Who is "they" though? The British born bourgeoisie? They don't seem like any kind of strategic or united group, they bought into Thatcher's individualism so hard that they crippled their own class consciousness and ability to strategise as a united class.
They have no means to exploit anywhere else, no army to do it with anymore, and no ability to justify it to the population without an enormous reaction.
With no material conditions that allow them to seek exploitation elsewhere they are cannibalising the UK, bit by bit. I see no end to this, I see the end of the UK as an inevitability. Historically empires have contracted until they cease to exist and become something new, I do not see the UK as being immune to this pattern. I don't think any of them will set their sights outwards (successfully) until this historic process is completed.
Who is "they" though? The British born bourgeoisie? They don't seem like any kind of strategic or united group, they bought into Thatcher's individualism so hard that they crippled their own class consciousness and ability to strategise as a united class.
They have no means to exploit anywhere else, no army to do it with anymore, and no ability to justify it to the population without an enormous reaction.
With no material conditions that allow them to seek exploitation elsewhere they are cannibalising the UK, bit by bit. I see no end to this, I see the end of the UK as an inevitability. Historically empires have contracted until they cease to exist and become something new, I do not see the UK as being immune to this pattern. I don't think any of them will set their sights outwards (successfully) until this historic process is completed.