As Ferguson’s law states, any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defence risks ceasing to be a great power. While defence spending is expected to total £56.9 billion in 2025, debt interest is almost double that at £104.9 billion — comprising 8.2% of total public spending. All of this is to say that Army personnel would be vastly outnumbered by the Jihadists already monitored by foreign intelligence and MI5, plus those awaiting release in British prisons, and emigrating through legal and illegal means. Thanks to successive governments’ failure to prepare for this eventuality, and their exacerbation of the problem through permissive immigration policies, Britain is on the brink of the barbarians within its gates putting all we love to the torch.
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According to Betz, we might be putting the place to the torch ourselves.
The British government is not borrowing cash-money – not gold, silver, or any other commodity.
The British government is borrowing Credit-Money that it-itself (the Bank of England is government owned) creates.
So the government Bank of England creates “money” (from nothing) lends it out, and the Treasury borrows it back at a higher-rate-of-interest.
In this way we get BOTH inflation (the Credit Money) AND a crushing national debt.
The system is insane – barking mad.
“But Paul all other Western nations do the same” – well then, they are barking mad as well.
As for mass immigration.
End all benefits and public services (housing, health and so on) for migrants, and end all special laws that favour the migrants – and then see who wants to come here.
And restore the vagrancy laws – no more migrants living in the streets and begging in the streets. The Welfare State was supposed to prevent that.
The only way to make-sense of the Western monetary and financial system – which gives us BOTH inflation (Credit Money) AND a massive national debt (not one or the other – both at the same time), is that it is designed to benefit “City” people (“Wall Street” in the United States), at the expense of everyone else.
De facto benefit recipients in thousand Pound suits.
“But Paul, the pension funds depend on the National Debt in Western nations” – well that is very bad as there is no way this farce can continue.
Islam?
According to the modern British establishment, the problem is not Islam – the problem is “Islamophobia”.
And, according to the establishment, “Islamophobes” should be punished.
The Koran, the Hadiths, the deeds of Muhammed, 14 centuries of history – all whitewashed, and if Prime Minister Gladstone or Winston Churchill were around today – they would be sent to prison.
Not sent to prison by Muslims – sent to prison by the modern British establishment.
When my then-wife came from Hong Kong, she had “no recourse to public funds” stamped in her pasport, and she had to prove that a UK citizen (me) guarranteed her good conduct and non-vagrancy; and had a seven-year probationary process to go through to become a British citizen.
The British elite clearly hates British society as it is currently constructed, and wants to destroy it, so that they can then build their utopia – whatever that may be.
There is no other explanation.
This is one of those posts where you really need to follow the OP link and read the entire article.
Scary as hell.
We have only an attenuated version of this threat in the US, but most people I know who sometimes carry a weapon are now frequently carrying a weapon.
It’s just a matter of time.
Earlier today I drove to Morrison’s to do some grocery shopping. On the way out of the car park I noticed the wall had been driven into and smashed, and there were big blocks of dressed stone scattered on the tarmac. I carefully drove around them, then without thinking pulled in, got out, went back, and picked them up off the road and put them clear, and foot-shoved the rubble out of the way.
As I sit down I start to wonder how long that sort of thing will be a natural thing for people to do – or even a *safe* thing for people to do. Get out of car to publically-spiritedly move an obstruction out of the way, and get ambushed.
jgh – “I start to wonder how long that sort of thing will be … a *safe* thing for people to do”
Not sure it’s safe now. I suspect that as soon as you lay hands on one of those rocks, you become responsible for it and lay yourself open to legal problems if anyone trips over it, or just sees an opportunity and claims to have tripped over it.
Reminds me of places in several American cities, in which you do not stop fully at stop signs or lights, but roll on through because your chances of being carjacked are so high.
Strangely, this is generally so only in those cities which drastically restrict weapon possession.
And if you think this is bad, consider the situation in mainland Europe, where any attempt to confront the jihadis would cause those from neighbouring countries to flood in to support their brothers.
jdh.
No disrespect meant to your wife – but I hope you agree that this was the correct legal process, and should be followed for everyone else as well.
Roue le Jour.
When the “liberal” (which is not liberal at all) establishment in Germany, the Netherlands, France or Britain, condemn Hungary – my mind is drawn to the difference between many towns and cities in these countries and in Hungary.
For many years Hungary was under Marxist rule – and so was much poorer than Western Europe, but now things are changing and changing rapidly. Hungarian cities and towns are Hungarian – whereas things are changing in many Western European nations.
