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Watching Britain’s decline is like rubbernecking a car accident
American Thinker ^ | 10 May, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/11/2025 4:47:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber

My parents were Anglophiles. Therefore, I was an Anglophile, gobbling up Masterpiece Theater, majoring in British history at college, and spending an utterly delightful junior year abroad in England a long, long time ago. Of late, though, I’ve come to revisit my fondness for England. That’s because England doesn’t really seem to exist anymore. Instead, it’s an increasingly Third World country, complete with blasphemy laws, and a likely collapse of its power grid.

The trigger for this, my latest in a series of essays I think of as illustrating that “there won’t always be an England,” is a paywalled article in the Daily Mail that looks at the city of Leicester.

This Midland city is linked to major events in British history. The Celts were there, as were Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and Normans. The Lancaster dynasty, which gave rise to the Tudors, had a power base there, and Richard III’s body was uncovered in a Leicester parking lot. Because of water, railways, and nearby coal mines, Leicester became a major industrial center in the 19th century.

In sum, Leicester is interwoven with the warp and woof of British history. It’s currently the 11th largest city in Great Britain. And, as the Daily Mail reports, Leicester, “is now among the first of our cities to have a majority non-white population...”

While the City still has classic British architecture, that’s just a remnant. The non-British part of the population is primarily Muslim, with Hindus following behind:

According to the 2021 census – the most recent – Leicester is roughly split in two between white and Asian populations, with 43.4 per cent identifying as Asian and 40.9 per cent as white. Within that, 23.5 per cent of the population are Muslim and 17.9 per cent are Hindu.

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1 posted on 05/11/2025 4:47:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Why do leftists think this is a good thing?


2 posted on 05/11/2025 4:48:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Why do leftists think this is a good thing?

They hate the West because they believe that the West is evil. They've been saying it at places like Harvard for many decades.

Now they're implementing their plan to destroy the West.

3 posted on 05/11/2025 4:50:40 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MtnClimber

The English are another group of people I would happily admit to the US. Their so-called “hate speech” laws alone are reason enough to grant them asylum. But note, I said “English”. I did not say Pakis, Middle Eastern Muslims, various 3rd world trash like Somalis, etc. Those people are not English no matter what the Beeb laughably tries to claim.


4 posted on 05/11/2025 4:53:24 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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The English are another group of people I would happily admit to the US.

Unfortunately, most of them will end up voting for the Democratic Party.

5 posted on 05/11/2025 4:54:59 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MtnClimber

Because it feeds their narrative that we will all be just one big happy socialist family, with Big Brother Government watching over us.

Until we aren’t.

This mixing of ethnicities will eventually blow up in Leicester just like it does in South Asia. The Muslims and Hindus and what-evers will fight for control of the local government and it will not be pretty.

It will be a bloody civil war.....................


6 posted on 05/11/2025 4:55:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Because they can take “credit” for changing the world.


7 posted on 05/11/2025 4:58:31 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

This isn’t an accident.

It’s attempted premeditated murder.

Let’s hope the intended victims fight back.


8 posted on 05/11/2025 5:01:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: MtnClimber

Demographics is destiny no matter how much the civnatcucks scream that it is not.

Incidentally, as Britain descends into a 3rd world 💩hole status......it has nukes.


9 posted on 05/11/2025 5:05:00 AM PDT by MachIV
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One word.

Cromwell.


10 posted on 05/11/2025 5:06:51 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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Stats from 2021 on the UK’s major metros...

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/493/immigration-and-population-change-in-the-uks-towns-and-cities

This has been intentional, and I’m beginning to think there will not be a recovery from this for the UK.


11 posted on 05/11/2025 5:08:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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Heartbreaking. Its been mentioned for years but the fall of Great Britian is catching momentum. It may fall totally to Sheria law within the next few years.


12 posted on 05/11/2025 5:08:42 AM PDT by Jolla
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There won’t be.

They have passed the tipping point...............


13 posted on 05/11/2025 5:08:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

I asked someone smarter than me why all these countries are admitting these POC POS into their countries, like us. I just don’t understand it. He simply said, NWO, they control everything.


14 posted on 05/11/2025 5:11:20 AM PDT by krug
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controlled demolition

just like they were doing here

and then Trump......


15 posted on 05/11/2025 5:12:36 AM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
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To: Red Badger

We spent some time in the UK in the 80s.

Went back in the 90s.

Couldn’t believe the changes in just 10 years.

And not for the better.


16 posted on 05/11/2025 5:12:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: FLT-bird

But how do you think they got their hate speech laws?

On average, the politics of the educated Brits are not what we need.


17 posted on 05/11/2025 5:14:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: krug

If there’s one country most behind the NWO, it is the UK.


18 posted on 05/11/2025 5:15:27 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber

So Tony Blair’s Labor open border policies have succeeded. They replaced white Christian native Brits with imported Muslims and Hindus. Labor is firmly in power and the sexual slavery of 100,000s of British white girls by Paki rape gangs is swept under the rug. This is exactly Obama’s transformation of America plan too.


19 posted on 05/11/2025 5:15:52 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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Recalling a news story of about ten years ago, that a Brit citizen found a single expended brass of a .22 bullet on the sidewalk and called the police to come investigate.

The native-born Brits have been caught sleeping, trusting the government to manage everything in their lives. And now, government is managing everything in their lives.


20 posted on 05/11/2025 5:19:56 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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