I'm 23 and I love my country - here's why so many my age REFUSE to fight for a Britain betrayed by elites like Keir Starmer

My latest for The Daily Mail.

Would you join the British army to fight for King and country? How would you feel if your children were conscripted?

With America now reluctant to guarantee the defence of Europe, such questions have returned with a vengeance.

And, not so long ago, I would have been among the willing volunteers. I’m 23, count myself a patriot and once thought I would have fought and died for this country. Yet I would rather be a conscientious objector than take up arms for Keir Starmer’s Britain.

I know I’m not alone in this and that my concerns – revulsion, even – are widely shared by other young Brits in their twenties.

A recent survey of Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) suggested that only 11 per cent of them would fight for Britain, while an alarming 41 per cent said there were no circumstances at all in which they would take up arms for their country.

I can’t say I am surprised. What precisely are we supposed to be defending?

The Britain that inspired the generations that made such sacrifices during two world wars has been swept away in a tide of mass migration, self-hatred and woke ‘progressive’ propaganda.

Our political class, university leaders, quangocrats, broadcasters and others - in a word, the elite - have spent decades attacking our collective identity: the very sense of solidarity vital for our own defence.

Now we see the results.

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