The UK, renowned for its tolerance and sense of fair play, and which should be the greatest nation on earth in which to live, is rapidly declining to become a cesspit. 200000 British people left the UK last year. An additional 200000 long-term foreign residents also left. 400000 people may have left but over 600000 immigrants settled in the country. The UK is now, and has been for some time, on a demographic curve, which will lead it to a point where for the first time in human history a country’s indigenous population has volunteered its nationhood away. But is it any wonder that there is a mass exodus of British people?
1. Uncontrolled immigration has weakened the nation state and the sense of belonging. The British people are slowly loosing control of their own country.
1. Uncontrolled immigration has weakened the nation state and the sense of belonging. The British people are slowly loosing control of their own country.
2. Uncontrolled immigration has also created a huge Muslim minority. The majority in the Muslim population are decent hard working folk but it is undeniable that there is a sizeable minority who despise western freedoms and lifestyle. They exploit both to spread their extremist propaganda and encourage terrorism to kill fellow citizens who do not follow their hateful and disgusting beliefs.
3. Multi-culturism has been forced onto the British people by a political class who are completely removed from the realities that it has lead to. It might have been a noble belief but it has been used as a way of smoothing the way for a huge influx of immigrants. Political correctness has inevitably meant that minority culture has begun to take precedent over the wishes and desires of the British majority. Anyone who speaks out against multi-culturism is, it seems, automatically branded a racist, even though cultural issues do not refer to race.
4. American capitalist economics imported by Thatcher in the 1980s has lead to a winners and losers society where fellow citizens are irrelevant and are often a competitor to be defeated. People now frequently have a total disregard for each other. All that matters is personal self-fulfilment even at the expense of all others.
5. American rap/hip-hop culture has been imported via black youth. This has spread like a cancer to infect virtually the entire youth lifestyle. It embodies rampant consumerism and violence and is the grotesque extreme of uncontrolled capitalism.
6. Violence, gangs, guns and stabbings plague youth culture. Violence perpetrated, and which is now reported daily, is made all the more shocking as it is carried out without any regard or feeling for the victim. It is often filmed and regarded as a joke by teenagers who have an almost sociopathic antipathy to anyone outside their clique. It should be remembered that today’s youth are the society builders and decision makers of tomorrow responsible for working, paying taxes and supporting and defending the nation.
7. The cause of the present youth crisis can be found in the economic and social policies of the 1980s. The parents of todays out of control teenagers are the ones who were indoctrinated, educated and cast aside by massive unemployment in the 1980s. Britain had a heavy industrial base, which was a tough all male environment. Teenage boys were part of tight family groups, which were themselves part of disciplined and cohesive communities. Boys invariably entered apprenticeships or went to work in industry. They could no longer hang around with the same mats they grew up with but had to become ‘men’. Industry was not only an important source of revenue but also played an almost unknowingly vital social role.
8. Mass unemployment of the 1980s led directly to the belief that welfare dependency is a lifestyle choice instead of it being a safety net. Social security, paid for at huge expense by the decent hard working taxpayer, has been abused and expanded so that it is now possible to earn more money doing nothing than going out to work. A state that is unbelievable, corrupt and unfair.
9. Disintegration of the family is directly traceable to the ending of industry. It is no surprise that the rise of single motherhood and teenage pregnancy coincided with mass unemployment. A lifestyle that became normalised 20 years ago. Youth crime today is associated with the ending of the family unit. Parents of teenagers today are those who were teenagers in the 1980s.
10. Widespread and systematic drug use has turned British working class streets and housing complexes into open sewers. Drug dealers use violence and intimidation to protect their ‘empires’ and drug users commit crime against decent people to raise money to feed their habits.
11. A weak establishment lead judiciary takes pride in interpreting and manipulating laws to spite the government. It turns economic migrants into asylum seekers, makes it acceptable to hijack airlines, protects the rights of foreign murderers and allows paedophiles to walk free from court. The judiciary have become self-indulgent and is rife with political correctness. The law is not now a tool for defending the rights of the decent law abiding citizen. It is corrupted and influenced by lawyers who make vast fortunes out of legal aid, manipulating and defending the indefensible.
Britain has become an anarchic, brutal and immoral society. Successive governments of both parties have been unable or unwilling to tackle head on the decline in civil standards. They have continuously missed the reality of the lives, wishes and aspirations of decent ordinary people. On the present course the future of the country is bleak. Who can blame people for getting out now?
3 comments:
Re points 7-9: unemployment was not the main cause of social disintegration. After all, the great depression did not have the same results. And given the economic debacle of Red Robbo’s 1970s and the bloated, hopeless national industries - legacies of Atlee who had to beg & borrow from the Americans just to stay afloat - there wasn’t a great deal of choice in the 1980s.
Rather it was this: post war, there came a strong liberal movement which blamed the establishment for the horrors of two world wars (I blame the Germans, but I wasn't alive then ...). It therefore set out to destroy the establishment and the formal class system it represented. This was the attitude of the BBC at the time as brilliantly related recently by Sir Antony Jay of Yes Minister fame.
