people.

I re-joined UKIP because at long last it has a credible manifesto and the best one currently on offer that does most of the things I hope to see. But now, it looks like UKIP is the only manifesto that can avert a more radical swing to the right among the working class. UKIP will bin the green agenda, fix our broken borders and focus on affordable energy and decent homes. That will do more to crush the far right than a technologically illiterate Online Safety Bill and more big tech censorship. You can chase ideas you don't like off the town square, but it will find expression in the dark alleys.