I’ve lived through an awful lot of British politics in my life, from the years when the trade union barons could, with impunity, switch off Britain’s energy supply, through the collapse of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and of Thatcherism and the massive changes, some positive and some negative, that it brought. I’ve lived through the period of Mrs Thatcher’s replacement, John Major and saw his government become tired and mired in scandal.
Like many others I bought into the project of Tony Blair, only to rapidly become disillusioned with both his government and the negative effects it brought to Britain. I cautiously welcomed the Coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats in 2010 on the grounds that it at least brought an end to a tired and increasingly incompetent Labour government. I thought that David Cameron had brought the Tory party back from the dead by chopping out the policy deadwood that was preventing the average Briton from voting for the Tories.
Based on his public declarations in favour of freedom of speech and of conscience, I even thought that Boris Johnson might have been less of a buffoon and more of a statesman once he took over in Number Ten. I was probably wrong in my assumptions and some of those mentioned have definitely betrayed the trust of Britons, but I had enough faith in Britain’s political system that problems could be solved without the sort of conflict that other nations had seen. But through everything I strongly believed that post 19th century, Civil Wars as a method of resolving political issues were for other, lesser, nations and something that, apart from the Ulster Troubles, was clearly and definitely in Britain’s distant, 17th century, past.
I always had some degree of optimism that, however bad the situation which had been created by one group of politicians of one particular political party, that better - or rather not as bad politicians could be found, to at least ameliorate the particular problems in question. But now I don’t have that optimism about the future of Britain because things have changed and not, lets be frank here, in any good way.
Because of enforced, non-organic and mostly unwanted by the British populace, demographic change, Britain is no longer the cohesive society it once was. Such a cohesive society can absorb a relatively small number of migrants from foreign societies, and in particular from cultures that are broadly compatible with its own. In the past we’ve had migration to Britain of a proportionally small number, when compared to the general population, of Germans, Huguenots, Eastern European Jews, pre-2004 Poles, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Chinese and those from nominally less compatible cultures who are the assimilable exceptions from those cultures.
These people were able, through cultural compatibility, the slow speed of their arrival over a long time period, along with their relatively small number in comparison to the majority of the population, to assimilate broadly successfully. These new arrivals were in addition committed to assimilation, sometimes because the choice might be between assimilating and not being sheltered from overseas horrors by the British government. If you are going from a situation that is tremendously unsafe and you manage to reach somewhere that is safe, then most people are or rather should be grateful for that.
They also stuck at the job of assimilation because that was their primary aim and they did this despite some having encountered hostility of various degrees from some ethnic Britons. Many of those people who endured hostility, which included the words nigger, kike, slant eyes, paki, polak, coon, wop, dago and more aimed at them and they even suffered physical attacks. But they still admired Britain and wanted to be accepted by as many Britons as possible and prove themselves worthy of acceptance. Some, a relatively small number from what I can gather, fell by the wayside and became criminals or, as in the case of Ralph Milliband, the father of Ed Milliband the current Energy Secretary, became egregious haters of British society. But the vast majority made it. They assimilated into British society and contributed to it by learning, business building and much much more. Those who succeeded in becoming part of us although maybe with a different, but still compatible, religious belief system or a different skin colour or a strange sounding surname, were assisted in their assimilation by being presented with a vast array of examples on how to behave and not to behave from the majority indigenous population. Those who arrived on our shores could see what behaviour was socially acceptable and what was not and they could learn accordingly.
The type of low levels of immigration and the compatible types of immigrant that Britain mostly received did not unduly harm the UK or its people. On the contrary, this sort of immigration acted like a particularly powerful yeast in a beer recipe and improved it. Just as a high alcohol tolerant yeast will produce a high strength beer, this form of immigration genuinely made Britain stronger by introducing new businesses, new medical practises, new art, new food, new scientific discoveries and helped industrial advancement.
