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You have captured the word which is resilience. To build resilience is to create national renewal, starting from the ground up. We need resilience in our energy, food, skills, defence, and infrastructure through to increasing the birth rate and provision of housing. We need to create resilience in our democratic processes to ensure all are heard. For example the angst of UKIP wasn't recognised before it exploded delivering Brexit. I'm no fan of Farage & friends but he got 4m votes and sod all seats, outrageous. With both physical and democratic resilience, better social equity and cohesion can be built. The challenge is that we are not in the ideal starting place and to borrow a joke we should be starting from somewhere else. We have the seeds for all of this we need the right nurture and leadership which is currently not on offer and very difficult to see where it will come from. But keep I'll looking

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< “Britain's capacity to defend itself, and remain politically independent, is contingent on energy independence, food independence (as far as is realistic), and an independent capacity to manufacture steel, fertiliser, weapons and ammunition.” >

This is another way of saying Britain’s ability to continue as a nation state is being eroded.

This is partly symptomatic of Britain being uncompetitive in a continually developing global world, partly symptomatic of Britain living beyond its means, partly symptomatic of insane Net Zero policies, partly symptomatic of insane mass immigration, etc.

Britain’s capacity to continue to exist as a nation state was in jeopardy before Net Zero policies; the latter having accelerated the decline; probably by design, as has been the decline in local democracy, the encouragement of mass immigration, etc to the same end – the expedited destruction of the nation state.

This is not just confined to Britain.

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< “Uncontrolled immigration is a symptom of the collapse of the administrative state.” >

The collapse of the administrative state is a symptom of the erosion of Britain’s ability to continue as a nation state.

Such a collapse is partly symptomatic of Britain being uncompetitive in a continually developing global world, partly symptomatic of Britain living beyond its means, partly symptomatic of insane Net Zero policies, partly symptomatic of insane mass immigration, etc.

So, Britain’s decline as a nation state is at the mercy of vicious cycles, indeed expanding vicious spirals.

Just as exponential trends usually end catastrophically so, too, do expanding vicious spirals.

It ain’t going to end well.

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< “The absence of serious policy thinking tells us they'd have no real idea what to do with power…” >

There’s prudently no money to implement any serious policies…

Britain is as good as bankrupt.

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Yet another cheap attack on Reform UK. Yawn.

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Spot on.

We have a lot of work on our hands but how can we return power to localism? Just to start the process is going to be an uphill struggle.

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