Observations on a dying UK

Free Britannia Journal ^ | November 15, 2002 | A. E. Huggett

[mgc1122]

Like countless others before me, who were born American but developed a love for British tradition, culture, and literature, I truly care about what happens not only in the US but in the UK as well. Over these last three years I traveled an average of four times a year to the UK for personal reasons. Each and every time I observed new inroads of decay and dutifully sounded the alarm to family and friends. England, the England that we know and love, is rapidly being destroyed from within by a combination of factors, some of which are planned, and others accidental. Let me say first and foremost that whatever formerly “benign” socialist engineering the UK might have had has turned virulent in the five years under Tony Blair and New Labour. F. A. Hayek, in his book, The Road To Serfdom, sounded the alarm as early as 1945 when he saw the direction England was headed. Hayek was at one point a socialist and he knew what was being planned. Instead of that “jackboot on the face of humanity forever” that Hayek theorized, Blair is making sure his incompetent socialist dictatorship has designer labels on the heels.

However, the effect is the same. Socialism is grinding down the populace on a daily basis. The destruction of the UK is so noticeable now because Blair and company actively despise the country they run. They are products of Oxford and Eton where anti-British sentiment by ivory tower professors is just as ingrained as the anti-Americanism of our college classes. Couple that anti-British self-righteousness with class snobbery and insatiable greed and you’ll get the current Prime Minister and his lawyer wife. The low-level Scottish thugs he surrounds himself with in his cabinet are actually wrecking historical revenge on England for past events hundreds of years old.

[mgc1122]

The lesson from the 20th Century was the rise of America as the world's sole superpower. Built up so by people from all around the world who decided to be Americans, not hyphenated Americans. You know, the words hated by the left "...one nation under God".

Care to contrast or compare to the current events in Britain? Are the immigrants, legal or otherwise, coming to be British or recreate the shiiteholistan they came from?

[NoamChimpsky]

Just curious, have you actually been to the UK recently, or is this utterance about "totalitarianism" based on your governmental studies?

I think the UK is in fine shape, Tony Blair in standing form.

At least he isn't calling Bush a "hitler" like some pacifist Germans in government (or formerly in government, that is).

[karlamayne]

"It really saddens me to even contemplate the changes undergone in the United Kingdom "

And scary, too, when you realize they're our only real ally in the War on

[mgc1122]

It's a small point, but how does one be socialist except for economic matters? I was operating under the theory that a key aspect of socialism was the redistribution of wealth - robbing the rich, and giving to the lazy - which seems to me to be an economic matter.

[Billthedrill]

Gracious, such gloom and doom! The place has really gone downhill since you let all those Angles and Saxons and Jutes in the door.

England isn't dying. Only the football teams I root for.

[MadIvan]

England isn't dying. Only the football teams I root for.

And the cricket team.

groan in pain

Regards, Ivan

[Bogolyubski]

No, I haven't been there in a long time actually. Which is why I predicated my statements on the conditions described in the article being accurate. That said, I have grave doubts that a country with no right of self-defense and 80 people being arrested for thought crimes being in "fine shape." I expect Mr. Blair is supporting a war in Iraq as a means of deflecting people's attention from the disasterous policies at home.

[Republic of Texas]

The worst part is that the US is, politically, about 50 years behind the UK. What they are going through now, we will go through in the not to distant future.

[Teacher317]

When it came to a moment of crisis, the fundamental character of the nation hadn't changed.

Well, the Muslims haven't hit England with the same hammer that they've hit America, Australia, and Russia with... yet.

[Republic of Texas]

Let me respond before this gets yanked. Your attempt at sarcasm by using common perjoratives, shows a lack of imagination. We SHOULD however, expel EVERY immigrant who is here illegally, or for illegal purposes. We SHOULD place social pressure on people to adapt to our culture, by not printing every government document in six languages. We SHOULD not tolerate people who move here so they can spout off hatred torwards this country. Britian SHOULD do the same. If we DON'T, both countries will eventually cease to exist.

[Churchillspirit]

Jolly good show,Clarino.

Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

[Churchillspirit]

Jolly good show,Clarino.

Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Unless all the news we hear is a big distortion, which it could well be, sounds like you are.

The idea of being arrested for shooting thugs who break into your home is indefensible. Being jailed for beating back a would-be mugger is absurd. But to be rounded up for your speech and thought is insane.
If these things are true, you already are slaves.

[MoGalahad]

Are these truely socialists or are they mostly liberal rationalists? Just curious, because, like you, I hate to see any nation lose the cultural heritage that makes it unique.

[mgc1122]

Fair question. I suspect socialists, as like their American liberal counterparts, they are bent on destroying people's lives as independent individuals ... seems to make sense they would do the same for entire nations.

[rogerthedodger]

Actually, i read an article online the other day describing a torso floating in the Thames, apparently hacked and sliced from making human "bushmeat" for immigrant communities.

[rogerthedodger]

Unfortunately, more and more, people don't want to make themselves into Americans, but make their little corner of America into a copy of the place they left.

Certain groups amalgamated easily into the culture prevailing in America at the time of its founding. It will be harder for others.

[rogerthedodger]

I would say that 90% of the real work in making America was done by 1865.