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Can there really be hope, after all?
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For some time now, the political situation in Britain has been developing in such a way that it seems almost to have been scripted in Hollywood. On the one hand, British Muslims have asserted their power with growing audacity, illegals have continued to pour into the country, and the long-established Conservative and Labour parties have looked upon this nightmare scenario with apparent impotence, taking action only to quell the restive reaction by native Brits, especially members of the increasingly put-upon working class, to this naked takeover; on the other hand, those working-class Brits, trained for generations in polite obedience, have steadily become less polite and obedient, heeding the warnings of Tommy Robinson and other brave rebels and turning out in burgeoning numbers for marches and rallies where they do the unthinkable – namely, wave the Union Jack and sing “God Save the King.”
The first clue that the British populace was no longer composed entirely of sheep was the astonishing Brexit vote on June 23, 2016, in which a small majority of the electorate registered their disapproval of Britain’s subordination to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. The man who led the Brexit fight, Nigel Farage, went on to establish Reform UK, which seeks to break the monopoly of the so-called Westminster uniparty. Conservative and Labour had taken turns ruling Britain ever since World War II, but, originally representing two very different political philosophies, had for a generation or so been almost indistinguishable ideologically – both of them acting as cheerleaders for the National Health Service and other socialist schemes, and both of them (in violation of their own repeated promises) welcoming illegal aliens, mostly Muslim, into the country in untenable numbers, thereby making everyday life more difficult and miserable for ordinary Brits on a variety of fronts, from education, housing, and crime to employment, medical treatment, and elder care.
Reform drew an impressive number of supporters, but even as it grew, it became a target of criticism by patriots who charged that it didn’t go far enough – that it was too much of a one-man show; that Farage, far from wanting to destroy the political establishment, was out to become its crown jewel; and, most important, that its program for change just wasn’t strong enough. Farage, responding to the complaints, eventually abandoned his refusal to consider deporting illegal aliens. But his vanity and stubbornness, his outspoken contempt for Tommy Robinson, and his apparent fear of seeming too radical enabled other opponents of the Westminster establishment to form rival parties, one of which, Restore Britain, has, in a matter of months, become a real contender.
On the other side of the aisle, the Green Party, too, has grown in leaps and bounds. If Reform has threatened Westminster from the right, the Green, under the very effective young leader Zack Polanski, have taken it on from the left. The Green Party stands not only for what it contends to be the apocalyptic war on climate change; it also buys into transgender ideology and celebrates immigration without exception. It enjoys an extraordinary amount of support from privileged young urban types who, a decade or two ago, would have reflexively cast their ballots for Labour.