Posted on 07/26/2025 4:25:28 PM PDT by Angelino97
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has warned that unless change is instituted rapidly, Britain will soon succumb to complete societal collapse.
“We live increasingly in a lawless Britain… most people think that Britain has become lawless”, Farage remarked Monday at a press conference to launch a new law and order policy platform.
“We’re actually facing, in many parts of our country, nothing short of societal collapse,” Farage warned, adding “People are scared to go out to the shops, scared to let their kids out. That is a society that is degraded, and it’s happening very, very rapidly.”
Farage further suggested that Britain should leave the European Court of Human Rights in order to restore effective criminal deterrence.
Farage maintains that the ECHR undermines the country’s ability to deport foreign criminals, terrorists, and illegal migrants, thereby weakening criminal deterrence.
He contends that exiting the system would remove legal barriers imposed by foreign judges, and allow the UK to swiftly remove dangerous individuals, free up prison space, reduce taxpayer burdens, and send a strong message that crime by non-citizens will result in certain expulsion.
This, in his view, would restore effective deterrence by ensuring consequences are enforced without interference, discouraging both criminal activity and illegal immigration.
Among a range of policies he outlined to avoid a descent into societal collapse, Farage suggested outsourcing hardened criminals to foreign jails and a hard-line three-strikes and you’re out rule, meaning after three convictions there would be no more rehabilitation for offenders.
He noted that one of the most egregious aspects of the collapse is that the government is obsessed with drilling it into the British people that everything is getting better when citizens can see the rampant degradation all around them.
“Huge numbers of law-abiding, taxpaying Britons have also lost respect for the police but in a different way. The idea, the concept that we’re living in a system of two-tier policing and two-tier justice under two-tier Keir has really taken hold,” Farage urged.
Farage noted that crimes such as shoplifting and drug taking have been allowed to become a part of everyday life in cities, and that one in three Londoners have now been victims of mobile phone theft.
He vowed that his party will work to halve crime in five years if elected to parliament by becoming “the toughest party on law and order and on crime that this country has ever seen”, and instituting “zero tolerance policing.”
Farage also floated the idea of Army run centres for repeat petty criminals to be held in and made to undergo a program of reform.
He pointed to Rudy Giuliani’s tenure as Mayor of New York City as an example of how to restore law and order in a broken down society.
“We are borrowing from the Giuliani playbook, unashamedly, I think what Rudy Giuliani did to New York in the 1990s was nothing short of a blooming miracle,” Farage stated.
He added, “And as someone who spent over 20 years working for American companies, I was a regular transatlantic commuter, and I saw what one inspired, brave leader with a New York Police Department that wanted to work with him… I saw what could happen, what the potential was. I believe London needs a Giuliani, not a Sadiq Khan.”
I think Britain can still be saved.
Should have listened to Enoch Powell.
He should just point to California as an example of what can go wrong.
It's so much worse than that. I don't think he sees what is really happening.
Immigrants can do anything. They are untouchable. They are above the law. To this extent, yes, Britain is "lawless".
But an actual British person who steps out of line (ex. says "Go back to Pakistan") will be attacked by the police instantly and will face heavy penalties. Ask Tommy Robinson. I'm afraid that the actual British are subject to very extreme and punitive laws. So, Britain is not "lawless" at all.
People (here and there) need to grasp the fact that the police primarily exist to protect criminals from the righteous anger of ordinary citizens. If there were no law, no police, then ordinary people would just take out the trash and society would (I think) be safer and run smoother. But the police are still here, and very busy -- very busy protecting the criminals and punishing the law-abiding citizens.
Lawless Britain? HA! They should be so lucky.
Britain needs another Churchill. Hopefully, Garage can be one.
Not lawless. Anarcho-tyranist.
Jihad continues apace. It is commonplace in the civilization of the once Great Britain. The moon and sun never set on the Islamic empire. Obey and Submit. Good luck Brit.
To think that Pat Buchanan wanted the place to become the 51st state to dilute all the 3rd worlders coming here.
There’s always the South Africans.
Yes.
The USA has one. Maybe once he has saved America, he'll save the UK.
Britain needs a revolution but since they gave up their guns they have they have few options. They are being treated like cattle now.
Britain has imported the Third World.....now they’re having to deal with it.
It’s not true that Britain is lawless.
They still give people years of prison for posting memes the government doesn’t like very much
They were better off under Roman rule.
Only through a revolt. They have to take all the woke socialists/feminists down, and kick the muzzies out.
Highly unlikely to occur.
,,, the EU’s main product, for some time has been regulations. It’s time for the UK to trade out of the Brussels ideology and get up on it’s feet again.
yes
selective prosecution is tyranny
No chance. England suicided. The government crackdown on the few English men still willing to fight will be coming very soon. The only hope that England has is supporting every Muslim in the country. That will never happen.
“But the police are still here, and very busy — very busy protecting the criminals and punishing the law-abiding citizens.”
You bring up a very important point.
The Brits, as a society, acquiesced to submit to the police in return for the police supporting the rights of the British to live freely in the British society and protect their families, neighborhoods and livelihoods. The big debate revolves around the fact that the police have broken this unwritten contract.
(This is sociological stuff that I’m not good at interpreting.)
People throughout the UK are now saying that police are no longer the caretakers and protectors of British societal mores.
Brits are warning that this failure by police to protect British society could plunge the country into civil war.
Stay tuned...
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