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Is it too late to save the United Kingdom?
The Spectator ^ | Monday, September 14, 2026 | Stephen Daisley

Posted on 09/15/2026 4:30:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The slow demise of the United Kingdom is suddenly gaining speed. The proximate cause is Andy Burnham’s statement last Wednesday that Scotland and Northern Ireland are in ‘exactly the same’ constitutional situation and that majority public support was sufficient for either to secure a border poll.

However, longer trends brought us here, from historical population movements to the decline of Empire to the dawn of devolution. We’ll set aside the first two because plenty has been written about them already and focus instead on the third.

Today, the first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have said that ‘Westminster’s time is coming to an end’ at a meeting in Cardiff Bay, in which they pledged to break up the United Kingdom. This was an inevitable consequence of the decision by the Major and Blair governments to agree to conditional sovereignty over Northern Ireland in exchange for peace. Part of that condition was the restoration of provincial self-government in the form of devolution, a consociational calamity.

Progress on anything substantive is impossible because Sinn Fein and the DUP are shackled to one another. Quangos proliferate, subsidies swell, and the second state, the taxpayer-supported network of charities, activists and peace industry hangers-on, continues to grow. Sinn Fein is now the dominant party and is naturally pursuing its primary policy of a united Ireland. It would be a strange political party if it didn’t.

The Plaid Cymru government in Wales was elected amid promises that independence wouldn’t be its priority, but why shouldn’t it pursue its raison d’etre now it’s in government? As the recent Pisa results confirmed, Welsh education is in a sorry state, while NHS performance struggles to meet its levels of investment. But policy outcomes are small potatoes compared to the awesome power of the identity and the tribe.

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1 posted on 09/15/2026 4:30:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

While humans are alive, they can improve their condition.


2 posted on 09/15/2026 4:30:56 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yep….way toooo late


3 posted on 09/15/2026 4:36:37 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: MinorityRepublican

It looks that way.


4 posted on 09/15/2026 4:38:41 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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It’s not too late but I doubt any one has the guts to physically remove the foreign colonizers.


5 posted on 09/15/2026 4:44:28 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s about to become The United Caliphate.


6 posted on 09/15/2026 4:46:47 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

It became too late when the grooming gangs were well underway and law enforcement and the general public did nothing to stop it. Since it did not involve their daughters, the middle and upper classes ignored it.

Enoch Powell was right!!


7 posted on 09/15/2026 4:46:56 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ll take YES questions, for $500, Alex.


8 posted on 09/15/2026 4:49:23 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real..)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Britain cannot be saved. It’s long gone. Conquered by uncivilized barbarians. Witness what they have done to the women. Those MoFos do as they please without consequence. Horrible representation. Once Great civilization that has contributed so much to humanity. Sad.


9 posted on 09/15/2026 4:50:31 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt
Warning to our country.

But that may not be sufficient.

10 posted on 09/15/2026 4:54:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Maine Mariner

Say what you will about the man, but Sir Oswald Mosley got it right on this, about the evils of Globalization, in this speech in 1963.

It’s a shame his dalliances with Mussolini and Hitler ruined his chances of having any influence on Britain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwuJISYR_t8


11 posted on 09/15/2026 4:56:15 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Armed citizens or unarmed citizens. It makes difference. MAGA leadership too.


12 posted on 09/15/2026 5:02:55 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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It is never too late. First the Liberal upper class
must be deposed from power—Free Elections installed and an uprising like the English Civil War. Roundheads must suffer defeat! They need a real king—not the Fop Charles. Maybe one that will march with the people. Remember—Churchill, what would he say? Never Surrender, never Give UP! Then the sky’s should turn dark with burning mosques and Islamic centers. Those who will not submit should be forced off the island and made to return to the Middle East or Where ever they came from. There will be only time for revenge and harsh justice.


13 posted on 09/15/2026 5:10:46 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: dfwgator

Maybe a little fascism is what England needs right now to save the nation from the invaders. A new Mosley needs to raise the lighting bolt banner and lead a new movent to end the mess we have now.


14 posted on 09/15/2026 5:17:24 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I had to look up the definition of "consociational," which is a new word to me. It means a power-sharing political system. Key features are:
(1) Leaders from all major social groups share the top executive power together.
(2) Proportional representation.Government jobs, money, and votes are divided "fairly" based on the size of each group.
(3) Mutual veto, meaning that any single major group can block a new law if it harms their vital interests.
(4) Each group has self-government over its own local culture, religion, and schools.
15 posted on 09/15/2026 5:17:40 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (It seems to be a law of nature...that those who will not risk cannot win. --John Paul Jones)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It would take the 82nd Airborne.


16 posted on 09/15/2026 5:21:57 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT! ABM = anything but muslim )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Does Wales really want independence? Does Scotland really think the SNP will make things any better? Do they really want to give SNP that kind of power?

It could be that the UK’s national story is ending, but Scotland, Wales, Ireland — how many chapters do they have left?


17 posted on 09/15/2026 5:24:43 PM PDT by x
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well to do it they better start producing a lot of little Anglo-Saxons because the muzzles are pumping out the little jihadis at a rapid pace.


18 posted on 09/15/2026 5:38:04 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians )
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To: chickenlips

Too late.


19 posted on 09/15/2026 5:39:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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” Does Scotland really think the SNP will make things any better?”

An independent Scotland would probably join the EU. That would make things better for some Scots and worse for others. The HOPE of something better, whether justified or not, would be widespread.


20 posted on 09/15/2026 5:52:36 PM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
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