Posted on 10/27/2025 6:46:58 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Bukele is now a verb. To ‘Bukele’ something is to fix a problem that liberals say is ‘too complicated’ by simply ignoring their long-winded excuses and just doing the obvious. It is named after the leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who has turned a country that was once dubbed the murder capital of the world into one of the safest.
Meanwhile, Britain, once Europe’s most orderly nation, is mired in rape gangs, knife crime, and shoplifting. The UK doesn’t need Bukele-style mega-prisons, but it certainly needs his clarity.
The problem is that our elites in Westminster have mastered the art of inaction, cloaking their cowardice in excuses about complexity and human rights. They wring their hands over ‘systemic’ issues, treat illegal migration like an unsolvable cosmic mystery, and turn a blind eye to the mass rape of British girls in the name of diversity.
This has led to a feeling among the public that order is breaking down: our borders are wide open, women no longer feel safe going out alone at night, and shops are looted with impunity. A country that once prided itself on being high-trust is now sliding into suspicion and fear.
Ask any bloke in the pub, and they’ll tell you the obvious: stop the boats, lock up the criminals, protect the public. But for our elites, this is far too risky if it means a scathing editorial in The Guardian. It’s not resources or nuance they lack; it’s the spine to act.
Is Britain incapable of restoring order? Or is it simply unwilling?
This is where we can look to Nayib Bukele. His doctrine is refreshingly simple, and utterly alien to Britain’s political class: “We prioritized the rights of the honest people over the rights of criminals”.
While our leaders drafted diversity strategies, Bukele built prisons, dismantled gangs, and, within a few years, cut El Salvador’s murder rate by almost 97%. Ordinary Salvadorans, once prisoners in their own homes, can now walk the streets, send their children out to play, and live life without fear.
The point isn’t just safet —it’s freedom. Public safety is not the enemy of liberty, it’s the precondition for it.
Western elites and commentators are horrified, denouncing him as a dictator. Yet, at home, he commands 80–90% approval—numbers that Western leaders can only dream of. Why? Because people care less about the abstract “rights” of criminals and more about the concrete right not to be murdered on the way to work.
Of course, Bukele’s model is not cost-free. He declared a state of emergency and arrested tens of thousands. Civil liberties were suspended, due process curtailed, and anyone suspected of gang ties could be taken off the streets—sometimes based on nothing more than having the wrong tattoo or address.
But Salvadorans judged that risk preferable to daily terror. They accepted the chance of a wrongful arrest over the certainty of being robbed or killed.
Crime is itself a form of tyranny, and it can rob people of freedom more effectively than the state. Bukele chose to break that tyranny and give freedom back to his people.
That’s a calculation Britain’s elites can’t even fathom, because they never have to face the consequences of their own cowardice. Britain doesn’t need to copy Bukele’s extreme methods, but his success shows that safety and liberty can rise together.
And this is what makes it so tragic. Britain gave the world habeas corpus and trial by jury—the very principles that once guaranteed our rights under the law. Yet, today, we’ve twisted the idea of ‘human rights’ into a parody, where violent offenders are shielded from deportation on grounds as absurd as their children not liking the chicken nuggets in their home country.
The UK is now fast approaching anarcho-tyranny: the government comes down hard on the law-abiding, while criminals roam free. Post the wrong joke on Facebook? Expect a dawn raid. Join a grooming gang? Don’t worry, the police will look the other way.
That is Britain in 2025: authoritarian to the innocent, indulgent to the guilty. Free speech is policed and law-abiding citizens are harassed, but the rights of actual criminals are treated as sacrosanct. What kind of liberty is that?
This is an obscene inversion of rights that proves Adam Smith’s warning to be true: “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
Bukele’s blunt approach shocks Western elites because it exposes this inversion. He flipped the equation back to where it should be: tyranny for the criminals, freedom for the people.
So what would it actually mean for Britain to ‘do a Bukele’ or ‘pull an El Salvador’?
It wouldn’t mean tanks in the streets or abolishing Parliament. It would mean a government finally willing to carry out its fundamental role: protecting the British people.
It would mean mandatory minimum sentences for repeat offenders, building enough prisons to end early releases, and immediate deportation of foreign criminals without endless appeals. It would also mean restoring public trust by finally rooting out the officials who were complicit in covering up the grooming gangs for decades.
But most of all, it would mean a decisive shift in focus: Protect the rights of the law-abiding majority over the rights of the criminal minority.
None of this is complicated. It only sounds impossible if you’ve spent too long marinating in the excuses of a political class that’s forgotten why it was elected in the first place.
