The British economy cannot sustain its contradictions

The Critic ^ | 7/25/25 | Chris Bayliss

[EnderWiggin1970]

With the last, desperate attempt to restore the integrity of the system he had given his life to having failed, the only tolerable course of action open to Sergey Akhromeyev was to hang himself. Over the years, many have questioned whether Akhromeyev and his fellow plotter of the August 1991 coup attempt, Boris Pugo, truly died by their own hands. Surely, a soldier like Akhromeyev would have done the job with his service pistol, rather than hang himself with his Party ribbon? Along with a short note giving some account of himself, Akhromeyev left behind a modest but precise amount in cash, to cover his outstanding bill at the Kremlin staff canteen. It seems unlikely that an assassin would have gone to such trouble.

I wrote before about how Britain’s present political settlement carries the same stench of doomed malevolence as the communist regimes in Eastern Europe in the years before they collapsed. Yet I will be the first to admit that the analogy only goes so far. One cannot imagine the architects and apparatchiks of the Blairite state doing the decent thing — with the aid of their rainbow lanyards — when the curtain finally falls. And Pret wouldn’t have offered them credit anyway.

Akhromeyev’s last gesture, and the objectives of the coup attempt that sealed him into that path, was an expression of a particular sense of Marxist-Leninist propriety — one that was fundamentally at odds with the reality of the modern world into which Mikhail Gorbachev had been attempting and failing to integrate the USSR. Financial debt had become a defining feature of the Soviet Union in its final years; the socialist superpower’s dependence on the institutions of Western capitalism to keep itself creaking on made a mockery of decades of propaganda.

[PGR88]

Excellent article. the Soviets collapsed trying to preserve their power, and try to keep government running, with the facade of ideology, by micro-managing their economy. In the end, debt and inflation killed them.

The same thing is happening in the UK (and the USA isn’t far behind), for the sake of preserving the bloated state and its collectivist ideology.

[caddie]

If the UK is still around when CRIII goes to room temperature, perhaps the heir to the throne can stand tall and rescue the former Parliamentary Monarchy or whatever it was before the invaders destroyed it.

I believe there are enough John Bull Normals left in England to follow his lead.

I don't see any other way out of the corner that they are painted into.

[citizen]

As described, this Brit judicial mandated system of tangible and subjective rights for all sounds sort of Catch-22ish in which mandates on one end clash with mandates at the other end in an unsustainable muddle in the middle. And with no one able to pay the bills...which will also be mandated, somehow.

[citizen]

Paging Ayn Rand....Britain with their versions of Directive 221.

[captmar-vell]

The Communists Marxist in power thought our (reserve currency) USAID dollars now shutoff would keep flowing to 2030 to fund their WEF scheme to a CBDC and Digital ID upon the world. The collapse wouldn’t matter after the ‘great reset’ being now required to solve the very problem it manufactured.

With the enemy becoming desperate in their evil schemes, we are in dangerous times, probably more than we know. Only the USA is standing up against them.

[jmacusa]

Go over to You Tube.

The Brits have been posting no end of videos about the dire state of the country.

It’s shocking. And they’re begging and pleading for us to save them- again.

[MinorityRepublican]

It’s shocking. And they’re begging and pleading for us to save them- again.

I feel for them but we bailed them out in WWI and WWII so why is it our responsibility for the 3rd time?

[jmacusa]

It isn't our responsiblity and you're right, we bailed them out twice.

My grandfather, my namesake, barely survived those horrible trenches ‘’over there'' in 1918. They act like "Well even if we do make a bloody bollix of it all we can always call on the Yanks!''. Pffft!

[Mr Radical]

Thanks for posting, I’d not come across this before.
The author quotes the cost of taxis for Special Educational Needs (SEND) children, but he could more topically have used the example of taxis provided for the use of illegal immigrants - one such journey costing £600 (US$800) to take an illegal immigrant to visit a local doctor (to deny him would have been a breach of his human rights, of course) while tax-paying Brits enjoy no such benefit.