Just as Gorbachev’s failed reforms accelerated processes which “encouraged many Russians to redefine the Soviet territory as alien and to identify the Russian territory as their homeland,” we see a similar process on the rapidly evolving British Right in distinguishing between the Britain of recent memory and its UK replacement. When even Tory grandees such as Lord Frost borrow the disparaging term “Yookay” from the internet Right to disparage what he defines as Blair’s “new country, an actual successor state to the old Great Britain [but] distinct from it”, we see a similar, explicit distinction being made as that between Russia and the USSR. The counterpoint to Blair’s UK, or YooKay — the two are, now, more or less interchangeable — is, as Frost observes, simply Britain.
Whether you welcome this development or fear it, British politics in its current tumultuous form, with all its increasingly radicalised and existential debates on immigration and demographics, on its history, social housing and the welfare state, and on the nature and boundaries of Britishness or Englishness, is inexplicable without accepting that the country has now entered this phase of political development.
Some pundits are now claiming that both major political UK parties have lost their general approval and public respect. The Conservatives through a long period of managed decline and Labour in a frightful mix of authoritarianism and helplessness.
So yes. We are now in a period of political instability. Going ‘back’ to the old Britain is no longer feasible. Going forward to some Socialist wet dream is unappealing. It’s up to us as voters to pick our way forward – what a shame the Conservatives are still working on their plan, Labour have no idea that won’t change next week, and Reform are still in the hand waving stage.
I hope the next Government has some idea beyond merely responding to ‘events’.
Will Climate Change be an issue? I think of it as the biggest fraud ever perpetuated in the history of mankind. Will it ever dawn on the vast majority that they have been had? If the bubble does burst, will politicians be able to claim that they were acting in good faith, responding to the best scientific knowledge that was available at the time?
The disconnect between the establishment in Britain and ordinary people is greater than it has ever been.
Or rather the disconnect between the establishment and MOST of the British people – the establishment are in tune with the left part of the population (a minority – but a large minority) with its Green obsessions, sexual obsessions, racial obsessions and the general Equality, Diversity and Inclusion thing.
Very roughly I would say about a quarter of the population are on the same “wavelength” (as it were) as the establishment, and about three quarters of the population hate and despise the establishment – especially the “justice” system, which is utterly discredited.
How is this going to end?
I do not know if we will get to the next General Election – as that is four years away and things are getting worse by the day. I hope we will make it to he next General Election – but I just do not know.
Just a couple of things from just today – from the average English town I live in.
Carnival – “Pride” flags, floats obsessing about pollution (the usual for modern Britain) none of it really a problem (indeed people seemed to be enjoying themselves – good) – but also more disturbing things, some (some) men and women in the crowd who were very thin and with gaunt faces, and showing certain other signs that I have come to know only too well over the last few years (people-on-drugs). This is becoming more and more common.
And coming back home I popped into the supermarket – it was robbed whilst I was there, this is not the first time I have seen the place being robbed – criminal running away, and being told by staff NOT to intervene (they are not allowed to intervene either).
Earlier in the day, volunteering at the art shop (our art gallery is still closed) I had a chat with one of the artists – they had just had three paintings stolen, from a village church display, the church was also robbed (robbed of quite ordinary things – not gold and silver) – so it is not just the towns.
Society is cracking – and notice in the above I did not discuss race and ethnic groups (and religious groups) at all – racial, ethnic and religious conflicts are on-top-of a society that is cracking anyway.
As for the English knowing they are being replaced in their own country – well I can not claim special insight (note my family name – I am NOT ethnically English), but I would say that the above fractions hold true.
About a quarter of the English do not care – indeed they will scream “racist” and report people to the police (remember, in the United Kingdom you can be sent to prison for expressing the “wrong” opinions) and about three quarters of the English do care – are upset and angry.
But this is on top of being upset and angry about a society that is cracking up anyway – regardless of racial, ethnic or religious concerns.
Take the example of the city of Miami in the United States – back in the 1950s that city was overwhelmingly “Anglo” – now it is overwhelmingly Hispanic, but the remaining Anglos do not tend to be very upset – because the city (and the State of Florida) WORKS – it is a functioning society. Perhaps (perhaps) the new Miami is BETTER than the old one – perhaps not, but at least it works.
If the society had fallen apart (rather than just ethnically transformed) things would be rather different.
Take the example of Birmingham in England – it is NOT just that the place is being ethnically transformed, it is also the fact (and it is a fact) that regardless-of-that, the new city does-not-work, it is no-good.
This is increasingly the case generally here in Britain – and that is very unfortunate.
Police station closed, county court closed, magistrates court closed.
I met a policeman I know a few weeks ago – “what are you are doing in the center of town – you are supposed to be in …..” “we are losing control of the center of town Paul – so it is all-hands” well at least he was honest (he, like other policemen I know, also tells me that when they arrest me, which they will eventually, for something I have said on-line, it will be “nothing personal”, just doing what they have to do – privately they despise the system as much as I do – and I believe them)
Lloyds bank closed, NatWest bank closing, Barclays bank closing. What was the point of bailing out the banks if they close their branches anyway.
No tailors – none. There used to be many. “Look respectable and you will get a job” – how is a person supposed to “look respectable” around here – make the clothing themselves? And imagine someone walking around in a suit and tie – that would indicate “money” (they would be making themselves a target for a mugging). By the way – I did buy a new suit from Warwicks in Wellingborough (a town about eight miles away), before that store closed down as well.
