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For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished
The Telegraph via MSN ^ | February 15, 2024 | Allister Heath

Posted on 02/19/2024 4:58:24 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Britain’s decline over the past 25 years has been staggeringly rapid. Almost everything is getting worse, and almost nothing is getting better. Our public and private institutions are broken, presided over by an incompetent, selfish and narcissistic ruling class. Living standards, when adjusted properly for living and property costs, are declining.

Even the simplest things don’t work any longer. Queuing, scarcity and congestion are rife, our infrastructure is embarrassingly poor, and the honest and hardworking face endless bureaucratic battles to obtain what they are due. Free riding, crime, disorder, fraud, littering and generalised rule-bending are rife, and all too often tolerated by apathetic citizens and an indifferent state. Britain’s residual virtues, our individualism, independence of mind, tolerance and openness, uniquely appealing features of our national character, are fading.

Like a frog in boiling water, few saw the full scale of the decline coming until it was too late, and those who did were ridiculed by the bien-pensant. Yet even in 2024, when millions now realise that Britain is on the wrong track, there is no hope of meaningful improvement. The Tories have been abysmal, but Labour will be even worse: Keir Starmer will double down on the social-democratic and culturally nihilistic policies tested to destruction by the Conservatives.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; europe; nolongergreat; uk
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To: Clemenza

Sunak and/or Obama.


101 posted on 02/19/2024 9:48:39 AM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Persevero
He wouldn't be my first choice.

Meanwhile...

EXCLUSIVELyle's Golden Syrup axes world's oldest branding featuring logo of rotting lion surrounded by a swarm of bees and swaps it for a big cat's friendly face to avoid offending Gen Z

My God, they don't make Brits like they used to...

102 posted on 02/19/2024 9:54:56 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Note to Lyle’s: I’ll just use something else. And it won’t be British.


103 posted on 02/19/2024 9:56:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: wardaddy

The amount of immigration only tells part of the story. No one looks at this comprehensively. No one looks at it from the point of you of illegal immigration, or the number of children porn of immigrants, or how old the white population is. Consider that most ethnic Europeans in America are going to be dead within 30 to 40 years. Less than half will be replaced.


104 posted on 02/19/2024 10:21:28 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: drSteve78

Britainstan

The marxist - Muslim Obama dnc cabal

Gog jihad - shariah usa

MaGog jihad - shariah nato

Rev 13

Ps

Taking down Russia - Israel


105 posted on 02/19/2024 10:30:59 AM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms⁸)
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To: fuzzylogic
... the decline began with turning away from Christianity.

And therein lies the key to the problem - and the solution!

106 posted on 02/19/2024 11:20:03 AM PST by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; Uncle Miltie
Population of Great Britain from 1971 to 2021

Impact of immigration in changing the UK population

Immigration and population change in the UK's towns and cities

Born to foreign-born mothers, UK, 2021:


107 posted on 02/19/2024 11:43:49 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Dan in Wichita

Yes

Only the Connaught for you Dan From Wichita

Me merely the lowly Savoy on the Strand

My residence later was Tottenham court and Hampstead

I worked Hatton Garden which is posh

Weird people

I found people very nice in London of course it was English then and as a southerner it’s easy for us since most of us are majority Great Britain descended with a smattering of Dane law and both Irish


108 posted on 02/19/2024 11:07:47 PM PST by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Legal immigration which neos and protocons fear criticizing has hurt even more

Change the complexion

Replacement theory

It’s by design and has worked

California
New Mexico
Colorado
Arizona

No need to look further


109 posted on 02/19/2024 11:14:16 PM PST by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Thank u


110 posted on 02/19/2024 11:15:52 PM PST by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind)
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To: wardaddy
Only the Connaught for you Dan From Wichita

Me merely the lowly Savoy on the Strand

Excellent!...bullseye...

111 posted on 02/20/2024 4:12:21 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: wardaddy
I've got a feeling you're a really cool guy (meant as a compliment).

Cheers!
112 posted on 02/20/2024 5:17:13 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: Dan in Wichita

I’m old but I’ve lived a life

One third bucolic leave it to beaver Deep South youth

One third adventure world over

One third or more raising families and then some

The caretaker

A raging enneagram number 2 personality


113 posted on 02/20/2024 7:25:13 AM PST by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Winniesboy

I love mother Britannia and enjoyed living there very much

It would be easy for me even now in an English part of England

I’m surname old Wessex Saxon and ancestry has me at 40% English and 20% Ulster Scot or Scotland and 10% Danelaw and Wales each and 10% each French Huguenot and regular Irish

Several Jamestown and FFV are in my verified lineage

Most England bashers here are scratching the veneer Irish identifying

Most influential country in human history and far more good than bad

Sorry to see it like here governed by fools now


114 posted on 02/20/2024 11:22:02 PM PST by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind)
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To: wardaddy; rightwingintelligentsia

Good to hear from you...
Well, FR wouldn’t be FR without a full-on Brit-bashing thread from time to time.
Yes, things are a right mess here at the moment, though not for most of the reasons Freepers think they are.
They’ve been in as bad a mess several times before in my longish lifetime, but we’ve always pulled through it somehow or other. This time? I never predict.


115 posted on 02/22/2024 1:09:59 AM PST by Winniesboy
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