Broken Britain is moving into endgame
By Pete North - September 30, 2021
Shortages are not caused by Brexit or Covid. They are caused by an economic model that relies almost entirely on cheap foreign labour to do all the grunt work. The collapse of such a fragile model was always a matter of when, not if. As much as it could never withstand a shock like Covid, it was politically unsustainable.
We were told by the great and the good that freedom of movement did not suppress wages. By that they meant on average. For economists looking at the big picture, there was only a marginal impact. But for builders, factory workers, HGV drivers and food industry workers, the effect was very real. The very people who’ve been forgotten for two decades at least and abandoned by the so-called party of the workers. They who experienced real pressures on wages and saw their rents skyrocket. They who saw their neighbourhoods become alien and hostile as the population rapidly expanded.
For the middle classes, the low wage economy was a means to subsidise their luxury consumption habits and holidays. It meant their house prices went up, while those in inner cities stayed static – or even declined as districts became overcrowded and violent. The village where I grew up was never posh but in the last month we’ve seen a rape in broad daylight and gang shootings within a couple of hundred yards of the family home. It never used to be like that. It was rough at times, but this is a new low.
Even during the nineties when joyriding was a thing, and burglaries to fund heroin addictions were common, we did not hear of machete attacks nor was death by stabbing an every day occurrence. Our cities are now much more hostile places, much more anonymous and transient, and somehow we were indoctrinated to believe this was all “enrichment”.
Though we supposedly have “multiculturalism” we now have schools without a single white face and far from being a “melting pot”, anyone who can get out, does. The small villages on the edges of cities are expanding and the small towns around North Yorkshire are growing. The country roads are choked with traffic they were never designed to take. Villages known for their ancient charms now have tacked on housing estates barely in keeping with their surroundings, and as councils obsessed with their anti car agenda make cities inaccessible, the traffic is diverted elsewhere so that everywhere else is plagued by cars. rural villages are now lined with cars as each household has at least two.
Meanwhile the culture gulf between our politics and the people is widening. The Labour party has gone so far to the left they have moved the Wesminster centre ground to the centre left, and ever since the prime minister married his whore, the wokery that the Conservative party is supposed to stand against, is running amok in our institutions and at the top of government. Boris Johnson doesn’t have the conviction or the wits to bring it under control. He doesn’t even care.
As each day passes the political class grows ever more distant from the core of British values, and now the front bench of HM opposition believes men can get pregnant and should be allowed into women’s changing rooms and rape shelters if they self identify as women. The Tory party is drifting in that same direction. The political battles are being fought through the courts (instead of parliament) with high stakes for those involved, financially and emotionally. Meanwhile we see teenage girls taking to crowd funding to raise the cash for private “top surgery”. The fallout will be incalculable misery.
While the political class is ever more occupied with trivia and student politics, the fabric of the nation is gradually unravelling. The Tories are still no closer to controlling immigration and it would appear they lack the will. The dinghy invasion in Dover is the more visible symptom, but the larger contingent of illegal immigrants comprises of visa overstayers and this government is failing to deport as it is held hostage by activist NGOs and pressure groups who are accountable to nobody and represent nobody but themselves.
Adding to our woes are the stresses on supply chains and the emergent energy crisis caused by decades of inaction and policy neglect. We needed new nuclear power stations but our political class gave us windmills and “green jobs” instead. Which amounted to nothing. Our supposed political elites live on an entirely different planet, incapable of addressing any of the immediate concerns of an abandoned electorate. Instead of listening to the people, they listen to the business lobby whose only answer to any problem is yet more immigration.
Brexit has given the left a real opportunity to transform Britain; to pivot away from an overreliance on cheap exploitable foreign labour and to restore union bargaining power, while rebuilding domestic supply chains and sustainable local food production but the left as it presently stands, does not care about such things. They speak up for the slave drivers and crooks instead.
As to the Tories, Brexit was only ever a means to resolve their own internal wrangling. They have neither the imagination or the wits to do anything useful with it. They could easily end the scam of recycling and renewable energy. They could restructure the economy to give the working classes a foot on the ladder. But they won’t. Anything that gives them a rough ride in the largely metropolitan media is dropped like a stone. Instead of governing they live day to day putting our brushfires and laying on the sticking plasters. There is no coherent agenda. There is no Johnsonism or any other philosphy at work. This is pure managerialism attempting to save their own worthless hides and enrich themselves in the process.
If one was inclined to take any of this personally, I might even say that the politico-media establishment is at war with the people. They have the power and they’re going to use it to restrict our freedoms and confiscate our wealth while they impose yet more of their ill thought out vanity projects on us. They learned nothing from Brexit and now, as anticipated, we see the birth of a new far right party. We have turned a corner.
More dangerously though, the vagaries of our decrepit system of “representative democracy” and FPTP means that our politics will not respond in any meaningful way. Start-up parties will get nowhere, and dog in the manger outfits will continue to split the vote to ensure the incumbency of the dead parties. Our votes are therefore meaningless. There is no means of correction. We can only meekly express our verdict once every five years, and as soon as we vote, they’re done with us for another five years. This is not a democracy.
Though the debate rages on Twitter as to what Brexit is and isn’t responsible for, it’s all small beer compared with the intellectual, moral and cultural collapse of the nation’s politics. This is the culmination of a decades old malaise brought to the fore by Brexit, Covid and the toxic culture war that rages over social media. In the meantime, law and order collapses, the justice system folds in on itself, and the people are left to fend for themselves as the police become political commissars of the Rainbow Reich.
You can be forgiven for thinking that Britain as we know it is finished. We are a rudderless nation where the ranks of illegal immigrants staying in hotels are soon to outnumber our army. Our decadent, narcissistic and criminal rulers preside over a smouldering wreck of a country, with no plan to revive it not least because they’re too self-absorbed to recognise how serious the problem is. All we can do now is wait for the fantasy world of Wesminster to collide with the reality they have visited upon us. There is nothing we can do about it – especially not by voting, and a total implosion is now unavoidable. All it will take is one spark to ignite, be it a terrorist atrocity or a rolling blackout. Britain’s future has never looked so bleak.
