The Fall of the West (It's Happening Now)

[Larniavc]

That's the thing about a democracy. It works fine until the founding culture is overpopulated by another. Democracy still exists but the originals have now been outnumbered, a peaceful takeover.

The Replacement Theory?

Seriously?

 

[timothyu]

Seriously?

Seriously
And consider that it need not apply to country alone, as the internet has become a nation also, where the inmates are running the asylum and democracy has given them a voice that overrides truth and fact.

 

[RamiC]

The Islamic Caliphate of Britainistan (formerly known as the United Kingdom) is a cautionary tale for all of us.

No, this country is still the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

You’re looking at a country that doesn’t exist anymore.

Yes it most certainly does.

England didn’t fall with tanks and smoke.

England is a region of the United Kingdom, which still exists. It always did, although it was never really the fairytale version that some people from elsewhere in the world thought it was.

Black cabs sliding over wet cobblestones.

The smell of rain soaking into old stone.

The ding of a double-decker bus pulling to a stop.
Real accents — Cockney, Midlands, Yorkshire — drifting through the air like a soundtrack.

We changed the cobblestones because they are hard on the horseless carriages, and buses no longer have dinging bells because we have modern electronics in buses nowadays. Islam is nothing to do with it. It still rains a lot.

If you’ve ever wandered London, even once, you know exactly what I mean.

Londoner DNA for over a thousand years speaking. I do not know what you mean.

Big Ben rising over the Thames like a cathedral tower.
The Changing of the Guard — boots hitting pavement in perfect time.

The Guards are fine, so is Big Ben. Please all stop trying to pet and pose with the horses though, they are trained army horses, they will hurt you.

Red phone booths so iconic they looked painted onto the street.

Two of which stand right outside my front window, now. They are an art gallery, and we only got to keep the red outsides because I live in an area of historic architectural importance. The red phone boxes died because everybody got a smartphone. They are in heaps in corners, some places you can buy one if you can think of a use for it.

Fish and chips wrapped in paper, vinegar sharp in the air.

Still happens. I see it every day.

A place where history wasn’t something you read —
it was something you walked on.

We are as as old as we always were.

England had too many manners and not enough nerve.

No such thing as too many manners, and we are more often seen as arrogant rather than cowardly.

In 2016, a government-commissioned investigation — the Casey Review — confirmed that Sharia councils were operating in parts of England, handling civil and family matters outside British courts.

Yes, they are legal here, they always have been. They have no legal power though, they are not UK law.

Sharia: are fears of a parallel legal system unfounded? - Religion Media Centre
Islamic Law in the United Kingdom - Talk About: Law and Religion

It faded in a million tiny silences —
every time someone noticed a change, felt uneasy, and told themselves not to say anything.

We have a guy called Nigel Farage, the Reform Party, the Daily Express and Mail all loudly moaning about immigration all over the place. There is no silence.

A country that wouldn’t stop apologizing eventually forgot who it was and what it was apologizing for.

We are still here saying "sorry" "please" and "thank you" so often that those witnessing it for the first time are initially totally confused, and usually if we are sorry it is in case we bothered you. No one has forgotten.

 

[Wolseley]

RamiC, bear in mind that **I**, personally, didn't say any of that; I was posting an article written by somebody else.

And that article is far from the first or the only place that I have seen such reports. It seems you and Larniavc can airily dismiss this all you like, but it still appears that things on the Sceptered Isle are far from peachy wonderful.

But, have it your way---okay, everything's ideal and couldn't be better; no problems at all. If someday in the near future I tune in and find that the whole shebang in the U.K. has gone down in flaming ruin, then I'll know who was right: you or them. Myself, I intend to stay right here in any case, where I have the God-given right and the means to defend myself with something stronger than stern language should things here go to Hades on a handcar.

I shall now retire from the discussion. Good luck, Hail Columbia, and Erin go bragh.

 

[Bradskii]

RamiC, bear in mind that **I**, personally, didn't say any of that; I was posting an article written by somebody else.

Well, trust me. There wasn't any need to tell us that. But in passing, it's considered polite to put what you are quoting in quotes and link to the source.

Thank you for your attention to this.

 

[RamiC]

But, have it your way---okay, everything's ideal and couldn't be better; no problems at all.

The UK still exsists and is not some nation that has been overcome by Sharia Law. We always did have plenty of problems, and we certainly still do.

 

[Larniavc]

but it still appears that things on the Sceptered Isle are far from peachy wonderful.

Frankly the biggest problem is the far right like Farage and Yaxley-Lennon whipping up all the gammons in a racist frenzy.

 

[RamiC]

Frankly the biggest problem is the far right like Farage and Yaxley-Lennon whipping up all the gammons in a racist frenzy.

They certainly are not doing it quietly, as if it would be rude to complain.

 

[Larniavc]

They certainly are not doing it quietly, as if it would be rude to complain.

Quite. And yet all the while claiming that they have been ‘silenced’ while talking through a sound system on stage in the middle of London.