Having read only a chapter of "Vassal State" by Angus Hanton (trust worthy sources are used in this book), it has become glaringly obvious to me that Britain really is a colony of the USA. I often refer to this idea day-to-day, but I never realised how much weight it has behind it. Though the comparison could be called, perhaps coarse, I would compare the UK to the British Raj, or British India. Because our nation's industries are American owned, 7% of the UK workforce is employed by US multinationals, and the government believes it's a good idea to keep allowing UK companies to sell themselves to Americans.
In 1930, an American historian and economist wrote that, "We were Britain's colony once, she will be our colony before she's done. Not in name, but in fact." This is a pretty evident prediction of our current situation. It shows that the USA is, not merely accidentally buying the UK, but deliberately attempting to own it. Supposedly, 30% of US overseas investments go into the UK. This is clearly a deliberate move, similar to the British Empire attempting to take control of India to gain power over spices and tea. Something very striking about the British East India Company was the sheer brutality with which profits were pursued, artificial famines and slavery were well within the question when boosting profits was on the line.
If the UK, even (again) coarsely, can be compared to the British Raj, does that not mean that the USA will be similarly brutal in its colonial rule (if with a few more restrictions)? If that is indeed the case, then the UK may very well become a puppet in name, because we will have such a weak government that it simply cannot exist.
I believe there is one realistic way to prevent this - government intervention, before it's too late. If the government goes about buying UK services and keeping them reserved for the British people, not for American giants, we can effectively maintain our economic independence. The government needs to act as a guardian of the people - a nation-state - in order to maintain its independence, so there's something in it for the state as well as the nation. That's why having the current old fat bastards in charge doesn't help. They go about selling our services off and believing in the free market like it's still the 19th century. This is a different world.
Monopolies dominate the economics of the modern day. The free market has killed itself through the sheer intensity of competition, leading to single companies controlling entire industries. No need to lower prices or improve quality because there are no real competitors. Selling our businesses just strengthens this environment and results in worse living standards for us, while those politicians are off on a Yacht in the Caribbean talking with their billionaire, paedophile, human-trafficking buddies.
What we need is for us to be in charge. The young, working Brits who'll be suffering the consequences of what these pigs do while trying to boost their personal fortune. The UK claims to be a democratic country, but is it really democratic if we only get a say in who gets power? We don't actually control what really happens, we only have a say in who makes the decisions and, more than half the time, that say is disregarded because we were out-voted. This country is still functioning like it's the 1980s. We have grey-haired, multi-millionaire, privately educated, homogenous, old, bastards ruling our nation. None of us, the citizens of the UK, are actually granted any power.
On an individual level, someone could buy from local businesses, avoid giving money to American multinationals (like Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft) where possible, and not vote for Pro-American parties like Reform UK and the Conservatives. On a community level, someone could raise awareness of this problem so that these actions have a stronger impact. And, if someone had significant influence, they could support explicitly anti-American content creators and politicians.
Let's fight back against our colonisation before it's too late.
