Britain’s Last Election

The American Mind ^ | 10/21/2025 | Kristen Ziccarelli and Joshua Treviño

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Labour government that rules the United Kingdom is hardly a year old, but its time is already coming to an end. Its popular legitimacy has collapsed, and it is visibly losing control of both the British state and its territories. Every conversation not about proximate policy is about the successor government: which party will take over, who will be leading it, and what’s needed to reverse what looks to be an unalterable course. What is known, however, is that the next government will assume the reins of a fading state after what will likely be the final election under the present, failed dispensation.

The Britain birthed by New Labour three decades ago, deracinated and unmoored from its historic roots, is unquestionably at its end. Its elements—most especially the importation of malign Americanisms like propositional nationhood—have led directly to a country that is, according to academics like Dr. David Betz of King’s College London, on the precipice of something like a civil war. That’s the worst-case scenario. The best case is that a once-great nation made itself poor and has become wracked with civil strife, including the jihadi variety. It is a prospect that will make yesteryear’s worst of Ulster seem positively bucolic.

American policymaking is curiously inert in the face of the dissolution of its historic closest ally. This is not because Britain’s decline is anything new: the slow-motion implosion of that nation’s military power has been known to the American defense establishment during most of the past 20 years. Ben Barry’s excellent new book, The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975—2025, offers ample examples to this end, including the 2008 fighting in Basra in which American leadership had to rescue a failing British effort.

The knowledge that Britain is facing a regime-level crisis has remained mostly...

[PAR35]

“The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975—2025”

That puzzles me. The British army began its fall long before 1975.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Time for Liberty Ships, again.

[Leaning Right]

It’s worth noting that the next British general election probably won’t be held until August of 2029. That’s leaves Labour plenty of time to make plenty of trouble.

I suppose we might be seeing one Labour prime minister being replaced by another. (One set of empty promises being replaced by another.)

Side note: Labour has a huge majority in Parliament. They could call for an earlier election. But why would they?

[mewzilla]

Norfolk
Suffolk
Essex
Thurrock
Surrey
East Sussex
West Sussex
Hampshire
Isle of Wight

All of those had their local elections postponed last time around.

You know what that was?

A dry run.

[ClearCase_guy]

deracinated and unmoored from its historic roots

Its historic roots would be the Christian race of Anglo-Saxons. Definitely deracinated from that since everything is now all about the non-white races and the Muslims.

[MinorityRepublican]

The UK may devolve into England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland.

[Bob Wills is still the king]

“Its historic roots would be the Christian race of Anglo-Saxons. Definitely deracinated from that since everything is now all about the non-white races and the Muslims.”
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For the last thousand years, its historic roots have been Gaul (French) and Latin (Roman). 1066 as I recall.

[OpusatFR]

“The United States therefore has an obligation to protect its own citizenry from the consequences. And it also has what might be called a filial duty to assert conditions for Britain to reclaim its best self.”

Bollocks. Americans have been protecting the EU and UK from the folly of its actions for far too long.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

True, but I would still prefer to take advantage of an unsinkable aircraft carrier off of the coast of France.

[Sparticus]

Bollocks. Americans have been protecting the EU and UK from the folly of its actions for far too long.

You are right, but it's never a mistake to kick commies in the teeth whenever the opportunity arises. We should oppose Labor and the other crazies in the UK when it is in our interests.

[caddie]

Farage is wise enough to know that he, as Trump was called, has been called by the Almighty to save the UK.

He will need Trump's help and guidance, and that of Trump's successors.

Farage will have to grow and become stronger and more like Trump. But he will, because the fate of the whole Empire is resting on Farage and his countrymen, and depends on what they do in the next five years.

And King William will work with him and they will succeed.