Keep An Eye on GB
British journalist Ed Vulliamy sees Great Britain a deeply dysfunctional society, culminating 30 years of national decline, now being pushed over the edge.
The British working class has been impoverished due in considerable measure to incompetence, opportunism, and self-defeating actions.
Britain's once efficient public services, including the railroads, a British invention, are mired in high costs, high fares and poor performance.
The British government, once the gold standard for democracies, has also been corrupted in many ways.
Like America, the British government bailed out its banks during the financial meltdown only to see them return to speculative excesses and astronomical bonuses.
Most disturbing, to Vulliamy, are the tectonic changes in British social life and values. A society once admired for its civility, its sense of fairness, deep pride in its heritage, holds on to remnants, including even its sense of a common purpose as a nation. Ethnic, economic, and social class divisions run very deep in Britain.
We need to remember one of the important lessons of history. Renewal and revitalization are also possible. National decline is not inevitable and irreversible. Our great nation still has the capacity for renewal.
Psychology Today
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