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Great Britain’s Near Insurmountable Problems are Self-Inflicted

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readJan 23, 2022

It’s time to look in the mirror and act accordingly.

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It was Winston Churchill, who once said that “Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few’. The statement was in tribute to the never say die spirit that the British people had shown so powerfully, when it came under heavy attack from Hitler’s National Socialists (by this I mean the Nazis) in the early 1940s. The seminal events of the second world war helped define what it meant to be British in the face of great adversity, when it looked like Germans did have an edge and might have captured Great Britain.

Today, a much more accurate rendering of the overused Churchillian term would be:

Never before, in the history of Britain have so many been so screwed by so few.

Why?

Because our country’s fortunes are beholden to a handful of exclusively White middle-aged men, who have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in pushing the United Kingdom over the cliff.

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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