these whispers are all around waiting for the collapse; 

Now, as Antonio Gramsci might have put it, is the time of monsters. Our wassail is over; the Graces, my friend, have abandoned the earth; there below, the Greek ships wait. In short – Britain’s ruling regime is kaput. The only thing left to do is to wait and see how the decline plays out and plan as positively as possible for the aftermath.

There is nothing particularly controversial about me saying this. It is rapidly turning into the consensus view. As I put it a few months ago, you just have to live here. But on Tuesday this week the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, circulated a so-called ‘Cabinet read-out’ to journalists which nicely summarised both the nature of the problem and the cause of the coming cataclysm.

The immediate trigger for Rayner’s comments was the springing up of a series of demonstrations that are currently threatening to transmogrify into a gilets jaunes style mass movement. This concerns the use of ‘asylum’ hotels to house illegal migrants, mostly young men – a practice which I have written about before, and which is spreading to very unlikely areas of what you might call ‘L’angleterre profonde’: sleepy, prosperous and very English places like Epping and Diss. The tactic of slandering these protests as the work of the ‘far Right’ has been deployed by the usual suspects (the Socialist Worker has even described them as “pogroms”) but the label isn’t sticking: the truth of the matter is that the population are increasingly sick of being governed in the indefensible way we are. We all know that this is the source of the frustration, and feel it keenly. The forced imposition of large numbers of deracinated and often sexually aggressive young men from foreign climes on relatively small and settled communities is simply the most visible aspect of the basically contemptuous and high-handed operating modality of our decaying and flatulent ruling regime. And the kick-back is not ‘far Right’ – it is rather to be understood as the reaction of the population to a governing apparatus that does not understand, and cannot fulfil, the most elementary task of the sovereign........more........