A retired British Army Colonel is warning that he believes a civil war in the country is now inevitable because politicians are unwilling to take meaningful actions to fix societal collapse.
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.”
"The more it develops, the more unrest we’re going to see… I would go as far as to predict not just civil unrest but civil war in the UK, in the coming years… I would hate to be right on this, but I believe I know that there is no political solution.”
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) August 14, 2025
I spoke to former Colonel… pic.twitter.com/kxBJlkbqdF
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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We all know those “ex” guys. They are miserable failed existences such as rapists, child abusers, fraudsters, scammers, conmen, covidiots, antivaxxers, snake oil sellers…and all have in common that they all like very much the Russian Fuhrer Vladimir Putin and Russia, the stronghold of nazism in the 21st century.
Another attempt of stupid Russian bullshit propaganda
You morons. This whole is a hired Zionist. You still haven’t worked out who the true enemy of humanity is. Hopefully this doesn’t get moderated in your white wing echo chamber.
Brits have been subservient too long.
They have accepted their fate and are going down like the passengers on the Titan.
Titanic.
You have been posting vids for over a year on this, it aint gonna happen.
You must be new here because what you’re saying is WRONG,
Tommy Tard.
A revolt of the population with the fall of the government, as happened in Romania
will not happen in England. The military and police would first have to
change sides, which will not happen. The ruling powers have already
preparations to nip such a thing in the bud. The armament against the population
is almost complete, financed by the financial elite.
“…. 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.” What the Hell is he talking about? None of these countries have to be an “enemy”, especially Iran and Russia, both of which have expressed an interest in peace negotiations many times, this includes China as well. The problem is peace means no money flow to the usual suspects.
Marxist rubbish.
China and Iran for sure but I don’t think Russia is interested in regime change. They make too much money selling gas, oil and weapons in Europe and China. They don’t want the headache.
The west is destroying itself with with its centrallly planned government fantasies. Call it role reversal or the daft. Many of these retired military officers are still stuck in the cold war.