Helplessness and rage

A lethal mixture in any country this divided

This is not going to be a cheerful Substack so if you don’t want to be depressed then delete or look away now. I have written before about the state of the country but I think we are hitting the very end now. You can see it when you walk out your door and when you speak to people. We are a country which feels like it is living without any real hope for the future - that change is now impossible.

Decline is evident everywhere when you travel around the country. All you see are broken roads, rubbish, ruined street furniture and uncared for buildings and towns. It is depressing and more and more people now openly discuss it though at some level they will have seen it for years. A creeping sense of despair permeates the country as nothing ever changes.

People are struggling day by day more and more. Everything is getting more expensive from tax to food to even passports and yet nothing seems to improve. More money is poured into the NHS and other public services and yet they remain a mess. The cash apparently is wasted, badly spent or perhaps the structures are so broken nothing can change the direction of travel.

I feel it deeply - it hurts me daily as I leave my front door and walk or run around my beloved country. I see the filth on the broken roads, the trash in the gutters, the unkept grass verges, broken and bent barriers, beaten down buildings and communities. When was the last time I saw a road sweeper or gardener out tidying the nation?

Our country is decaying in front our eyes - you can’t unsee it once you have and it fills you with shame and rage. It fills you up like a smoldering volcano seeing what has been done to it over the last 25 years or more. You are left near panting with the wish to lash out physically to take some of heat away before it burns you up. What the hell happened to us - what the hell has been done to us - who is to blame - why does nothing ever change?

You turn on the TV or internet and the rage boils over with the latest stories of our do nothing political class. Two tier justice system “This is unacceptable” rages the political class then they do nothing. Some migrant wins the right to remain in the UK even though he should have been gone years ago “This is scandalous” pips the political class but nothing happens.

The political class are becoming a meme. Utterly failing to act with any urgency on anything except when it comes to more money for Ukraine or some other far away issue which is of passing relevance to the British public. Apparently serving this country is too much like hard work for people when they can parade around on the world stage pretending they are important.

This mentality permeates through the British state. It no longer serves or even feels it has any obligations to the general public. It is run by self serving vain glorious intellectual pygmies. The police don’t police the criminals they police speech and the law abiding majority. The border force acts as a ferry service to bring the worlds unwashed to our shores. Hell even the military now appears to be more interested in DEI than defending the United Kingdom.

The entire edifice of the British state which has existed for centuries is slowly collapsing as the people in charge have decided that doing their jobs is too much like hard work. The idea that it and they should serve the British public’s interests above all others is gone. Its very political legitimacy is now failing in real time. More and more people are just looking for a way to escape from the country.

On Sunday whilst out with my family visiting another dog eared and worn part of the country in the bracing spring weather I posted this which triggered thousands of responses from people. Apparently it struck a cord with many who clearly feel the same as me.

As I sifted through the replies the good and the bad I came across this and I felt another wave of grief, sadness and rage anew to the point where my wife asked if I was alright as clearly it had shown on my face. This is exactly how I feel - I feel devasted at the state of this country like watching a family member wither away and die in front of you. Everything you try fails and you just have to watch the sickness consume them as you powerlessly sit there.

One of the big themes that came out of the Twitter responses (thank you to everyone who responded) was that during the 70’s there was at least a sense of social unity even if it was us vs them in many ways. There was class and even national unity when confronted with the challenges of the day which is clearly gone now. I suspect that is why so many people enjoyed COVID it was a brief moment when the country acted together or at least pretended to.

The same can be said when the Queen died - there was briefly a moment of coming together for the nation when people put aside their differences. I remember that very well as I cried watching the funeral. Not for the Queen who had lived a great life of service to her family and country but for us. Her death felt like the final thread that led back to something better had been sliced away. I bawled my eyes out for what was lost and would never come again.

