Great text! I had a similar experience with train strikes in the U.K.—it felt like winning the lottery to catch the Manchester-London train several months ago. However, I cannot help but feel that it is part of a deliberate dismantling of the West.
The powers that be are acutely aware that a war against Russia would result in defeat, and they understand their loss in the economic battle against the expanding BRICS nations is coming. So they seem content with herding their population into a panopticon prison, where the treacherous process of brainwashing reaches its final, Matrix-like stage of extracting every ounce of vitality from the people.
Meanwhile, they exploit and prey upon other vulnerable nations, weakened to the point of being easily plundered and coerced into accepting their rapacious insanity. It feels to me like Agenda 2030 and all its nefarious goals are being updated as we go.
Thank you sir. It's odd that these things are kind of hidden in plain sight. Most of my trips to the UK were to London (almost all of them). You go from the airport to the hotel, you hang around Mayfair and other nice areas and it's all glitz and glamor... And you don't really pay attention to the despair that lurks in the shadows. Is it deliberate? I tend to agree with you - it IS deliberate and I think it's as close to scientific as it gets. There's evidence that the establishment actually takes the trouble to calculate the precise level of poverty they can inflict on the people before shit hits the fan, and prefer to keep it close to that limit. It's evil beyond belief so most people have a hard time believing that it can actually be true...
I don't know if Britain had an economy! other than Imperialism,Sucking India dry & the City Of London Financial District,..The Crown!
The Establishment Elites & the London Bankers have always been one of
the pillars of what we know today as the Globalist NWO gang.
Their main source of wealth & power has been their dominance over the Global Economy with their phony fiat based money & now the Russians,& Brics,are getting revenge.
Imagine having to reduce taxes by 15% of GDP...! again, not 15% of the tax base, 15% of GDP just to be competitive for growth! A lot of psychopathy there.
These definitely are part of the 'inside' crowd, the rest of us outliers tend to disbelieve they share a happy ending intention in their machinations... the phrase 'you will own nothing and be happy' utopian phrase is like pouring oil over the fire on freedoms, religious or those who choose a more self sustainable existence of choice. Take away choice and freedoms and well, there will be some tyranny in the mix and someone will be the scapegoat to that... at any rate, I love that the monarch chose Charles the 3rd since he well follows suit to being the tyrannical copy of Charles the 2nd who was beheaded by the people who labelled him as such. Right? Wrong? Well... the coin is in the air is it going to land on his butt or his head??? hahaha
Charles the 1st was executed. His son Charles 2nd was restored to the throne. Apparently Cromwell was offered the crown but refused it. I wonder how much of a rhyme we will get in our current historical moment?
The Anglo elites got captured. I'd say the Glorious Revolution was a key moment.
I'm English and feel I live under occupation. The cosmopolitanism elites in charge couldn't careless about the man in the street. De-industrialing and mass replacement migration has hollowed us out.
My once nice, high trust, low crime suburb of the East London now looks like Mogadishu.
That's why the Elites brought in all of the Middle East Muslims.
They didn't just wander into Britain by themselves,they were pulled in to Britain by the Establishment elites to dilute & help destroy the British People!
Rotschild, Soros, Jaimie Diamond, Gensler, Greenspan, Yellen.... 200 years of Jewish Banking Mafia and token white guys. You get exactly the Debt Slavery you deserve.
Agreed Alex. Although I truly believe all of this is deliberate. (I am sure you don't need me to say that). The proles must be on their knees before we get them to beg us for UBI and a few CBDCs a week...The pain ahead will not be a passing twinge, that is for sure.
«Dickensian era poverty»- couldn’t say it better, great observation( as always!). I visited London in March, mostly tourists or refugees from eastern countries or elsewhere. At arrival got caught myself in strike at Gatwick airport. Three strikes on subway( in 3 days). Majority of people didn’t look to healthy, was sad to see. In the center, three floors bookstore, sales person( guy) never heard about author Frederic List but, i saw on bookshelf on the top book “Putins wars “and at the bottom Zelenskyys book “ mein Kampf”.. British people very friendly and polite. They need to take they country back by getting rid of “ Royal “sucking blood creatures.
