Andrew:

Let’s give some credit to Peter Hitchens, who saw it all so clearly five years ago. From the closing pages of The Abolition of Britain:

“1 May 1997 really was the start of a new era. The new Prime Minister’s triumphal progress to Buckingham Palace and Downing Street was filmed from the air by sycophantic broadcasters as if a dull cortege of motor cars were a rebel army finally emerging from the sierras to occupy a conquered city.
It would not have been surprising to see plumes of smoke from Whitehall courtyards, as the defeated regime burned its records…
“Foreboding grew when the new Prime Minister addressed ‘his’ MPs and told them that they were, in effect, government employees, deputies whose job was to represent the state and the party to the people rather than the other way round…
“The British had … been separated from their traditions, by the weakening of family ties, by the disruption of schools, by the virtual abolition of national history and literature, by the subsidization of teenage independence of parents through the universities, by the sexual revolution… So Mr. Blair and his advisers felt free to take a bulldozer to the constitution.”

Even if you couldn’t care less about UK affairs, Peter Hitchens’s book should be on your night table. It is a terrible warning.