
In the heart of one of the country's biggest cities, a picture of a growing national divide.
The UK is falling apart. You don't need a think tank to tell you that, but that's exactly what a think tank has discovered. Whether you're supporting Palestine or the right to fly a flag, Britain is on the brink of explosion.
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Hello there, you awakening wonders. The UK is in crisis. People are being arrested for online posts, there are protests across the country about migrants being in hotels, the left and right are dividing, new political parties are emerging, this is a time of enormous crisis and while the UK establishment has famously deep roots, are they deep enough to provide a rhizome, is the phrase, are they deep enough to keep together and bind all of these competing interests?
Let's have a look at the flag flying protests. People in Britain are fighting back, drawing St. George's crosses on roundabouts, flying them from lampposts. That's causing consternation. Pro-Palestine protests have been banned, so people are wearing pro-plasticine t-shirts. The British sense of humor, at least, is returning. So let's have a look at Britain, a country on the edge of explosion,
and see if we can predict where it will go by the end of the summer. Is there going to be a revolution? Are there going to be mass protests? Is there going to be civil unrest and civil disobedience? And are we witnessing one of the oldest nations in the world finally entering into decline. In the heart of one of the country's biggest
cities a picture of a growing national divide. A right-wing anti-immigration protest in Liverpool met with left-wing opposition. The results? Anger, fury and multiple scum. Merseyside police caught in the middle, pouring resource and effort into separating the two sides with a number of arrests made. As a protest spills across the country, what you have is a situation that is becoming increasingly hard to police. This isn't like the demonstrations at asylum hotels. What you have are the police
struggling to separate two groups and having to pour more and more resource into this effort as the day goes on.
What the mainstream media news won't be able to provide you is an analysis that incorporates the challenges that rose out of the COVID pandemic period. We began to realise that certain protests and social and cultural groups would be maligned. Certain conversations were being shut down and in short what we're witnessing are the economic consequences of COVID
and the political and social consequences of emergent technology. All of the attempts to censor online information amount to this, they can no longer control information. They can no longer conceal unrest, whether it's on the left or the right. People are unhappy in
Britain. This means, almost by definition, that there's a requirement for systemic change. You're not going to get the kind of economic boom that means that people are going to retreat back into consumerism. That's over. The AI
revolution means that there's not going to be an economic boom that will lead to jobs. There's going to be further decline and this decline is going to mean either radical systemic change that empowers people to run their own communities and all the way they live in accordance not with myths and ideas around progress i.e. if this technology is available we have to use it to eliminate labor and increase the profits of elite institutions individuals and groups but we could perhaps use different metrics to measure progress. A satisfied, happy, self-contained, self-sufficient community could be considered progressive.
Similarly, the amount of opposition reveals that there's never again going to be a United Britain where the population is unified behind one political party. There has to be radical systemic change. Do you think that the legacy media are even capable of reporting on that? The media is imploding and the media are invested in very particular outcomes. The media are of course part of the establishment so the reporting that
they get even if it's open and they have it like a young black person doing it it will still be the entrenched and institutional reporting that's biased towards conservatism. I don't mean conservatism as in Christian or right wing values I mean control, centralized control, the conservation of power.
There were similar scenes across the country, including here in Hawley, where police were also forced to act and think quickly. And in Bristol, where officers had their hands full, horses needed to stop the two groups from clashing.
All this modernity, all this progress, we're still relying on the humble horse to break down protest. Oh my God, Britain is falling apart. Are there any farm animals, any farm animals at all that we can use?
Not pigs.
We don't want to draw too many comparisons to animal farm.
Back in Liverpool, beyond the rage, there were some voices on the fringes.
People have been manipulated and lied to. And I think it's actually really sad that poor people with not good health are standing with the far right who will destroy their lives. I think people have forgotten our history and the fact that Liverpool's built on the back of immigrants.
