No Change, and Decay

SteynonLine ^ | May 19, 2025 | Mark Steyn

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A STEYN I-TOLD-YOU-SO MOMENT: As I have written often, the consistent message from the permanent ruling class around the west is that nothing will be permitted to change on anything that matters. Of the two principal popular revolts of almost a decade ago - the Trump election and the Brexit vote - the jury is still out on Trump 47 (America's last chance), but Brexit is dead.

A theme of my book The Prisoner of Windsor is that there is no Brexit. It never happened - or, perhaps more precisely, it was never permitted to happen. And so, as the PM tells the King, Britain is now reduced to the status of a princely state in the Indian Raj, under which, in a nominally sovereign sultanate, every decision that matters was made not by the sultan and his ministers but by the British Resident. The King protests that he hasn't heard the phrase "princely state" in forty years ...but that's why it helps to know a little history, so you can figure out where all the bollocks is headed.

I saw where all this was heading when we first serialised The Prisoner of Windsor in audio five years ago. Sir Keir Starmer, taking time out of his hectic schedule of being firebombed by twenty-one-year-old Ukrainian "male models", has spent the last few weeks enacting my literary jest into formal, binding treaty law. As a popular Steyn Show guest puts it this morning, for the "right" to live under EU laws and regulations in perpetuity, the UK will also have to surrender its fishing grounds permanently. Or, if you like, in exchange for surrendering national sovereignty to Brussels on law, it will also have to surrender national sovereignty to Brussels on fish:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; germany; keirstarmer; marksteyn; pages; policestate; remigration; theprisonerofwindsor; twotierkeir; uk; unitedkingdom

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