By the 1980s it had had some success, and most of the teachers, social workers, local authority politicians etc had grown up with this new liberal ethos. They were the children of the 50s. So they introduced the crazed version of multiculturalism, under which indigenous British were responsible for any and all ills of the past or present. Immigrants were positively discouraged from integrating - leading twenty years later to the likes of the Oldam riots - a product of 1980s apatheid style multiculturalism.
The C of E was less a moral guardian than a national joke. Virtues such as hard work etc were dismissed as old tory nonsense. The class system based on manners, accent etc had been obliterated - but not the natural desire of people to better themselves or look down on others. Thus it was replaced by a new class system based purely on material goods. Those became easier to acquire as there were more of them, they were cheaper, and personal credit became ridiculously easy to obtain.
Of course the liberal elite won't accept responsibility for anything, therefore they have campaigned hard to the effect that thatcher, not them, caused all the probs (I'm not a personal fan of hers, btw)
It was the economic reforms which led to the massive wealth of the present, and Britain reaching the same position in economic terms as at the height of Empire - yet all the while the social fabric was torn apart. The next generation will pay the price.
Response to Political Umpire’s comments:
I am afraid unemployment is a major factor in social disintegration. It is impossible to compare the 1980s to the depression era of the 1930s. The depression was combated in the major industrialized states by massive public expenditure, except for Britain where the Conservative government did precisely nothing in a bid to punish the trade unions and the working classes for the Miner’s strike of 1925/26 and the General Strike of 1926. For this, they would be soundly defeated in 1945. It appears people had long memories in those days. Even in Britain though major government projects such as naval construction did still exist. The industrial base of the nation was not destroyed and markets for manufactured goods were still available, courtesy of the empire. Additionally the run up to war caught both the government’s and the public’s attention. Industry picked up again as the country rearmed. Nothing like this occurred in the 1980s. The country underwent a seismic shift in the construct of the economy. The traditional ‘smoke stack’ industries were allowed to whither on the vine or actively destroyed, in a bid to punish the trade unions and the working classes for the Miner’s strikes of 1972 and 1974 and other trade union agitation. Government expenditure was used to pay people to do precisely nothing, wasting massive oil revenues. Government inactivity and the sense of hopelessness are common to both decades. The hopelessness of the 1980s, however, was partly based in the reality that industry will never return. The boom in the economy towards the end of the 1980s was ‘London-centric’. The old industrial centres remained depressed. The collapse in family structures and social disintegration in these areas are all directly traceable to the ending of industry in the mid to late 1980s period.
As for the ‘bloated and hopeless national industries’, not all were like this. In fact most were not. Industries were often nationalised after the owners ‘begged’ the government to take ownership. Some industries were indeed subsidised and protected but that is still common throughout the world, except in the UK. For example, there is not a shipyard in the world that builds ships to cost, not even in the giant yards of Japan or South Korea. The public utilities were a model for the world. Nationalised industry, such as power, was planned and coordinated with diverse forms of production and supply. Now we are left with an over charging and wholly foreign owned shambles who will only invest in short term capital projects leaving the country strategically vulnerable.
To deride Attlee for begging and borrowing from the USA is grossly unfair. The country was bankrupt with an economy geared for wartime production. The people expected and demanded social change after six years of sacrifice and their experiences of the 1930s: a period to which they were not going to return.
Social liberation occurred when class-ridden shackles were cast away as a result of the war. And why not? What merit is there in a hereditary system of power? It is a fact that before war was declared many in the Tory party and the establishment supported Hitler and the Nazi Party. However, on what basis to you assert that the establishment were blamed for the horrors of WW2? It was universally recognised as a fight for national survival. Social change occurred because, after the sacrifice, people were not going back to the old status quo.
Mass immigration began ironically in the 1950s during Eden’s and especially Macmillan’s premierships in the misguided belief that with the ending of empire, Britain was still the mother country. The peoples of the old empire were welcomed with open arms by the establishment, in virtually an act of atonement. Immigrants were expected to assimilate but since they congregated into single areas, such as the old mill towns of Lancashire, their culture remained. Multi-culturism is a relatively recent term, invented to disguise the failure of mass immigration. It is wrong to say that its basis is found solely in liberal ethos since the demographic grouping of immigrants was more as a result of economics than anything else.
Ironically, it was the Tory right under Thatcher who created the capitalist, consumer-driven, materialistic and devil-may-care society we now suffer. Since they also destroyed the manufacturing base of the country, the huge trade deficits we experience today began to manifest in the 1980s. It was also Thatcher’s government who removed credit control. Debt has driven the British economy ever since to a point where personal debt is nearing £1.5 trillion. The present hopeless government have proved utterly incapable of attending to the underlying economic and social problems of the country. But the problems inherent in Britain today all stem from the bloated, over-wrought and hugely wasteful 1980s. Of course the capitalist, free-marketeering right won’t accept any responsibility and we are paying the price now.
Interesting response. I don't have the time for a detailed reply save to say:
1. I wasn't deriding Atlee for begging off the Americans - he had no choice. (Unfortunately sending Keynes to Washington was the wrong move, but that's another story). I blogged about that in a post 'Mortgaged to the Yanks'.
2. As to what I was pointing out - the erosion of traditional values etc - read Antony Jay's recent piece about the BBC then and now. I linked to part of it but a general google search should find it.
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