Guy Fawkes Night 2025

Mostly we know the story. A Roman Catholic, part of a despised and persecuted religious minority in England in 1605, was involved in The Gunpowder Plot. This operation was supposed to kill the House of Lords and King James I (of England, VI of Scotland) to make way for a Catholic monarch to take power and end the tyranny of the Stuarts and the nobility. Someone ratted the coup out, and on the night of 5 November, Fawkes and 36 barrels of gunpowder in the basement below the assembly room. After torture, he confessed and was executed. He was supposed to be hung, drawn, and quarters, but he broke his neck falling from the gallows.

He was not a republican (that form of English rebel came 40 years later) nor was he a democrat: he believed in monarchy, in accordance with the teaching of Rome at the time. Today, thanks to changing perceptions, movies like V for Vendetta and its use of Guy Fawkes masks (to be copied in hundreds of protests, especially in Anglophile regions), he is seen as a symbol of resistance against government tyranny.

His story, his perceived example, is an important part of British history, especially given the behavior of both monarchs and Parliament (not just Lords but Commons) in the last four+ centuries: the more forceful tyranny of Charles I, the English Civil War and rule by Parliament under the Protectorate, and on down to the present.

A present in which the United Kingdom has become a far more tyrannical government than even James I or Charles (I or II) would have believed possible. A tyranny which the current monarch, Charles III, fully supports – at least in public. (Or is too pussilatimous to oppose.) A present in which the replacement of the mixed race of the British – not just English – population is well underway as the small nation is overrun by invited ex-colonials, Muslims (particularly Islamists), various European refugees, and more.

Remember that England and Wales, and to a lesser degree, Scotland and Northern Ireland was (until the last half of the 20th Century) a mongrel race: Picts, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Norse, and Norman were a real jumble of ancestors of the modern “Native British” population.

A blending of “races” and ethnicity and cultures which predated, forecast, and largely drove the similar hybrid society of the Fifty States. And even to some degree, that of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and even (some say) modern India and Pakistan. A mixed race of Englishmen and Scots and Welsh and Irish who clung jealously to their rights as Englishmen (etc.) against tyrants, both foreign and domestic.

A society and mentality that prized rebels and resistance like that of Guy Fawkes, even of Scots (particularly Highlands) and the Irish. Even while doing everything they could to suppress the rebellions, punish (or wipe out) the resisters, and drive them off-shore. Where radical ideas of human liberty and freedom found fertile ground and exploded in ways that cause monarchs and nobles and gentry to shake with anger and fear.

What happened? Why is the modern United Kingdom a tyrannical nannystate that is busy destroying its people, its culture, its economy, and its future (while claiming to do exactly the opposite)?

(United Kingdom: it can be argued, is now a misnomer as much as say, the Holy Roman Empire ever was. A figurehead King who is highly Woke, nearly spineless, delinquint in performing any real duties but very zealous in presenting appearances, and so resembling any trust baby as to make us gag.) United, or Untied? More and more Scotland and Northern Ireland and even Wales seek to and do go their own way – usually more to the side of regressivism than liberty. And we see signs of England itself fracturing more and more.)

Let us first blame the British version of the Deep State: the permanent bureaucracy which truly rules in the name of King and Parliament. Yes, even Parliament is little but a figurehead entity, even before wiping out (in all but name and ceremony) the House of Lords to make the realm even more “democratic” in both form and practice.

We can also blame the British regimes’ own success: in colonizing and settling so much of the planet, they sent out their best and brightest, and most rebellious. Some, indeed, were forced to do (see Georgia, Austrailia). Others sought to escape lesser elements of tyranny, for religious, social, economic, and political reasons. Like Scandinavia, those who stayed behind were more docile, more conforming, less willing to take risks.

Third, of course, was how the UK bled itself dry in two massive global wars, sending more of its already-reduced best and brightest to fertilize the fields of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Canaan, Egypt, Burma and more with their blood. And resulting in a great loss of confidence and willingness to take risks, nationally or privately.

There are no doubt many other reasons: some will point out the karma of being punished by the Fates for what was done in Ireland and the Middle East and elsewhere by the Imperial British. Others will point out the attempts to mitigate and compensate for those actions. Still others can discuss the abandonment of hard currency and conforming to international standards (and mass hallucinations).

But all of these things must be seen as lessons to be learned by Americans. Canadians have already failed to heed those lessons, as apparently so did the English South Africans (now nearing extinction through an ignored genocide together with the Afrikaaner neighbors), Australia, and New Zealand.

Britons, on this Guy Fawkes Night 2025, have little to celebrate. They have failed to pay the price of liberty, and have lost most of it.

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Source: https://freedombunker.com/2025/11/05/guy-fawkes-night-2025/