While people tend to focus on the UK as this once-mighty empire that straddled the globe, it's also worth remembering that in the early postwar period the domestic economy flourished, enjoying sustained growth rates that even exceeded those of previous eras. It was a highly successful mixed economy, with a strong public sector, including state ownership of key industries, as well as a vibrant private-sector. The system began to sputter in the 1970s, with the oil embargo and other factors playing a role, but rather than tinker and fine-tune a system which had worked so well during the previous three decades, the Thatcher counter-revolution was launched to dismantle it. This isn't to say that the postwar system was perfect; the domestic economy may have been driven by some degree by post-imperial neocolonial strategies that would been exploitative and not infinitely sustainable... but still... they threw it all away. How will UK ever be able to compete economically again with the rest of the world? I don't see it catching up, not in our lifetimes at least.
Also, I find myself wondering: what's with >600k immigrants last year; is this really about maintaining a supply cheap labour? Maybe some British readers can explain this for us.
American here, but our experience wasn't that different although we never had a NHS. We did, however have a prosperous post war economy from which all the safeguards were removed during the Reagan/Clinton years (acolytes of Mme Thatcher). The buzz words were "privatization"( cannibalization of the public sector), "free trade" ( moving capital overseas to take advantage of cheap labor), "outsourcing" ( circumventing labor costs) and "too big to fail"(concentrating the financial sector to favor speculators).For a while we enjoyed a false prosperity from a credit bubble and cheap overseas imports, but now the chickens have come home to roost. It's a bit like the kid that traded a silver dollar for a stick of bubble gum!
I have family in the US. Lovely people, but absolutely clueless about the country's current trajectory. They're wholly trapped in the liberal media bubble. Wish I could help them understand those processes you mention above but we no longer seem to speak the same language, figuratively speaking :(
What You-Colin & Bob H describe is exactly(!) what has happened in Sweden. The famous *Swedish 3rd Way* i.e. not communism not hardcore-capitalism was 1 of the reasons I moved to Sweden over 40 years ago. The time period until the 2-oil price shocks of the 1970 used this 3rd-way. Up until the the murder of Prime Minister Olaf Palme in Feb 1986, the 'vulture class' was held at bay and labor unions had tremendous influence with industrialist since the *Saltsjöbaden Avtal 1938* https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Saltsj%C3%B6baden+Avtal&atb=v224-1&ia=webhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement
Long Story short, Looks like it is the exact MO-Modus Operandi once again.
i.e. Worker's hard labor and commitment plus their own(!) capital thru taxation is used to build up viable 'social institutions & publicly-owned production & services' and... the bankster-gangsters collapse the 'system' and buy-up, on-the-cheap, the most viable 'publicly-owned entities.
Yeppp. Same MO. Rinse-and-Repeat. It's so obvious but, most people just don't get it.
Yes, Sweden, like most of Europe seems to have taken a sharp right turn( even if they think of themselves as left or center). I believe a lot of this shift has been promoted through a large slush fund distributed by the likes of NED (National Endowment for Democracy), a CIA front targeting media journalists with bribes to publish propaganda. One such case was revealed by the late Udo Ulfkotte who died mysteriously shortly after becoming a whistleblower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtX_p-bDyxw
This is such an important point. One cannot exaggerate how uniform and monolithic the European press has become; what Udo Ulfkotte revealed was IMO just the tip of the iceberg. Part of it of course one is due to the changing media landscape and the slow deterioration of old business models faced with the rise of Internet media. But not that many years ago, Europe had far more heterogeneous media. Each of us will have our own markers in this regard, but an important one for me was when MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2015. The entire European press reacted in what seemed like choreographed unison that THE RUSSIANS DID IT. We are now seeing the same dynamic at play with the Ukraine conflict. What makes the situation so dangerous in the current context is that it is clear the politicians themselves fall for all the lies; in fact, they are as much the target of the US/UK neocon propaganda as the public at large. So, our parliaments are all still convinced that sanctions against Russia will eventually work, Ukraine will take back Crimea, regime change is imminent in the Kremlin, all we need is more wind turbines and solar panels...
Christopher, sounds like your life trajectory is similar to mine; I moved to the Netherlands in the mid 1980s and have likewise had a front-row seat in the slow, steady dismantling of the Dutch social welfare state; it is now the most neoliberal country in continental Europe.
You probably know the story of Olaf Palme, but for other folks reading along here I can highly recommend the recent podcast of Carl Zha in which he discusses Olaf Palme with a German investigate journalist, Dirk Pohlmann. All that stuff about the Russian subs off the coast! It's all blindingly obvious why Palme had to go and how they went about it, Extremely informative if anyone has an hour to spare:
Christopher, I have a question for you: why did Sweden welcome so much immigration in recent years? Not trying to engage in polemics here (it's a touchy subject), just curious as to what the rationale was. Was it purely economic? Was it idealism? Was it part of some social engineering strategy? Your thoughts?
