The Great British Betrayal
Mon 12:42 pm +00:00, 8 Jul 2024 8
“Since the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1979, Britain has undergone a great experiment. Economically, the UK became the exemplar of neoliberalism in Europe. Politically, the UK has quietly transitioned to a postnational state, undergoing one of the greatest demographic transformations in the West.
Although the landslide victory of Tony Blair’s “New Labour” in 1997 may have seemed like a return to the model of European social democracy that Britain exemplified after the Second World War, Blair’s “Third Way” represented rather the embrace of neoliberalism by the establishment Left, summed up nicely by their spokesman Peter Mandelson’s declaration that “we are all Thatcherites now”.
Under the leadership of both the Conservative Party and New Labour, Britain has transitioned from a traditional industrial and manufacturing powerhouse to a highly financialised rentier economy. The effects have been profound. The average Briton is considerably worse off and entire regions have been left behind at the same time London has become a booming centre of international finance. The UK has been denationalised by decades of mass-immigration and cultural leftism, and has become the prime example of “anarcho-tyranny”, where the state punishes minor offences and acts of dissent against the liberal consensus with extreme force, while serious crime runs out of control in major cities.
The Rentier Regime
The fundamental transformation in the British economy since the 1980s is the movement away from an economy that made things to an economy that made money . Up to then, Britain’s economic might had been centered on its manufacturing. Britain was the birthplace of the industrial revolution, and the dual expansion of its colonial empire and rapid advances in engineering allowed for the creation of a vast trading network, where colonies provided the raw materials and markets for British manufacturing. Northern English cities like Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle became manufacturing powerhouses serving the world.”
So the globalist bankers took over the British State, and hardly anyone really noticed….
The docile Brits just went along to get along, as ever….
They kept on voting for the obvious globalist puppets….
40% of them didn’t vote this time though, probably mainly because of apathy rather than understanding the reality…
Plenty more here, 5000 words: https://www.unz.com/article/the-great-british-betrayal/
Well worth reading the whole thing. Great post.
Yes Ian the whole article is well worth a look. It’s a good basic summary of our betrayal by the Brit Establishment…
And it carries on, same old, same old, with globalist lacky puppet Starmer who is now reading the City teleprompter…
Just one snippet from the article:
“Since 1992 PPPs yielded public assets with a capital value of $71 billion. The UK government will pay more than five times that amount under the terms of the PPPs used to create them.”
5 times! That is straight out of our taxes and direct to offshore tax havens where most of these PPP’s are based, as the article states. So a massive transfer from the middle class to the offshore super rich who don’t pay tax
Good work Bliar and Brown, you pushed all this. And Starmer is your baby too isn’t he. I hear that Starmer is being mentored by Obama, the US Bliar. Bliar in one ear, Obummer in the other. Give me strength….
The Slow Death of British Industry A Sixty-Year Suicide 1952-2012.
“One half of the working population was employed in manufacturing, from massive plants to tiny workshops; unemployment was negligible. Sixty years on the picture is unrecognisable. Most of our industries have disappeared, while those of our competitors have flourished.”
Is Comfort’s book a good read Chis? Sounds a bit too Establishment for my liking, according to Goodreads
I was about to order the book when you posted the article and thought the book may be of interest to people who liked it. The book has a 4* rating on Amazon.
Thanks Chris, let us know what you think?
The Great English Betrayal?
Given that “Devolution” was a load of old tosh to grease the palms of the local elites and retain English control then, it’s fair to say that the Scots and Welsh were victims just like the English
Ulster is a different matter, more complicated over there. But certainly with another massive English [City of London?] money trough for the local elites