Will rising anger over energy, economic and immigration chaos prevent the UK and EU from committing suicide?

Will rising anger over energy, economic and immigration chaos prevent the UK and EU from committing suicide?

“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” economist Herb Stein often observed.

“Come MPs and prime ministers, please heed the call,” Bob Dylan might sing about Europe. “Don’t stand in the doorway. Don’t block up the hall…. For the times they are a-changin’.”

Or at least may be changing – not only in Europe but across the globe.

Europe’s ruling elites opened their countries’ borders to millions of unvetted, largely Third World, often Islamist migrants with little interest in assimilating – and gave them free lodging, food and medical care (paid with other people’s money), and an official blind eye to rising crime and molestation of women.

In 2023, except in Luxembourg and Slovakia, the number of immigrants coming from outside the Union exceeded the number of immigrants from other EU countries, some by nearly 100 percent. European societies, cultures, economies and civilization could face existential transformation.

In Britain, Union Jack flags were outlawed, while Palestinian flags were applauded. UK “subjects” were arrested for expressing outrage, while immigrant criminals went free.

Politicians have been too afraid of being labeled racist to address the migrant crimes and disruptions – or too reliant on expected new or future voters to challenge them, even as native populations are assaulted, robbed, raped, stabbed and murdered. But recent events have brought things closer to the boiling point.

A disabled man was nearly decapitated. A young man was stabbed, then handcuffed and allowed to bleed to death because his assailant falsely claimed the victim had used racist slurs. Police arrested a girl for brandishing an axe to protect her 12-year-old sister from a would-be migrant rapist.

A little boy “landed in” a crocodile pit, where he was mauled. Police and media refused to say he’d........

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