*British Army To Patrol Streets* Economy Collapse Martial Law?

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

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During Economic collapse, there is social unrest...

The old lady across the street turns to Terrorism!

Angry she lost her Life Savings and Pension! She decends into town to protest!

Britain's armed forces could be used on a regular basis on the streets of Britain to confront the threat of terrorism, under the terms of a strategic defence review announced yesterday.

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One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists Chris Hedges

Editor’s note: All manner of ordinary domestic criminal activity is now considered terrorism in Britain and the United States.

The point is the government dont need an army , in fact they dont need anything more than what Orwell described in chapter 5 of the road to Wigan pier.

Of course the post-war development of cheap luxuries has been a very
fortunate thing for our rulers. It is quite likely that fish-and-chips,
art-silk stockings, tinned salmon, cut-price chocolate (five two-ounce bars
for sixpence), the movies, the radio, strong tea, and the Football Pools have between them averted revolution

You would have to change the list to , cheap booze, day time TV, national lottery , cheap farm foods/ice land frozen pizza, cheap take a way food etc, but the theory is there.

All the government ever has to do to avoid revolution is placate those at the bottom of the scale with cheap "luxuries " , plus most of them are too fat to walk further than the local shop, let alone riot.