I couldn’t care less about the King’s Speech, Kier Starmer’s fate, or who takes over the helm in No 10 next. It’s low theatre at this point because none of them can, or show any sign of wishing, to steer the ship away from violent collision with reality.
Britain was decisively and obviously off course from anything functionally democratic or economically viable long before Gordon Brown snuck the Lisbon Treaty through Parliament in the dead of night.
By then the rot was already advanced, but that act of constitutional sleight-of-hand crystallised it: sovereignty quietly auctioned off to Brussels while the public was told to look the other way.
The 2008 crash slammed a lid on real wage growth for anyone not already in the asset-owning class; the military, hollowed out by endless expeditionary wars and procurement disasters, was in a shit state fifteen years ago and has only atrophied further.
By 2012 the writing was on the wall with mass migration—its demographic, cultural and economic effects plain to anyone not paid to ignore them.
Police quality has been systematically trashed by Theresa May’s reforms and the deliberate evisceration of Special Branch, turning what was once a recognisably British constabulary into something closer to a politically compliant and social-work bureaucracy, parts of which played a vile and still unpunished role in the rape gangs
The 2016 Brexit referendum was not some xenophobic spasm; it was a national demand for a government that would finally put the interests of the people of these islands first.
Instead the political establishment and the permanent bureaucracy launched a decade-long campaign of sabotage and rearguard action, determined that nothing fundamental would change.
Keir Starmer is not a good man and he is certainly not a good Prime Minister, but the brutal truth is that none of them will be better. The system cannot fix itself. It is too incompetent, too captured, and too corrupt.
The local election results last week confirmed precisely the political and social dynamics I have been diagnosing for years.
Voters in traditional Labour and Conservative heartlands delivered a stinging rebuke to the establishment parties that presided over high migration, cultural displacement and stagnant living standards.
Reform UK became the vehicle for native discontent, its gains in working-class northern and Midlands seats signalling exactly the cross-class, regional backlash I have described: a tripartite divide between those who still believe in the nation and those who do not.
Polarisation, fragmentation, the splintering of the old two-party cartel, all of it illustrates the breakdown of democratic consent and the rise of identity-driven politics that are the classic preconditions for deeper conflict.
One could pretend this is healthy democratic pressure relief. It is not. Electoral revolt is an early symptom, not a cure.
The structural drivers, including mass migration, elite refusal to acknowledge cultural incompatibility, economic decline, are too deeply embedded for conventional politics to address.
Reform may win seats, but the unelected bureaucracy, the courts, the media and the NGOs will obstruct, delay and dilute any real change.
The establishment’s preferred candidate is now the one-time “controlled opposition” because the system is that desperate. Meanwhile the problems metastasise faster than any promised reform can catch up.
Hard to get excited, then, about whatever announcements limp out of the King’s Speech. They will not survive contact with reality if we ever get an actually British government staffed by competent, responsible people accountable to the country and to duty rather than to supranational ideology or personal advancement. If we do not get that government, the country will not survive in any recognisable form.
Now that the local elections in the UK are over and you are yet again stuck with the puzzle of the British nationalists' support for Israel, let me try and explain what is happening. Read my essay on this in the 'Algemeiner'.
https://t.co/YTsfmsvgty
The 4th Abrahamic Religion
Find out why the LGBT march with the Islamists.
Things are not as simple as they sound!
https://t.co/tchIHEtzj6 via @YouTube
April is Lenin's month. The Leader was born in April. Learn some new facts about him. Lenin is Russia herself.
Was Lenin Jewish? https://t.co/jCvU51MWy1 via @YouTube
What is the world coming to? Is there a major change in the world's politics? Is the world dangerous for Jews again?
All these questions can be debated at a level of an opinion, where mine is as good as yours. But they can also be debated with data.
https://t.co/bNQSapATMU
If there is a subject that excites antisemities and philosemites equally, it is a subject of 'Greater Israel'.
They have got the wrong end of the stick. Israel is great and getting bigger. How so?
Your intro into this topic is here.
https://t.co/YZT6sNQeZo
@DavidBe31099196 The UK and the West in general are in a state of utter paralysis. There is the same reason underlying the loss of control over immigration and not taking the Iranian threat seriously, in my view. Laziness, half half hearted toleration of the intolerable are the root causes.
@DavidBe31099196 What it is to be done with regime that has a clock counting down to the destruction of Israel? There is only one answer to this. Rhetoric like this with respect to any country simply cannot be tolerated.
@DavidBe31099196 A regime and a culture that conducts a rhetorical war at highest tones is intolerable. Defining the USA and Israel as respective big and small satan. Threatening strikes. Burning flags as a state sponsored act should sort of the ' bomb or not to bomb ' question.
@DavidBe31099196 Further... civilisations of the Middle East, be it Turkish, Arab or Jewish, are full of endearing peculiarities and internal 'contradictions'. None of this can be a criterion of ' to bomb or not to bomb' question. The relevant consideration here is the current peacefullness.
@DavidBe31099196 It is interesting that you consider the history of Iranian civilisation ( and it is a civilisation) as relevant to the question ' to bomb or not to bomb' now. This kind of approach is not unique and I wonder whether it is the ' wrong kind' of sentimentality that underlies it.
@haaretzcom@davidiss@veraweiden Well, you have excelled to the degree you never managed before . Katharina is not in the zone of danger because of your drivel. But the European Jewry is. The Israeli Left declared a war on Jews in the Diaspora. It is official.
ANOTHER HOLOCAUST?
What we really want to know is whether another Holocaust is possible. To this question- I have an answer. It is in the ' Algemeiner'.
https://t.co/IDJHgohV79