Britain on the Brink

Steyn Online ^ | 28 July 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Four decades ago I was sitting having a cup of tea in Bramerton Street in Chelsea, just off the King's Road. It was the home of Alan Jay Lerner, author of Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, and much else. Alan was not as wealthy as he'd been two decades earlier, because he'd carelessly acquired seven ex-wives and was in the umpteenth year of a long-running dispute with the IRS. But I couldn't understand why, as a man awash in Oscars and Tonys and whatnot, he chose to live not in New York but in London, when the former seemed to me (as it did to Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and other impressionable types) far more glamorous. Alan replied that he lived in London because Britain was the most eminently civilised society on earth.

Well, it's not anymore. A two-bedroom house in Bramerton Street will, for the moment, set you back over three million pounds, but no one except a gibbering lunatic would advance the proposition that today's Britain is "the most eminently civilised society on earth". England particularly is increasingly what Trump would call a bleephole - very literally. When its remnants finally go up in flames fifteen years (at most) from now, you'll strain to believe that it could ever have been as Lerner characterised it. Sample headline from an even more expensive part of London:

Migrant camp fury on billionaire's row as travellers drink vodka at 6am and poo in street

[Rummyfan]

[Angelino97]

I see they're displaying the English flag, as opposed to the British flag.

Some regard the English flag as a hate symbol.

[Carry_Okie]

The program to dissolve Western Civilization began in earnest in 1930. It was global from the beginning. The plan (not a conspiracy) had a single architect, a single goal, and a single purpose with a technical rationale. And it’s eugenicist progenitors have been (and continue to be) wrong in believing in that rationale and purpose.

Protecting “the environment” by redirecting human sexuality into non-reproductive outlets won’t work; it will backfire ecologically.

[fuzzylogic]

We’re one event from the spark. This can’t go on.

[Dr. Franklin]

I see they're displaying the English flag, as opposed to the British flag. Some regard the English flag as a hate symbol.

So all of England's soccer fans are demonstrating hate by waving the national flag?
The U.K. is in bad shape.

[Rummyfan]

The bad news is that, as Betz says, in Britain and much of Europe civil war is now inevitable.

The good news is that the class that consciously chose to destroy their "eminently civilised societies" will lose.

Bring it on.

[Lurker]

So what’s your point?

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[metmom]

Same as here in America.

And claimed to be a *hate* symbol only by foreigners and leftists who hate America but continue to hypocritically live here.

[BobL]

I’m still HAUNTED by a story that I saw on the UK, on 60 Minutes, I think. It was the end of 1999 and the story was all UPBEAT about how the UK was so OPTIMISTIC about the future. Blair was buddies with President Clinton and all looked forward to the new millenium. The UK even built their giant Ferris Wheel, The Eye, as they call it and tech was the big thing - no more Old England. All was upbeat.

...but, very quietly, and practically unnoticed, Blair set off their Great Replacement at FULL BLAST, importing Third World types by the millions. No one had a clue, including myself.

[Flag_This]

Probably some money to be made smuggling small arms to Europe. You can’t win a civil war fighting with sporks.

[unread]

"We’re one event from the spark. This can’t go on."

The next "Crusades". Putting the devil back into the bottomless pit, Africa.

[mewzilla]

PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7

UNREAL

British police just ARRESTED and searched the house of an independent journalist for the crime of posting on social media.

Britain is also CENSORING videos of the anti mass migration protests yesterday.

Soviet Britain.

From
Concerned Citizen

8:08 AM · Jul 26, 2025 101K Views

https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1949079369059537109

Somewhere in Hell, Hitler is smiling.

[odawg]

Yes, England’s elected leaders are doing what no one has ever done — not even the invasion in 1066 — eradicate England forever.

[dfwgator]

The English Flag is mainly used by soccer fans, because there is no UK Soccer Team. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have their own teams.

[napscoordinator]

Kinda funny when you think that BREXIT was supposed to save it. Obviously a wickedly stupid move by the Britons.

[dfwgator]

Who are the Britons?

[napscoordinator]

A group of stupid voters.

[bert]

Labor is going down the tubes.

the new Reform government in alliance with President Trump is going to reverse the travesty

[anton]

Brexit was a desperate move by a drowning populace. The right move, but 10 years too late. And, the EU is in worse condition than the UK.

[napscoordinator]

I don’t know. You don’t hear other places in desperate financial and Muslim issues.