"empires sow mayhem abroad and misery at home". Ask a neocon how to fix healthcare? Empires sow psychopathic personalities that prey on "the other" and manage to make a great living on complete artifice, with skills that simply do not serve the greater welfare. Ask yourself how many Americans at the VERY TOP fit this description! Look around!
A very clear analysis of the state of my country. I assume that the consequences of the decisions made by our leaders were known in advance. They were quite apparent to me. Were they merely side-effects or the desired outcome? They will have the result of ensuring compliance to whatever is coming. After all, people need to eat.
I have a vague memory of a Chinese government official complaining that the west hadn't cut their standard of living as agreed. I think it was during the Cameron government, and the media laughed it off. Odd foreigners etc. But I wonder if the west had agreed to reduce the gap between our style of life and theirs. It would be a better way to arrange these things than having a war.
But freedom is more important than money. I don't want to give that up.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I'm looking forward to your discussion with Vanessa Beeley.
Britain better hope the price of heroin skyrockets, because without that, pobrecito! We can see why Britain wants war with China so badly--China produces cheap fentanyl, cutting the Brits out of the supply chain except for their dirty banks which continue to take a cut. Not enough for the British government however, they badly miss the days when Hong Kong was the #1 trans-shipment point for drugs worldwide. Time for another color revolution I suppose.
The British NWO bankers in London,in their arrogance,financially attacked the Russians,Ukraine was the pretext. But they were in no position to start up with the failing Global Financial System,that they dominated. Russia just brought out it's own commodities based system with it's BRIC allies & Gold!
The British have been dominating world finances with a fiat currency which can't compete with the new Russian system.
Banking,now that the Empire & colonies are gone,along with the near collapse of the Bretton Woods deal, was their last source of wealth & now even that is gone with the Brics competition
I suppose in a way, it's only natural that Britain was one of the first nations to suffer. Being the first to jump into the Industrial Revolution, they are now naturally ahead of the curve when it comes to holding on to obsolete assets, inflating real estate prices, and all sorts of diseases of modern decay.
While in some part this is inevitable from their path dependency, with investments in hard assets being made early and without the benefit of hindsight, it makes it no less sad. I hope that Britain as a whole can make a recovery - and not just the financial City of London.
Bath was like this decades ago when I was last there, it’s a place of polarised communities. So sad. And your experiences are not unique to Britain - here in NZ, I took my dog to a local park this week early before work, and there were two cars with people sleeping in them. Unusual for that part of the country. The temperature had been below freezing overnight and Winter only just begun. Our future is going to be very challenging, economically and health-wise.
I thought of you when I read this piece about the communist movement in Bavaria after WWI. How does this fit in with all of your various theses? Where did the support come from? Was it indigenous or driven by outsiders? The British? Were the people Jewish (as was the case in Berlin)? If so, were these the specific Jews that drove Hitler's hatred towards Jews, since he hated the Communists?
Great text! I had a similar experience with train strikes in the U.K.—it felt like winning the lottery to catch the Manchester-London train several months ago. However, I cannot help but feel that it is part of a deliberate dismantling of the West.
The powers that be are acutely aware that a war against Russia would result in defeat, and they understand their loss in the economic battle against the expanding BRICS nations is coming. So they seem content with herding their population into a panopticon prison, where the treacherous process of brainwashing reaches its final, Matrix-like stage of extracting every ounce of vitality from the people.
Meanwhile, they exploit and prey upon other vulnerable nations, weakened to the point of being easily plundered and coerced into accepting their rapacious insanity. It feels to me like Agenda 2030 and all its nefarious goals are being updated as we go.
Thank you sir. It's odd that these things are kind of hidden in plain sight. Most of my trips to the UK were to London (almost all of them). You go from the airport to the hotel, you hang around Mayfair and other nice areas and it's all glitz and glamor... And you don't really pay attention to the despair that lurks in the shadows. Is it deliberate? I tend to agree with you - it IS deliberate and I think it's as close to scientific as it gets. There's evidence that the establishment actually takes the trouble to calculate the precise level of poverty they can inflict on the people before shit hits the fan, and prefer to keep it close to that limit. It's evil beyond belief so most people have a hard time believing that it can actually be true...
I don't know if Britain had an economy! other than Imperialism,Sucking India dry & the City Of London Financial District,..The Crown!
