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Great BritainrCOs failed state

From Chinese spies to football matches, the governmentrCOs grip on power is dissolving

By Aaron Bastani

Be under no doubt, BritainrCOs degraded public realm is paving the way for a Reform government. The overwhelming sense of national malaise is helping
that rise, but so too is the easy lens by which Farage helps the public understand it. Rarely mentioned are things like a lack of resources and a state apparatus fragmented by the Blairite era of PFI and short-termism,
and by the Cameroon fantasy of the rCLBig SocietyrCY, which was merely a rhetorical cloak for less protective government. They never acknowledge
the dual cause of our present inertia: an ultra-liberalism that, with no
real sense of national mission, co-exists alongside economic stagnation. Rather than labelling modern Britain a failure by design, they instead
insist that the system has been corrupted by mendacious people.

Flat wages, rampant incompetence and the police being most conspicuous
when responding to mean tweets rCo itrCOs no wonder that everyone, regardless of politics, thinks the country is failing. Whether itrCOs the seeming inability of the security services to protect Jewish worshippers from a terrorist attack, the alleged presence of an estimated 20,000 Chinese
agents on our streets or an alleged breach of Whitehall data centres by a foreign power, everything seems to be disintegrating. The state has taken
to bickering with itself, the Prime Minister publicly chiding a police
force for attempting to safely regulate a football match. We are living through a moment of national humiliation.

Not that the left has an obvious solution to the impasse. Like Reform,
much of it is driven by a nostalgic yearning for the past. Britain has
done great things before, we are reminded, birthing both the Industrial Revolution and the worldrCOs first labour movement. Later came democratic reforms that empowered the working class, the defeat of Nazism and, subsequently, the social-democratic settlement. Put more pithily, Reform
wish to reverse the changes seen since 1997; the left since the
Thatcherite Revolution after 1979.

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https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/great-britains-failed-state
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