1. You clearly don't know what 'flagellate' means.
Ah my mistake.
2. Muslims. Certain MPs have self-published plenty of photos and comments pandering to them. Cousin marriage being acceptable is discussed in the House of Commons. 'Anti-Muslim hate speech' is being defined specifically.
What? Muslims are all a hivemind? Defining hate speech against Muslims is equivalent to pandering to Iranian regime sympathisers? Are all Muslims Iranian regime sympathisers? I would wager Emiratis and Qataris and Saudi's might disagree on the balance of what's happened to them. I do agree with the cousin marriage thing - but not like the UK has any serious right to admonish it when you still allow the Royal Family to exist. Also who exactly is defending cousin marriage anyway?
3. Social care is bankrupting the country. PIP and Motability are jokes now. Local councils are legally required to fund social care and its taking up 2/3rds of their budgets. SEND diagnoses are through the roof and kids transported by taxis 50 miles every day. By taxi companies that are owned by their relatives.
Social care in the UK is worse than it has ever been in since it was started post-WW2. If there is something that is bankrupting the UK its not social care. Its the lack of investment
IN the country. In its infrastructure, its public services. The selling off of money-generating national assets to private interests under Thatcher has had deep and long-lasting consequences on the British economy. Its not something you can handwave away as being "in the past". The shuttering of all manufacturing industries, and consolidation of fiscal muscle into the financial services sector in London has basically seen wealth being extracted out of the country by foreign interests. And then there's Brexit. The biggest shoot yourself in the foot moment in recent history. You've saved no money from leaving the EU, but are now subject to a harsher and more expensive trade environment with your proximal neighbors. You lost the ability to vote or veto EU law, but are still required to follow it if you wish to trade with them. And that is costing the UK money. Costing average citizens money. Its costing economic growth, because of the additional trade red-tape that must be dealt with to trade with the countries
directly next to you.
Heck one of the big mistakes Britain made historically, was deposing the Iranian democracy that just wanted a 50/50 split of Iranian oil, only to end up with
none of the oil. And now the world is facing the consequences of installing the very regime, the US is fighting now. Britain's problems began long before today. The real global elite of course don't care. Once they've bled Little Britain of the last of its wealth, they'll move on to somewhere else.
You can point the finger at immigrants and Muslims all you like, but fundamentally Britain and US engineered the circumstances of those refugees. They created the problem, because they wanted to enforce their foreign policy goals on the world. And now the whole world is dealing with the consequences of those mistakes.
And you know what this war is going to create? More refugees. And what right do we in the West have to refuse them, after we blasted their homeland into oblivion? You can't take the moral high ground on this with the "well the Iranian regime (that the West installed) was killing protestors, so we must go to war to save them" and then at the same time cast away the refugees that conflict will inevitably create. What the fuck did you think was going to happen?
4. No, we longer rule the waves. Yet having two of the best aircraft carriers in the world, arguablythe best nuclear submarines in the world, and one of the best anti-air frigates in the world, it took us almost a week to send one frigate to defend our own territory.
Yeah, a paper tiger. You have all this power
in theory, but are unable to project it, because the Empire is gone. It was replaced by the USA. The British Navy might well still be very strong (as well it should be for an island nation) to defend itself against aggression. But its not nearly enough to project power in the modern world, the way it did 150 years ago. There's also the matter of cost of upkeep. If mere social care is enough to bankrupt the UK, then I'd hate to see how badly they'd fair with trying to finance a war effort.
You're delusional and have your head cemented into the sand.
You can say that if you want. I don't mind.
