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The United Kingdom Is On The Brink of a Civil War
And disintegration…
Riots aren’t new to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Britain has had more than its fair share of protest and resistance movements with trade unions and suffragettes bringing the country to its knees in the early part of the 20th century.
Cecil Rhodes, the arch imperialist, who made a vast fortune from stealing from a number of African tribes in the Southern region of the continent once said that imperialism was necessary to avert civil war from erupting among the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom.
The rich tradition of protests carried on through the latter stages of the last century with inner cities across the country going head to head with the political leadership of the day and their concerted efforts to dispossess the poorest in society.
But so much has changed since the 1980s.
Every Prime minister since Margaret Thatcher has sought to continue where Britain’s first woman Prime Minister has left off, with the privatization of telecommunications, railways, mail service and the national health service.
It was bad enough that the quality of life of millions had been damaged, but what’s followed has all but ensured that there’s little chance of wealth accumulation for the next generation.
And this is precisely why the United Kingdom is in the middle of a major identity crisis; far worse than any point in its history.
Brexit was meant to usher in the golden era: to bring an end to the control of the European superstate and uncontrolled migration from Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Greece, Kosovo, Albania and those other ghastly countries on the continent.
What we have had since leaving the European Union has been anything but golden: our economy has tanked very badly and businesses have left the United Kingdom and more folks have arrived from the former colonies to do jobs that the natives don’t want to do.