Right, so the people that have been selected on this Sky News broadcast to ultimately speak after an appraisal of the situations being given by their paid reporter are people that say I think it's really sad that Liverpool's falling into... Listen, the cultural, social, political and racial arguments are secondary, if you ask me, to the ongoing disempowerment and destruction of British culture. Migration is a significant part of the issue. People are uneasy and unhappy about migration. I believe, I've always believed and continue to believe, when you're looking for solutions to society's problems,
you have to look at the actions and interests of the powerful, rather than the least powerful groups in society. Nevertheless, there is an alignment when it comes to the issue of migration because it seems that there is a peculiar benefit to introducing large and unsustainable numbers of migrants while disempowering indigenous populations and breaking down their myths and sense of social cohesion. This process has been taking place for a long long while and while generally I'll be
somewhat opposed to figures like Enoch Powell and their rivers of blood hysteria, and even more recently someone like Nigel Farage, who it sometimes seems was seeking to make political gain by stoking tensions between different communities, we are at a point now where you have to address the serious concerns of the majority of British people on the subject of migration. Certainly, at bare minimum, people have to be able to vote as to whether they want migration in their particular community or not. This would be a way to instantly defuse some of these tensions. If some of the affluent, bourgeois folk in middle class districts want migration, they
should be able to vote for it to be contained within certain regions. The problem is that it costs a lot of money, it drains resources and causes tension in general in the areas where migrants are housed. And I wonder if you've noticed where migrants are generally located and offered residence. Do you notice a theme? Do you notice that they're not in stately homes or affluent zip codes? Have you noticed a theme? Have you noticed that this is likely part of a broader trend to increase social unrest and social tension
to legitimize the introduction of more laws, digital ID, control and the ability to censor and limit communication between ordinary people. If you consider that the aim is always control, then the rest of the narratives make more sense. And you can also of course detect biases by observing who the news selects to participate in the conversation.
You know, even our accents come from a mixture of cultures, you know what I mean? We shout Scouse, not English because we've been oppressed by this government for so long and now you're siding with it. Makes no sense to me.
I am for immigration, legal immigration, not dinghy static the... Not dinghies that are burning.
But when the legal avenues are shut and the world's on fire...
No, no, listen mate, I'm not arguing with you here.
I'm not arguing with you, mate, I'm happy to have the debate.
What I'm saying is, I don't believe it's right for illegal immigrants to burn their stuff
on a dinghy and then say, death to Britain, death to kids.
But are they saying that? Yeah, they are. Well, I've seen no evidence of it.
Yeah, they are.
They are saying that.
I've seen evidence.
But as much as people say they want to talk to the other side, it only takes a second for those conversations to turn. Here and beyond, this issue is driving a wedge between people. With more protests and counter-protests planned, it's looking increasingly hard to find a middle ground.
This from The Telegraph, a British legacy media organisation. The UK is a powder keg of social tensions, researchers found. You don't need research, you just need windows. A report from the think tank British Future and the social cohesion group Belong Network, looking to have their funded,
found that a year on from last summer's riots there was a risk of unrest being reignited unless urgent action was taken to address issues of polarisation and division. In a foreword to the report, the former Conservative Chancellor Saeed Javid and the Labour politician John Crudas said, The bonds that hold society together, civic participation and a shared sense of belonging are under growing pressure.
This is leaving our society more fragmented, fragile and less resilient to internal and external threats. At the same time, forces driving divisions are intensifying, political polarization is deepening and trust in institutions is declining. Unless we address these forces, the very basis of our democracy is at risk. Now when it talks about internal and external threats, they probably don't mean corporate commercialism, deep state and global corporate interests and media. When they say external threats, they mean Russia but the real
external threat are the sets of global interests that for a long time have managed the information that we receive in the direction of our society. I wonder if there's an occultist dimension to this. Certainly, there's a financial dimension and certainly when you follow the money and the wealth transfer that took place during COVID and the number of small businesses that collapsed, look at your own life, look at
what happened to you during that period, look at how you're being invited to put cast it aside and not consider the ramifications and results of policies instantiated during this period, you will get a clearer understanding of why we're in this position right now. I believe in general, they're pretty happy to see two scousers with the same accent squabbling about migration and our goal and our aim is to look for points of union, new leadership, new systems and new opportunities to unite against the
institutions and systems that benefit from our division. Forces driving division are intensifying. They mean online forces, they probably mean podcasts like this and channels like this. Certainly the British government appear to be significantly involved as do various media interests with a campaign to silence online voices and I would certainly include this channel and my own voice in that. But I would say that it's legacy media that are intensifying and driving division and political
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had laid bare the fragility of social cohesion in the UK and were part of pressures that have been building for decades. That's probably true, probably from Thatcher onwards, the dismantling of various social contracts that took place under Tony Blair, wars undertaken on the basis of a lie, a pandemic that exploited the most vulnerable people, lied to us en masse while people in positions of political power literally continued to actually have parties, have led to this lack of social cohesion. And what's required now is radical change, indeed so radical that even the formation of new political parties, if they're operating within current
systems, will be insufficient. Your power is what's important here. Your ability to participate in your own community, your ability to change, metabolise and alter your own consciousness and live differently is what's radically and vitally important. Whether you're on the left or the right is less significant than whether or not you are willing to participate in the creation of new societies from the ground up right now. For sure, if people are concerned about migration, end migration, if you can hold a referendum on it, and that's the result, end it.
