You ARE a Nationalist

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:01]Not really what I was expecting to see on a top of a hill in the winter. That's cool though, right? And the moon's over there in the background.

[00:00:08]It's uh gorgeous weather here in good old England. I am well, I was on a run and I'm sat on top of a hill. I can feel my hay fever slightly kicking in. So, uh I may end up having extremely bloodshot eyes and an excessively runny nose by the end of this short monologue video. But, I'm uh I'm here sat up in the countryside.

[00:00:34]Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. I Oh, there's nothing nicer than a bit of English weather. And I can just spread out get a bit of a tan on, not too much. We don't want to turn brown, but uh get a bit of a tan on. And let's rant about nationalism, shall we?

[00:00:50]Now, I'll start with this.

[00:00:53]Many of you will know Carl Benjamin.

[00:00:55]Uh me and Carl exist in somewhat of the same space in the right-wing sphere here in England, good old Britain.

[00:01:03]And we had a bit of a back and forth last night on X.

[00:01:08]Um as some people know, me and Carl don't particularly like one another. I don't think it's hatred, but clearly we occupy different opinions about things and uh have slight contempt of one another.

[00:01:27]Which is fine.

[00:01:28]I think that we're not all going to get on. We're not all going to agree.

[00:01:31]Um and we should be able to have those disagreements with one another.

[00:01:35]So, I'm not really [snorts] that asked, but I was uh rereading some of the things this morning.

[00:01:41]It's not 1:00 in the uh the morning when we started a little bit of a back and forth on Twitter. And I was rereading some of them this morning. And there's some things I thought I'd quickly discuss regarding nationalism and regarding the opinion about nationalism.

[00:01:57]And uh where I think he's coming from, where I think I'm coming from. So, I'm going to uh I'm going to sit on top of this hill and we're going to talk.

[00:02:05]I would walk about, but you're just going to get me out of breath, sweating if I do that. Probably not the most aspirational thing. So, uh we'll just sit here and talk. Now, there it was misunderstanding about nationalism.

[00:02:17]Now, Carl was viewing nationalism as an ideology, whereas I view nationalism as the natural formation of human beings and the way in which we fall into categories. Yes, I'm on Castle Hill. You can see a Victoria Tower behind me. Uh >> [snorts] >> but, I view nationalism as the way in which human beings are by nature. And what do I mean by that?

[00:02:39]Well, number one, nationalism is just a wider extension of tribalism.

[00:02:44]Nationalism is the tribal nature towards a larger uh understanding of your people, your living space, in this context a country.

[00:02:55]We are nationalist towards Britain England or wherever if you're a unionist or not.

[00:03:00]But, you you exist in a a collective that our people are from these lands and that this land is our homeland.

[00:03:08]Although, you may be born into an area.

[00:03:10]I'm currently in West Yorkshire.

[00:03:12]A lot of people here would call themselves Yorkshire.

[00:03:15]They would say that they are from York, they are from West York. So, you got Lancashire just to the left of us.

[00:03:20]And people define themselves by those regions and that is doing it on like a smaller scale. scale. But, on the grand scale, they would say they are English or they are British. Now, that is the wider understanding of your identity.

[00:03:33]So, I view nationalism as the extension of tribalism and everybody is tribal by nature.

[00:03:41]People [snorts] are born into tribes, be it families or communities.

[00:03:46]For example, like villages.

[00:03:48]You have your little village groups that everyone knows. Local villages I was in Scotland the other week and I visited [snorts] them some small villages there and they have quite a tribal mentality about their village and their people. Everyone knows each other.

[00:04:02]And that is all natural. That is not specifically ideolog- that is not ideology. Ideology is this complex structure of the way in which a society should run. But all societies I mean nationalism can be a left-wing ideology and a right-wing ideology. You've had left-wing nationalist governments and you've had right-wing nationalist governments. It's not specifically counteracted into any specific uh side of the political scale but instead is just one big understanding of [snorts] who we are as people. Now what I grasped from Carl is that he was perceiving nationalism as a specific ideology and he was trying to apply this academic framework onto it saying that people would not subscribe to that. Now I it to a degree I guess it and I think that goes back towards the World Wars and the way in which Nazi Germany was perceived as a nationalist state and then led to the the redlining the red tape around this idea of being nationalist um because now it's perceived as being like fascist or Nazi.

[00:05:12]Uh whereas again it's just the natural formation of human life. So I I I think to a degree he's applying the the logic of past ideologies like National Socialism or Fascism which are different ideologies by the way and he's applying that to nationalism and saying that most people would not identify as nationalist. Now I don't think that's true. I think that most people would identify as nationalist although they may not realize it. And my point is we should be saying these things and a party like Restore should be openly saying they are nationalist because we are trying to redefine and reclaim the word. Now it does not mean Nazi Germany. It just means that you believe in your country and your people.

[00:05:50]You believe in the formation and the natural structure of tribalism on a national scale. That's what it means to me.

