William Clouston is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the United Kingdom.
In this episode, William and I talk about the reasons behind the SDP’s resurgence, his personal political journey, what the current political landscape looks like in Britain, and why it’s hard to escape the feeling of civilisational decline in the country, how cultural identity is being undermined through ideological zeal, mass immigration, and multiculturalism, Britain’s immigration challenges and the SDP’s proposed solutions for immigration control, why the ruling class’s reluctance to align with public sentiment poses risks to societal stability, why William believes the SDP is the political vehicle that represents the views of the British public, why any new generation of politicians must address the failures of the current political class, and much more.
You’ll hear in the episode that William is a politician cut from a different cloth. He had a long career outside politics before moving into local government and eventually leading the SDP, and he is incredibly thoughtful in his responses.
He avoids cookie-cutter answers and speaking in slogans, and he’s immensely likeable. Whether William’s vision of civic nationalism can be realised in an era of identity politics and the demographic changes caused by mass immigration in Britain is a question that will be answered in the coming decades.
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#046 - William Clouston - How Britain Began To Decline And Why Its Leaders Won't Fix It