10 New Signs of Britain’s Impending Demise

pjmedia.com ^ | 11/10/2014 | Robert Spencer

[rktman]

Last May, I wrote an article titled “The 5 Latest Signs of Britain’s Imminent Demise.” These were, unfortunately, not anomalies. In Britain these days, galloping toward ruin is a more popular sport than soccer, and so an update is in order. Here are ten of the latest indications that Britons can look forward to a society that is both more authoritarian and more dangerous than any free nation can long endure.

[HandyDandy]

It ain’t easy being part British. I got a wicked bad temperment. But at least I don’t have any French in me.

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

Have you ever heard about a guy named A+Bert?

I know you have.

I’m enjoying this thread.

5.56mm

[Lazamataz]

10 Reasons Why UK Sucks.

1. Everyone’s an alcoholic
2. Everything is ridiculously expensive
3. The weather
4. Chavs
5. Health and safety gone mad
6. We’re generally ignorant towards other cultures.
7. We hate ourselves
8. Cricket
9. Nothing works properly
10. Surrendering To Islam

[Lazamataz]

LOL! I really can’t speak to his rotten-ness. We have a good rapport.

Well, if by rapport, you mean he's trying to have sex with your dead mother, yeah, I can see that.

[bert]

GOEBBELS’ PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA
Based upon Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda by Leonard W. Doob, published in Public Opinion and Propaganda; A Book of Readings edited for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.

b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.

c. It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences

3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

4. Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence

b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions

c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself

d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity

5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.

8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.

9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.

10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.

11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.

b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment

c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses

b. They must be capable of being easily learned

c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations

d. They must be boomerang-proof

15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat

b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves

17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated

b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective

18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

[rktman]

Ouch!

[the scotsman]

Well done, another example of British self-deprecating humour lost on a Yank. The writer clearly wasn't being fully serious. You missed this bit though: 'On the upside' 'This being a light-hearted article means it wouldn’t be fair to talk about the UK without mentioning the positive aspects of living here, of which there are many. Here is a quick list'; ◾The National Health Service is perhaps the best in the world. ◾Relatively speaking it is a safe place to live. ◾Our military is world renowned and highly respected. ◾Only a tiny percentage of the population could be classed as genuinely poor. ◾We have some of the world’s finest universities. ◾The UK is one of the most culturally diverse places on Earth. ◾The 2012 London Olympics was perhaps the greatest yet. ◾We are the birthplace of Football. (the most important obviously)

[Lazamataz]

It ain’t easy being part British. I got a wicked bad temperment. But at least I don’t have any French in me.

Well you did dodge THAT bullet.

Nothing is worse than France, except, of course:

Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Afghanistan
Akrotiri
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Juan de Nova Island
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Bassas da India
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Bouvet Island
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burma
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Clipperton Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the
Cook Islands
Coral Sea Islands
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dhekelia
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Jan Mayen
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paracel Islands
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Islands
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Europa Island
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Gabon
Gambia, The
Gaza Strip
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Glorioso Islands
Haiti
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Holy See (Vatican City)
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
South Africa
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Spain
Spratly Islands
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Svalbard
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tromelin Island
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Navassa Island
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Australia
Qatar
Reunion
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands
Wake Island
Wallis and Futuna
West Bank
Western Sahara
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Taiwan
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu

I HATE THEM WORST OF ALL

[Lazamataz]

I only have one request: Quit defiling the corpse of my dead mother.

[the scotsman]

I have one: keep making me laugh.

[Lazamataz]

No-account layabout bad-teeth necrophiliac brit.

[Bob]

Regarding your rule #2, it ain’t sand they’ve got their heads in.

[Gaffer]

“Debunk” it then.

There was a freeper here a couple three years ago who said that same thing. Search it.

[HandyDandy]

I am surprised that you don’t hate the British Virgin Islands much more than you hate the Virgin Islands. Can’t you see the difference?

[Lazamataz]

People in the British Virgin Islands have bad teeth?

[T-Bone Texan]

"...The UK is one of the most culturally diverse places on Earth. ...

You say that like it's a good thing, and not a weapon to destroy Western culture, which it is.

[T-Bone Texan]

If necrophilia is part of his culture, then we need to respect that.

[TexasRepublic]

And that’s his good points! ;-)

[the scotsman]

I didn’t say it, the article did.

[itsahoot]

Have you ever heard about a guy named A+Bert?

I think he was deported wasn't he?