Yes, some groups such as Jews, Chinese and mixed race families did initially, for various reasons clump together geographically, but they did not create the hostile ghettos which we see being created in almost every town and city in the UK today and they eventually became an accepted part of our island story. They often aspired to do better than live in the poverty of, for example, Whitechapel or Canning Town in East London and if they could not do better themselves, they would work hard to ensure that their children lived better than them. The cost to them of assimilation was the side-lining or abandonment of practises, whether religious, national or cultural that did not fit with British society. If the cost of getting better jobs or advancing in society demanded the ceasing of practises that the majority might not understand then they did it. Some married Jewish women abandoned the wearing of wigs, some Chinese started to be less insular in order to succeed in businesses other than laundries and those of mixed race stepped out of relative safety and security of the Checkerboard Alleys where they lived and closed their ears to the multitude of insults that came their way in the wider world because of who they were and what they looked like.
The sort of immigration that Britain saw up until the mid 1940’s didn’t disrupt or disturb what was a generally high trust society all that much. A smattering of people with different skin colours or a different view of the Divine or an unfamiliar surname did not destroy the relatively cohesive society that Britain once had. But the post 1990’s migration waves are a completely different story.
Once we could trust that those who immigrated to the UK would eventually assimilate into that society and would faithfully serve in its armed forces, its police forces, work in businesses and in public services and do so impartially and in order to benefit the entirety of British society. We cannot have that level of trust and confidence in today’s cohort of migrants and in particular many in the post 1997 cohort.
Policies of excessive migration of those from cultures that are difficult or impossible to integrate properly in a civilised Western society, along with a doctrine of multiculturalism imposed from the top by Britain’s elite classes has shattered social bonds and social trust. What has been created in Britain is the polar opposite of the melting pot that went a large way to creating the United States but instead is a patchwork of conflicting societies within societies, some of which are hostile not just to the West and the United Kingdom but to the British people themselves.
Britain is now a seething mass of disparate ‘communities’, many of them antagonistic to each other, whose concerns are not those of Britain but in many cases with what they still see as their home countries. Too often these ‘communities’ have little connection with the UK, apart from the benefit system, and when they do involve themselves in the wider political system, they campaign for policies that directly advantage their own group rather than the society as a whole.
We also have the misfortune to be misruled by governments that take the view that appeasement to some groups, but not others, is a way to social cohesion or to hold onto political power or for the advancement of particular political ideologies. We have a justice system that is now unworthy of the name. It has been bent to accommodate the demands of minority activists and it fails to protect the most vulnerable in society when the victims are from the majority, and when those who offend against them are from a minority or politically favoured group.
Every public service, every government department, every quango, every healthcare and educational setting has been warped by a doctrine of multiculturalism imposed on them by Britain’s political elites. Many of the policies of these entities have done little to improve assimilation and integration of minority groups, instead they have encouraged yet more siloisation of communities. It is possible for example for a Muslim in many of Britain’s towns and cities to spend weeks when they never have to interact with a non-Muslim, never have to consider the wider nation outside of their self and state created and often state funded ghetto.
None of this is good for a cohesive society. We have a situation where if many migrants or those of migrant heritage are asked to rally to the flag, they will ask ‘which one?’ Will it be the Union Flag, the Pakistani flag, the Nigerian flag, or the Bangladeshi, Afghanistan or the Somali flags?
None of the problems that have been created by those who govern us are ones that will have really positive outcomes for Britain, with regards to migration or integration or the politicisation of public services and the policing and criminal justice systems. They have turned Britain from a nation of Britons of various sorts and classes who in extremis will work together for a common aim, into a patchwork of different foreign origin groups, all agitating for advances and advantages for their own particular group with no thought or care for the wider society.
If we carry on this way, then Britain’s future will be something akin to Lebanon in the late 1970’s with members of different groups fighting on the streets with each other and with the remnants of the majority population. There will be a government of course but it will, like that of Lebanon during its Civil War, be a government in name only, with all the real power held by the leaders of different armed ethnic and religious factions. This is not a future that we should welcome nor grudgingly accept, as will be the death of a society that has existed for a millennium. Britons built this society at great pains and at great cost but it is being dismantled by those whose ideologies and interests are not to our benefit as Britons.
