Spectator Australia has a piece by Julie Sladden on ‘a nation in crisis?‘ No prizes for guessing which nation that is. She reluctantly visited Britain in February this year to attend a conference. There’s nothing like seeing how your nation appears to others:
I was right to be worried. As I crisscrossed the country after the conference, I visited with friends and family, made new friends and spoke with strangers, taxi drivers, locals, farmers and fellow travellers. What I saw and heard shocked me. The change that had taken place over a few short years could only be described as alarming.
Once a beacon of stability, democracy and economic prosperity, I noticed social, political and economic fractures that have widened, leaving me concerned the UK is in terrible danger, heading towards a cultural collapse.
The symptoms of this crisis were widespread – evidence of significant migration, declining cultural cohesion, increasing surveillance, policing of freedoms, economic stagnation and a loss of national pride – many of the same problems we have recently witnessed in parts of Australia. But – in true British style – the UK is doing things on a much grander scale, with less sunshine.
From city to countryside it seems everyone is struggling. Like other countries, the UK is suffering an enormous post-pandemic economic hangover, with a cost-of-living crisis, high taxation, and soaring energy costs placing an unbearable burden on ordinary citizens.
In the cities, this burden hits home. The eye-watering price of a bag of groceries makes it hard to comprehend how people afford to eat (many said as much), let alone fill up their cars or pay the power bill.
In the countryside, the farming sector is also under siege. Signs on fences denounced inheritance tax policies that threaten to decimate family-owned farms. The local pub was rich with stories reflecting the pressure cooker of economic strain on British farmers.
The surveillance state is well established in the cities. Despite the expense I took a few cabs, enjoying the ‘knowledge’ imparted by taxi drivers navigating the streets of London. “I expect a weekly notice,” one told me. “They see everything now,” he said referring to London’s CCTV. “You can’t sneeze without someone saying bless you.” Many told me of the Government’s encroaching reach into their lives, from extensive CCTV coverage to digital monitoring. It seems, policies that were initially justified to ‘keep people safe’ had morphed into tools of public control.
Sladden recounts the experience Allison Pearson recently had at the hands of British police officers, part of the reason for a new phenomenon emerging as free speech disappears:
Result? Self-censorship is rife.
As the ability to speak freely has changed so, too, has the mix of people, culture, and religion. I noticed a change in the multicultural mix, particularly in the cities. The 2021 Office for National Statistics (ONS) data also reports a shift in religion with Christians now in the minority – having had the biggest downturn of all religions – and a 44% growth in Muslims over the past decade.
This religious shift appears to be embraced by leaders Prime Minister Keir Starmer and King Charles III, who opened two of the UK’s most iconic landmarks – Windsor Castle and Westminster Hall – for historic Iftar events during Ramadan. Celebrated as powerful gestures of inclusion and national unity, these events included Islamic worship and Qur’anic recitation. As the distinctive call to prayer echoed through the portrait-lined walls of St George’s Hall, I couldn’t help but wonder what the Knights of the Garter of centuries past might have thought.
It seemed to me that Britain had been sold out. This once proud and resolute nation, with a strong sense of identity known both to itself and the world, has lost its way – a shadow of its former self. And many didn’t even realise it was happening.
But, as with a terminally sick patient, where there is life, there is hope. There is a path forward, one that demands courage, strong leadership and a return to core values. The United Kingdom stands at a crossroads. The decline is not inevitable, but reversing it will require bold, unwavering action.
Worth reading in full.
Perhaps at some point the people who lead this country will wake up to the palpable sense of demoralisation and disintegration they’re presiding over. But if you read Richard Littlejohn in the Mail it’s difficult to believe there’s much chance of that:
Manufacturers in every sector are being forced out of business by the highest electricity prices in the developed world, caused by ‘sustainable’ subsidies, Labour’s ban on fracking and refusal to license new North Sea oil and gas development.
Since the national steel strike in 1980, which I covered in my previous incarnation as an industrial correspondent, the number of people employed in steelmaking has fallen from 100,000 to three men and a dog. Former sites have been bulldozed and turned into housing estates or shopping malls.
If and when Scunthorpe shuts, we will be utterly dependent on foreign imports of high-grade steel. We won’t even be able to build railway tracks for HS2. We’ll have to go cap in hand to countries like India and China, where steel is produced using coal-fired blast furnaces which pump out far more planet-destroying pollution than Miliband’s War Of The Worlds windmills are designed to eliminate.
And you can bet your bottom Yuan that, in the event of a looming World War III, the Chinese would cut us off immediately, leaving us up the proverbial without a paddle.
