British Army Colonel: Civil War Is Coming
Colonel Richard Kemp, who has served on the Joint Intelligence Committee and the Cabinet Office crisis centre COBRA, urges that an alliance 'of the hard left and Islamist extremists' will clash with broadly conservative British people and that it will lead to widespread prolonged unrest.
Kemp suggests that 'together with other causes,' these Islamist leftists will 'come together to threaten the cohesion and the culture, the entire culture and political existence of the West.'
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Kemp, who fought counter insurgency in Northern Ireland, served in the Gulf war, Bosnia, and commanded in Afghanistan, asserts that the agitators are 'fostered by,' and 'funded to a large extent, by our international enemies like Russia, China, Iran, and other countries as well.'
In an interview with podcaster Conor Tomlinson, Kemp remarks that politicians in the UK are 'in a state of bewilderment, they're like rabbits in headlights,' and that while they understand how the unrest is being fomented, they are unable or unwilling to put a stop to it.
Kemp says of political leaders that their 'horizon is four years,' and 'They want to keep a state of equilibrium for that time, they want to do what they can to make sure they win the next election.'
'They don't want to take the radical sort of action that might be necessary to address these sorts of problems,' the Colonel stresses, highlighting mass migration as one major issue.
'There's only so much that I think people can take of that, and they've been very quiet up until now, the people in the UK have not really raised their voices against this, or in a very limited way only. But the more it develops, and it is going to develop more and more, the more unrest we are going to see,' Kemp emphasises.
He adds, 'they have no option. I'm not encouraging or supporting this, but I think the people will feel they have no option than to take action into their own hands rather than rely on political leaders who are doing nothing, in their eyes.'
'I think there is every likelihood, I don't know what the timeframe is, but I would go so far as to not just predict civil unrest, but civil war in the UK in the coming years if this situation continues which I believe it will,' he urges.
'I'd hate to be right on this, but I believe that I know there is no political solution to the situation Britain faces today,' Kemp further declares, adding 'When I say there is no solution, I don't mean there actually isn't a solution, but there is no solution that any of our politicians are willing to take… because they are afraid of doing anything significant.'
As we've previously highlighted, these views are shared by London King's College war professor Dr David Betz, who believes the UK is already 'past the tipping point,' for near future civil war.
Betz stated earlier this year, 'There isn't anything they can do, it's baked in. We're already past the tipping point, is my estimation… we are past the point at which there is a political offramp. We are past the point at which normal politics is able to solve the problem… almost every plausible way forward from here involves some kind of violence in my view.'
Kemp's interviewer Conor Tomlinson notes that Colonel Kemp has never even heard of Professor Betz and arrived at the same conclusion completely independently, Which 'makes his well-informed warnings all the more alarming.'
The YouTube version of the interview is also below:
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