It is rare thing in the corporate wokeonomy that an important figure has the guts to speak out about important national issues. In this case, Britain being potentially ‘colonised’.

Many British people are scared of speaking out in a country which has criminalised aspects of community discourse. There is a huge electorate of civil servants who know where their bread is buttered, hiding behind the arras. This constituency is expanded to keep the elite civil servants, like Keir Starmer, in power.

Elite theory is nothing new.

It was expounded in the early 20th Century by the Italian school of theorists such as Pareto and Michels. In the Iron Law of Oligarchy all large organisations tend toward elite rule. Even democratic parties and trade unions become oligarchic.

Democracy does not eliminate elites; it changes their colours.

There is a reshuffling of elites; it is Havel’s sign in the shopkeepers window: Workers of The World Unite. The grocer despises communism, but it is sensible to put the sign in the window. The signs change according to the political representative fashion of the epoch.

We are in the final days of the liberal epoch; whilst theories start with noble concerns (liberalism was the rational complement to industrial expansion in the 19th Century), they ultimately, like Kronos, devour their children.

When a billionaire and well-respected public figure made remarks about immigration in an interview with Sky News, it sparked a major political and public backlash.

In that interview, it was said that the United Kingdom had been ‘colonised by immigrants’ and suggested that high levels of immigration were creating social and economic pressures on the British state. The argument was around population change and benefit claims, saying:

‘You can’t have an economy with 9 million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in … the UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn’t it?’

From unskilled workforces to illegal immigration. From benefits claimants to the illegal immigration gravy train… The figures are horrendous.

A country with a GDP of 0.1 per cent has a clear pattern according to the government’s own statistics on Universal Credit claimants.

White British are ‘under represented’ in the stats whilst the Indian/Pakistani population are ‘over represented’. The Black population using the welfare system are ‘grossly over represented’.

People outside the extractive class of civil servants face huge taxation and expense to subsidise the system. These comments about migration have rattled the overclass. The liberal train has hit the buffers; it has no arguments anymore – either political, economic, or moral for anything that they do.

This billionaire comes from a working class council house background. They now employ 26,000 people. They are renowned as the kind of person Britain should be championing rather than the flotsam which accumulates in the British Labour Party.

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is like Kafka’s Metamorphosis – when Gregor wakes up and he is transformed into a giant insect. The veneer stripped of moral illusion. The liberal elites, having deindustrialised the nation, globalised, then exploited developing nations, switched to righteous Woke as working class people deserted them. This was the final assault on communities.

With transgender activism normalised, late-term abortions decriminalised, and a visceral social discrimination against ordinary ethnically British people, Labour tried to give succour to their only newfound electorate: gender and ethnicity. This has divided and destroyed cohesion from the family to the state.

Over the last 50-70 years, the overall trend in UK industrial production has been relative decline: manufacturing and production have shrunk as a share of GDP as the economy has shifted toward services and tech. Manufacturing’s share of real GDP has fallen from around 30 per cent in 1970 to less than 10 per cent in recent years. They have been hoodwinked by the Chinese government to outsource production, and the consequence of this decision has landed right in the middle of London, opposite MI6, in the nature of a Chinese Super Embassy.

Never before in British history has a government done so little for its indigenous people and sold them down the Yangtze. But it’s okay… Starmer came back from Beijing last week with the news that British citizens can have visa free travel to the Middle Kingdom. Crack open the Champagne!

Integrity and ethical government are not central themes for Labour. In fact, there aren’t any themes at all. There is no industrial policy and a clique of public spending Keynesians in every department of government including the Treasury. Government is dysfunctional and high-profile public figures, including real-world industrialists, are starting to point it out. It was Keir Starmer who made the claim of an ‘island of strangers’ remark, as the electoral boat began disappearing beyond the horizon. Now Starmer is criticising these public remarks about the perils and cost of uncontrolled immigration. The man is a Woke weathervane. Not the man to be in the trenches with you when the Russians get through Pokrovsk … in 2074.

Ammianus Marcellinus writing in the 4th century AD, as Rome collapsed in Mandelsonian depravity, noted that:

‘Instead of the study of philosophy, the delight of banquets and shows now prevails.’

Instead of securing borders and propping up defence, the self-immolation of Britain continues with more rules, less free speech, and more sectarian councils and encroachments of Sharia law. If you think England is doomed, have a thought for the Emerald Isle. The nation of The Quiet Man, that nostalgic film about rural Ireland, is utterly changed, changed utterly, to steal WB Yeat’s lines from his poem Easter 1916. They are appointing foreign mayors in the towns and villages across Ireland. Yeats had foreseen it all in his poetic vision of The Second Coming:

‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.’

Brian Patrick Bolger. He has taught International Law and Political Philosophy at Universities in Europe. His articles have appeared in leading magazines such as The Spectator, The Salisbury Review etc and journals worldwide in the US, the UK, Italy, Canada, etc. His new book, Nowhere Fast: Democracy and Identity in the Twenty First Century’ is published now by Ethics International Press. He is an adviser to several Think Tanks and Corporates on Geopolitical Issues