How the hell did we end up at the mercy of potentially hostile foreign powers?
Now the Government has belatedly woken up to the threat from Russia, it is reduced to considering invoking emergency powers to prevent our ability to produce adequate steel supplies from disappearing for good.
It would be a start but nowhere near enough.
Never mind ploughshares into swords. Where are the factories which will turn nationalised steel into tanks and other weapons vital to the defence of our realm?
If Mister Ed’s astronomical electricity bills don’t force them to shut down or relocate to a more economically friendly country, then a combination of Rachel From Complaints’ tax rises and Ginge Rayner’s workers’ rights reforms might deliver the coup de grace for what’s left of British industry.
Also worth reading in full.
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I’m going down the pub!
One of those infested dens of far-right, literally-Hitler, anti-vax, flat-earther, anti-science conspiracy theorists?
You can’t have too much evidence that you’re being Islamified ( slo-mo conquered, in other words ), so here’s a bit more. Isn’t it interesting that it’s the descendants of migrants that were actually born in the UK that identify as Muslim first, as opposed to their parents who identify as British first? I’d have thought it’d be the other way around because surely if you’re born in Britain you’d expect to have integrated well into the culture and form more of an affinity and bond to the place. Strange;
”The vast majority of British Muslims identify with their religion over their nationality, a report has found.
A study conducted by the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL), based on survey data and interviews with 815 British Muslims, has found that over seven in ten (71 per cent) identify as Muslims first.
In contrast, just 27 per cent of British Muslims said they primarily identified as British, English, or Scottish.
The report found that younger people were far more likely to identify as Muslims first at 85 per cent, compared to older Muslims, a majority of whom (57 per cent) identified as being British first.
“When you ask people in their 20s, that were born here, in this country, they can express themselves very freely. They can freely call themselves ‘Muslims’ rather than ‘British’. But if you speak to their father, they will say they are British. The immigrant generation had to push their Muslim identity down so they could integrate,” one of the survey respondents remarked.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/31/majority-of-uk-muslims-identify-as-muslims-first-over-being-british/
“the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL)”
Never heard of this lot but it’s an odds on certainty that it’s a gang of grifting non-jobbers creaming taxpayers.
I think has happened so quickly and is so extraordinary that many many people are in denial especially if they get their “news” from the BBC.
BBFC
Muslims nationality is always Muslim. Despise their nasty vacuous, mind control, murderous, racist, anti other religions, invader cult. Civil war is closer than ever. Unfortunately
Pause for thought. If I were to be asked if it is more important to me that I am Christian or that I am British, what would I say? Sub specie aeternitatis, I would have to reply: Christian.
“Like other countries, the UK is suffering an enormous post-pandemic economic hangover, with a cost-of-living crisis, high taxation, and soaring energy costs placing an unbearable burden on ordinary citizens.”
Except we are not victims of a post-pandemic hangover, we are suffering under central government inflicted destruction with tories and Kneel’s mob of treasonous bastards entirely to blame.
The country could have been righted post Scamdemic but Johnson, Fishy and Kneel set their stall out to turn us in to a Turd World shithole and I reckon they have pretty much succeeded.
The country is finished.
Muzzies. Africans. Asians. Queers. Tranny’s. 25% of the pop ‘disabled’ apparently. Indians all over the IT sector here (my domain) ensuring that every project is a complete f-up.
Clown world. I have a penis, therefore I am a trans-Muzzie-Ecuadorean.
Open Borders, Net Zero, ‘Climate Change’, Nuclear war with Russia, The Rona fascism, Abortion, Euthanasia, No pride parades, Pharma-ments….the list is endless.
Thanks
If it were finished, its detractors wouldn’t still put such an effort into their misdeeds, spreading defeatism being prominently among them. Reality is such that the Kings and Queen of Shithole Council aka the UN still expect to extract trillions of £ from the UK and they wouldn’t put an effort into this if they weren’t convinced this is possible.
Thanks to Sallust and the DS for highlighting those two excellent articles: one by Julie Sladden with the view from Down Under, and the other by the indefatigable Richard Littlejohn with the classic Robin Hood name.
