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Samizdata quote of the day – There’s Good News for Britain: Things Are Really BadBritain is like an alcoholic who has spent a decade reassuring himself that, despite his binges and blackouts, he is “high functioning”. The reality is, however, that he is increasingly not actually functioning at all. We are headed for the rock bottom we so badly need. The moment of clarity is coming. It will be painful. But it’s the only thing that can save this country. – Konstantin Kisin (£) December 16th, 2025 |
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I agree that Britain is in for very hard times – very hard times indeed, terrible suffering.
But will the country recover?
One tiny piece of hope…..
Yesterday I was too tired and depressed even to scratch off the leftist propaganda stickers on the lampposts and bus shelters.
But today they had been scratched off – someone else had done it.
Even when we think we are alone (isolated – doomed), we are not really alone – we have allies even if we do not know their names.
Perhaps the left will win – perhaps all the future that this nation (perhaps the whole Western world) will have is – ashes and dried blood – horror and death.
Or perhaps NOT.
You are far from alone. I’m an old lapsed Tory but the other day my daughter dragged me, grumbling and cynical as is my wont, to an informal Reform social in the Midlands. I’m glad she did. For the first time in a long time, I felt a faint flicker of hope. There are people of every shape, hue, and age, not just pale salty wrinklies like me, who think they have something they need to defend.
Curious that the powers that be in our country are talking up the war threat again. Britain probably is one of the western countries least prepared for a major war right now, and apart from some minute increases in defence spending, most of the policies pursued under Starmer and the Tory government that preceded at best have done little to make Britain more ready for such a conflict, if not just made things worse.
Given all that, one has to wonder what their game is.