The Telegraph: "Britain is lurching towards civil war"

Tim Stanley, writing at the British Telegraph, argues that "Britain is lurching towards civil war, and nobody knows how to stop it." 

    The cause of the impending sectarian conflict is, unsurprisingly, multiculturalism. Stanley notes that David Betz, a professor of conflict studies at King’s, London, "argues that the conditions for a failed state we ordinarily apply overseas are now found here: frayed social contract, falling trust, polarisation."

     Into this mix Britain injected multiculturalism, encouraging millions to move here without expecting integration.

    If you think “fear of the other” is a human instinct, the policy was mad to begin with. Combine it with economic decline and you invite ethnic competition over services and jobs.

Stanely also points to new sentencing guidelines that treat minorities better than white offenders, adding: "In this spirit, says Betz, the modern state acts like an imperial administrator, promoting the interests of preferred minorities while trying to avoid a riot."

    And the concept of a color blind society now seems naive to Stanley. 

    Over the past 30 years, liberal institutions have taught us to see race again – by stressing the wonders of diversity so persistently that some white people feel the state has actively taken a side against them. Ancient, binding concepts, such as “equality before the law” ring hollow. The latest Police Race Action Plan openly rejects the principle of “treating everyone the same” in favour of “equality of police outcomes”.

    A situation in which millions believe cops are not impartial public servants but an occupying force is the headline metric of state failure. Mainland Britain has become Ulster.

 And in this regard:

    Betz notes that while Islamist terrorism is more lethal than far-Right extremism, there are only 4 million Muslims whereas there are around 50 million whites.

    Were the latter group radicalised, things might go south very fast, hence some in the security forces clearly regard white Britons as the emergent threat.

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    Every conspiracy theory is confirmed, and without a democratic outlet for anger – seeing their aspirations limited and being too poor to emigrate – where else will a militant faction of angry whites go but to violence? 

The title of the op-ed is misleading, though, in stating that no one knows how to stop it. Stanley tacitly acknowledges there is a solution being bandied about even as he automatically rejects it--repatriation. He even admits that something radical is possible by citing to the Covid lockdowns: "Did you ever think the state could imprison us in our homes? And if it can isolate the diseased from the healthy, the vaxed from the unvaxed, do you think it can’t, or won’t, someday separate us based on race or religion?"