Britain as a failed state? Don't laugh, it's that serious

With Britain as the mother country and the US as the alliance father, Australia has a dysfunctional family. Mum has gone nuts, Dad has gone rogue. The anchors of theForfeiting Britain's influence and power in the world? It has been a long week for British PM Boris Johnson.Domestically, the US system is so strong and dynamic it will recover from Trump. The worrying question is whether the international system that the US created can also rebound.

I’ve always loved the Poms. I was fascinated by my grandmother’s stories of growing up in London, especially her memory of German zeppelins bombing the city during World War I. I’ve lived and worked in London , but I’ve never doubted I was an outsider, branded on the tongue as foreign. So this is an outsider’s sorrowful view of what Brexit is doing to the Brits.

On the first point, it’s not too far-fetched to muse about Britain taking on some features of a failed state because of the way its politics and institutions are rupturing. Only this week, Scotland's High Court found Prime Minister Boris Johnson's move to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that he may have misled the Queen about his true motivation – to "stymie" the democratic process.

Those failed-state thoughts were penned before Boris Johnson moved to shut/porogue/sideline Parliament and then purged Tory grandees who voted against him.than it would be if Britain had voted to remain in the EU

Britain is a failed state because of a decade of austerity. Institutions are 'rupturing' only because the govt has allowed them to. The govt has failed its citizens & it has nothing to do w Brexit. Another champion of austerity is the anti-democratic institution called the EU.

Ringo may not agree....

The REAL issue that all journos neglect is simple... the Brits created their own nemises because they abused the very foundation of DEMOCRACY You idiots should support BorisJohnson For a safer existence. How SIMPLE is that?

That blame lies at the feet of May and the remainers who fail to deliver Brexit despite of referendum. It's become clear their anti Democrat stalling tactics is deviding UK.

Participated in too many wars they could not afford

show me a western state that isn't failed all on the brink

Call out the army.

So whose fault is that? The idiots who took the UK into the EU against the advice of some of the smartest minds of the time (like Margaret Thatcher), or the 'idiot' trying to take it back out? Brexit WAS the will of the people... they VOTED... Britain England Scotland Eire

Britain failed, but Britainistan succeeded.

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