The Establishment Elites & the London Bankers have always been one of
the pillars of what we know today as the Globalist NWO gang.
Their main source of wealth & power has been their dominance over the Global Economy with their phony fiat based money & now the Russians,& Brics,are getting revenge.
The End for Perfidious Albion!
Imagine having to reduce taxes by 15% of GDP...! again, not 15% of the tax base, 15% of GDP just to be competitive for growth! A lot of psychopathy there.
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/money/uk-s-tax-burden-on-course-to-hit-highest-level-since-second-world-war-b1067810.html
I Am no great fan of the British elite establishment.
I have read a lot of real history & not the comic strip narratives put out by the Peer reviewed the propagandists & media.
Authors like Guido Preparata,Carroll Quigley & Antony Sutton & they tell a much different side of the British Establishment.
Great list if authors!
These definitely are part of the 'inside' crowd, the rest of us outliers tend to disbelieve they share a happy ending intention in their machinations... the phrase 'you will own nothing and be happy' utopian phrase is like pouring oil over the fire on freedoms, religious or those who choose a more self sustainable existence of choice. Take away choice and freedoms and well, there will be some tyranny in the mix and someone will be the scapegoat to that... at any rate, I love that the monarch chose Charles the 3rd since he well follows suit to being the tyrannical copy of Charles the 2nd who was beheaded by the people who labelled him as such. Right? Wrong? Well... the coin is in the air is it going to land on his butt or his head??? hahaha
Charles the 1st was executed. His son Charles 2nd was restored to the throne. Apparently Cromwell was offered the crown but refused it. I wonder how much of a rhyme we will get in our current historical moment?
Who knows the real truth, but this is what I read that explained how they both were considered tyrannical in their own demonstration to the people: https://theconversation.com/beheaded-and-exiled-the-two-previous-king-charleses-bookended-the-abolition-of-the-monarchy-190410
These parasites used Spain, England, and USA as hosts to suck dry. They are the Jewish Banking Mafia and the Zionist satellite dopes.
The banking Mafia are Anglo Saxon Wasps on both sides of Atlantic.
they run the show from the city of London financial District & Wall Street & the Federal Reserve Building.
And you Tyndale,....you are a bottom end cretin!
The Anglo elites got captured. I'd say the Glorious Revolution was a key moment.
I'm English and feel I live under occupation. The cosmopolitanism elites in charge couldn't careless about the man in the street. De-industrialing and mass replacement migration has hollowed us out.
My once nice, high trust, low crime suburb of the East London now looks like Mogadishu.
That's why the Elites brought in all of the Middle East Muslims.
They didn't just wander into Britain by themselves,they were pulled in to Britain by the Establishment elites to dilute & help destroy the British People!
Yes, I believe that is correct. Soros has been in that business up to his eyeballs.
Soros is an agent & bagman for the Kings Privy Council!
HIs associate in crime Lord Mark Malloch Brown runs Smartmatic machines which along with the Dominion software put Biden into the White House.
Along with a lot of bribes to American Politicians!
And Soros is an agent for the Privy Council & sir Geoffrey Pattie!
An evil gang!
Rotschild, Soros, Jaimie Diamond, Gensler, Greenspan, Yellen.... 200 years of Jewish Banking Mafia and token white guys. You get exactly the Debt Slavery you deserve.
listen shythead
,Dimon is a Greek,
Rockefeller,Morgan, Prescott Bush,Carnegie,Harriman,Strong, Reginald McKenna,
Montague Norman & most of the rest of the big time bankers were W,A.S.P Anglican/Episcopalian
Go get yourself a brain that works
"the financial parasite has begun to kill its host." Sums it up nicely, Alex, but it's a bitter pill to swallow!
Agreed Alex. Although I truly believe all of this is deliberate. (I am sure you don't need me to say that). The proles must be on their knees before we get them to beg us for UBI and a few CBDCs a week...The pain ahead will not be a passing twinge, that is for sure.
Yes, I think you're right Keith!
«Dickensian era poverty»- couldn’t say it better, great observation( as always!). I visited London in March, mostly tourists or refugees from eastern countries or elsewhere. At arrival got caught myself in strike at Gatwick airport. Three strikes on subway( in 3 days). Majority of people didn’t look to healthy, was sad to see. In the center, three floors bookstore, sales person( guy) never heard about author Frederic List but, i saw on bookshelf on the top book “Putins wars “and at the bottom Zelenskyys book “ mein Kampf”.. British people very friendly and polite. They need to take they country back by getting rid of “ Royal “sucking blood creatures.
"Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices..."
"Someone"?
What incredibly strange phrasing. Something wrong with Mr. Pill.
He's a pill,what did you expect?
While people tend to focus on the UK as this once-mighty empire that straddled the globe, it's also worth remembering that in the early postwar period the domestic economy flourished, enjoying sustained growth rates that even exceeded those of previous eras. It was a highly successful mixed economy, with a strong public sector, including state ownership of key industries, as well as a vibrant private-sector. The system began to sputter in the 1970s, with the oil embargo and other factors playing a role, but rather than tinker and fine-tune a system which had worked so well during the previous three decades, the Thatcher counter-revolution was launched to dismantle it. This isn't to say that the postwar system was perfect; the domestic economy may have been driven by some degree by post-imperial neocolonial strategies that would been exploitative and not infinitely sustainable... but still... they threw it all away. How will UK ever be able to compete economically again with the rest of the world? I don't see it catching up, not in our lifetimes at least.
Also, I find myself wondering: what's with >600k immigrants last year; is this really about maintaining a supply cheap labour? Maybe some British readers can explain this for us.
American here, but our experience wasn't that different although we never had a NHS. We did, however have a prosperous post war economy from which all the safeguards were removed during the Reagan/Clinton years (acolytes of Mme Thatcher). The buzz words were "privatization"( cannibalization of the public sector), "free trade" ( moving capital overseas to take advantage of cheap labor), "outsourcing" ( circumventing labor costs) and "too big to fail"(concentrating the financial sector to favor speculators).For a while we enjoyed a false prosperity from a credit bubble and cheap overseas imports, but now the chickens have come home to roost. It's a bit like the kid that traded a silver dollar for a stick of bubble gum!
I have family in the US. Lovely people, but absolutely clueless about the country's current trajectory. They're wholly trapped in the liberal media bubble. Wish I could help them understand those processes you mention above but we no longer seem to speak the same language, figuratively speaking :(
What You-Colin & Bob H describe is exactly(!) what has happened in Sweden. The famous *Swedish 3rd Way* i.e. not communism not hardcore-capitalism was 1 of the reasons I moved to Sweden over 40 years ago. The time period until the 2-oil price shocks of the 1970 used this 3rd-way. Up until the the murder of Prime Minister Olaf Palme in Feb 1986, the 'vulture class' was held at bay and labor unions had tremendous influence with industrialist since the *Saltsjöbaden Avtal 1938* https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Saltsj%C3%B6baden+Avtal&atb=v224-1&ia=web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement
Long Story short, Looks like it is the exact MO-Modus Operandi once again.
i.e. Worker's hard labor and commitment plus their own(!) capital thru taxation is used to build up viable 'social institutions & publicly-owned production & services' and... the bankster-gangsters collapse the 'system' and buy-up, on-the-cheap, the most viable 'publicly-owned entities.
Yeppp. Same MO. Rinse-and-Repeat. It's so obvious but, most people just don't get it.
An author I enjoyed reading was David Korten.
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism https://a.co/d/acaX50u
Yes, Sweden, like most of Europe seems to have taken a sharp right turn( even if they think of themselves as left or center). I believe a lot of this shift has been promoted through a large slush fund distributed by the likes of NED (National Endowment for Democracy), a CIA front targeting media journalists with bribes to publish propaganda. One such case was revealed by the late Udo Ulfkotte who died mysteriously shortly after becoming a whistleblower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtX_p-bDyxw
This is such an important point. One cannot exaggerate how uniform and monolithic the European press has become; what Udo Ulfkotte revealed was IMO just the tip of the iceberg. Part of it of course one is due to the changing media landscape and the slow deterioration of old business models faced with the rise of Internet media. But not that many years ago, Europe had far more heterogeneous media. Each of us will have our own markers in this regard, but an important one for me was when MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2015. The entire European press reacted in what seemed like choreographed unison that THE RUSSIANS DID IT. We are now seeing the same dynamic at play with the Ukraine conflict. What makes the situation so dangerous in the current context is that it is clear the politicians themselves fall for all the lies; in fact, they are as much the target of the US/UK neocon propaganda as the public at large. So, our parliaments are all still convinced that sanctions against Russia will eventually work, Ukraine will take back Crimea, regime change is imminent in the Kremlin, all we need is more wind turbines and solar panels...
Christopher, sounds like your life trajectory is similar to mine; I moved to the Netherlands in the mid 1980s and have likewise had a front-row seat in the slow, steady dismantling of the Dutch social welfare state; it is now the most neoliberal country in continental Europe.
