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@commontruth.bsky.social
🏴 🗣"Ultra-realist amateur strategist"
Blue Labour roots, post-liberal conclusions. Anglofuturist.
🥀 2+2=4
📍The Red Wall
https://commontruth.substack.com
Blue Labour roots, post-liberal conclusions. Anglofuturist.
🥀 2+2=4
📍The Red Wall
https://commontruth.substack.com
Supporting unrestricted migration means endorsing a system that suppresses wages while helping neoliberal capitalists maximise profit. The moral language of compassion hides a truth: cheap labour and free movement serve global capital, not the working class.
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Supporting unrestricted migration means endorsing a system that suppresses wages while helping neoliberal capitalists maximise profit. The moral language of compassion hides a truth: cheap labour and free movement serve global capital, not the working class.
To put this in perspective: the UK’s median salary is about £37,000, while in Nigeria it’s around £1,900. No Nigerian care worker will protest the cost of living or demand higher pay; their wages already feel like a fortune compared to back home.
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
To put this in perspective: the UK’s median salary is about £37,000, while in Nigeria it’s around £1,900. No Nigerian care worker will protest the cost of living or demand higher pay; their wages already feel like a fortune compared to back home.
The effect is wage suppression across Britain’s low-paid sectors. Migrants from lower-GDP nations are naturally content with pay that seems inadequate here but transformative there. What looks low by British standards can be life-changing by comparison.
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The effect is wage suppression across Britain’s low-paid sectors. Migrants from lower-GDP nations are naturally content with pay that seems inadequate here but transformative there. What looks low by British standards can be life-changing by comparison.
Moving away from open-borders universalism is, by definition, moving away from neoliberal economics. Freedom of movement is central to neoliberalism for both capital and labour. Low-skilled immigration is reverse outsourcing: importing cheap labour to cut costs at home.
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Moving away from open-borders universalism is, by definition, moving away from neoliberal economics. Freedom of movement is central to neoliberalism for both capital and labour. Low-skilled immigration is reverse outsourcing: importing cheap labour to cut costs at home.
The bonds of community weaken twice over: first by physical movement, then by cultural detachment. This crisis of identity is at the core of Broken Britain, addressing it is vital to our restoration.
Read the full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Read the full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
The Fraying Fabric of Britain
From the Red Wall to a nation unravelling
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The bonds of community weaken twice over: first by physical movement, then by cultural detachment. This crisis of identity is at the core of Broken Britain, addressing it is vital to our restoration.
Read the full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Read the full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Migration has outpaced natural integration, creating fragmentation and, in places, parallel societies. Meanwhile, our own culture pushes young people to leave home, chase university degrees, and build lives detached from place and continuity.
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Migration has outpaced natural integration, creating fragmentation and, in places, parallel societies. Meanwhile, our own culture pushes young people to leave home, chase university degrees, and build lives detached from place and continuity.
We do not need to revive our fallen empire or rejoin our European neighbours. We can be a strong, effective power within Europe: a trusted link between America and the continent. All we require is the will, the vision, and the courage to push forward 🇬🇧
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We do not need to revive our fallen empire or rejoin our European neighbours. We can be a strong, effective power within Europe: a trusted link between America and the continent. All we require is the will, the vision, and the courage to push forward 🇬🇧
Britain should emulate Singapore’s emphasis on justice and civic responsibility and Israel’s focus on defence and technological specialisation, fields in which we already excel but must do more to build on our strengths.
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Britain should emulate Singapore’s emphasis on justice and civic responsibility and Israel’s focus on defence and technological specialisation, fields in which we already excel but must do more to build on our strengths.
Israel is technologically self-sufficient and a benchmark in defence capability. Singapore ranks among the highest for living standards, enforces law consistently, and embodies civic nationalism. Both show how small states can still project influence and prosper globally.
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Israel is technologically self-sufficient and a benchmark in defence capability. Singapore ranks among the highest for living standards, enforces law consistently, and embodies civic nationalism. Both show how small states can still project influence and prosper globally.
Models for such a shift already exist. We should look to countries such as Israel and Singapore, the former for military strength, the latter for administrative excellence.
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Models for such a shift already exist. We should look to countries such as Israel and Singapore, the former for military strength, the latter for administrative excellence.
But this requires letting go of grandiose delusions and reclaiming a pragmatic role grounded in capability rather than nostalgia. It is time to stop chasing the ghost of empire and start acting like a modern middle power.
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
But this requires letting go of grandiose delusions and reclaiming a pragmatic role grounded in capability rather than nostalgia. It is time to stop chasing the ghost of empire and start acting like a modern middle power.
I say we can: it would mark a sobering reckoning for a country whose cultural DNA still sings “Britannia rules the waves,” to fall fully into subservience or retreat home in a humbled defeat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I say we can: it would mark a sobering reckoning for a country whose cultural DNA still sings “Britannia rules the waves,” to fall fully into subservience or retreat home in a humbled defeat.
Full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 is the real marker, not the cause of Britain’s decline, but the moment its underlying weaknesses finally broke the surface. Productivity & growth never recovered their pre-2008 trajectories, signalling not just economic malaise but a deeper structural stagnation.
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 is the real marker, not the cause of Britain’s decline, but the moment its underlying weaknesses finally broke the surface. Productivity & growth never recovered their pre-2008 trajectories, signalling not just economic malaise but a deeper structural stagnation.
Brexit has been an economic blow. But economics alone cannot be the final arbiter. We are not worker drones in a GDP hive mind; we are human beings moved by a mix of economic, cultural, and security concerns, driven by the need to protect our families, livelihoods, and sense of belonging.
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Brexit has been an economic blow. But economics alone cannot be the final arbiter. We are not worker drones in a GDP hive mind; we are human beings moved by a mix of economic, cultural, and security concerns, driven by the need to protect our families, livelihoods, and sense of belonging.
A certain archetype of British politico would have you believe that the 2012 Olympics marked the height of British civilisation: a final encore to Cool Britannia and a comforting image of a country before it was “broken.” This is not true. Britain broke in 2008, not 2016.
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
A certain archetype of British politico would have you believe that the 2012 Olympics marked the height of British civilisation: a final encore to Cool Britannia and a comforting image of a country before it was “broken.” This is not true. Britain broke in 2008, not 2016.
I mean, we can judge policy on personalities or on their individual merit. Personally, I would say having the argument and weighing up the pros and cons will lead to better end results.
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I mean, we can judge policy on personalities or on their individual merit. Personally, I would say having the argument and weighing up the pros and cons will lead to better end results.
The Global Financial Crisis and Britain’s response to it was when the music stopped.
Full piece here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Full piece here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Global Financial Crisis and Britain’s response to it was when the music stopped.
Full piece here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Full piece here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
This is not true. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 is the real marker, not the cause of Britain’s decline, but the moment its underlying weaknesses finally broke the surface. Productivity and growth never recovered, signalling not just an economic malaise but a deeper structural stagnation.
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is not true. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 is the real marker, not the cause of Britain’s decline, but the moment its underlying weaknesses finally broke the surface. Productivity and growth never recovered, signalling not just an economic malaise but a deeper structural stagnation.
A certain archetype of British politico would have you believe that the 2012 Olympics marked the height of British civilisation: a final encore to Cool Britannia and a comforting image of a country before it was “broken.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A certain archetype of British politico would have you believe that the 2012 Olympics marked the height of British civilisation: a final encore to Cool Britannia and a comforting image of a country before it was “broken.”