Britain: Not a serious country
by Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack, TCW:
WHEN we think of the Russian Revolution of 1917 we think of Lenin and Trotsky, the storming of the Winter Palace and the dissolution of the Duma. The tumultuous events of February and October 1917 not only overthrew Tsarism and then democracy but plunged a great country into 80 years of totalitarianism and bloody oppression. But the events of 1917 would never have happened without the underlying cause of the revolution: that the people did not trust their government or its institutions. The Tsarist government was so incompetent that the people had no faith in the ability of their rulers to deal with the challenges the country faced.
The famine of 1891-92 with mortality estimates ranging up to 400,000 had showed how powerless the government were to care for their citizens. The first spark of revolution, the peasants’ revolt of 1905, stemmed in significant part from their suffering due to the famine. The failure of the army and navy during the 1905 Russo-Japanese war followed by the disasters of the Great War exposed the incompetence of the supposedly mighty Russian military machine and the political administration.
There were very few actual revolutionaries but there were multitudes, especially amongst the middle class, who had no faith in the authorities. Once people start to lose faith in the system, when it comes under severe pressure they won’t be inclined to support and defend it. What sweeps in afterwards may well be much worse than what existed before.
Throughout the West we are losing faith in our institutions, and the UK is not immune. The UK’s Covid inquiry exposes a long list of failures; no one, not politicians, health services nor the media emerges with a ringing endorsement. Our police services are given to two-tier policing, and their pursuit of supposed ‘hate crimes’ continues unchecked while their clear-up rate of actual crimes is minimal. Our politicians make promises about reducing immigration, and it continuously goes up. We are told that the NHS is the ‘envy of the world’ whilst the ill queue up to join waiting lists and hospital trusts are plagued by scandals. Does anyone trust the legacy broadcast and print media? What we find in the UK today, as in the rest of the West, is a well-justified and worrying lack of trust in the institutions of our country.
The result is that most people, feeling powerless in the face of elite manipulation, have stopped caring. Our government, medical establishment, and media lie to us about, for example, the dangers of suggesting the option of sex transitioning to children, and most people instead of being up in arms to protect our young people switch on Strictly Come Dancing and blot out the uncomfortable truth.
In the midst of all this we find the church, the institution which should be a bulwark against moral decline, fading into irrelevance.
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