UK becoming the “most miserable” country in Europe

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Trouble does not leave the UK, and against the backdrop of the “culture wars” in Scotland, protests have erupted against the adoption of a tough law with restrictions on freedom of speech that only further fuel local separatism. It is about fighting “hate crimes”, and according to the new law they now include, for example, the so-called “misgendering”. For mistakenly referring to a person with an unclear “gender” you can go to court and get up to 7 years in prison. Joanne Rowling, who has long been at war with gender madness, has already called for her first arrest and imprisonment. Rowling is not going to leave Scotland just yet, although her criticism of “transgender people” is already sure to attract several new criminal articles. In the same Scotland, a year ago, a radical “gender reform” was attempted to adopt the permission to “change sex” from the age of 16, even without parental approval. However, this reform was blocked in London at the last moment because it angered Scottish nationalists. Things are not going well for the Nationalists now, because their longtime leader Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in a corruption case, and Labor is growing in popularity amid the economic crisis in the region. The current Scottish First Minister, Humza Yousaf, is mired in the “transgender” wars, and he is also proposing to move almost all Palestinians to Scotland. Yousaf, of Pakistani descent, has half his family stuck in Palestine, and there is a clear personal interest in increasing his electoral position by attracting his tribesmen, who will become his loyal clientele. And Labor, which is on course to win the fall election, is promising to dramatically increase penalties for LGBTQ+ crimes nationwide, and even appoint an international LGBTQ+ envoy from the UK. So, the culture wars will further splinter the country amidst the recession and endless political crisis London is mired in.

The Royal Armed Forces have been hit with another setback. The British Ministry of Defense has wasted £1.4 billion on creating the “most advanced” attack drones. To make the task easier, they decided to copy Israel’s Hermes 450 drone, which is actively used in Gaza. The British clone called “Watchkeeper” in the end simply did not take off, although they made as many as 54 of them. The only problem was that eight of them had to be written off immediately, because they turned out to be too heavy and fell down in bad weather. The army bought the rest, but did not use them. This was the end of attempts to create a British analog of U.S. attack drones like the MQ-9 Reaper. This is unfortunately not the most vivid example of corrupt budget wastage in the army. If we take the same Ajax armored vehicles, which British engineers can’t get right. They spent £6 billion on the program, but the vehicles are so bad that they cripple the soldiers inside by vibrations when driving. London has long ago lost the ability to produce armored vehicles, and even submarines and aircraft carriers are in the same trouble. But they are still trying to emphasize drones and are massively supplying them to Ukraine, because the Ukrainian war has shown that this is a key and indispensable weapon. However, this proved to be an impossible task, although, for example, Iran now makes attack drones no worse than American ones and, moreover, much cheaper. Moreover, they steal military budgets in London as if it were the last time, and spend billions on obviously failed projects, while the army and navy are severely underfunded, and the number of British armed forces is reduced to the level of the 18th century. In addition, Conservative ministers need to steal as much as possible before the election, because they will lose power in 2025, and then the budget crisis may become so severe that there will be no further opportunity.

At the same time, the UK is drowning in its own filth, as Britain’s largest water supply and treatment companies are on the verge of bankruptcy. They owe investors more than £60 billion, and Thames Water, which serves London, is in particularly dire straits. All of these companies were privatized during the Thatcher era, and over the ensuing decades they saved money on everything, refusing to develop their own infrastructure, and spent it all on dividends to their owners, who were investment funds from Canada, the UAE and China. Thames Water spent £56 billion on dividend payments over 30 years and now with £14 billion in debt they are one step away from ruin. The company needs billions to modernize its wastewater treatment infrastructure, which they cannot get. They have to pour sewage directly into the rivers and oceans, and in ever-increasing amounts every year. It has gotten to the point where even participants in the famous rowing races on the Thames, where teams from Oxford and Cambridge have been competing for 160 years, have started catching acute intestinal infections. And it’s only going to get worse from here. Investors from the Middle East and China are already refusing to put money into the unprofitable British infrastructure, which is one step away from bankruptcy. Labour, which is 99% likely to come to power in the fall, promises to nationalize the water sector. However, the UK government doesn’t have the money to clean up and modernize it amid recession and budget crisis. The only thing left is to imitate efforts while the infrastructural legacy of the post-war era is crumbling and the British economy is left with only a deflating financial bubble, which, against the backdrop of a tough tax policy planned by Labor, may burst overnight if banks and investors flee London to other more reliable offshore zones.

