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.