Malice or Incompetence?

An AI image, unfortunately

It is no secret that, in Britain, the social contract is fraying rapidly. Policing by consent, governing by consent… it never used to matter to anyone that we hadn’t actually given consent. Increasingly, it now does. Ordinary people are wondering who their country is for, because they feel it isn’t them. The recent Afghan debacle is just the latest piece of evidence.

How we got to this stage, and what it means for the future, leads people to ponder whether our government is malicious or incompetent.

Originally I assumed incompetence. As most people do, I assumed the government must be harming us and destroying our country by accident. Eventually, some time in the late 2010s, that belief became untenable. The scales fell from my eyes: many things are happening, and have happened, that couldn’t possibly happen by accident. To see these things and then tell oneself that “the government don’t know what they’re doing!” is just silly. There must be deliberate malice. Moreover we can see an element of it, or perhaps contempt would be more accurate, in the way that politicians speak about the general public. The endless lying and misleading, again, simply cannot be accidental. So there is malice involved here. Covid was a big piece of evidence. For years, the government had feigned inability to solve all manner of problems, but when it came to enforcing lockdowns, they were suddenly very competent.

But then, just after covid in the midst of the Ukraine fiasco, it started to become apparent that, even with the malice, there actually was incompetence. The Sunak government seemed to be actively trying to mess up at every turn. Then his party made the inexplicable decision to replace him with Kemi Badenoch. Since then, the Starmer government has just been a catalogue of disasters, poor decisions, poor communications, all bolstered by a complete inability to understand the situation “on the ground”, the one they are supposed to be governing.

A good example of the gormlessness: in late 2024 when it was wrangling with the Afghan debacle, the Starmer government thought it best to publicly reveal “the scale (but not the cause) of the challenge”. This seems very telling. They thought the British public would be more outraged by a data leak than by 150,000 Afghans coming to live among them and their children.

But why agree to import those Afghans in the first place? They must have known that this could only harm Britain and the British. Yet Grant Shapps decided to do it. So there seems to be malice melding with incompetence and galvanising it.

Inter-ethnic malice from non-white politicians needs no explanation, but malice within the White contingent does. National self-hate, or oikophobia, was noted by Orwell in 1941:

It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God Save the King than stealing from a poor box.

Since that time it has advanced, spread, and become “authorised” by the ideology of globalism. I think this mindset is inculcated at business and international schools etc. which educate many of our upper class. Then it is enforced in our politicians by the general tenor of “the Westminster bubble” and by the media and academia.

However, all of that has been the case for many decades, and I think has largely run its course by now. I think the malice did its job from 1945 to 2010 - that is to say, the British state was run maliciously during that period. It still lingers but what we are also seeing, just as pronounced, is the incompetence and hubris that resulted from it. The best minds saw that the British state was not governed efficiently or productively, so they went elsewhere. This left the field open for lesser people to take those jobs. This process would have repeated with every generation, always worsening the situation, so that now we really are governed by idiots. They just happen to also be malicious - many of them, at least.

A good question is whether the politicians are in charge at all, or is it the civil servants, or globalist powers? For our purposes, that doesn’t really matter, because the same things will happen regardless of who orders them. What counts is whether those who make the decisions are benign/bright enough to change course or malicious/stupid enough to plough on. So far, all signs point to the latter.

However, the cultivating of incompetence in our institutions will have consequences for whoever is in charge.

Dominic Cummings has described what modern British governance is like, and it is laughable. Mediocrities have been funnelled into position and they have promoted in their own image, so that at this point the government (the civil service and the political machinery) is staffed entirely by buffoons, and ideological ones at that. In his view, it is incompetence rather than malice. I disagree. I believe there is a lot of malice. But my point is that the incompetence alone is going to cause them difficulty.

A similar process seems to have degraded the police - steadily emasculated ever since 1999’s MacPherson Report - meaning that the competence level there has decreased. I believe this is so because it now takes ten officers to deal with a petty criminal who would once have been apprehended by just one or two. Ideological commitments force us to have female police officers who are blatantly unable to deal with things. Then there are the weak, weedy male officers who don’t inspire confidence either. The less said about the visible commitment to diversity and LGBT, the better. It just makes the force look ridiculous, unreliable and at odds with ordinary people.

We also have statistics about their ability to solve crimes, and despite the incredible modern tools they have, the numbers are lamentable. What’s more, due to the malice, ordinary people fear that, if they dare to do what the police can’t (or won’t) do, the police will come after them. As a result, Britain is devolving into a lawless, low-trust society where, nevertheless, ordinary people fear the heavy hand of the law swooping in on innocuous things.

But the reason I mention the dysfunctional police is that, should the country ever erupt into civil unrest, I doubt they would be able to contain it.

Consider the sheer numbers of officers needed to respond to the recent Epping protests. Essex Police alone couldn’t handle it so officers had to be drafted in from neighbouring forces. What if five or six such protests were happening simultaneously around the country? Police chiefs are (I think genuinely) concerned about this possibility.

All that I have said about the police is also true of the armed forces. Over decades of decadence, Britain has whittled these down:

Of course these forces have a whole range of gadgets nowadays, and I’m sure those gadgets are formidable, but ultimately you need “boots on the ground”. The alternative would be sending in drones to incapacitate (or kill) hundreds of rioters, but I think at that point the government would have lost all legitimacy even with the most apolitical of the public. Such episodes from Britain’s past live in infamy.

One theory is that the powers-that-be don’t intend to rely on either the police or the army, but on the very migrants they have been importing by the thousand. I find this difficult to believe. We are talking about men with an average IQ of around 85 (being generous). If you were in power, would you feel relaxed about it being guaranteed by men like that? It won’t matter how many guns you give them; they are still going to be useless. Someone asked me why else the government would spend a fortune to import many thousands of these men. My answer:

they want them to race-mix with the White women

I believe that, at the highest level, this is the only reason these men are being brought here, along with the certainty that they will (eventually) cause social breakdown. Nobody actually believes they are going to improve the economy or culture of a First World country. But by the same token, how could anyone believe they are going to be a reliable mercenary force?

With “defence of the realm” in mind, another possibility is that, in the coming months and years, the government will greatly expand the police and armed forces in preparation for mass civil unrest. But where would the money for that come from? (As a related question, does money even matter any more…?) And even if you found the money, whom would you be employing with it? 85 IQ “asylum seekers”? Or dupes from your native populace? If the latter, there aren’t going to be many of them. Thanks to the British state’s own propaganda, Zoomers now think Britain is a racist country and only 11% of them would risk their lives to defend it. Among the more realistic (less “woke”) older generation, 49% of men say they would do so. 49% is already very low, but even that is the percentage who would fight an external enemy who was attacking Britain, not work for their own corrupt government against their fellow countrymen.

In summary, Britain in the mid 2020s is a cauldron of both incompetence and malice. There is (and has been since 1945) a conscious plan to destroy the British people by flooding their society with Third Worlders who will degrade societal function and approach British women. Much “progress” has been made towards that goal. But the plan has been accelerated too much, causing a cascade effect that was not desired and will create all sorts of havoc - including, probably, the failure of the plan.