As the Welfare State Pulls Britain Down, Thoughts on the NHS

Britain is in a parlous state. Crime is way up, welfare expenses are skyrocketing thanks to a huge Muslim immigrant population taking advantage of every possible benefit, and a general spirit of wanhope spreads across the land. Those who warn about the effect of allowing millions of Muslims to settle among the indigenous British, whom those Muslims regard as “the most vile of created beings,” have been maligned as “far-right.” More on the state of Great Britain today, as the problems at the National Health Service are emblematic of that state, can be found here: “Yes, Britain today is governed by idiots, but that is not the sole reason it is in trouble,” by Kevin Myers, Brussels Signal, May 19, 2026:

Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state? Certainly, the ailing condition of the United Kingdom, now just two years away from marking the 80th birthday of its National Health Service,  suggests as much. In addition to being the over-lauded moral heart of the UK, the NHS is the UK’s largest employer. The usual response to demands for an end to unlimited immigration to Britain runs: But without immigrants, how will the NHS survive? The future of the NHS, rather than that of the people it was invented to serve, is now the defining issue of British politics.

However, the actual issue has been the NHS’s multigenerational removal of the interlinked values of social cohesion and of personal responsibility. For example: In Scotland in 2023, 2,555 youngsters, aged 16-18, were paid £643,381 for minding family members who themselves were entitled to benefits. What was once a familial duty is now a transaction between the state and groups of relatives, with the government funding everybody, including the various medics supervising the treatment, the civil servants authorising it, and other civil servants compiling the statistics. That’s weird enough, but not as weird as the extrapolated outcome. Some 24 million people in the UK, or 34 per cent  of the population, live on benefits, nearly ten million of whom are of working age. These numbers do not include the uncountable numbers of NHS employees and  civil servants who administer or assess and report on the various schemes.

So, why work? Good question, when as “of right” such services  are “free” as an expression of “equality”.  These meaningless terms – equality,  free and natural right – have become a deadly curse on British society, especially when joined by those other ghouls at the UK’s deathbed, namely transgenderism, multiculturalism, diversityism, equityism, inclusivism, environmentalism, and God help us, even BLMism, each with its own version of the blood-sucking leeches of medieval quackery….

The dogmas of multiculturalism mean that other cultures must be as respected as those of the natives, which is why the British welfare state freely subsidises all the polygamous unions of those Muslim males who were prudent enough to harvest a few wives on their journey to Britain. In many cities and towns – Birmingham, Leicester, Blackburn, Bradford – white people are in the minority. There are now 24 clinics in England that specialise in coping with the aftermath of female genital mutilation, which is illegal in Britain, but in effect tolerated through – no surprises here – passive police neglect. So too was the mass rape of white working class girls by Pakistani men, with possibly 100,000 victims. Though that particular epidemic has been somewhat curtailed in recent years, it was hardly at the initiative of the present Prime Minister Starmer, who himself exhibited perfectly splendid passive neglect on the subject when he was Director of Public Prosecutions  (for which job he was, quite naturally, awarded a knighthood)….

It’s all terrible, of course, and it’s all true. But even as this lament was being written by that excellent journalist Kevin Myers, 60,000 people showed up in central London for a Unite-the-Kingdom rally against Muslim immigration, which Tommy Robinson spearheaded, while a pro-Palestinian rally held at the same time attracted only 20,000, that is, one-third as many. Furthermore, the Reform Party, which calls for slowing down, or halting altogether, Muslim migration into the U.K., now leads both the Labour and the Conservative parties in the polls. Despite the doom and gloom of the article above, there are now signs of intelligent life in the U.K. Sursum corda!