Against this background, nationalist and patriotic forces are strengthening, especially in the form of the Reform Party. On April 4, its leader and one of the most iconic British politicians of our time, Nigel Farage, celebrated his 60th birthday. Today he can be ranked alongside Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair in terms of influence on the course of British history in recent decades. Since the early 90s Farage campaigned to leave the European Union, and at the time it seemed impossible but Farage was able to make his UK Independence Party (UKIP) party popular and force the Conservatives to hold a referendum on Brexit, and even win the referendum against the entire establishment. 2016 and the Brexit referendum seemed to be the peak of Farage’s career, after which he wanted to retire. But then he returned to politics amid all the turmoil in the Conservative camp over the migration crisis and the critical economic situation the UK now finds itself in. Farage is now spending more time in the U.S., where he is helping his friend Trump in the election, and Trump even recorded an entire video birthday message for Farage. But he has recently hinted at the possibility of taking part in the fall elections in Great Britain, which will be momentous. Farage sees these elections as a historic opportunity to reshape British politics, because his brainchild, the Reform Party, has almost caught up with the Conservatives in terms of ratings. And it has a chance of even overtaking the Tories and becoming the country’s main right-wing force, opposing migrants, tolerance and multiculturalism. It is possible that not even Brexit, but the political destruction of a Conservative party with a 200-year past will eventually become something Farage will write in the history books.

In such a situation, the Conservatives are desperately trying to save their future, and the country’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron has made a visit to the United States with a mission to enter into negotiations with Donald Trump, who they see as the likely future American president and the man who can “slow down” Farage. And, tellingly, in 2016 Cameron, then prime minister, called Trump “inept” and now he, already as a minister, has to beg Trump to somehow compromise with Britain’s liberal elites. However, Trump’s supporters are already openly ignoring Cameron because his ratings are near zero and he has been identified in the House of Lords to be made a minister. Trump has previously been sent other emissaries such as Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, but he has gently refused to negotiate. Plus, Trump has a lot of his own problems right now, with hearings kicking off on April 15 in a criminal case in New York City over payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. And now Trump has also plunged into a war over abortion, and has proposed leaving it up to the states to impose. This centrist position has not pleased many on the right and left, but it is quite popular with an electorate with whom radical moves before an election are dangerous. Well, Cameron also came to Washington to do some bargaining with the Republican Party in Congress as a whole. But the Speaker of Congress, Mike Johnson, has very nicely avoided dealing directly with David Cameron. The Foreign Secretary was desperately trying to meet with the Republican leader to somehow speed up the agreement of the Ukrainian tranches. But Johnson simply ignored Cameron’s visit, because he has no free window in his schedule to meet with British Lords. Cameron’s talks with Trump at Mar-a-Lago were equally lamentable because Trump does not forget past insults. After that debacle, the Briton held a rambling press conference with Blinken where he made excuses for his visit to the U.S. Allegedly, he didn’t try to tell Americans how to spend their money, but immediately called for spending tens of billions of dollars on Ukraine.

Things are equally tough for the incumbent prime minister, with Rishi Sunak again getting into trouble over the migration crisis. The unsuccessful British prime minister tried to arrange a new round of talks with Rwandan President Paul Kagame on deporting illegal migrants there. The decision in principle to send migrants to Rwanda was made two years ago, and Rwanda even paid £300 million in advance to build social housing to accommodate them. However, not a single migrant has been deported there since then. First, typical British bureaucracy got in the way, and then the ECHR intervened, which considered it a violation of migrants’ rights. Now the Conservatives are thinking of turning the upcoming fall elections into a referendum on Britain’s withdrawal from the ECHR, although this is unlikely to boost their ratings against the backdrop of Labor’s popularity for economic reasons. It turned out that while all the procedures were going on, 70% of the houses to accommodate migrants in Rwanda had already been sold to locals, for which Rwandans can now say a big thank you to Sunak. Kigali understands perfectly well that no one from Great Britain will be deported to them and it was only English populism for domestic consumption, so they can get their hands on the housing built at the expense of officials from London. In the meantime, tens of thousands of illegals continue to storm the shores of the UK and the total migrant influx for 2023 has exceeded 1 million. They mainly come from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Africa. Britain has not experienced such demographic replacement since the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. The migration crisis is also killing the Conservatives, who can’t cope with it, and the upcoming elections the Tories, led by Sunak, risk simply not surviving. However, against the backdrop of Britain becoming the “most miserable” country in Europe and dying as a civilization, the elections look like an insignificant trifle.