Britain’s inertia is also a warning to Australia.
Australia, currently sitting somewhat uncomfortably, gazing around, a deer-in-the-headlights, between the success of America and the ennui of Britain; between the vibrancy of the United States and the inertia of a Dis-United Kingdom.
All while we lean precariously towards China, away from our most formidable partner, our most powerful ally with whom we share enlightenment values. Yet we lean Sinical nonetheless because, you know, Trump. Who Tweets Horrid Things.
Charles C.W. Cooke:
In recent years, I have been privy to the curious trend of Europeans who, having been assiduously fed all manner of nonsense about life in the United States, have come to understand that their presumptions were all wrong. In yesterday’s London Telegraph, Allister Heath describes this phenomenon rather well. Beneath the pull-no-punches headline, “I saw a breathtaking glimpse of what Britain could have become,” Heath offers a blunt challenge to the smug among his fellow countrymen:
If you want to comprehend the scale of Britain’s decline, our economic, geopolitical and technological humiliation, the magnitude of the self-sabotage inflicted upon our nation by our incompetent political class, head to one of America’s booming Republican-run Red States.
It will guarantee a shock to your system, and jolt you out of any residual complacency. It will simultaneously energise you and plunge you into depression. You will be blown away by the growth, the clatter of construction, the siege of cranes across the skyline, the massive cars, the energy, drive and ambition, the wealth, abundance and cheap energy, the entrepreneurial go-getting, the ostentatious celebration of success.
Read it all at: “Britain’s Inertia Is a Warning to America” by Charles C.W. Cooke.
