The Lights Are Going Out All Over Rural
England Tonight
Daily Sceptic [UK],
by
Simon Panter
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
12/10/2025 7:15:13 PM
In the gathering dusk of a North Norfolk evening, where the North Sea mists drift in from a cold and indifferent sea, James Nye, 44, whose family has run East Anglian inns for 30 years, stands behind the bar of the White Horse in Holme-next-the-Sea. The pub, a low, Grade II-listed sentinel of stone and brick, flickers beneath strings of fairy lights that feel less festive than quietly defiant. Nye, steward of 10 inns, draws a pint of Adnams Ghost Ship while the low growl of tractors fades along the lanes outside – protest vehicles nursing wounds deeper than any fresh furrow.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 12/10/2025 7:57:11 PM (No. 2039728)
"Green" = freezing in the dark
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 12/10/2025 8:16:28 PM (No. 2039733)
I couldn't get past ".....the growl of the tractor." I guess they can't afford to pay their light bill????
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chagrined 12/10/2025 8:20:14 PM (No. 2039734)
Blue is the new green. That is, blue due to freezing to death.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/10/2025 8:21:32 PM (No. 2039735)
Not to worry - - the traditional English pubs will be replaced by doner kebab stands.
They're a much better reflection of the direction where the UK is headed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 12/10/2025 8:58:50 PM (No. 2039741)
Reads more like a Dickens tale than a news article. Very depressing even though it is England and not us (USA)..... YET.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Luandir 12/10/2025 9:08:35 PM (No. 2039742)
...Selling England by the pound.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 12/10/2025 9:08:39 PM (No. 2039743)
I am more than a skeptic (the true spelling, not the British form) of this publication. It goes on and on sopped with dreariness about the high monetary expectations of the govt, without even once mentioning the invasion of blood-sucking "refugees" who are draining the country of its finances, safety, history, freedoms, and culture.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
K620 12/10/2025 9:37:06 PM (No. 2039746)
#2, beat ya by a sentence! I couldn’t get past “flickers beneath strings of fairy lights that feel less festive than quietly defiant.”
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/10/2025 10:17:04 PM (No. 2039752)
Not a problem. As the English die out and no longer have children the muslims are ready to take over. Electricity, who needs electricity? We are headed "Back to the Future" where every year is the year 700. They could have forgotten all those fancy adverbs and adjectives and simply said "England is lost. Immigration wokeness killed it". End of story.
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Getting what they voted for and making an opening for Nigel Garage and the Reform party.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Scribelus 12/10/2025 11:16:01 PM (No. 2039760)
Time for another 14th Century Peasants‘ Revolt.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/11/2025 1:45:18 AM (No. 2039764)
I relish the written word...and this certainly has them.
It is much too long to be a modern "News" story, a bit short of a Novella, but, worth the read as it gives insight to the economic and social blight wrought upon the hinterlands by urban appetite. It also reveals a bit of historical social structure most american's are strangers to, not just the pubs themselves, but that they are attached to the nearby lands/estates, as if every local farm here also had a store, bar, or shop "In Town" employing the families of their workers, townies, providing an outlet of goods and services, as well as clawing back a bit of salaries paid without the odeur attached to a "Company store"
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As others have pointed out, the government is euthanizing the nation's pubs. Better to humanely end them now than let them get torched in the not-too-distant future by rampaging, islamic mobs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ldb51 12/11/2025 3:33:16 AM (No. 2039769)
Britain has been slowly drawing the knife (scimitar?) across its own throat for years. They might as well flip off the lights and toss the keys to the next Muslim illegal that comes in the door. I feel for the old soldier the other day that said to the lefty newsbabe that no, as he looked back at his and his comrades sacrifice in WWII, he does not believe it was worth it. It was just a holding action until the fully incompetent could take over and pour the last drop of poison on Britain' glory. RIP.
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And this is why Communists never have nice things, they destroy everything they touch...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chumley 12/11/2025 5:08:44 AM (No. 2039771)
Europeans in general and Brits in particular long to be ruled. They are not citizens; they are subjects. They are nice people with a rich history and culture, but a lot of that culture is being told what to do by their masters.
We Americans have started revolutions for less, yet we are taxed at over 50% ourselves. Paying for ones own enslavement isn't cheap, it seems.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/11/2025 5:39:50 AM (No. 2039775)
AINT Socialism Grand?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/11/2025 9:22:03 AM (No. 2039834)
Very well written and emotional piece. National suicide committed by incompetent leadership. The imported muslims are living very well though. Maybe this is how a country gets rid of them, kill the host first and then the parasites die.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
janjan 12/11/2025 9:48:26 AM (No. 2039854)
Like #7 says - while the article is excessively poetic, it’s completely divorced from reality. The writer describes the punishment of rural pubs as the whim of their far-away government masters. It is actually the result of Stirmer and his communist colleagues willfully turning over the law, culture, national pride, and finances to invading Muslims who are draining the country and making it unrecognizable. The writer needs to go to town once in a while.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/11/2025 10:52:50 AM (No. 2039893)
I know rural England very well.. The author is 1oo% right. This is what a leftist government can do to the majority of a country by raising business taxes, raising minimum wages and emoving any assistance that migjgt have helped these small businesses - the little local pubs that are the community centers for those who live in he rural areas.
The lights going out refers to beloved pubs being closed, not green energy.
Some sound as fhough the writer is too emotional. He is writing about a great loss that has to do with lawmakers in London.
And I thought we cared about "flyover country"...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 12/11/2025 11:02:13 AM (No. 2039897)
A few months ago, I visited England for about ten days. We spent a couple of days in London, and the rest of the time out in the countryside touring castles and gardens. I got the impression that most Brits just don’t realize what’s going on. The tour guide waxed poetic about the national health program, saying “it’s free!” They just don’t get it. Their way of life is being destroyed, and if they’re not complicit, they’re complacent. They think all the bad stuff is happening just in the cities, like London. By the time their way of life is destroyed, they’ll wake up - but it will be too late.
Sound familiar?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/11/2025 11:07:48 AM (No. 2039900)
https://www.grammar.com/skeptic_vs._sceptic
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/11/2025 12:30:43 PM (No. 2039944)
Hey Charlie, do your job, take over this madness and get rid of your Infestation of Muzzies!
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