The One-Sided Civil War: How the British State Turned Against Its Own People, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
Britain is not at peace. Nor is it in open rebellion. It's in something worse, a cold, creeping civil war, fought not with rifles and barricades, but through bureaucracy, censorship, smears, and silent repression. One side doesn't even know it's in a war. The other side is winning without firing a shot.
Call it what you like: managed decline, soft totalitarianism, institutional betrayal. But make no mistake, what's happening across Britain today is not normal, and it is not accidental. It is a deliberate, coordinated assault on the very people, values, and traditions that built this country. And nowhere is that clearer than in how dissent is punished and how law is now applied with surgical, racialised precision.
Take the case of Councillor John Edwards. A modest man, elected by local people in Sandhurst, who committed the unforgivable sin of asking polite questions about 300 Afghan migrants being housed in a local hotel. He asked about fairness. About resources. About the rights of people already here, veterans, the homeless, families on housing lists. In response, he was accused of stirring racial hatred and reported to the police by fellow councillors. For what? For expressing concern that British citizens might be deprioritised in their own country.
The kicker? Everything he said was true. The government did conceal the migrant housing scheme. There was a super-injunction. And internal documents did admit the plan risked overwhelming local services. But none of that mattered. Truth was no defence. Facts were irrelevant. The message was clear: question immigration policy, even respectfully, and you'll be treated like a criminal. Meanwhile, actual criminals roam free.
This is not just censorship. It is regime logic. We're living under a political class so allergic to scrutiny that it will criminalise criticism and redefine dissent as hate speech. Not equally, of course. Only if you're the wrong kind of person. Only if you dare speak from a traditional, majority WHITE British perspective. Because in modern Britain, there are two sets of rules. One for those who run the system, and another for those they've decided no longer matter, White Britons.
Look around the UK and you'll see this pattern everywhere. Try objecting to migrant hotels in your town and the police will film you, not the hotels, then arrest you, and if you are unlucky maybe pepper spray you as well. Watch protests erupt between locals and pro-migration activists and notice who gets arrested. Hint: it's rarely the ones waving foreign flags or threatening "no borders." It's the bloke who wants to know why his mother can't get a doctor's appointment.
Even now, two decades into the grooming gang scandals, scandals which saw thousands of white working-class girls raped and trafficked while police and councils turned a blind eye, there are no mass resignations, no senior convictions, no real justice. Instead, the government continues to fund "diversity training" and produce endless reports about Islamophobia, while the girls, many of them now women battling trauma, are quietly forgotten.
Meanwhile, institutions like Thames Water can flood rivers with sewage, councils can bankrupt entire cities, and civil servants can openly defy ministers. No one gets sacked. No one is jailed. The only people who ever seem to suffer consequences are those who speak up.
That's not incompetence. That's immunity.
And it's not just the government. From the BBC to the judiciary, the NHS to your local school board, there is a thick, suffocating layer of managerial ideology that prioritises group identity over individual rights, and state protection over public accountability. You can see it in everything from the pronoun mandates to the climate pledges. And always, it comes with the same implicit threat: disagree, and you'll be labelled, marginalised, silenced, or worse.
This isn't a just a conflict between Left and Right anymore. This is a conflict between the ruling class and the ruled class. Between the architects of decline and the citizens forced to live in its rubble. And it is increasingly clear that the state no longer even pretends to be neutral. It picks sides, and it's not picking White British.
Traditional Britain is now the designated enemy of the regime. Not by accident, but by design. Its values, order, duty, sovereignty, restraint and race, are relics to be scrubbed from the record. Its culture, churches, pubs, farms, families—are derided as nostalgic or oppressive. And its people, the white working and middle classes, are useful only when silent and taxed. Speak up, and you're "far-right." Resist, and you're "dangerous."
A real civil war would be fought with bombs and barricades. But a one-sided civil war? That's quieter. It's fought with laws, accusations, and silence. It's fought by making normal people afraid to speak, to organise, even to ask questions.
Professor David Betz calls it the death of trust. He's right. But it's more than that. It's the death of reciprocal democracy, where the people and their rulers are meant to be in dialogue. Now, the rulers don't listen. They don't have to. They rule by decree and moral intimidation, protected by a media class that punishes anyone who steps out of line.
But history shows something else too. When people are denied peaceful change, they don't stay peaceful forever. Sweden learned that. Argentina learned that. And when it came, reform didn't come through polite letters or social media likes. It came when people voted, stood up, and said: "No more."