But until you end corporate and commercial power and deep state manipulation and corrupt media, you're ultimately going to get different iterations of social unrest that continues to benefit the very systems that are causing it and benefiting from it. The British Future Report stated that successive governments had failed to take sustained proactive measures to address social cohesion and that a doom loop of inaction, crisis and piecemeal response had failed to strengthen the foundation of communities across the country. But it's not only the issue of migration that's causing social unrest.
Protests for and against Palestine continue to cause division. Indeed, protesting in favour of a Palestinian state has recently been made illegal, leading to somewhat absurdist forms of protest. Let's have a look at that.
Here, more than 200 people have been arrested for holding placards showing support for the banned organisation Palestine Action. The largely peaceful demonstration was in protest against the banning of the group under anti-terror legislation. Four people have been arrested for allegedly assaulting officers. Barnaby Papadopoulos reports.
Parliament Square was a sea of placards today as protesters demonstrated their support for Palestine Action. This was the response. The group is now illegal and so is showing support for it. Hundreds of people have gathered in Parliament Square and they're holding signs that read I support Palestine Action but doing so has been an offence since it was prescribed and
as you can see the police are now making a number of arrests here. In June the government prescribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation after activists broke into RAF Bryce Norton and sprayed red paint into the engines of two planes in an effort to disable them. Holding up a sign like this is now a criminal offence.
I was arrested for holding up a banner that these people are holding up a sign like this is now a criminal offence. I was arrested for holding up a banner that these people are holding up, I oppose genocide, I support Palestine action. I have been charged under the Terrorism Act, section 13.
Now whether you agree with that man's political opinions or not, it's pretty clear that he'd have to go some to qualify as an effective terrorist. And what I would say is that whether or not you are currently being persecuted by anti-terrorism laws is not the important fact what's important is that these laws exist and will be deployed with increasing regularity in order to ensure the levels of control that the government are going to require as social unrest continues to rise if simultaneously in the country you've got people campaigning for the levels of control that the government are going to require as social unrest continues to rise.
If simultaneously in the country you've got people campaigning for the rights of Palestine and campaigning for the right to fly their own flag, two groups that I would imagine would find a lot of cause for conflict, opposition. It demonstrates what a limited consensus there is in the UK right now. People on the left are not happy, people on the right are not happy. Other than a very small portion of society most people agree that the UK is
in despair and decline. You'd be hard-pushed to find anyone that thinks that Keir Starmer and his government are doing a good job or back their current policies. It don't matter whether you're talking about older demographics or younger demographics or white people or black people or Jewish people or Muslim people. I don't think anybody is particularly satisfied with what's happening in the UK right now. And from this crisis comes real opportunity because some of the marginal and peripheral political
voices, if they are willing to overlook and overcome their apparent opposition to one another on a handful of relatively minor issues, we could be on the precipice of building new alliances and making real and radical change, without which it seems pretty clear the way things are going. Authoritarianism be on the precipice of building new alliances and making real and radical change, without which it seems pretty clear the way things are going. Authoritarianism, doubling down on centralised power, the carrying of digital ID, the ability
to freeze people's bank accounts, mandate in taking medications, control by any means necessary is the method of the government and the fact that it's being veiled by a kind of lukewarm bureaucratic tedium should not distract you from the fact that what we're witnessing in the UK is unprecedented and terrifying. I'm not in the country anymore, so watching from across an ocean you can see with a little more prismic clarity that what's happening was predicted and preempted by literature
a century ago. Kafkaesque bureaucracy, Orwellian authority, Huxleyesque control through pleasure and distraction. Before the protest, the police warned that anyone showing we turn our eyes to if we are going to resurrect, reboot and radically change this nation.
Before the protest, the police warned that anyone showing support for Palestine action could be detained. They said demonstrators were deliberately trying to get arrested in order to put a strain on the justice system.