In Britain’s ‘Lebanon future’ we might have what the Lebanese saw when it collapsed into a mire of political and religiously inspired violence. We could have Muslims murdering innocent Christians primarily for being Christian and members of Christian or culturally Christian militias doing the same to often innocent Muslims. There is likely to be more displacement as members of one group, often those from the majority population are forced to move, since living with ‘the others’ will be neither safe nor sensible. We will have, if the Lebanon path for Britain continues, as indeed we already have, minority groups fighting one another over ‘home country issues’ on our streets with the State acting as an ineffectual ringmaster of an increasingly bloody circus. Maybe we will also see more pandering to whatever group is the most likely to kick off violently, in order to not have them kick off violently. We already have clashes between Muslims and Hindus in places like Leicestershire and our Eritrean ‘guests’ are regularly fighting one another over support or non-support for the current Eritrean government. If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you will be aware that I have a distaste for mobs, not only have I seen the inside of mobs when I was a photographer back in my ambulance and trouble chasing days, but also I know from reading history that mobs are inherently unjust, they go after the people who the mob thinks are guilty but who maybe might not be.
Britain is also home to those crimes against humanity which are the Islamic Rape Gangs which have so far chalked up, at a conservative estimate, 250,000 victims of their depravity. These gangs have been operating for forty years or more and they have never been properly tackled by the State. On the contrary, many of these gangs have been left alone by politicians and a police and judicial system that should have been hunting them down mercilessly. Why they did this will be a question for many people. I suspect that there is a strong classist element in the decision to ignore the rape gangs, since the majority of those victimised by these gangs are working class. The gangs have also often been left alone in order to not rock the boat of multicultural ideology which much of our governing and administrative class is seated in. Generations of mostly girls and young women have been fed, by Britain’s political and administrative class, like the child sacrifices to a modern day Moloch, to these rape gangs, many of which are made up primarily of first, second and third generation men of Pakistani heritage, with members of other Islamic groups such as Somalis also heavily represented. To keep the ‘peace’ and to not tarnish the multiculturalist and diversity ideological obsession that has had the management classes of many different British police forces in thrall, police officers voluntarily decided not to do their main task, which was do protect the vulnerable innocents. The one organisation, the police, which the victims of these Islamic Rape Gangs and their families should have been able to count on the most, failed them utterly and even turned on them and their families when they complained about it.
The Lebanonisation of Britain was not slowed down by the very politicians whom we voted for, those who promised that they would, if not reverse the immigration onslaught, at least stop the influx. But they just went ahead and made the situation worse. For example there was Boris Johnson, a Tory who gave the nation the impression that he was on the side of Britons, of their right to free speech, of their right to have their borders properly policed and who agreed with the public’s desire that we would not be importing any more of the people who see us, not as members of a society that they want to join, but instead as merely prey for them. He lied to us and his government lied to us. The Covid period and immediately afterwards was the time of the Boriswave, a massive rise in immigration which brought in low paid workers for the care and other industries. Worse still Johnson’s and subsequent Tory governments also allowed these low paid workers to bring in their non-contributing families and further burden the welfare, health and housing services that Britons have had and continue to pay for via their taxes.
The Boriswave entrants along with the Dinghy Invaders have created further stress to British society by making Britain even more Balkanised than it was already, prior to Johnson’s period in government. An already bad situation was made worse by the Tories’ failure to do what the electorate at successive elections had told them to do, which is to get a proper grip on immigration. Labour’s plan to dump thousands more of the Dinghy Invaders into some of the poorest, most economically challenged and deindustrialised parts of the country is a recipe for disaster. Local people in these places are already burdened by a lack of jobs, poor health care, low life expectancy and just basic hopelessness about their future, are going to be expected to live alongside unvetted men, often from cultures completely incompatible with our own, who hold wildly misogynist views and who see us as a nation only as a welfare teat to suck upon. I’m afraid that it’s not a case of ‘if’ these Dinghy Invaders engage in sexual, violent and other crimes upon their arrival with the locals as victims, but rather ‘when’. I know this because I’ve seen enough reports of the adverse behaviour of the Dinghy Invaders to know that sadly this is a relatively credible prediction.
At present we in Britain have hostile religious ghettos containing rather too many individuals who hate LGB’s, hate Jews, hate democracy, hate British society and hate women. We have whole areas of towns where there are people whose families have moved to the UK, which even if they are not being led by a religious ideology, are not really enriching the rest of us. This is because they are not particularly attached to the UK as a society. They don’t know or care about the nation’s history, their families and they too often have not and will not fight for the nation. Instead they see their British passport as something analogous to a ‘power up’ in a video game, a stepping stone to where they really want to go. Their only interest in the UK appears to be what they can get out of it via the housing and welfare systems and the NHS, or the residual power of those British passports that have been handed out by Labour, Conservative and Coalition governments like confetti at a wedding.
