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Elite Betrayal of the British People
American Thinker ^ | 17 Feb, 2026 | Lars Møller

Posted on 02/17/2026 5:05:22 AM PST by MtnClimber

The self-destruction of Britain: New Labour’s quiet revolution, deep state resistance to democracy, and transethnic buildup to civil war.

The British historian David Starkey has long maintained that Tony Blair’s assumption of power in 1997 marked an all-encompassing upheaval of British society. Nothing, he argues, is the same as before. The old Britain has been uprooted; its legal system and top management have been comprehensively remade. Where once a relatively homogeneous nation allowed its citizens to “govern themselves,” in Starkey’s memorable phrase, today they stand profoundly alienated from their government, police, and courts.

SNIP

Eight governments in a row have methodically restricted the British people’s ancient freedoms, above all freedom of expression. Speech codes, hate-crime legislation, and online regulation have created a climate of fear in which candid discussion of demographic change or cultural incompatibility is treated as “extremism.” It is as though the state itself is engaged in a conscious project to bury Britain as a nation that has any right to exist on its own historic terms.

The political elite has betrayed the British people. State institutions are riddled with corruption, including Islamist infiltration. The total collapse of society and outright civil war no longer seem remote possibilities; they feel like logical culminations of laissez-faire and incompetence.

The mechanisms of this betrayal are now clear. Thirty years of misgovernment have permitted a deeply politicized civil service to entrench itself. This “deep state,” in natural alliance with an academy that serves as its ideological nursery, meets any assertion of popular will—including the demand for zero net immigration—with bureaucratic obstruction, legal sabotage, and moral condemnation. The people’s preferences are treated, not as sovereign commands but as regrettable atavisms to be managed, diluted or ignored.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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To: brownsfan; MtnClimber; metmom; Roman_War_Criminal; Maudeen; Redcitizen; InkStone; ViLaLuz; ...

(THIS IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM.)

Aww shaddup and take yer Mandatory Digital ID, Global Citizen


(The Death Throes of Keir Starmer’s Government)

Digital ID will be used to suppress Free Speech 💬💬💬

Kier Starmer is counting on it


Nigel Farage: Say “NO!” to a Global Digital ID

Nigel Farage:

Direct Link 🔗🔗🖇️🖇️ to the video

https://youtube.com/shorts/132r2L5jlOE

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4365380/posts

“Imagine that: A Global Database that could fall
into the hands of bad actors 🎭🎭🎭
and our lives be completely controlled!”

And that is EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN
in the middle of the 7 Years of ‘Peace and Security’

THEN shall be Great Tribulation


Matthew 24:14-16
21st Century King James Version

14 And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the World for a witness unto all Nations, and then shall the end come.

15 “When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the Holy Place (WHOSO READETH, LET HIM UNDERSTAND),

16 then let them that be in Judea flee unto the mountains.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A14-16&version=KJ21


Daniel 9:26-27
King James Version

26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the End of the war Desolations are determined.

27 And he shall confirm the Covenant with many for one week: AND IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK he shall cause the Sacrifice and the Oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of Abominations he shall make it Desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the Desolate.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%209%3A26-27&version=KJV


Mark 13:14
King James Version

14 But when ye shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (LET HIM THAT READETH UNDERSTAND,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2013%3A14&version=KJV


21 posted on 02/17/2026 7:35:31 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

We need to do there what we should have done in Iran, smuggle in small arms. The people need to be armed, or else it is gonna be like “V” without a happy ending.


22 posted on 02/17/2026 7:41:59 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: Jim Noble
Accurate and insightful piece but the big question is why?

The invasions of both the EU and the United States were highly organized, well planned and well financed - usually by the taxpayers of the EU and US themselves

The amount of coordination and buy in from politicians, government officials, military leaders, judges and government officials in both the US and every EU member country needed to pull this invasion off is mind boggling.

It was done in collusion with the political class of the EU and America and it has resulted in the destruction of Europe and would have done to here in America if President Trump had not been elected.