That is what protests are about.
But with the war in Gaza set to escalate, people supporting the protesters here said they weren't deterred.
I've come from Carlisle and I'm here because I want an end to the genocide.
The co-founder of Palestine Action is appealing the ban in November. Unless and until it's overturned, protesters like these will continue to be met with this response. But as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens, and with peace talks at a standstill, it's unlikely they'll back down.
Some absurd arrests include a 23-year-old single father was arrested for saying we love bacon in a sing-song voice and is currently facing the possibility of court action after stating this simple fact as a public protest. The man was part of a group demonstrating at the site of a proposed mosque on the edge of the Lake District where he got in trouble. Let's have a look
at that. We want bacon! To be honest, we're talking to all your... Fine, fine, fine. Does that like bacon?
How can you arrest him for saying he likes bacon?
It's just on the one cassette.
What's that? I can hear the sort of the whose streets our streets which is normally a clarion call of the left. It's difficult really to decide where to allocate blame in this fiasco or where to note the plausible and exciting opportunities that might emerge for we love bacon merchandise. Of course it's pretty obvious that saying we love bacon could be incendiary if you know if you're Muslim or Jew, oh my god, the paradoxes and ironies refuse to end. When the left has failed working
people in the manner that it did throughout the leadership of Tony Blair, through the backstabbing that led to the removal of Jeremy Corbyn, you can no longer complain that people are moving towards the right. I don't know that there's any way back for the left at this point. I think they've lost credibility and they no longer really have a mandate to represent working people. I can't imagine people returning to the left in any significant I think they've lost credibility and they no longer really have a mandate to represent working people
I can't imagine that people returning to the left in any significant numbers for a very long while and I think that what needs to Be awoken actually is a kind of spirit of the soil People need to learn to love their country again and learn to love one another again and learn to love one another in spite of Our differences again, and I think that won't happen until ordinary British people, white working-class people, Muslim working-class people, working-class Christian people are able to have some agency and power in their own lives and in their own communities, are able to worship freely and are able to have a
voice when it comes to subjects like migration or indeed subjects like Palestine. Actually what's required as Martin Gurry said in his book Revolt with the Public is either systems that permit afford and legitimize real meaningful decentralization of power or the increasing legitimization of centralized authority through the criminalization of anyone whether it's for saying we love bacon or I support plasticine. Check out this from the
Guardian thanks to authoritarian legislation the police can define almost any demonstration as seriously disruptive and impose restrictions on it Check out this from the Guardian. Naked and mad like African warlords now It's like we need to step in and have a look at what's going on in the UK These were tactics have been criminalized new powers have been created to issue orders banning people from even attending protests Consider the case of William Plasto is accused of taking part in a Palestine action protest Against Elbit systems in Israeli arms manufacturer factory near Bristol last year Plasto faces 20 months in jail before his case goes to trial. His mother Charlotte has told the Guardian she believes it's the longest anyone would have been held
in jail awaiting trial on protest related charges. Also a man's been arrested for wearing this t-shirt. Have a look at this. so There you go, the country of the UK is a powder keg. This is what happens when successive governments betray the people, when they're not offered viable political alternatives, when the media lies to them en masse, when a pandemic that was treated as a health crisis, when it seems more and more likely that it was a psyop, is used to silence online voices, to transfer wealth and also to game out just how much control people will tolerate before they rise up. And it seems that we're now
reaching the threshold where people will rise up. Although as a comedian heartened by the sort of playfulness of plasticine action or people saying we love bacon it's an indication that British people throughout the class structure have got a sense of humor about the decline in this great nation of ours, it seems like the central issue is free speech. If people can't communicate freely then all of these various polarizing issues are likely to cause more and more division. The simple truth is this, all of us are here temporally,
none of us are here for very long. The nations come and go, the issues come and go, leaders come and go. Unless we are able to access the eternal, individually and personally, we're not even in a position to achieve meaningful consensus politically. Most people want the same thing, the ability to be with those they love, and to live somewhat freely, enjoy nature, enjoy one another, make a decent living and
access what they understand to be God. And in the UK, even that's become impossible. The fact that there are people with such diverse and varying interests that are outraged and disgusted by the government shows you that fundamentally and essentially something is going wrong there. That authoritarianism is being legitimised through almost any means and without radical change Britain will indeed implode. But that's just what I think, why don't you let me know what you think in the comments
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