You probably know the story of Olaf Palme, but for other folks reading along here I can highly recommend the recent podcast of Carl Zha in which he discusses Olaf Palme with a German investigate journalist, Dirk Pohlmann. All that stuff about the Russian subs off the coast! It's all blindingly obvious why Palme had to go and how they went about it, Extremely informative if anyone has an hour to spare:
https://player.fm/series/tnt-radio/dirk-pohlmann-on-east-wind-with-carl-zha-29-april-2023
Christopher, I have a question for you: why did Sweden welcome so much immigration in recent years? Not trying to engage in polemics here (it's a touchy subject), just curious as to what the rationale was. Was it purely economic? Was it idealism? Was it part of some social engineering strategy? Your thoughts?
"empires sow mayhem abroad and misery at home". Ask a neocon how to fix healthcare? Empires sow psychopathic personalities that prey on "the other" and manage to make a great living on complete artifice, with skills that simply do not serve the greater welfare. Ask yourself how many Americans at the VERY TOP fit this description! Look around!
I’m sorry that the British economy is suffering. I pray that a turnaround can happen ASAP! Thank you for your report.
A very clear analysis of the state of my country. I assume that the consequences of the decisions made by our leaders were known in advance. They were quite apparent to me. Were they merely side-effects or the desired outcome? They will have the result of ensuring compliance to whatever is coming. After all, people need to eat.
Thank you Steve, unfortunately, I do agree with you - I think the policies and the immiseration of people are deliberate.
I have a vague memory of a Chinese government official complaining that the west hadn't cut their standard of living as agreed. I think it was during the Cameron government, and the media laughed it off. Odd foreigners etc. But I wonder if the west had agreed to reduce the gap between our style of life and theirs. It would be a better way to arrange these things than having a war.
But freedom is more important than money. I don't want to give that up.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I'm looking forward to your discussion with Vanessa Beeley.
Britain better hope the price of heroin skyrockets, because without that, pobrecito! We can see why Britain wants war with China so badly--China produces cheap fentanyl, cutting the Brits out of the supply chain except for their dirty banks which continue to take a cut. Not enough for the British government however, they badly miss the days when Hong Kong was the #1 trans-shipment point for drugs worldwide. Time for another color revolution I suppose.
Britain is the tip of the spear when it comes to psychopathic leadership bile. Watch Boris Johnson Watch Keir starmer's hollow posturing.
The British NWO bankers in London,in their arrogance,financially attacked the Russians,Ukraine was the pretext. But they were in no position to start up with the failing Global Financial System,that they dominated. Russia just brought out it's own commodities based system with it's BRIC allies & Gold!
The British have been dominating world finances with a fiat currency which can't compete with the new Russian system.
Banking,now that the Empire & colonies are gone,along with the near collapse of the Bretton Woods deal, was their last source of wealth & now even that is gone with the Brics competition
was their last card to play
I suppose in a way, it's only natural that Britain was one of the first nations to suffer. Being the first to jump into the Industrial Revolution, they are now naturally ahead of the curve when it comes to holding on to obsolete assets, inflating real estate prices, and all sorts of diseases of modern decay.
While in some part this is inevitable from their path dependency, with investments in hard assets being made early and without the benefit of hindsight, it makes it no less sad. I hope that Britain as a whole can make a recovery - and not just the financial City of London.
Bath was like this decades ago when I was last there, it’s a place of polarised communities. So sad. And your experiences are not unique to Britain - here in NZ, I took my dog to a local park this week early before work, and there were two cars with people sleeping in them. Unusual for that part of the country. The temperature had been below freezing overnight and Winter only just begun. Our future is going to be very challenging, economically and health-wise.
Hello Alex,
I thought of you when I read this piece about the communist movement in Bavaria after WWI. How does this fit in with all of your various theses? Where did the support come from? Was it indigenous or driven by outsiders? The British? Were the people Jewish (as was the case in Berlin)? If so, were these the specific Jews that drove Hitler's hatred towards Jews, since he hated the Communists?
https://niccolo.substack.com/p/revolution-in-bavaria-1918-1919-mitchell
Respectfully,
Jeff Cook-Coyle
Janet Yellen, Greenspan, Jaimie Diamond, Rothschild, endless Jews and token whites. Sidney is woke.
"For whoever finds me finds life,
And obtains favor from the LORD;
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.” Proverbs 8:35,36