If you read around the British blogosphere or read Britons on the more free speech oriented parts of the internet such as here or on the X platform, then you will know that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is in very deep trouble. Britain is in trouble economically, socially, religiously and politically.
The mire that Britain is sinking in didn’t start yesterday but has been slowly growing and deepening over the last thirty years or so. Gradually at first did Britain’s economy, education, social cohesion and culture degrade but it’s fair to say that since 2007/2008 the problems afflicting British society have rapidly worsened and the impact of such problems on ordinary Britons have intensified.
If you would have asked me back in 07 whether we would see a situation where government figures and agencies celebrated what are meagre economic growth numbers, the growth of Balkanised politics, governing political parties that ignore and denigrate the ordinary British subject, obscene levels of inappropriate immigration and public services that often seem to exist in name only, then I would have laughed. I could see that Britain had problems back then as I lived in North London and saw the crime, poverty and social problems that the politicians we voted for had either done little about or had knowingly or unknowingly encouraged. I was also hearing at that time worries from small business people about the growth in intrusive and costly red and green tape with businesses having to shoulder the costs of regulation in business management, employment matters and environmental costs. I knew things were iffy but now things are in Britain are very iffy indeed.
I never would have predicted in 07 that we would see mobs of jihad sympathisers and the dregs of the far left marching weekly on the streets of British towns and cities and calling for the genocide of Israel’s Jews. I never envisaged that my country would fall as low as that.
It never occurred to me looking at my country from a 2007 vantage point that by 2024 we in Britain would reach a point when no agency of the government can be fully trusted to act in our best interests. We can’t trust those in charge of national monuments or art collections to not shoehorn the personal politics of those in charge of these institutions and use British history and that which has been built by generations of Britons, as a stick to beat Britons with and guilt-tripping us into feeling bad about ourselves.
Also not on my personal radar was the corruption of Britain’s police forces and their descent from being a broadly respected institution to being seen increasingly as the Government’s thuggish and politically motivated enforcers. Whilst speech was never as free in the UK as it is in the United States, back in the early part of this century there seemed to be much fewer cases where the police kicked down people’s doors because someone had objected to their opinion or their words.
I was born in Britain and to a certain extent when things go bad slowly there’s a sort of boiling frog effect going on. A country like the UK doesn’t go from reasonable place to live to being an unpleasant shithole overnight unless there is some sudden disaster. What has happened is that things have slowly got worse and Britons have at first grumbled about that, then after many years of decline have just accepted that being a shithole is what Britain is. It’s a sad state of affairs but I am an optimist and I do believe that at some point things will turn around. I believe that Britain is heading for a massive omni-crisis within the next five to seven years and the answers or often non-answers to Britain’s problems that have been the mainstay of the mainstream of politics will, in such a crisis be found wanting. Maybe after this crisis Britain may get better politics and better administration because heaven knows we need it.
But it’s when criticism comes from those who have lived in oppressive regimes and who migrated to the UK because of the relative freedom of the place, that a really accurate picture of just how much trouble Britain is in can be found. Those who’ve come here for all the right reasons and who have contributed greatly to the UK who have seen the decline in freedom, in economic prowess and in the state’s ability to do what it is supposed to, sometimes manage to get the diagnosis of Britain’s problems bang on correct.
One person who moved here and who became British and who has also noticed the decline of the nation of Britain is Konstantin Kisin. Mr Kisin, who with Francis Foster produces the Triggernometry podcast, has recently published his thoughts on the terrible state of the United Kingdom.
Not all of his piece is free to read but I’ll link to the part that is not behind the paywall and some people and especially Britons might find it interesting. He’s correct in his assessment that the country is failing and that nobody seems to know what to do to stop that failing. Britain he said is in a ‘creeping unstoppable malaise’ and sadly I find it difficult to disagree with him on that.
Mr Kisin said:
The nation - and the common purpose that came with it - is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, to be replaced with the much-celebrated “communities” we keep hearing so much about. Instead of seeing ourselves as British first and everything else second, we are now Asian, Black, White, Jewish, Muslim, Christian and LGBTQI+ first and little else second.
As for honesty, we shun, ostracise and increasingly set what is left of our police on people who express widely-held views about illegal immigration, the threat of Islamist terrorism, and the failure of multiculturalism—especially if they come from the working class, whose crass ways and ugly sentiments offend the sensibilities of the chattering classes.
I could go on but you get the point. And if you’re reading this in the UK, you live the point.
He’s right that the nation which was once cohesive is now made up of increasingly separate ‘communities’ and that the police, who were once clearly on the side of the law abiding working classes now target those working classes for arrest for wrongthink. Everything from honesty to manners has declined and the only thing that seems to be growing is the amount of virtue signalling from the middle class Left and a growing pall of depression among the bulk of the British people.
Please visit Mr Kisin’s page and read the entirety of what is a very interesting although sobering piece of writing. He's dead right, we do need to talk about Britain.