The tone of US political speechifying is echoed in this rant by Allister Heath. Britain, he says "is not merely broken: it has been hacked to pieces by a nihilistic ruling class committed todismembering our society. The methodical ruthlessness of thr Left-wing barbarians responsible, the relentlessness of their vandalism,the thoroughness of their infiltration of our institutions . . . "
among the resulting "calamities" he lists are:
- a belief that armed conflict and the need for resilience were obsolete
- New Labour's constitutional and judicial putsches, the rise of command and control welfarism, and mass redistribution under Gordon Brown
- drastically increased immigration, the spread of criticaal theory and anti-Western self-hatred
- the embrace of net zero, ani-developmentism and aniconsumerrism
- the turn against free markets
- the abandonment of monetary and fiscal probity
- the displacement of religious observance by secular ideologies such as Gaia worship, NHS ideolatry, and wokery
- the decline of marriage, the crisis of masculinity, the surge in loneliness, and the baby bust
- the embrace of lockdowns and authoritarianism
- the rejection of democracy, freedom, trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, and free speech.
Does he (or perhaps Reform, I am not sure what his exact political stance is) propose laws to force everyone to attend church, stay in an unhappy marriage, produce a large family and not be miserable under pain of arrest and imprisonment. It would be interesting to see his evidence for the rejections in the last items, which make Britain sound like the Wild West - kangaroo trials of dissenting spokemen like himself, guilty unless proven innocent, summary justice, lynchings, strange fruit on Tyburn Tree.