Why can a small, war-torn nation like El Salvador restore order, while Britain, with its global legacy, wallows in chaos? Bukele prioritises his people’s safety over elite approval, while our leaders prioritise policing speech over cracking down on actual crime.
Britain doesn’t need Bukele’s mega-prisons. But it does need the one thing our leaders lack: the will to protect the rights of ordinary people. Because without safety, there is no freedom.
The question is simple: do we go on with managed decline, anarcho-tyranny, and elite excuses? Or is it time, finally, for Britain to pull an El Salvador?
Did Bukele conduct a purge of El Salvador’s woke/marxist cultural, political and governing class?
Because that’s what will be needed in the UK.
Any change will need to be more Pinochet, and less Bukele.
“Britain doesn’t need Bukele’s mega-prisons”
Where will you put the Muslims?
Even this editorial writer will not speak the name of the elephant in the room.
Islam
If the UK elects Nigel Farage or some other PM that pledges to begin mass deportations and actually starts the process, the media and the liberals will go hysterical and the Muslims in the UK are so embedded they will not go quietly, it will be chaos for a time in the UK, will Farage or whoever is the PM that is deporting people hold up under the pressure.
| Category | 2010 | 2025 |
| Homicides per 100,000 persons | 71.00 | 1.36 |
Whereas for the UK for the same time period
| Category | 2010 | 2025 |
| Homicides per 100,000 persons | 1.2 | 0.84 |
NOt as rapidly as in El Salvador, but it is still far lower than El Salvador
Rape numbers have increased from 16K to 71K but that is comparing apples to oranges in a way as 1. following a review of police practices in 2014, forces were instructed to improve their recording of sexual violence allegations, leading to a more accurate capture of reported crimes. 2. High-profile cases, such as the Jimmy Savile scandal, have encouraged more victims of both recent and historical sexual abuse to come forward and report to the police. 3. Changes to the Sexual Offences Act in recent years have broadened the definition of sexual offences, also contributing to higher recorded figures The CSEW data for sexual assault prevalence, which includes but is not limited to rape, has fluctuated over the last decade but suggests a more stable picture. The percentage of people reporting a sexual assault has not seen the same exponential increase as police records
President Nayib Bukele’s father was a Muslim imam...
A number of large and rather spare prison-passenger ships would help. Just think: when they're done they can sell the service to the rest of Europe.
That’s easy, send them all back to Suckistan where they belong.
Exactly.
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Is It Time for the UK To ‘Pull an El Salvador?
“Bukele” is a verb meaning to fix a problem liberals say is ‘too complicated’.....
.........named after El Salvador leader, Nayib Bukele.......
who turned a country once dubbed the “murder capital of the world “into one of the safest.
OK
Do you deny the religious heritage of the grooming gangs?
That their religion excuses their actions in their minds?
Rudy fixed NY. Pinochet fixed Chile. Isabella(I believe) fixed Spain the same year Columbus set sail.
England is further gone than those 3 but it may take the same efforts they took in Spain. Possible? They need their own Tom Holman.
What Britain needs.....honestly.....They need a Francisco Franco for about 5 years. Get in, remove almost all the judges and fire the civil servants. Withdraw from any treaty that impinges on Britain’s sovereignty.
Boot the non Western and non assimilable foreigners out. (ie Muslims and Africans) All of them. I don’t care if they’ve been in Britain for 35-40 years and have been granted citizenship. I don’t care if they’ve been born there. OUT! Remove BY ARMED FORCE. If they resist, shoot them.
At the same time, get rid of all vestiges of Gaia worship and start manufacturing things again.
Then he could step down so long as the changes stuck.
He purged a lot of the judges who were globalist scum who tried to do everything in their power to prevent him from saving the country.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have separate national assemblies. There is an element of Celtic privilege (not as great as what nonwhites enjoy) in the British political system that the English, who are the preponderance of the UK population, do not enjoy. You can fly the Celtic flags, play bagpipes, or whatever with impunity but any expression of English pride is considered racist, fascist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc. Yet for all that, the Celtic national assemblies have limited power, less than that of a state of the USA.
Britain is in summary a victim of unrestrained democracy, a lack of checks and balances, and a decadent elite.
The middle east or some African chithole.
You believe the UK accurately recorded rape numbers? They didn’t even count all the victims of the Pakistani muslim rape gangs and that went on for decades.
Correct. I don't think England can be saved.
The Spaniards were devout Catholics so they were motivated to resist the Moors. Even there, it took them nearly 800 years.
Rudy fixed NYC but it appeared to be temporary.
Tommy Robinson will probably have to claim asylum in America.
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