It has been down hill from there - yes economically but more and more socially. Crime has exploded, prices have run out of control and the borders have collapsed and the response to this all has been political apathy. In each case the political class have sat watching the crisis grow like a cancer and rather than responding to it early have done nothing whilst the public have jumped up and down, pointing, screaming and begging them to take action.

I just don’t think this can and will go on and I am becoming ever more pessimistic that change will be delivered without some fundamental break. You saw the beginning of this process with Southport as people vented their rage over the state of the country in response to that horrible atrocity.

More than that though Southport demonstrated the collapse of trust in the state and our political leadership as people just assumed rightly that they were being lied to. But the attack also demonstrated how the political class are terrified of the public - it is why they lie because they worry the truth may light the spark on the political funeral pyre they have been stacking for decades via mass migration.

This is all coming together at the same time - rage and despair about a country which appears to be in free fall, a political class which doesn’t seem to care let alone want to do anything, state institutions which have collapsed as the people inside them refuse to do their jobs properly and finally mass migration which appears to be replacing the British native population and which no one asked for.

Watching this clip from Channel Four news from Grimsby gives you a little taste of the level of cynicism and rage which is now about. These are just ordinary people who are not bad, stupid or ignorant. They rightly see a broken system, a political class who don’t want to change anything much and a country which is falling to pieces and in which they and their families are being downgraded daily by the choices made in Westminster. They have every right to be angry and you can bet they won’t stay silent for long.

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Labour and Starmer may be slathering on the patriotic lipstick but they are offering nothing except minor tweaks to the status quo. They are busy destroying even more jobs for net zero, giving away the Chagos islands costing us billions, throwing money at unions, even more money at Ukraine, shipping in both legals and illegals at a record pace and much much more. The idea they will swerve on any of these is for the birds as they are intrinsic to their worldview. Labour’s latest wheeze which is apparently to focus on AI, government reform and defence is like spitting into the eye of a hurricane - a totally insufficient response to the crisis we are confronted with.

Many people sneer at Reform and complain they have no positions. Fair enough but public support for the party is not built around “a project”. It is actually a reverse function of the collapsing support for the major parties and the broader liberal establishment. One goes up because the other is going down rapidly now - going going and soon to be gone. The same phenomenon is seen in the media with people voting with their feet after being lied to and disrespected for too long (Yes like you BBC).

This is the true danger for Farage - he tries to go for a Ming vase approach to campaigning just like Labour did. He becomes too vanilla and doesn’t have a revolutionary enough view of what needs to be done, that people are actually put off or that support collapses instantly should he win. For what more and more people want now is a Trump like fire and brimstone approach to governing - no prisoners taken as the changes are pounded through an unwilling and incompetent system.

People are tired of the “talk talk” that has long since replaced action across the British political system. They are bored of being told that the government can’t do something because {insert relevant reason}. They are not stupid they know things are not simple but they are rarely as complex as the clever people make out when they want to stop a change. Beyond that they want a British first approach to governing. You know a really novel idea that puts this country and its people first.

It is now a race between change coming via the political and governing system which has long since ceased to work properly or via the streets. Oh people may sneer at this idea but I really don’t think we are that far off something large happening. Either way change is on the way as people will not sit silent forever as the country rots all whilst their birthright and their children’s future is flushed down the political khazi via economic mismanagement and mass migration that has been democratically rejected for decades.

No desperate times call for desperate measures are we are definitely there. I hope and I pray that political change comes and it comes fast and with full force. I hope that Farage and co “unite the right” and get Cummings to rewire the state. Hell burn half of it down I don’t care but just do something to demonstrate that politics is more than just a load of out of touch suits in parliament talking and doing nothing.

For whatever my views on the right and I am personally a social democrat I am more than anything a patriot and a democrat and this country is in serious trouble. Our entire social contract is sat on a bed of TNT waiting to go off. If it does then we may find that quaint ideas like Britishness, Englishness or Welshness etc are traded in for something far darker as years of misrule and social disintegration comes back to bite in one go.