Once-Great Britain: Run Into the Ground

Russell Yorkshire

March 7, 2026

This country hasn’t been run into the ground by one government. It’s been a 25-year relay race of incompetence, with each new lot grabbing the baton and sprinting enthusiastically in the wrong direction.

Armed forces? Cut to the bone.

Police? Cut to the bone.

Energy security? Sacrificed on the altar of political fashion.

For decades we sat on oil and gas in the North Sea that could power the country and keep bills down. What did our political geniuses do? Strangle the industry with policy, ban new exploration, and then act shocked when energy prices go through the roof.

It’s like selling your car, burning your bicycle, and then wondering why the taxi fare is expensive.

Food security? Once upon a time Britain fed itself. Now our farmers are treated like a nuisance by policymakers whose closest contact with agriculture is avocado toast in a London café.

So we import more food, import more energy, and pretend this is some sort of enlightened strategy instead of the reckless stupidity it actually is.

Meanwhile the people expected to defend the country — our servicemen and women — are asked to do it with shrinking budgets, ageing equipment, and leadership that seems far more comfortable making speeches than making decisions.

And the taxpayer? Absolutely hammered. Taxes go up every year, yet the country somehow feels poorer, weaker, and less prepared than it did twenty years ago.

Where’s the money going? Because it certainly isn’t going into defence. It isn’t going into policing. It isn’t going into infrastructure. And it definitely isn’t going into making Britain energy or food secure.

But don’t worry — somewhere in Whitehall there’ll be another committee meeting about lanyards, slogans, and whatever the latest fashionable policy trend happens to be. The basics of running a country — power, food, defence, security — have been treated like optional extras by career politicians who have never built, grown, produced, or defended a thing in their lives.

A serious country makes sure it can feed itself, power itself, and defend itself. Right now Britain struggles to guarantee any of the three.

And after 25 years of this nonsense, people are starting to realise the real problem isn’t one party.

It’s the entire political class.

© Russell Yorkshire 2026

Russell is spot on with his summary (although I would have added something about the UK's shattered housing system, both bought and rented). The reason however that we have sub-standard MPs is due to political apathy on the part of the great British public.

Too many, for too many years, have said, "Politics? Nothing to do with me...what's they point, they never listen," and similar. Well I have news for you; you may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you. And if you don't vote, you get the Starmer Gang.

So people had better wake up. And fast.

Kevan James

They have also completely messed up the education system, allowed mass rape and raised taxes to fund a pay rise nearly twice what they are giving pensioners, whilst also sucking up unlimited expenses

Patrick A. Goff

And thats the reason many call successive governments the uniparty, We are living the lie that they have been selling us for years, I believe they do it so we are all sick of politics and dont bother voting so they only need a small majority to win!

Ken Daniel

Blair-Brown inherited a beautiful huge country estate, thousands of acres of beautiful gardens, farmland, and a country pile.

They slowly sold off the land. Employed thousands of gardeners and housekeepers. Sold all the art and anything of value. Sold the lead from the roof. Continued to pay for the unemployed staff. Borrowed a fortune from foreigners. Set up PFIs to fix the leaking roof and broken windows.

Sold the gold. Bankrupt.

A completely run down house, with huge debt, and a shrinking estate was then sold to Cameron, the new owner. He decided to fix nothing, tax the workers more, shrink the security, give more work to PFIs, scrimp and save without fixing anything, apart from maintenance on the leaky roof.

A tight-fisted version of his predecessors.

A succession of short-term tenants then followed and continued the decline, and then Johnson dismantled the drawbridge and allowed millions of foreign squatters to come and live on the land, and paid them to do so.

The newest tenant of the run-down broken estate has accelerated the decline, stopped the farming, increased the running costs, shrugged his shoulders, and offered the decrepit estate to the EU and China.

That's why Reform are needed to rebuild the estate and get it to its former glory. Will take at least 2 terms, as previous tenants have destroyed it.

Jack

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