Britain is not beyond saving. But it is on borrowed time. The institutions may still stand, but they are hollowed out. The public service ethic is gone. The political class is a closed loop of mediocrities. And the public, especially the native, taxpaying, law-abiding public, is running out of patience.
What we are living through is not just decline. It is betrayal. It is the replacement of civic duty with managed decay. And it is being enforced, ruthlessly, by a state that now sees its own people, its core cultural base, as the threat.
That is a one-sided civil war. And it's time we acknowledged it.
Town councillor John Edwards, who asked questions about 300 Afghans put up in a local hotel, was "reported to police for stirring up racial hatred", and has also been placed under "investigation" by a "monitoring officer" at Bracknell Forest Council in Berkshire. The Mail has the story.
The elected councillor began asking questions in April, questioning whether the large number of new arrivals would affect local residents on the housing waiting list.
But instead of getting answers, Councillor Edwards said he was accused of "inciting" hate and spreading "misinformation" against an ethnic group.
The Free Speech Union has now taken up his case, calling it a "chilling" example of democracy being suppressed.
It has since been revealed there was a huge official cover-up with the Government obtaining a super-injunction to stop the public finding out it had a secret immigration scheme for thousands of Afghans.
The Mail revealed that, while the public was being kept in the dark, ministers were being warned in private their scheme risked "significant integration considerations" including with housing and local services such as education and healthcare.
But when Councillor Edwards – an independent member of nearby Sandhurst Town Council – began asking Bracknell's borough council a series of questions, he was reported to police by a borough councillor.
He wrote a post on Facebook on April 9th saying: "First of all, I want to make clear that everyone arriving on this scheme must be treated with dignity and respect. This is in no way blaming them, and they should be made to feel welcome."
He went on to question the fairness of the scheme and whether it would have any impact on local residents waiting for housing or other services, pointing out that "many of our own veterans remain homeless".
A Labour councillor on the Labour-controlled Bracknell Forest Council wrote on a Facebook community group it was "far Right propaganda" and added: "This has all been reported to the MOD, council and local police."
Councillor Edwards – who never heard from the police – told the Mail: "The council has fuelled a narrative that I'm spreading hate and misinformation — despite my claims being true.
"Another councillor has said publicly they have reported me to the police for 'stirring racial hatred'. This would be a serious criminal offence. It's stressful, it's potentially very harmful to my reputation.
"It's a way to smear and silence me, and it has a chilling effect which amounts to, 'disagree with the council and you will be call a racist'."
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"When the Government stops listening, people stop obeying. That's when the real trouble starts.
David Betz isn't some bloke in the pub ranting about revolution. He's a Professor of War Studies at King's College London. In his essay, 'Civil War Comes to the West', he outlines the precursors to societal collapse. Collapsing trust in institutions, a gulf between rulers and ruled, policy failure and a public that no longer believes lawful change is possible.
Sound far-fetched?
This week in Essex, a public meeting about a migrant hotel descended into chaos. Protesters and counter-protesters squared off, police were called, and the locals, those living with the consequences, were ignored. They usually are.
Meanwhile, doctors are striking as the NHS buckles under its own weight. Seven million on waiting lists. A&Es in meltdown. GP appointments cancelled before they're even booked.
Birmingham Council went bust, after blowing millions on mismanagement and diversity consultants, while bin collections and libraries vanished. Thames Water dumps sewage into rivers by the ton, drowns in debt, and still pays out bonuses.
No resignations. No prosecutions. Just more slogans and 'action plans'.
This isn't governance. It's theatre. A slow-motion farce in which the audience pays, the actors lie, and critics are told to mind their tone.
We're not in civil war yet, but we are in slow decline. The institutions still stand, but few believe in them. Politicians. Civil servants. The BBC. The Bishops. Sacked football commentators turned podcasters. Sanctimonious actors. All spouting the same Orwellian doublethink: 'Diversity is strength', while reinforcing security at migrant hotels and telling police not to take sides. When they clearly do, nothing happens.
Betz calls it the death of trust. And once trust dies, peaceful consensus dies with it.
The Warning Signs Are Flashing
Don't take my word for it. Look at the data:
§Just 9% of Brits trust politicians to tell the truth (Ipsos, 2024).
§Fewer than one in five trust the BBC — numbers halve outside London (YouGov, 2023).
§Only 34% believe democracy works well in the UK, down from 62% a decade ago (British Social Attitudes, 2023).
§72% say immigration is too high, yet ministers still mumble "the system is broken" as if someone else broke it.
§National debt now exceeds 100% of GDP, with 20 years of consecutive deficits (ONS, 2024).