And on and on.
In a town that has more people than it has ever had before – endless housing estates, and thousands of extra houses being built – the urban area will end up at close to hundred thousand people (villages and small near by towns swallowed up).
Yet fewer and fewer productive factories and farms.
“Go for a walk” – where (other than round the park I used to work in – before I was made redundant by the Covid lockdowns, walk round a place that put me on the scrapheap)? I went for a walk to the village of Loddington a week ago (to see a retired ex colleague) – but there are no real footpaths anymore, so I had to walk on the roads, dodging cars.
More and more people – and not much work for them, just administrative jobs funded by taxation (and I am just as bad – my councilor “allowances” came from the taxpayers) or by corporations that are funded by Credit Money (and mostly do not really produce anything – although SOME of them still produce stuff).
An average town in the middle of England.
So racial, ethnic and religious concerns come on-top-of a situation which is already a mess and is getting worse.
Still when they do arrest me and send me to prison (for something I have said or written) that will solve my living costs problem – so one has to look on the bright side, be positive.
And I will miss any ethnic war outside of prison – although there are now ethnic conflicts within British prisons.
Oh I forgot – the cinema is now gone.
True the films were mostly rubbish (Hollywood leftism) and the advertisements were worse (Corporate DEI, or EDI, stuff) which is why most people stopped going to the cinema – but it is a shame for the people who used to work at the cinema.
Most of the people I speak with often in my life are normies and not that politically engaged. It is interesting to hear how so few of them buy into elite narratives now, especially when it comes to race, immigration, multiculturalism, etc. Barely anyone who isn’t a shill or ideologically fanatical thinks immigration is an economic boon. They’ve seen how immigration has skyrocketed during two decades of economic slump and decline. Whatever the IEA, BoJo, the Guardian etc might say about how we ‘need’ mass immigration, fewer people are buying such propaganda. People hear Diane Abbott, Bob Vylan and other wankers say immigrants built Britain, or they see the stupid coins Rishi Sunak issued saying ‘Diversity built Britain’ and they know its all rubbish. They may not have a coherent response to this yet, but it’s heartening to see the current BS is evaporating in credibility.
Martin – yes.
I am involved (by helping out with various things for the arts and so on) with quite a lot of in-a-way leftist people (not just people “on the right” like me) – and it is interesting how many people now understand that the establishment are lying, indeed lying about just about everything.
Including socialists – some of them are also filled with anger and contempt about the lies (about Covid “vaccines” or Carbon Dioxide, or “immigrants built Britain” and so on).
Yes there are people who believe everything they hear on the BBC – and who say “I will report you! You are going to go to prison!” whenever they overhear dissent.
But they are very much the minority.
And there are fewer and fewer “non political normies” – more and more people are now interested in politics, although not always in a nice way.
Still there is still something po-faced about British establishment lying.
I can normally tell when a Russian is lying (“Paul that is because their lips move” – oh calm down at the back there) – because, on RT and so on, they sort of wink at the camera (at least that is how they come over) – basically “I know you know I am lying – but this is a ritual, and we both know this is how it goes – now back to how wicked the Jews and the Kiev regime are”.
As a Russian once said “many brave Russians died for freedom – but we are not descended from them. we are descended from the cowards who murdered them” – he smiled, but his eyes were not smiling, and I have seen that look (a mixture of cynicism and real pain, real despair) many times, – no wonder some Russians drink themselves to death or aim their vehicles at obvious mines – yes quite deliberately.
But British officialdom (the various institutions – including “private corporations” such as Sky News or LBC radio) is still different – they say false things, endlessly – but they still expect-you-to-believe-them.
They either believe their own lies (in which case, technically, they are not lying) or they sincerely believe they are “lying for the greater good” – some Plato “noble lie”, or Jeremy Bentham “greatest happiness of the greatest number” drivel.
They, the British establishment types, expect you to believe them – and have a sort of pius air about them, smug and self satisfied.
Most likely I will NOT live to see the day that changes – but I would love to see that smug “we are good people” look wiped off their faces.
I was pondering how people are incapable of seeing a collapse from the inside, and started searching “when did the Romans realise civilisation had collapsed?” Diving down rabbit holes undug some interesting facts.
There is a concensus that the Romans didn’t realise the place was collapsing around them until centuries after. There is also a consensus on what brought around the collapse. Quoting from the Wiki article, with references:
“the effectiveness and numbers of the army, … the strength of the economy, the competence of the emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration… Increasing pressure from invading peoples outside Roman culture” … “a large migration of Goths and other non-Roman people … Roman forces were unable to exterminate, expel or subjugate them (as was their normal practice)”
Exactly what are we sering right now? The armed forces are being stripped of manpower and the remainder are expected to be cuddly fluffy feelz deployers. The economy is tanking. The government has just abandoned a major policy reform under pressure from *its* *own* *members*. Fissiparous internecine squabbling defines politics, with the Jezzbollah Party falling apart before they’ve even managed to hold a press conference, and Reform’s Chief Whip standing aside to be investigated. The civil service spending most of its time ticking boxes. Boat people invading, and 20 times as many from foreign cultures legally entering. Defense forces outright ordered not to prevent people breaking into the country.