Tag: Politics

The Race to the Bottom

Image from the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election featuring ‘Vote Green’ placards phalanxed by Palestinian and Pakistani flags

In mid-February of this year, Jim Ratcliffe commented in an interview with Sky News that the UK had been “colonised by immigrants”. The news media and members of the UK Government proceeded to clutch their pearls and stagger towards their méridiennes, such was their shock at such an outrageous and incomprehensible thought. The following days of media coverage were dedicated to the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the Liberal establishment. Every politial commentator and even the House of Commons was all too happy to line up and signal their ‘Very Correct and High Status™’ opinions with even the Chancellor herself (taking a break fom managing the total decimation of the UK economy) wading in to point out that the UK “benefits hugely from our diversity”. Despite this not even coming close to addressing the point Ratcliffe was raising, he made a very non-apology leaving everyone to have a good vent about “far right” and “British Values™” and we all patted ourselves on the back at how wonderfully tolerant we are.

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GDP and Liberal Apostasy

Everything appears to be on the move, recently. I am having and overhearing conversations that would have been relegated to late-night dinner tables with trusted friends or hushed corners of a pub somewhere (although even that could soon be impossible with the government defacto banning of public discussion). The idea that Liberalism is working out just fine and progress is being made is, even at the most generous reading, beginning to look rather untenable. To the more cynical, and some might argue more observant, it’s apparent that Liberalism and its application of equality absolutism to every gamut of humanity, has led us to the disaster we see unfolding in the UK.

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