But why?

Who could have though that this was a good idea.

23 posted on 02/17/2026 8:16:12 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: SaveFerris

Elite betrayal of God.


24 posted on 02/17/2026 8:19:27 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MtnClimber

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

I am today launching Restore Britain as a national political party.

Join us.

https://restorebritain.org.uk/join_us

2:36 PM · Feb 13, 2026 39.2M Views

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2022394419685822647

The seven minute video with almost 40 million views that has terrified the UK’s Deep State so much it did an about face on postponing the 30 council elections.

Better Reform than Restore.


25 posted on 02/17/2026 8:26:56 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: MtnClimber

In other words they’re toast.


26 posted on 02/17/2026 8:34:30 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ViLaLuz

The Elites are determined to force their tyranny upon the masses


27 posted on 02/17/2026 8:37:57 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Brian Griffin
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

When the issue of this legislation came up a few decades ago it had not been approved by the US Senate and was "non self-executing". That is, it could not be brought up in a US court.

Has the situation changed?

28 posted on 02/17/2026 8:48:45 AM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: MtnClimber

The irony, London was the location of “1984”. This is a classic example of rights being slowly eroded. The UK had a rich CULTURE of freedom, but it wasn’t enshrined into a Constitution like ours.

Every “right” they thought they had could have “if’s, and’s, and but’s” added to them.

I was born and raised there, many I know still there can’t believe how things have turned. Their vote doesn’t matter. Islam is becoming bolder by the day, civil war seems unavoidable. The new Restore Party seems like the last shot...Reform isn’t the answer.


29 posted on 02/17/2026 8:54:14 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mewzilla

This is interesting stuff.

As a fifth generation Anglo-American, I pay some to attention to the UK.

I like Farage but Farage is modeled after Trump in that they are both a bit of a vulgarian to a lot of folk.

Trump is criticized for that here on this forum.

But Trump plays at the polls in America.

Not sure if Farage will ever play that well to an uptight Brit population.

Don’t know that much about Lowe, but from the video I’d say he is more Reagan than Trump.

Spoke with confidence and video was well staged and produced.

Lowe on the farm reminded of Reagan at the ranch.

He didn’t say anything that Farage has not said but it was said in manner that I believe has more appeal than Farage has.

Elite Stream Media playing Farage as an opiniated pub crawler smoking a cigarette has more traction in the UK than the media playing Trump as a vulgarian does here in the US.

I guess Lowe’s political calculus was that he’d rather start a new party than get into a bloodly leadership battle in the Reform party with Farage who after all built the party.

Brits are hungry for new faces and the conservatives having Badenoch following Sunak are not the faces they want to see.

If the English want to go back to the English, then Lowe has those roots as Farage doesn’t have the English name nor as solid as English roots.


30 posted on 02/17/2026 9:26:00 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: MtnClimber

It happened when they joined the European Union. Before, they had been on the side that defeated the Nazi German state that had previously governed most of Europe. Getting the United Kingdom into the European Union was the revenge of the Germans.


31 posted on 02/17/2026 9:41:23 AM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: MtnClimber

Well written. Thanks for posting. I pray for GB.


32 posted on 02/17/2026 9:43:34 AM PST by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just like Trump, surrounding himself, this time, with the Technocrats. And compromising with Congress, in the One Beautiful Sellout The People Bill.

Trump Deep State Tower
No Tariffs to The We People.


33 posted on 02/17/2026 10:12:27 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: bert
In so doing they exterminated the governing force that created the British Empire.

Just for the sake of remembering the dead, we womped that governing force starting 1776.

34 posted on 02/17/2026 10:20:15 AM PST by aspasia
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To: aspasia

While that statement is true, it is irrelevant to this discussion


35 posted on 02/18/2026 6:01:40 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: bert

You could look at it that way.


36 posted on 02/18/2026 6:50:41 AM PST by aspasia
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