I’m getting quite enamoured of Mr Dan Salt’s rather pessimistic diagnosis of Britain’s political, economic, social and cultural problems. They often don’t make for cheerful reading but truth often isn’t cheerful.
Mr Salt believes that the sort of middle class lefty politics that is particularly followed by Britain’s Labour Party is entering its end game. Having observed British politics for decades in one form or another, right back to the famous ‘Year of Two General Elections’ in 1974, I find myself agreeing with him on the idea that there is a coming collapse in the UK. I’ve seen some bad governments, I’ve seen governments that have been competent and others for whom incompetence might as well be their election campaign slogans. However I don’t think I’ve seen a government that is as brutally incompetent, dishonest and as out of touch with public opinion as the current Labour government.
I’ve put a few selections from Mr Salt’s piece up but to get the full impact of it I would strongly advise that you go to Mr Salt’s site and read it in its entirety for yourself. It’s depressing to read but then the current state of the British nation is indeed very depressing.
Mr Salt said:
*Multiple MPs are now briefing that the country is a tinderbox. Government sources have been clear for the last 2 years that the country is on a knife's edge. The Afghan invasion was specifically hidden from the public over concerns about riots.
Southport was just the beginning and everyone can see it. Something has changed in Britain in the last 12 months and definitely in the last 7. People are no longer worried about speaking out about migration and the rapid ethnic change which is being imposed upon this country by our elites.
And yet the response from the political class is literally nothing. There has been no serious change in policy when it comes to immigration. Oh they mouth niceties but in reality nothing has changed. Criminal migrants are pouring across the channel in increasing numbers and legal migration is out of control.*
Mr Salt is correct there in his assessment of the situation. The country is clearly a tinderbox, we’ve had imposed demographic change that was never wanted nor anything that the British people asked for. The economy is in free fall and the population is starting to draw up into vehemently opposed sides.
Mr Salt has rightly observed that the population is no longer willing to be silenced with bullshit mantras such as ‘refugees welcome’ or ‘diversity is a strength’ or ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ or even ‘transwomen are women’. British people are speaking up and speaking up loudly and forcefully on the issue of unwanted migration as well as the other dire problems that afflict the United Kingdom. I agree with Mr Salt when he says that these massive problems are ones that should be sorted out to the satisfaction of the majority of Britain’s population before they get out of hand. Unfortunately we have not had that from Labour. All we’ve got is bullshit about how Labour are sorting out illegal migration problems when it’s clear just from looking around the streets of our towns and cities that this is not the case. Where we should be having bold action to reduce migration and remove from the UK those who are troublesome, burdensome or not compatible with our society instead we’ve got from Labour empty and often dishonest sound bites. Labour have clearly lost the plot and this is going to be bad in the long run.
Mr Salt is bang on correct when he says what is wrong with the State from Parliament downwards and even in those entities such as the police which we should expect to be free of ideologies and ideologues. The whole British state is indeed rotten.
Mr Salt added:
The British state is rotten through and through from the civil service through to the courts and even the police. Nothing works and no one seems to care enough to make it work. For it no longer even pretends to serve the public - it is stuffed full of ideologues who put their worldview before the welfare of citizens. Public service as we used to understand it is now dead.
Sadly Mr Salt is right here. Every institution that Britons should be able to trust to fight their corner and the country’s corner is irredeemably buggered. What’s worse is that because so many in our public services and in politics have put their own political and cultural ideologies ahead of doing the right thing, improvement is unlikely to come from those whom we should be able to trust to make that improvement.
Britain is an utter mess and it’s been made into that mess by generations of those in our political classes. But there is coming a time, maybe because, as Mr Salt says, the bond markets will pull the rug from under the British government, that the bullshit that we’ve all been fed by the political classes will no longer work and those who have been cowed by government will be cowed no longer. I think we are in for some horrible ‘interesting times’ and what is maddening is that the coming upheavals could easily have been avoided by successive governments putting Britons and the nation’s interests ahead of everything else.
Link to Mr Dan Salt’s excellent, thought provoking but quite scary article.
https://politicallyhomeless.substack.com/p/the-beginning-of-the-end