So now we have siloised communities, different groups hostile to one another and to the majority of Britons, the blasé view taken by the Establishment of the Dinghy Invaders, dangerous ideologies creating dangerous people who hate us and on top of that an Establishment that treats the most distressed of Britons worse than criminals are treated. All these and much else that is going on is what a formerly civilised, high trust and mostly homogeneous society would need in order to destroy itself and become a north western European analogue of Lebanon in the mid to late 1970’s.
How like ‘Lebanon’ things will turn out to be is difficult to say. I’ve made political predictions in the past that have not turned out to be correct. But things feel bad, worse than they’ve felt in my lifetime. Britain has now got a bit of all the worst bits from the 1970s onwards, but with addition of the greater potential of ethnic and communal conflict. It’s got a poorly performing economy, it’s got debt mountains both public and private, it’s got an Establishment wedded to ideas such as multiculturalism and Net Zero that are falling apart at the seams and horrific levels of class division between the governing classes and the average Britons. Add in the problems of the Establishment often favouring those who most ordinary Britons would rather not be favoured, then I’m afraid Britain’s potential to go ‘Lebanon’ is very great indeed.
Whether Britain’s ‘Lebanon’ future means London looks like Beirut in 1979 or something less gruesome is difficult to say, but as much as I try not to be pessimistic, I can’t turn completely away from reality as I see it. I think things are going to get nasty but just how nasty remains to be seen. The political classes have imported trouble, imported societal disturbance and, with Islam and the Dinghy Invaders unleashed what has become a living hell on some British communities. Open Borders policies have led to very little positive outcomes for the average Britons and especially those who are the vulnerable. They’ve got the shitty end of the big stick of the State. Those Britons, in addition to having to live in poverty and with reduced life choices also have, thanks to the British government, to live alongside people who hate them, prey on them and put them in mortal fear of their lives and their safety. Whether we elect politicians to deal with this or let the problems fester, things are quite likely to be going to go a bit ‘Lebanon’ in the next ten years. Leaving the problem alone will create a British Lebanon but so will attempts to ameliorate the problem politically by, for example stopping the influx of migrants or stopping the payment of welfare Danegeld to those migrants and their families whom idiotic politicians have imported. Either route would lead to conflict and disturbances on our streets, and the Jihadists that we’ve coddled in our cities would surely take advantage of that.
What will spark things going ‘full Lebanon’ is difficult to say. There have been many potential sparks over the last twenty years. There’s been 7/7, the rape gang scandal, the murder of Lee Rigby, the multiple attacks by self radicalised Muslim nutters, the Manchester Arena atrocity, along with the random horrific murders of Britons by those who should never have been in the country in the first place and whose victims were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Whilst none of these attacks, crimes and atrocities have created the Lebanon situation on their own, the cumulative effect of the problems that we’ve endured has hardened many people’s hearts, including those whose hearts might have been softer just a few years ago. A future eruption of violence among migrants against the State of the sort we saw in Harehills, Leeds in 2024, or video of gangs of Muslim youths attacking random non-Muslims merely because they are non-Muslims being passed around, or even public anger at some particularly egregious bit of minority pandering by the UK government might be the spark that lights the powder that ignites the conflagration. The conflagration might be swiftly ignited or it might instead be a slow burn one, with the first sign being inter-minority group violent conflict that grows to eventually engulf the whole country, with everyone at each others’ throats.
I want this scenario to be avoided. I want my countrymen and women to live in peace, feel secure, have work and be able to bring up their children without fearing what the ‘others’, those from incompatible and often violent cultures, will do to them. The problem is none of the horrors that beset the UK are being tackled by those who govern us. Worse than that, the current policies are making already bad problems far worse. The British political Establishment have set a course that will lead us to become like Lebanon with all the despair that entails.
Sorry that this piece is such a downer but I’ve never ever felt so pessimistic about the future of Britain and its people. I hope that spelling out the problems will help lead us away from that path and towards a better future. I hope that the recent local and national election results act as a wake-up call for all political parties that they need to change. More of the same will not be tolerated any longer by the electorate.