Britain Becomes The First Country To Sanction Itself

Couldn’t happen to a worse empire

28 Days Later showed a London devoured by zombies. Capitalists have now done the same. @steppingthroughfilm

Britain has become the first country to sanction… itself. Shops that say ‘we cannot deliver to Iran because America hates them’ are now saying ‘we cannot deliver to the UK because they hate themselves’.

The effects of Brexit — missing goods, fleeing companies, inability to travel — are indistinguishable from sanctions. It’s actually hilarious. The country which imposed capital colonization and sanctions on the world for centuries is now sanctioning and colonizing itself.

Bike Bits

Take bike parts, as one random example. Brits can no longer order from the shop Dutch Bike Bits, but they can get an earful:

From mid December 2020 onward we ship to every country in the world… except the UK. We are forced by British policy to stop dealing with British customers.

This random company and many like it are effectively enforcing sanctions. They deliver everywhere, except this one pariah state. Unlike most sanctions, however, in classic British style, they have strangled themselves with bureaucracy. Rather than saying you can’t do something, they just make you get another form or another stamp until you die.