The German philosopher Herder speculated that the Hungarians would, eventually, cease to exist (he was not a nasty person – this is just what he thought), these days it is the Germans who are more likely to lose their country, and the Dutch, and the French, and the English.
bobby b – take someone from the then conservative city of Los Angeles in the 1950s and put them in Los Angeles today.
They would not speculate about when the cultural collapse was going to take place – they would hold that it already had taken place.
The same is true for parts of Minneapolis – as you know.
When the Conservatives attained government in 2010, they probably cut some spending, but i remember the howls of rage about “austerity”. Despite the government still spending more than it taxed and going deeper into debt.
A few years later, a news story did the rounds that we were building up debt that our grand children would be paying off.
I’ve had a few letters published in newspapers about my concerns over our debt. One where I stated I wished the money markets would refuse more loans. My opinion being that our political class cannot stop ourselves so someone else should.
Of course that someone should be us. All of us. I refer to the Harrogate Agenda once again that if enacted, would provide a yearly referendum of the governments budget.
“Britain is on the brink of the barbarians within its gates putting all we love to the torch.”
I do wonder about the motivation of those recent arrivals to the UK who flock to the the ‘home delivery of takeaway food’ business. Are they just earning money? Or are they scoping out soft targets for future reference? (Doorbell rings. ‘Get that, would you Stacey? – that’s dinner arriving!’ And just like that, the deliverer learns that the house is home to a thirteen-year-old girl…)
Then, one day, the UK experiences its own domestic version of October 7th, after some 15lamist in a cave somewhere sends out a coded message from his laptop and the new arrivals, conveniently spread out across the country, start going house-to-house … and this time they won’t be delivering a lukewarm pizza.
Stuart Noyes.
It will not surprise you to learn that there was a lot of media “spin” about the “Conservatives are cutting government spending”.
If you measure the spending compared to the year the banks were bailed out, then YES there was a reduction in government spending – but, of-course-there-was, unless the banks were going to have a massive bailout every year (on top of the hidden money they get from the Bank of England anyway – the “normal” massive fraud of fiat money and Credit Bubble banking).
But if you measure things such as the NHS (and so on) government spending continued to go UP.
Oddly enough George Osborne (the Chancellor) and David Cameron (the Prime Minister) were happy that the media were lying – indeed they encouraged the lies about “austerity”.
They wanted to give the impression they were “cutting government spending” whilst still increasing things they liked – such as Overseas Aid.
By the way – Margaret Thatcher did NOT cut government spending either.
The first time I really understood that the media were either liars or utterly ignorant was in 1979 – when the media (the BBC and so on) kept talking about “cuts” – when government spending was going UP.
As far as I know – President Milei of Argentina is the only head of government on Earth who has cut government spending.
I hope I have not given the false impression that government services have improved….
On the contrary…. health care is getting worse and worse (when it is provided at all) – for example a friend of mine when to Accident and Emergency at the general hospital with a broken arm, but the staff there had no idea what to do – and the lady ended up having to go to a private doctor. And just today I was talking with a chap I know who just received treatment for a blood clot – a blood clot that did-not-exist (he actually had a corn on his foot).
Also the police station is closed, the magistrates court is closed, the county court is closed, the roads are falling apart, the streets are filled with rubbish, and crime is out of control.
But none of this means that government spending is being cut – on the contrary, it is increasing.
Very galling to read the weak tea commemorations, referencing the lives that were “lost”, as if they had perished in a natural disaster.
Paul,
Quite frankly, the media and political class are bereft of integrity.
Richard North has recently analysed Reform on a few points and concludes they will be a wrecking ball if ever elected to government. I think some might even welcome that. Bringing the entire edifice has its attractions. History and film fiction tells us however that the replacement of one set of corruption ends with but another.
So if our state and those in power are always going to be corrupt, how do we survive? I bang the drum about direct democracy. I’m aware that people are ripe for manipulation. Also that around 25% of our country are progressives who hate it and the British people. Given the majority of British people never knew the truth about EU membership and the aspects about nation hood and sovereignty, neither side mentioned these points. Boris came up with the NHS dividend which only passed scrutiny due to careful wording. He’s a complete ****.
Perry has zero faith in direct democracy so he supports the continuation of being misrepresented. I’d prefer a system where we have the power to solve our problems. If we make the wrong choices or don’t use that power, we look in the mirror for blame.
Is this meant in a good way or a bad way? I consider Trump to be a wrecking ball, which is why I voted for him. Some systems need wrecking.
But “wrecking ball” can have other meanings.