Broken Britain? Wat does it mean?

The Sun’s Saturday article of a week or so ago, by Matt Goodwin pointed to some stark details of what he called his verdict on ‘Broken Britain’. So, obviously I am not on my own as I have been saying this now for a few years, on and off. In fact the cost of the national debt interest is even higher than I thought! Some £9billion a month interest? We may ask why do governments borrow so much? The rules of borrowing go for everyone. People, businesses and governments. You must keep an eye on borrowing as it can easily get out of hand. In the case of governments they just issue bonds. When the UK Government needs to borrow money, it can issue a bond, gilts as they are known. This is a way of requesting a loan from investors via the financial markets. In buying a bond, investors are lending the government money. By all accounts this debt stood at the end of March 2023, at £2,537.0 billion, or 100.5% of GDP ie £2.5trillion. The annual bill therefore is about £100billion! So, again why borrow? Well, I suppose it is the cost of our Welfare State, inclusive of benefits, unemployment, the cost of running the State (Civil Service, the NHS) and of course, maintenance and development, roads, housing. It must be obvious that if there was no borrowing, normal tax income will never be sufficient. As the article indicated, there are not enough people, including young people working.

It ought to be obvious to everybody the government’s fiscal policy or policies are not working. One of the problems is Labour’s insistence of having the NHS as a free service. It sounds wonderful but it beggars the nation. It is not strange to find other countries shying away from this pattern of social care. It is also one of the reasons the ‘boats’ keep coming and immigration to the UK having become an absolute nightmare. A nightmare in costs to the Exchequer, that's all of us really. Housing, medical care, schooling. One of the problems is that too many MPs think immigration is a good thing viewing the demographics as they stand with the birthrate falling. It remains to be seen whether the Islamisation of the UK will slow down or not. I believe it is unstoppable and will accelerate. One of the questions to be asked is, Is this what we voted for? Is the complete change we now experience, the make-up of the many different communities now existing something we wanted or even needed?

On its own some immigration might well be needed but surely it has to be that the language of the country is spoken and fully understood and that the incoming persons are self-supporting. It has been one of the failures of government to enforce such rules. One of the biggest failure has been to ensure integration, instead allowing the set-up of enclaves, ghettos even in cities around the country. London even has a borough under Islamic rules. We cannot just blame the present Labour government. The Conservative governments of the past decade and more are just as much to blame. Personally, through marriage I came to this once great country. Today I cannot say I even recognise it as such. London, once a great capital, today is no more than a multi-cultural calamity. Crime just a daily happening, shoplifting a pandemic. Again, is this what we voted for? It is no wonder the ultra-right is gaining ground, just as it was in Germany in the mid-thirties. History has a habit of repeating itself.