Posted on 12/10/2024 5:22:42 PM PST by Rummyfan
The old England, which cherished liberty, is dying and a more sinister society is emerging in its place
As an American Anglophile, I find it difficult not to look upon the news emanating from Great Britain and despair. “Terminally ill pensioners could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones six figure tax bills, experts have warned,” says the Telegraph. A Christian preacher in West London has just had his conviction upheld for standing in silent protest too close to an abortion clinic while holding a placard displaying a Bible verse.
The old England, which cherished liberty, is dying and a more sinister society is emerging in its place. Prime Minister Keir Starmer just gave an extraordinary speech in which he admitted that Britain’s open immigration policies were an “open borders experiment.” He blamed the Tories, even though the floodgates were opened under Tony Blair.
Preserving the emotion of virtue is paramount to Labour, which is why Britain under Starmer, while signaling that he understands the concerns over immigration, has upped the ante on wokeness and censorship.
Following the summer’s violent riots after the Southport attack, a House of Commons Committee on Science and Technology announced that it wanted to call Elon Musk, who owns X (formerly Twitter) to give evidence on “social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms.” Musk responded that the committee members “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.” Good for him.
(Excerpt) Read more at thespectator.com ...
If they were a person you'd have them declared non compos mentis, but you can't so all you can do is try not to let our country catch fire from the sparks as they burn theirs to the ground.
They made this mess, now they get to lie down in it. I haven't an ounce of pity for them
The reason Americans fear for Britain!
The Spectator ^ | 10 Dec 2024 | Roger Kimball
Posted on 12/10/2024, 5:22:42 PM by Rummyfan
The old England, which cherished liberty, is dying and a more sinister society is emerging in its place
As an American Anglophile, I find it difficult not to look upon the news emanating from Great Britain and despair. “Terminally ill pensioners could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones six figure tax bills, experts have warned,” says the Telegraph. A Christian preacher in West London has just had his conviction upheld for standing in silent protest too close to an abortion clinic while holding a placard displaying a Bible verse.
The old England, which cherished liberty, is dying and a more sinister society is emerging in its place. Prime Minister Keir Starmer just gave an extraordinary speech in which he admitted that Britain’s open immigration policies were an “open borders experiment.” He blamed the Tories, even though the floodgates were opened under Tony Blair.
Preserving the emotion of virtue is paramount to Labour, which is why Britain under Starmer, while signaling that he understands the concerns over immigration, has upped the ante on wokeness and censorship.
Following the summer’s violent riots after the Southport attack, a House of Commons Committee on Science and Technology announced that it wanted to call Elon Musk, who owns X (formerly Twitter) to give evidence on “social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms.” Musk responded that the committee members “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.” Good for him.
(Excerpt) Read more at thespectator.com …
https://thespectator.com/topic/reason-americans-fear-for-britain/
Britain should have stayed out of WWI.
The sun has finally sat on the Union Jack.
I don’t fear Britain.
They’re no threat.
I am concerned that I see us going in the same direction.
The last two bits of news I saw from the UK are illustrative of how far they’ve sunk. First, the most common name given to newborn males last year was Mohammed. Second was a YouTube video of a senior British citizen being hooked up in his own home by Scotland Yard for posting something on Facebook that someone took offense to and called the police. I kid you not.
Haven't similar cases occurred in the US? Britain is going down but the US isn't exactly the shining city on the hill either anymore. The left in the west is winning almost everywhere these days. Yes I'm happy Trump won. Lets hope it starts a trend everywhere.
Don’t you mean Londonistan?
BTTT
England was never worth a crap, that’s the reason America exists.
We can continue to trade with the UK. We should pull out of NATO. End intelligence sharing through The Five Eyes Alliance with them and other Anglosphere countries.
England is history. They gave their Country away long ago, it is just now coming to fruition. The naivety of their political leadership is unbelievable and the population just goes along with the status quo. Now it is too late.
There it is.
The UK and most of Europe have gone full fascist.
What an idiot.
“End intelligence sharing through The Five Eyes Alliance”
Good point.
One good reason to end it was explained by Snowden.
The English can legally spy on Americans.
Americans can legally spy on English citizens.
One click of the mouse (just between us allies ya know) and both countries have domestic surveillance on their own citizens.
Nasty nasty stuff.
Right. So all we have to do is to ask James Bond over at M16 to spy on us. We can claim that they're helping us to look for Al-Qaeda terrorists.
But we know that's not the case.
Trump should pardon Edward Snowden on day one.
We’re right behind them
But we have first amendment thankfully for now
Snowden gets a lot of hate around here—but the abuses he disclosed were a house of horrors—and still have not been fixed to this day.
Our number one enemy are our own intelligence services—they are totally out of control.
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