Britain, writes Dalrymple, faces
a cycle of high taxation and expenditure, with low growth necessitating ever higher taxation and expenditure. Much of the educated class already believes in the moral value of taxation irrespective of its effects. The British are trapped into slavery to their State — a State more incompetent, and more corrupt, than its European equivalents or even than the European Union.
An apparatchik class
will prosper among the embers of the slowly expiring economy.
The country
has been living beyond its means for 40 years at least, borrowing to sustain levels of consumption that it has not earned.
A clue to the despair that many people feel in Britain is
the incapacity and lack of courage of the political class, no matter how lengthily or expensively educated. Its incompetence and lack of probity, its absence of the most elementary understanding, compares unfavourably with the practical intelligence of the local plumber, carpenter, or electrician.
The solution to Britain’s deep-seated problems offered by almost the entire political class
is to turn the country into a giant version of the National Health Service, the country’s socialised healthcare system that has made paupers of the population, which is obliged to accept what it is given whether good, bad, or indifferent.
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The British state is incompetent, corrupt, and devoid of the most elementary understanding, and this explains the nation’s deepening bankruptcy and cultural collapse, claims Dalrymple. But there is another theory he ignores: that the British ruling and professional classes are the efficient, smart and loyal servants of evil and its agenda, albeit unwittingly. And like Dalrymple, these dupes of ungodliness eschew the spiritual dimension of our current plight.