Meanwhile, knife crime nears record highs. School standards drop. Public services strain. Home ownership collapses. Mental health crumbles. Life expectancy stagnates.
In the poorest areas of England, male life expectancy is now under 73. Two decades behind affluent areas. Blackpool could be mistaken for post-Soviet decay.
Young people, drowning in rent, debt and hopelessness, are told to be grateful for a Netflix subscription and a mental health app.
The Establishment swears blind it sees the rot. It promises reform. Nothing changes. Only taxpayers are ever held accountable, footing the bill while public sector leaders cash in, without a word of regret or a hint of shame.
The Problem Isn't Just Incompetence. It's Impunity
It's not that the system fails. It's that no one pays for it.
§The Post Office scandal: Hundreds of innocent lives ruined. No exec jailed.
§Covid: Families banned from funerals. Politicians partied. No resignations.
§Thames Water: 1.3 million hours of sewage dumped. Bonuses paid.
§Net Zero: £28 billion a year to leave you cold while ministers fly to climate summits.
§Grooming gangs: Thousands abused. Officials turned blind eyes. No accountability.
§HS2: Over £100 billion incinerated. Scrapped halfway. Nobody fired.
§Windrush: British citizens wrongly deported. Apologies offered. No one sacked.
§Grenfell: 72 dead. Safety failures known for years. Still no prison time.
§Illegal immigration: Record boat crossings. £8 million a day on asylum hotels. Complain, and you're labelled a bigot.
Other Nations Faced the Cliff, And Swerved
Denial has a shelf life. Eventually, even the most ideological governments hit the wall. And when they do, reality bites hard.
Sweden used to be the progressive paradise. Open borders, generous welfare, soft integration. Then came the bombings, the gang crime, the ghettos. In 2023, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson declared:
Segregation has gone too far. Sweden is too weak to protect itself. … We will turn every stone to restore safety.
It now enforces mandatory integration, language testing and relocation from ethnic enclaves. Not Nigel Farage. Not Marine Le Pen. That's Sweden's centre-Right.
Argentina spent decades on 'social justice', printing money and bloating the state. Along came Javier Milei, a libertarian with a chainsaw who promised to slash government, abolish the central bank and dollarise the economy.
The elites laughed. The people elected him.
Within months, he cut spending by 5% of GDP and eliminated the deficit. Poverty is still high, but there's a plan, not platitudes.
They Swapped Platitudes for Principles
Sweden and Argentina bowed to progressive orthodoxy. Open borders, moral grandstanding, endless handouts. Then reality crashed the party.
They didn't hold a vigil. They changed course. Swapped slogans for action. Started governing like it mattered.
Meanwhile, Britain hums along to 'equity' and 'sustainability' while the lights flicker, the bills climb and the postcode riots inch closer.
Maybe it's time to stop voting for the same polished halfwits in different rosettes? The house is on fire. It might be worth letting someone other than the arsonists hold the hose.
This Isn't Left vs Right. It's the Ruled vs the Ruling
Some of the clearest voices now come from across the old divides.
Toby Young, founder of tte Daily Sceptic, now sits in the House of Lords. Alongside him: Claire Fox, former revolutionary communist turned free speech advocate. Two former enemies, united in scepticism.
The real battle isn't Tory vs Labour. It's between the rule-makers and the rule-followers. The architects of failure and the people made to live with it.
So What Do We Do? Revolt?
Not yet. But we need noise. Relentless, dinner-party-ruining noise. Because polite silence and voter apathy is what let this rot take hold.
Here's how to start:
§Vote like you mean it. No more 'lesser evils'.' Choose someone who'll fire civil servants and tear up the script.
§Turn up. At council meetings, school boards, planning hearings. Ask calm questions. They hate that.
§Support the plain-speakers. Journalists, podcasters, comedians, councillors.
§Don't conform. If your bank or university asks for pronouns, ask for theirs.
§Call out cognitive dissonance, the polite word for 'we know it's nonsense, but we say it anyway'.
§Defend free speech. Back groups like the Free Speech Union with your voice and your wallet.
One Final Warning
Betz says it best. When people lose faith in peaceful change, they don't stay peaceful.
We're not at the cliff's edge, but we're running out of road. Britain won't collapse with a bang. It will rot politely, in boardrooms, in press releases and in taxpayer-funded failure.
Ignore it, and we won't get revolution. We'll get risk assessments on how to manage the decay without offending anyone.
So stand up. Speak out. Because they're betting you won't.
As Churchill said: "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
Now would be a very good time to stand.
Clive Pinder writes from the awkward space between common sense and treason."
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