[00:05:58]And I think our disagreement regarding these things comes from the >> [snorts] >> misunderstanding of what it is to be to be a nationalist. I don't think there's this big complex structure behind it. You can have nationalist economics, sure, but you can also have someone that's nationalist by a social standard and then their economic policy could [snorts] be all the way from ultra-capitalist, which I mean is a bit hypocritical. Um and contrary to the understanding of nationalism, or you could have it someone that is like extreme communist.

[00:06:33]So, I think there are different prospects around it, but I think most people are nationalist. Most people believe in their people. They believe in the national state. They believe in who we are and what make us. I mean, like on a very base level, if I said to people, do you think that England should remain like 90% white or go back to be 90% white? Most people say, "Yeah."

[00:06:58]Like, I'd say like at least 95% of white English people say, "Yes." The 5% would just be [ __ ] Marxists.

[00:07:05]But that is a nationalist point of view because they're recognizing their own people. I I don't think there's anything wrong with labeling things nationalist.

[00:07:11]I think we need to.

[00:07:13]I think that trying to diminish identity politics is [ __ ] because everything is identity. Like, I I know we've had these like few years of liberal libertarian politics and liberal politics saying that identity means nothing and we don't need to play identity politics. And there's a [ __ ] spider on my ass. Get off.

[00:07:30]Go away.

[00:07:31]>> [snorts] >> Identity politics mean nothing and we don't need to play identity politics and we just need to be we need to be individuals and like live by our own standards. I'm like, "No. No, it doesn't work like Because everybody requires some structure.

[00:07:44]Structure is good, man. I don't know why people think structure is a bad thing.

[00:07:48]Structure is a good thing. Having an identity is a good thing. Like you have a kid, you're you're a parent.

[00:07:54]What is your parent role is to look after the kid.

[00:07:57]You're giving yourself an identity then.

[00:07:58]You're giving yourself some form of identity politics.

[00:08:02]I just We have this weird understanding and the one thing that Carl said really irked me. And he called it abstract of race and nations. It is not an abstract idea to know who you are.

[00:08:16]I can see who I am. I'm a white guy in England.

[00:08:20]This is This is not an abstract idea.

[00:08:23]This is reality. Who I am is not an abstract idea. That is reality.

[00:08:29]It is the reality of my being that I am a white man, that I'm an Englishman.

[00:08:35]And those two parts of my identity play a core role in my life and who I am and what I'm working towards. Cuz I'm working towards this.

[00:08:47]I'm working towards the preservation of this.

[00:08:50]Because this is my land. There's thousands of years worth of history baked into it.

[00:08:57]So when he said that, I just was like, hold on a minute.

[00:09:00]And I get it, right? And he was trying to diminish me saying, you you're a smaller audience and you're young. And then bring up my family affairs, my career and whatever. Like, okay.

[00:09:09]Cheers, Mason. But I'm just like I may be young.

[00:09:13]I may have a smaller audience than you.

[00:09:14]I've not been doing this for 12 years.

[00:09:16]I've been doing this for 11 months.

[00:09:17]However, as a young guy, I can still see this.

[00:09:22]As a young guy, I can still see myself.

[00:09:24]I've grown up in the world which has been demographically replaced. I've grown up in the world which has been put to a a standpoint where everybody is seen as the same and equality has been pushed by the the and by the the educational systems and everything that everything must be equal. Equality does not exist. Equality is a fallacy.

[00:09:43]This is not equal. There are people that are not born here because we have different lives. The people that are not born in England aren't supposed to be here. They are not part of English history.

[00:09:54]It's It's not their land. This is the land of the Angles.

[00:09:58]That might sound harsh, but that's what inequality is. I was gifted this land because my ancestors spent thousands of years building it.

[00:10:07]That is not equality. I will never be a Chinese man or a Japanese man or whatever, and I will never inherit that land because my ancestors never built that land. They were never there.

[00:10:22]They didn't live there for thousands of years. They lived here.

[00:10:25]So, no, the idea of equality is ridiculous in these contexts. And the the idea that everything's just an abstract idea is simply a very rejectful understanding of what reality is.

[00:10:41]So, look, I know that me and Carl have our differences and I'm sure this is not the only time we'll bump heads.

[00:10:49]This is not abstract. I am not an abstract person. My identity, my past is not abstract. It's reality.

[00:10:57]And the reality is the reality is that we exist and should fight for those existence.

[00:11:03]So, we should be putting nationalism back to the forefront of what parties are. They should be nationalistic. If a party is going to claim to want to work for the British people and the British interest, it should be a nationalist party. Otherwise, it's just part of a globalized cog. And I don't believe in globalized cogs. I believe in the ideas of what I can perceive as truth. And what I can perceive as truth is my country, myself, my people, my tribe.

[00:11:29]So, Restore should come out and say it's nationalist because we need to rip the red tape off of it and remove it from this idea of nepotism. It's not nepotism to be a nationalist. It's nationalist to be a nationalist. It's natural to be a nationalist. And this This is my country.

[00:11:47]That's not an abstract idea.

[00:11:49]I'm going to go enjoy the sun. Take care of yourselves.