If even that fails, history shows the next step: war. Governments facing collapse have long reached for external enemies to bury domestic dissent. Britain has done it before. In 1982, Margaret Thatcher was facing mass unemployment, collapsing industries, and riots across English cities. Then came the Falklands War. The flag-waving drowned out joblessness, poverty, and strikes. Victory abroad gave the illusion of national strength while economic decline at home deepened. By the time the dust settled, the working class had paid the price in shuttered factories and broken unions.
That precedent should terrify us. If unrest grows, Britain’s rulers may once again manufacture foreign confrontation to distract from failure at home-sending the children of the poor to fight wars that protect the fortunes of the rich.
Immigrants did not treble mortgage rates, deregulate energy, or freeze wages. The capitalist elite did-and they laugh as you march in the wrong direction. If you are cold, hungry, or buried in debt, your enemy is not the refugee in your town. It is the billionaire in the penthouse, the media mogul selling you lies, and the politician shielding them both.
The end of prosperity is here. And if you allow it to be masked by ethnic conflict, the price will not just be poverty. It will be division, repression, and perhaps even war-engineered to protect the few while the many are left to pay, in blood as well as bread.
