You know the country is in trouble when that august body of globalists, the United Nations, is chastising you. In a remarkable and uncommon outburst of common sense, the UN has told the UK to stop allowing criminals to choose their own gender after no fewer than 48 rapists decided they’d be better off in a women’s prison. I am not sure I understand their logic. If I were a rapist (do I need to add that I’m not?), the last thing I would want is to be surrounded by lots of angry women who are already criminals.
So, with the UK on the international naughty step and the admission over the weekend by the Defence Secretary that we have lost control of our borders, it is surely time that we put the running of our country out to tender. Perhaps the Chinese or the Saudis could come and run the place for us? After all, they don’t seem to have too much trouble at their borders, or to endorse ridiculously liberal attitudes towards blokes who one day are sticking their unwelcome genitals into young ladies and the next deciding that, after all, they are a woman.
There’s so much else that needs fixing. On one side of the English Channel, we have the French police all but loading illegal migrants onto boats and wishing them ‘bon voyage’, while at the other we seem utterly paralysed when it comes to getting rid of the blighters – even when they are demonstrably illegal. We have some who cannot be deported because of chicken nuggets; others because they are gay. The list of reasons wheeled out to prevent the judiciary doing their job is endless, and the most recent slap in the face to the UK taxpayer is a woman who can’t be sent back to whence she came because she has been here too long. I wonder whose fault that was?
The list of intersectional tomfoolery goes on. Pupils are being told that not all of the Vikings were white. Why? Is that supposed to endear us to them? Have any people of colour been consulted about now being included in the hordes of raping and pillaging Scandinavians who visited us during Saxon times and never left? Come to think about it, little has changed. History really does repeat itself. The only difference being that, back in Saxon times, we were at least prepared to put up a bit of a fight to defend our shores and our women.
Next up in the stupidity stakes is Bunzl, a major manufacturer of menstrual period products who now tell us that periods are not only for women. As anyone who is married with daughters knows, periods do have a devastating effect on the male psyche and dignity. But, somehow, I don’t think that is what Bunzl means.
I keep thinking – wrongly obviously – that someone up there with responsibility for our borders and for our laws must see that something is far wrong, but clearly not. As my local taxi driver to the station this morning said: “It seems quite simple to me. If someone breaks into your house, they did it illegally; they have broken the law. But if someone enters the country illegally, they are welcomed with open arms. It doesn’t make sense.” He is not wrong.
If a humble taxi driver – someone who recognised the need for legal migration to run the NHS, for example – can with such perspicacity, utter this common sense, why can’t our leading politicians? I speak to nobody, left or right of me politically, who agrees with what is going on, or who can make sense of the depth of madness into which we have sunk.
In the end, what we are witnessing is not a series of isolated policy failures, but a full-scale abdication of common sense and national responsibility. It is as if the machinery of government has been hijacked by a technocratic elite, more interested in policing pronouns and virtue-signalling than in defending the basic rights and dignity of its own citizens. We are told that change will come – perhaps with the next election, or the one after that – but why should we believe it? If the past is any guide, those who shout the loudest in opposition now will be the first to fold when the rewards of power come knocking. Until we see a fundamental shift in political will, a return to the values of self-respect and self-determination, we will remain adrift in a sea of policies that serve everyone but the British people.
Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He is a columnist with Unity News Network and writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.
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The machinery of government literally doesn’t work any more. Our so-called constitution is not fit for purpose. We need a political party to stand on a platform of constitutional reform and leave the politics of left-right (ridiculous notion anyway) out of it.
I agree with right and left being a ridiculous notion. It firstly creates the belief that one ideology can be better than the other and hence creates conflict. It is what the politicians want, to have us divided on what is fight. This creates the swings in the party in government. But it makes no difference. It is the system that controls the politicians that we need to control and we have no means to do that.
As we approach 4 june it is interesting to compare the insanities of communist China with the current turbulences in our western world – their cultural revolution has similarities to the lunacies of our net zero , gender fluidity and cancel culture idiocies . When our country wakes from this fevered socialist nightmare, I do hope we can find a Deng Xiao-ping equivalent to move our economy from bankruptcy to growth .
Our politicians are only the public face of a wholly malevolent cadre of extremely unpleasant globalists who are now running this country. If we manage to rid ourselves of the current crop of traitors will their replacements be any different? I doubt it. This country is finished whatever happens but we have to hope that enough of us can carry the fight and ultimately eradicate the oppressors and it will require eradication not just a comfy few weeks in nick. Until the establishment has been cleansed there is little hope unfortunately.
‘…someone up there with responsibility for our borders and for our laws must see that something is far wrong, but clearly not.’ Wrong – they do see it, they are well aware. I wish people, even those with the intelligence to know better – would not keep saying ‘The Government is incompetent’, ‘Starmer is out of his depth’, ‘Starmer is like a rabbit in the headlights’, ‘Starmer is stupid’. Nobody is THAT stupid. You are far too kind. When will more people realise that this Government is in the process of destroying us ON PURPOSE. It is planned. Is it ingrained in the British psyche that we can’t bring ourselves to realise or believe that this government, which is supposed to ‘serve’ us, is in fact doing nothing of the sort, and it isn’t due to incompetence or stupidity, but evil intent? Irreversible damage is being done, and we are sleepwalking to doom because we think Starmer is just ‘incompetent’, and will somehow ‘learn on the job’. The only thing he’s learning, is that he can lie with impunity and do anything he likes, and we just look on open mouthed because we don’t want to believe that he is a very bad man with self interest and our destruction at heart.
The only solution (n.b. it won’t ever, ever happen) is for ordinary UK born citizens to be appointed, as in Jury Service, to run the country for a period of five years i.e. all political parties banned and Westminster reformed by having no elected MPs or hereditary or appointed Lords (but with US style vetting to remove those unsuitable, such as dual nationality holders and religious maniacs of all types). This would also require the wholesale sacking of the entire Civil Service and replacement with fewer none unionised competent administrators of the type that do exist but are held back by their politically motivated and/or work shy managers.
Everyone can see the lunacy of the current situation and that only a few politically naive or mendacious individuals actually agree with anything in modern Britain now whatsoever.
Perhaps there is some form of ‘direct democracy’ that could begin to put right what has gone wrong but can a ‘representative democracy’ ever do it? In Fiji it had to wait until a census showed that the Indians (brought there, to begin with, as labourers, by the British) had become a majority and Fiji’s army — which had remained in the control of native Fijians — in response took to having coups. After that, the proportion of Indians went down (a bit).
This must be a ticklish subject for the Left because, on the one hand, the coups were anti-democratic and an eruption of ethnic nationalism (than which nothing is worse), on the other hand those responsible for what the native Fijians regarded as the misappropriation of their land were the Colonials (than whom no one is or can do worse).
So good.