by J.B. Shurk
The United Kingdom’s recent elections were a bloodbath for the Establishment political parties and a resounding success for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Voters are furious with their “ruling elites.” Because these were local elections, though, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party remains in control of the national government. Therefore, the election results will likely prove symbolically seismic yet practically anemic.
Starmer insists on rejecting the democratic will of Brexit voters and reintegrating the U.K. with the European Union. The “ruling elite’s” hostility toward British citizens’ desire for national sovereignty will produce many unsavory outcomes, including a likely surge of foreign migrants resettling in the U.K. Whereas the local elections have been correctly interpreted as an expression of the public’s overwhelming opposition to mass migration of foreigners into their communities, Starmer’s Labour Party will exacerbate the problem.
Ever since voters chose to leave the E.U. back in 2016, the U.K.’s political Establishment (Conservative and Labour) has undermined the effort. It took four years to negotiate a “divorce” that ended up looking more like a temporary separation. Many of the most important issues for British citizens — including the reimplementation of sovereign decision-making over economic, regulatory, and immigration policies — were almost immediately watered-down, skirted through legal workarounds, or outright ignored.
Ten years ago, the Brits tried to take their country back from the globalists who use all national homelands as little more than junkyards for spare parts, plantations for slave labor, or dumping grounds for unwanted migrants. As the globalists have remained in control of the national and international institutions, however, they simply bided their time and hollowed out the substance of the people’s vote until the consequential referendum became Brexit-in-name-only. The will of ordinary voters proved insufficient to overcome the political and economic power of bureaucratic armies — especially when those armies are funded in perpetuity by the very taxpayers who oppose them.
The U.K.’s local elections, then, should be seen as part of the rolling tug-of-war between citizens and “ruling class” bureaucrats over the last decade. Regular Brits have done everything they can to pull their country back from the globalist abyss into which Establishment “elites” wish to drag all nations. They have voted, protested, expressed themselves online, and marched through the streets. In turn, the U.K.’s “ruling class” ignored voters, criminalized protest as “hate speech,” censored online debate, and defamed marchers as “far-right fascists.”
To make matters immeasurably worse, the political Establishment has been exposed as a complicit partner in a decades-long Islamic rape gang scandal that has destroyed families across the U.K. While covering up the heinous crimes of foreign nationals abusing, raping, and murdering British girls, the “ruling class” directed police forces to intimidate and silence any British citizens discussing these important public safety matters online or at protest rallies. In other words, the British Establishment took the side of foreign criminals and betrayed the British family.
The “elites” have spent the last decade undermining the spirit of self-government while simultaneously puffing out their chests and pretending to be arch-defenders of “democracy.” Where do things go from here? Well, as President Kennedy warned, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” It is worth noting that a growing chorus of British scholars, military veterans, and foreign policy professionals are stating emphatically: The United Kingdom is headed for civil war.
As the combustible U.K. is a canary in the coal mine for the rest of Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United States, it is important to see Britain’s suicide with clear eyes.
Until WWII, the United Kingdom was the largest empire that the world has known. It stretched across a quarter of the planet’s landmass and included a quarter of the planet’s population. It was the industrial powerhouse of the nineteenth century and was regarded as the “workshop of the world.” British naval power controlled the oceans and dominated global commerce. In the late 1800s, the U.K. produced roughly 30% of the whole planet’s industrial output and 25% of global trade. The United States did not economically surpass Britain until the third year of WWI. London banks financed projects on every continent, and the British pound sterling remained the world reserve currency until after WWII.
Today, the U.K. produces next to nothing. Its mines are closed. Its valuable North Sea oil and gas fields are untapped. The U.K.’s largest steelworks shut down its final furnace two years ago, and now the British government is scrambling to nationalize the historic British Steel currently controlled by the Chinese. With regard to the potential takeover of the plant, Prime Minister Starmer said, “Strong nations in a world like this need to make steel.” You think?
How did the British government allow Chinese communists to take control of a vital national industry? Three simple (and infuriating) reasons: (1) China’s centralized economy has flooded the globe with cheap steel (sold at a loss) as a form of economic warfare that bankrupts companies all over the world. (2) Britain’s insane “green energy” policies force British steelmakers to pay much more for energy than Chinese steelworks. (3) Britain’s suicidal “green energy” policies forced British steelmakers to “upgrade” their plants to electric arc furnaces, which, coincidentally enough, Chinese companies have been happy to build by taking advantage of “green credits” from the British government.
This kind of mentality is how you lose an empire and never win it back. Through irrational, unscientific, and economically suicidal “green energy” policies, the British government destroyed its industrial self-sufficiency, handed over its physical capital to China’s government, and actually paid the Chinese with taxpayer funds. You cannot remain a nation when you are paying other nations to defeat you in battle. Yet this kind of buffoonery has dominated all of Europe in the present century.
You cannot be a great country without a self-sufficient economy. This is the only discipline in our world where the subject of “diversity” should be greeted with seriousness, not snickering. For a nation to protect its people’s futures, it must be economically diverse enough to provide for its people’s needs. It must strive to strengthen its industrial backbone, broaden its manufacturing capacity, encourage technological innovation, and foster small-business entrepreneurship. An industrious, ingenious domestic labor force produces national wealth. Diversify a national economy to the point that your country competes in every available market, and you make your country immune from hostile takeovers.
The U.K. has chosen the path to subjugation and serfdom. The British government would rather depend upon Chinese slave labor than British labor. It would rather depend upon Chinese electronics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and steel than produce those critical products at home. It would rather depend upon China’s coal plants to keep import prices down than use its own valuable oil and natural gas fields to power the nation.
Banking fees, insider trading, and currency manipulation can artificially elevate a country’s ostensible economic outlook for decades. Eventually, however, if a nation mines nothing and makes nothing, its balance sheets will show nothing but debt. If a nation uses foreign workers abroad and foreign workers at home to perform all the jobs that its people require, citizens will have nothing but debt, too.
Poor nations whose people share a common culture can endure great suffering and remain united. Nations divided by many cultures approach suffering as a feeding frenzy wherein every tribe fights to survive. Britain survived the hardships of WWII because it was a united nation. After a century of mass immigration, it will not survive the next war.
To anybody in the West who wishes to avoid the United Kingdom’s fate: Pay attention. What happens there will happen everywhere. Replacing globalism with national self-sufficiency is a life or death decision. Choose accordingly.