by J.B. Shurk
February 18, 2026

from AmericanThinker Website

When all the

'release valves' for a civil society

have been welded shut,

society stops being 'civil'...

It seems as if every month a new story comes out of Britain warning about the likelihood of future civil war.

Retired colonel Richard Kemp recently gave a television interview during which he warned that the "Islamification" of the United Kingdom would lead to "inevitable conflict."

Several British academics specializing in the preconditions for civil conflict, including professors David Betz and Michael Rainsborough, have argued the same point.

Kemp's point of view carries the added weight of someone who has witnessed insurgent fighting firsthand.

A former commander who carried out counter-insurgency operations in Northern Ireland, led British forces in Afghanistan, and held intelligence roles in Westminster, Kemp says Islamic immigrants' refusal to integrate into British society means that things in the U.K.,

are "getting bad" and about to "get worse"...

Among other provocative comments that will no doubt ruffle the feathers of Britain's "ruling class," Kemp notes,

"There were more British Muslims with the Taliban than in the British Army."

The combat veteran argues that Britain's political class has failed citizens by putting them in harm's way and is simultaneously incapable of mitigating its failures due to suffocating concerns for what can be said out loud.

"No government," Kemp argues, "has the guts to stop... the Islamification of the U.K."

Consequently, ordinary Brits now need to prepare for the likelihood of "civil war in Europe."

Describing the looming conflict in the U.K. as a far more serious and deadly situation than what gripped Northern Ireland for decades, Kemp predicts that the coming civil war will involve,

"indigenous British and some of the immigrant population and the British government, all on three different sides fighting against each other."

Drawing on his experience with insurgent forces, the retired colonel blames disenfranchisement in Britain for the future violence:

"The big problem that British people have is they don't have political choice. We don't really live in a democracy...

 

Whatever party you vote for, you get the same policies.

 

That applies also to immigration and to the way in which the Islamic population is allowed to grow in numbers and dominance."

As academics Betz and Rainsborough have also argued, Kemp sees the unwillingness of the U.K.'s political class to respect the will of voters with regards to,

• immigration

• Brexit

• the preservation of traditional culture,

...as the proximate cause of the civil war to come...

Democratic institutions provide citizen-voters with a "release valve" through which they can express pent-up frustration without resorting to violence.

The problem is that a political "uniparty" operates in the U.K., as it does throughout most of the West.

It doesn't matter whether Brits hand power to a Labour or Tory prime minister; they get non-stop Islamic immigration regardless.

When native Brits publicly protest the "Islamification" of the U.K., both Labour and Tory members of parliament call them "racist" and prosecute them for "hate."

 

When native Brits march through downtown cities to condemn Islamic rape gangs and Islamic terrorism, both Labour and Tory members of parliament call them "racist" and prosecute them for "hate."

 

When native Brits rally to prevent the construction of super-mosques in rural parts of Britain, both Labour and Tory members of parliament call them "racist" and prosecute them for "hate."

Therefore, citizens in the U.K. have learned that voting accomplishes nothing and that their so-called political "leaders" are incapable of defending British lives or British ways of life.

The British pot is boiling, and Kemp adds his voice to a growing chorus of professionals with expertise in violent civil conflicts who predict a war-ravaged kingdom in the near future.

"I think the people will feel they have no option than to take action into their own hand rather than rely on political leaders who are doing nothing," Kemp stated in another interview.

 

"I think there is every likelihood" of "civil war in the U.K. in the coming years."

What Kemp describes in the U.K. is occurring all over Europe.

While members of the continent's "elite" political ruling class have spent the last several decades obsessing about the weather and how to make the world "green",

technological innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and industrial self-sufficiency have diminished...

Although most nations of Europe have replaced historic monarchies with forms of representative democracy, a class of aristocratic nobles has managed to insinuate itself into the powerful positions of "representative" government.

Perhaps because of this feudal mentality, European politicos cannot resist the appeal of centralized, top-down, government-controlled economies.

While "elites" micro-manage European industry and commerce and choose "winners" and "losers" as lords do vassals, free markets malfunction.

The end result is that,

Europeans get poorer, have fewer babies, and perpetuate a century of decline.

Europe's aristocratic ruling class has responded to this demographic decline by inviting third-world migrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to become citizens of Europe.

Rather than successfully addressing the continent's generational crisis by replacing local babies with foreign ones, European "elites" have engineered a certain "clash" between Western and Islamic civilizations.

In the U.K. alone, ten major cities - including Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester, and parts of London - are on their way to having majority-Muslim populations over the next decade or two.

These are historically blue-collar areas where native Brits have gotten only poorer as foreign nationals take over neighborhoods that locals once called home.

Mosques are rising everywhere.

 

Islamic groceries, restaurants, festivals, and religious celebrations replace the food and customs of local families whose presence goes back centuries.

 

There is no social integration of any kind.

As economic conditions continue to decline and cultural flashpoints become more frequent, globalist politicians who praise "multiculturalism" as if it were a virtue and repeat, "Diversity is our strength," as if it were a divine truth, are about to discover how dangerous it is to mix many incompatible cultures together.

Like a carbonated beverage shaken without any concern for the mess, the cultural pressure within these Islamified European cities is ready to explode.

As retired colonel Richard Kemp argues, this cultural explosion will be much worse because Europe's political "ruling class" has prevented voters from making course corrections that are popular with the public but unpopular with European "elites."

In France, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, and elsewhere, ruling "elites" use institutional gamesmanship to block "populist" political parties from coming to (or exercising) power.

Anti-immigration political candidates are prosecuted for "hate crimes," "Russian collusion," or other made-up crimes...

Unelected aristocrats on the European Council secretly fund pro-immigration candidates in national elections and censor European citizens who express outrage on social media platforms over mass migration from foreign cultures.

In national parliaments and the European Union, members continue to pass laws that effectively criminalize public dissent to official government policies.

Europe's political "ruling class" has angered a growing share of the European public, and rather than address the reasons for the public's anger, that same "ruling class" has chosen to silence ordinary Europeans and threaten them with prosecution and imprisonment.

When all of the "release valves" for a civil society have been welded shut, society stops being "civil."

Europe's "elites" have created the conditions for a bloody civil war - because,

entire civilizations will be warring against each other...!