Causes? Here are two: first, the Communist Cloward-Piven Strategy for destroying the West, and secondly, the Communist Frankfurt School 11-Point Plan for Destroying the West:
1. Create Racism Offences for Whites Only.
2. Induce Trauma through Injustice.
3. Teach Sex and Sodomy to Children.
4. Undermine Parents’ and Teachers’ Authority.
5. Force Mass Immigration to Destroy Ethnic Identity.
6. Create Confusion by Continual Change.
7. Empty the Churches.
8. Encourage Crime to Destabilize Society.
9. Create Dependency on the State by Welfare Benefits.
10. Promote Drugs, Pornography and Alcoholism.
11. Encourage the Breakdown of the Family.
“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.”
Aleksandr Solzenhytsin (1918-2008)
And the Conservatives (in name only) watched this happen. I can’t think of anything they did to help. This must not be forgotten.
They are not conservatives in any sense.
You recognize the tree from
its fruit.
Or, as Jung put it, if you want to understand people’s motives, look at the results of their actions.
Need to add install Medical Nazism using fake science or Scientism as the casus belli, acclimating the sheeple to poisons, diapers, LDs and murdering old people.
Also add euthansia and abortion. Nothing like murdering the innocent in the womb, or a confused elder to declare your ‘civilisation’ and moral bona fides.
None of that is instigated by the right. It is a full on assault with intent.
“To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.”
Lavrentiy Beria
The Marxist BLM demand and think the following
1. Dismantle capitalism
2. Climate change is ‘racist
3. Abolish prisons
4. Get rid of borders
5. Unemployment is ‘violence’
6. End stop and search
7. Get rid of the police
8. Government appointment of a Pakistani heritage woman is ‘racist’ – (Previous Gov).
9. Suffragettes reinforce White supremacy
10. Churchill is ‘staunchly racist’
11. Big charities are ‘colonisers’
One of the founders of XR, Stuart Basden, has the following to say, and it’s open ended of course, and I’m sure he would also say “there is so much more to be done”.
“And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life…
– The delusion of white-supremacy centres whiteness and the experience of white people, constructing and perpetuating the myth that white people and their lives are somehow inherently better and more valuable than people of colour.
-The delusion of patriarchy centres the male experience, and excludes/hinders female assigned people from public life (reducing them to a possession or object for ownership or consumption). Patriarchy teaches dominating and competitive behaviours, and emphasises the idea that the world is a place of scarcity, separation and powerlessness.
– The delusions of Eurocentrism include the notion that Europeans know what is best for the world.
– The delusions of hetero-sexism/heteronormativity propagate the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ and that other expressions of sexuality are deviant.
– The delusions of class hierarchy uphold the theory that the rich elite are better/smarter/nobler than the rest of us, and make therefore better decisions.
There are other delusions. (of course there are, it’s endless) These delusions have become ingrained in all of us, taught to us from a very young age…”
Sphincter rebellion must be punished severely.
“It seems, policies that were initially justified to ‘keep people safe’ had morphed into tools of public control.”
Who would’ve thought, David Icke for one!
“ The decline is not inevitable, but reversing it will require bold, unwavering action.”
I’d say that is incompatible with the increase in the building of new Mosques.
“How the hell did we end up at the mercy of potentially hostile foreign powers?”
Because we are at the mercy of a Globalist Fifth Column!
It seemed to me that Britain had been sold out.
Lock stock and barrel.
The cultural collapse started in the1950s you could even say 1850 and reached its high noon in about 1985. These are the morbid symptoms of what happens long after the collapse. The attendant ghouls that come to feast on the rotting bodies. You are long dead you are just suffering the post mortem agony of watching your corpse being eaten in the most obscene way possible. As the revelation of John said, in those days men will seek death and will not find it.
They are all filthy traitors. Almost every MP in Parliament is a bloody treasonous piece of dung to their peoples wellbeing and safety. Even the arrogant egotistical Farage is a one of them.
God speed the civil war as it’s the only way we are going to save our native people, now. Be ready to fight, men of England.
Have you seen this fantastic short video from the DS News Round-Up?
Brewgalowe on X: “The Great Repeal Act @RupertLowe10, @RobertJenrick, and @DrDStarkeyCBE explain how to restore Great Britain. https://t.co/3gWVq8VOB0” / X
Julie Sladden is wrong to say ‘with Christians now in the minority’. In the ONS bulletin ‘Religion, England and Wales: Census 2021’, it says that 46.2% of the population (27.5 million) are Christian, a large decrease of 13.1% percentage points since the 2011 census. Yes, there has been an increase of 44% in the number of Muslims from 2011 to 2021, but only 6.5% of the population (3.9 million) are Muslim.
So, the largest religion is still Chistianity, with 7 times more Christians than Muslims. Other figures in the bulletin are: ‘no religion’ 37.2%; Hindu 1.7%.