Theodore Dalrymple on the current state of Britain:

Posted on June 10, 2012 by KG

‘…Our police, once a model to the world, increasingly resemble an alien occupying army, or fascist militia, festooned with all the apparatus of repression, who inspire fear mainly in the innocent, and who are bullying yet ineffectual.
The state of the country is parlous in more ways than one. Large areas, once industrial, resemble the Soviet Union with takeaway pizza. The only “private” enterprise consists of retail chains that recycle government subventions to the unemployed. The middle class in such areas is composed almost entirely of public employees and professionals who cater to the social problems created by mass unemployment….’
Read the whole thing. It’s true all across the West, in varying degrees.

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11 Responses to Theodore Dalrymple on the current state of Britain:

  1. Elijah says:
    June 10, 2012 at 14:07

    Ultimate irony, that Peel’s rules came from that place.

  2. KG says:
    June 10, 2012 at 14:09

    Isn’t it, just. :roll

  3. Andrei says:
    June 10, 2012 at 15:57

    What you are seeing documented is the collapse of Western civilization.

    I once thought we were in a period of cultural malaise and would bounce back but now I think the rot is far too deep and the night is coming.

  4. KG says:
    June 10, 2012 at 17:42

    “..but now I think the rot is far too deep and the night is coming.”
    Agreed. Absolutely.
    The reality of what’s happening is simply too horrifying for most people to be able to accept it. They’ll keep denying the evidence right up until the moment they go to an ATM and find they can’t withdraw funds and then their local television station announces that martial law has been declared.

  5. pencarian says:
    June 10, 2012 at 17:45

    The UK is lost. I just hope it serves as an example to other European States.

    • KG says:
      June 10, 2012 at 17:56

      Can’t see it, Pencarian. The other states seem to be locked into the same downward spiral without either the fortitude or the will to do things any differently. Some smaller East European states, maybe, but not the rest.

  6. Andrei says:
    June 10, 2012 at 20:48

    Of course the way the undermining of the West is being accomplished is illustrated here where the Danes have allowed an agnostic Indian to define their church

    • KG says:
      June 10, 2012 at 20:55

      As I just said over at your site, Andrei, this is an obscenity. Not that the word has much meaning any more…….. :evil:

  7. Katie says:
    June 11, 2012 at 01:23

    Good example of the Nanny State and its failure. When you give people a handout, telling them that they don’t have to work, they will become lazy slobs.

  8. Interested says:
    June 11, 2012 at 18:20

    Worth reading Dalrymple’s ‘The Wilder Shores of Marx’ (available as a Kindle eBook) which is his account of visits to North Korea, Cuba, Albania and other communist states (some of them, eg Romania, having since thrown off the yoke).
    Frightening, the lessons we seem not to be able to learn.

  9. KG says:
    June 11, 2012 at 18:22

    “Frightening, the lessons we seem not to be able to learn.”
    Isn’t it! People seem to have some sort of “this time, it’ll be different” dialogue built into their brains.