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Pete North

April 4, 2025.

The liberal international order has been the prevailing ideology of my lifetime.

I'm just old enough to remember what it was like before. I'm not one for misty-eyed nostalgia because I'm from Bradford and I'm perfectly well aware how grim it was in parts of the north, but for all the material wealth of "free trade" and liberal borders, we are not better off for it.

Britain, as it stands today, has no aircraft industry to speak of, and anyone under forty would stare at me blankly if I talked about Foden, AEC, Scammell, Morris, or Bristol. Jaguar is owned by Indians, Vauxhall is just a brand belonging to a global corporation, and anything electronic is now made in China.

Meanwhile, the local water board is owned by a Hong Kong hedge fund, and the local football team is owned by the Russian mafia, and everyone from the players down to the cleaners is African.

The working classes can't afford a house, and even middle income households struggle to afford a new car unless they fake a disability. Most of our material needs are met, but with daily deliveries from Amazon, where we mostly buy disposable, cheap Chinese tat made with stolen IP. Even the clothes we wear are made in sweatshops on the other side of the planet.

The North Sea fish we eat is caught by a crew of Filipinos, flown to far east for processing, then flown back. Our farmers can only stay in business if they have a second job. Elsewhere, our cities are increasingly alien to us. Many of our towns are derelict, most of the big cities are predominantly occupied by foreigners, and you're more likely to see the flag of a Middle East terrorist group than a Union Jack.

If you get sick you have to stand in line behind foreigners to see a foreign doctor with a thick foreign accent, and you have to suck it up because they're "just as British as you". In your old age, all the care workers will be random Nigerians scamming the visa system.

There are few places left we can call our own.

Some will blame Thatcher, others will blame Blair, others will blame the EU, but it's all part of the same prevailing post-nation neoliberal ideology. Britain is no longer a homeland. It is a derelict hole with piles of garbage lining the streets, litter everywhere, with roads full of potholes and clogged up drains. Meanwhile, we concrete over the countryside with windmills, solar panels, and Barratt boxes for white-flight refugees in search of familiarity. Illegal immigrants have a better chance of obtaining social housing than our own people. Not that you'd want it, now that it means having to live next door to the Taliban.

Then, as much as we're in a self-inflicted cost of living crisis, we are also in the middle of a deep-rooted spiritual crisis where men are killing themselves, mothers are aborting their children, and women can't get through the week without a cocktail of cheap wine and Prozac.

Gradually we are replaced by an endless stream of low-IQ third worlders, and are set to become a minority in our own country.

All the while the regime gaslights us and tells us "diversity makes us stronger" as we watch our neighbourhoods become demilitarised zones.

In about three decades, we've gone from being a cohesive, productive, safe country, with real communities, to being a miserable, dilapidated kleptocracy - where nobody makes anything, and the only way to become middle class is to join the army of white collar parasites who would otherwise be unemployed were it not for state theft.

Somehow we have the worst of all worlds. Unregulated corporates and a bloated, unproductive, unaccountable state where democracy means nothing and the police lock you up for complaining about it.

This is Yookay PLC.

© Pete North, 2025

Image - Kevan James

Pete North is spot on with his article. The deterioration in the United Kingdom has been quite remarkable over the last thirty years. So who is really to blame?

We are.

The people of the UK, who stood by, looked away, said nothing and did nothing.

It is us who has allowed sub-standard politicians to be elected, by not voting and not taking an active interest in our own country.

Yet it doesn't have to be so. The level and volume of protestation over the Poll tax forced it to be changed. Not since then has the 'silent majority' been so vocal.

We must be so again. And again and again until we have rid ourselves of the inadequate know-nothings we allowed into our parliament.

We must use every possible lawful, legal and peaceable means needed, and not stop until the country is where it should be.

Kevan James

That's the reality for what is the increasing majority.

Compounded by low-grade politicians who only see their job as a stepping stone to advancing their own financial benefit and / or career.

Sally Symonds

All so true. I’ve been pondering recently why there’s so little pushback from the populace, but then to add to your list of degradations, I remember how education and entertainment both now serve primarily to zombify and brainwash.

Stuart Kinsey

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