Tag Archives: Britain

Feb 13 2026

London Mayor Hell Bent on Reversing Brexit


Posted originally on Feb 13, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

The Mayor of London’s recent declaration that his “ultimate goal is to reverse Brexit” and rejoin the EU captures the continued strain facing UK politics. When the British people voted to leave the European Union, they did not merely withdraw from a political union, but rather, they withdrew from the world’s most integrated economic bloc. That decision carried long-term consequences that today, six years on, are evident not just in statistics but in the structural reorientation of the British economy.

I was a strong proponent of Brexit because the structure of the EU is inherently unstable. You cannot have a single monetary system, regulatory regime, and political authority imposed on vastly different cultures and economies without creating permanent internal conflict.

The EU does not permit real democracy. When voters in France, the Netherlands, Ireland, or Greece rejected EU policies, they were forced to vote again until they produced the “correct” answer. When Italy or Greece elected governments that challenged Brussels, unelected bureaucrats intervened. Brexit was not an accident, nor was it some irrational emotional outburst by the British public as the press endlessly claims. It was the inevitable consequence of the European Union evolving into a centralized bureaucratic regime that stripped sovereignty from its member states.

BREXIT Crisis

I consistently supported Nigel Farage, who understood that this was not about tariffs or GDP forecasts, but about sovereignty. Those now calling to reverse Brexit argue that Britain has suffered economically. That is a dishonest framing. The entire European continent is in economic decline. Germany is deindustrializing, France is facing civil unrest and debt instability, and southern Europe never recovered from the sovereign debt crisis. To claim that Britain’s challenges stem solely from Brexit ignores the global contraction cycle that began long before the referendum.

Brexit was not a mistake. The real mistake would be pretending that voters did not know what they were doing. Markets will adjust. Capital will flow where it is treated best. What never survives is a system that refuses to listen to its own people.

Jan 23 2026

When Governments Abandon Their Veterans


Posted originally on Jan 23, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

Governments do not honor their veterans—period. It is absolutely shameful to see how governments treat the men and women who risk their lives to defend their nation. A disabled war veteran in the UK was arrested last year for protesting in favor of Palestine. Police lifted this man out of his wheelchair and sent him to jail on a stretcher.

The Bonus Army episode is one of the clearest historical warnings about what happens when governments make promises they cannot honor and then respond to economic stress with force instead of reform. In 1932, tens of thousands of World War I veterans marched on Washington to demand early payment of bonuses that had been promised to them for their service. These were not radicals or revolutionaries. These men were former soldiers who believed the government would keep its word. Instead, they were treated as a threat. President Hoover ordered troops to attack the veterans, forcing them to flee. We saw the same with the Coxley’s Army, which was the march on Washington following the Panic of 1893 and massive unemployment.

Coxley March

Governments always fear veterans because they expose the lie. These are the people who were told there was honor, duty, and reward in service. When they return home to broken promises, inadequate care, or economic hardship, they become living proof that the social contract was fraudulent. Rather than admit failure, the state chooses censorship, intimidation, or character assassination. It is far easier to silence the messenger than to confront the insolvency of the promises made.

When governments begin silencing veterans, you are no longer dealing with a free society — you are witnessing the unmistakable decline phase of the state. Veterans are the last group any rational government should attempt to suppress. They are not activists looking for power; they are people who once believed in the system strongly enough to risk their lives for it. When even they are treated as enemies, confidence has already collapsed.

Jan 7 2026

Excessive Taxation Penalizes Workers


Posted originally on Jan 7, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Britain is not becoming a nation of part-time workers by accident, nor is this some benign lifestyle evolution as the press would like to portray it. It is a symptom of a collapsing incentive structure, and once incentives break down, the economy follows. Britons today work, on average, 2.3 fewer hours per week than they did twenty years ago.

Economists keep missing the point because they obsess over employment levels rather than productivity and motivation. Adam Smith understood this centuries ago. The wealth of a nation depends on the productive use of its population, and labor itself is capital. When you penalize labor through taxation and regulation, you destroy the capital base of the economy. Britain has done precisely that.
The expansion of the welfare state requires ever-higher taxes, and those taxes do not fall evenly. They fall disproportionately on those who actually work, produce, and take risk. Britain has created a system in which the marginal benefit of working harder is weak or outright negative, once taxes, lost benefits, compliance costs, and inflation are taken into account. Under those conditions, rational people become unproductive.

What is especially telling is that this is no longer confined to low-income workers. Highly skilled professionals are opting to reduce hours, shift into part-time roles, or deliberately cap income to avoid punitive tax thresholds. When doctors, engineers, accountants, and executives start making lifestyle decisions based on avoiding taxation rather than maximizing productivity, the system is already broken.

Governments always pretend this is about “work-life balance.” That is propaganda. People have always valued their time. What has changed is confidence. When people believe that extra effort will improve their future, they work harder. When they believe the state will confiscate the reward while increasing the risk, they stop. Productivity collapses not because people cannot work, but because they no longer believe it is worth it. People no longer believe the system is fair, and once that belief is gone, productivity never recovers without a crisis.

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Oct 14 2025

400 Seats For Nigel Farage? Raheem Kassam Discusses the Revolution Coming in Britain


Posted originally on Rumble By Charlie Kirk show on: October, 13, 2025